Re: [-empyre-] Fragments of Noise, part 3

2018-03-31 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Christof, I want to join your exploration for a fluid, shifting noise where it never calcifies, solidifies into an authoritarian solidness. It all depends I think on the alertness of the mind looking at it and is able to shift leg in

[-empyre-] Fragments of Noise, part 3

2018-03-31 Thread Christof Migone
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Nice to see this flurry of activity. Difficult to know where to start, what thread to pick up. It¹s tempting to refer to this plethora as noise, but, aside from being too facile, there¹s a lingering fear that this would be read as

Re: [-empyre-] Fragments of Noise, part 2

2018-03-30 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Christophe, Noise is the outer/aether ranges of language. Silence is the quantum jump. Ciao, Murat On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Christof Migone wrote: > --empyre- soft-skinned space--

Re: [-empyre-] Fragments of Noise

2018-03-30 Thread Noralyn Neumark
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Christof and Stirling, Christof, as always your writing is so visceral and thought-provoking. I like how your point below avoids a binary dichotomy between noise and silence, between noise and sound, between human and more than human:

Re: [-empyre-] Fragments of Noise, part 2

2018-03-29 Thread Christof Migone
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I appreciate Murat¹s formulation that "silence is the Œunreachable' zero point of noise, Œpart' of noise.² My only question is whether noise in this instance is interchangeable with sound? Or, is noise here (and perhaps frequently

Re: [-empyre-] Fragments of Noise

2018-03-27 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--"³The word silence is still a noise² (Georges Bataille)" The relationship of silence to noise (silence is the "unreachable" zero point of noise, "part" of noise, as the arrival point is to the reaching towards in Zeno's paradox or the

Re: [-empyre-] Fragments of Noise

2018-03-27 Thread Stirling Newberry
--empyre- soft-skinned space--"Winnie-the-Pooh That buzzing noise means something. Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you are…a bee! And the only reason for being a bee is to make honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I

[-empyre-] Fragments of Noise

2018-03-26 Thread Christof Migone
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- ³Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, we¹d like to remind you that we don¹t applaud in this here place where we¹re working. So, restrain your applause. If you must applaud wait until the end of the set and it won¹t even matter then. The