Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2: Sonic Paths

2014-06-10 Thread Marcus Boon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I think that notion of energy and its relation to the arts is an important one. I was just browsing through the empyre archive and reading Alex Galloway's comments about the Excommunication book, and his interest in finding ways of

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2: Sonic Paths

2014-06-10 Thread Nina Eidsheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you to Renate and Tim, and to Marcus, for the invitation to engage in this conversation with Douglas, Marcus, and the empyre community. The rabbit hole of physical energy or, vibration, opened up beneath my feet when I started to

Re: [-empyre-] vibration and movement

2014-06-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- thanks to Nina, Marcus and Douglas for these very fascinating thoughts opening the second week, and it struck me, listening to (well, reading) Douglas trying to stay away from the body examining Lucier's Music for Solo Performer, that I

Re: [-empyre-] vibration and movement

2014-06-10 Thread Marcus Boon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I'm intrigued too by the role of Lucier in Douglas' book -- and how Lucier thinks about matters of body and psyche in relation to his work. Did you get a sense of this at all when you were studying with him, Douglas? I was lucky enough

[-empyre-] Day 2 Week 2: Sonic Paths

2014-06-10 Thread Douglas Kahn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello all: This is great! I now see that other commitments are on the back burner this week (see, already a thermal metaphor). Marcus, part of the book does address historical media theory, hopefully in a way that will open things up