Web at 25: While there is no year zero for television, the first TVs were produced around 1958. TV25 would have been 1983, not far off from the birth of the Internet. 1989 was also the year of the Velvet Revolution and the Tiananmen Square Uprising, all of which took place without an Internet.
What is different? The Arab Spring was attributed partly to Twitter and Facebook, but this connection is tenuous at best. Broadcast television (aside from the Iron Curtain) was largely democratic, yet people had no direct connection to the airwaves—they were not being watched or tracked by the airwaves. You could be seen on camera but those images were only fleeting and not saved as data. The real revolution is in the storage of digital information. With more people typing at keyboards and entering data onto hard drives the real revolution is in the ubiquity and permanence of memory, and how digital memories can be continuously reshaped and put into different contexts. Hypertext was the next mini-revolution, linking bits of context that could never have been done before, without researching source information, footnotes and bibliographies. The power of the Internet is to instill the idea of opportunity. Those opportunities are not infinite. With so many people having the same ideas, the Internet cancels itself out. *** Studio: Worked on "City" piece (Urban Biota). The sonic landscape of a city has its own ecology of "organisms": the screeching sounds of metal against metal, background hum from power lines, buzzing neon, passing elevated trains, and pneumatic machinery—the natural sounds of a city landscape that become a quotidian experience, yet unobtrusive and perhaps has a calming effect. (This was mixed to not interfere with the top layer of attention).
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A track from Ancient AI (2017), driven by an "Another One Bites The Dust" bass vibe.
Idea: Music software that builds constraints into the system—either by selecting variables, or generating them at random.
Examples: In Ensembles: “Guitar player with old Fender Strat playing through an old Fender amp with a ripped speaker cone”; Group Dynamic: “Drummer with a huge drum kit and a huge ego”; Screamo: The bassist’s new girlfriend is exerting too much influence on him, throwing the band into disarray. Have the music reflect this tension.” ( Think Beatles post Yoko Ono). Another idea: A keyboard that randomly generates sounds/players/ensembles. (It would have only one button—other functionality would be through interface with software). Idea: Rulings by artificial intelligence. A huge database of information would be gleaned from hundreds of years of case law, and rulings would be obtained by letting the system “decide” for itself. The defendant could appeal, which would consists simply of letting the system decide two more times for 2 out of 3. |
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