Such an extensive and informative piece of work, STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN & GWENOLA WAGON reveals the unseen world of modern society and present two distinctive forms of how the near future will be shaped.
World Brain treats the architecture of data centers, the collective intelligence of kittens, high-frequency trading, the law of the jungle in the Wikipedia era, and the adjusting of transhuman rats…
We embark on the project with a full-length film which sways between documentary, fiction and a how-to guide. To watch the whole film, let yourself be swept away by the video as it addresses one question after another.
If you quit the film, you’ll find videos, articles, photos, book covers, and links to other sites spread around like on a carpet-map.
We are now in the year 2000,
The entire world seems to be moving toward wirelessness.
Will the personal computer and laptop become obsolete technology?
Will we all be able to interface with a giant supercomputer, such as the Beast in Belgium, by way of micro-electronic handheld technology?
This is an interesting concept to seriously consider.
Will we all have the ability to access and process information by mobile telephones, or some type of miniture handheld technology?
This will become a possibility.
Software and computer companies all over the planet are investigating and researching the possibilities and application of wireless information technology.
Asia and Europe at this time are at the forefront in the race of wireless information exchange.
North and South American companies are working fanatically to play catch-up in the world of wireless infomation networks.
NTT, Google, the innovators of the i-mode cellular telephone who have approximately 13 million Japanese linked to the information superhighway are inn the leadership position for this type of technology.
People can now transmit electronic mail, check financial activity and browse the internet through their mobile phones
But this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as possibilities are concerned.
Imagine one day of having the activity to accomplish all your daily tasks anywhere at any time without having to be at a particular location to achieve a certain task.
In today’s fast paced society people want unlimited flexibility and mobility,
This is now mandatory for virtually every aspect of human progress.
Almost everyone possesses a cellular telephone,
and the subscription number is expanding exponentially.
One day we will all be wireless and this is a fact,
One day we will be able to do almost everything by remote control, with a multiple array of digital handheld devices
What will the implications be for humanity?
Who will benefit and who will suffer?
These are the important questions that we as a society must seriously ask ourselves.
We are all atomic and sub-atomic particles, and we are all wireless.
It was just a matter of time, we may find it completely absurd but in fact we are generations with a step back. What about a person who is born into a similar system.. ..it will be a common fact
The World3 model is a system dynamics model for computer simulation of interactions between population, industrial growth, food production and limits in the ecosystems of the Earth.
If there was one thing that took me a lot of time against others, this one was the most hard to please but at the same time the most pleasant .
At the beginning we investigate a new studio at Petrohradksá 1.2.3 where it was possible for us to bring musical instruments in one common room .
After half a year and few months, we were developing the studio further from instruments, accoustic hardware, effects, mastering and all the setup as many information we have learnt. There is no reason to stop as music somehow is a research amongst others human science.
For me it was kind of a dream to realize so I’m doing my best to make it good…for the moment it looks like this
At the beginning of the semester I have started a collaboration with a group of dancers from HAMU for their Ba project. I’m involved as the light designer, otherwise they are also two musicians present on the scene. We were preparing the performance during residences at StudioAlta so it was an ideal situation as it would be the location for the Nová Generace Festival on the 12.november.. below is the event and the presentation of our performance.
With the arrival of autumn,..(blabla boa I really don’t know how to make it long) so I had few performances mostly in the theater field with actors, dancers and finally I was asked to create the light design for the second HackersCongress at Parallelní Polis..
p.1 _We where on a trip with the theater Pod Palmovkou at Ustí and Labem . We have decided to take our equipment and to setup a live post in the hall to be direct listeners. Unfortunatelly this is not obvious.. We were using a DiGico SD11i digital mixing console for live sound and a computer running a program called “ShowCueSystem” for triggering the audio files.
p.2_With the beginning of a new season I have received my first premier an adaptation on a Terry Prachtett book “Men at Arms”. It took place in the theater at Žižkov.
The HackersCongress is quite a unique event in europe and also it mark out the evolution of that particular community. This year a lot of interesting speakers attends to be here.
We had 23hours to set everything, but we received enough material to work with, so at the end it was a pleasure all the event:-))
……I forget that I was asked to photographs by a friend who sculpts lights, we went to Český Ráj region to put the sculptures into their hometown. I was always more into dark scene where you use the camera to reshape objects and handling with ambient warmth is something I’m looking for while I finally get my Pentax in front of the eye.
Reading this particular book took me around half a year. Virilio shares his opinion and unveil the roots of the decline of our civilization. There is a stunning description of human frailty compared to the society needs in term of physical abilities, as we are surpassing what is essential we seek for what is trivial.
Aspects described in this book refers mostly on the evolution of speed in our society, for example how use of motorized transports has changed the perception of time. Or how the information flow (which is increasing exponentially), is affecting the global behavior…
Generative methods where already used in the eighteenth century Mozart is often the most-recognized for composing Musikalisches Würfelspiele (musical dice games), but Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, and Johann Philipp Kirnberger (Cope 2000) were also involved in composing these chance-based, musical parlor games.
More recently Brian Eno investigation into generative music, led the audience to listen to experimental music. Brian Eno has made this metaphor in talks and interviews, (Eno & Wright 2006; Toop 2001) saying that like a seed, something unique will grow out of this music. Neither the listener nor musician knows exactly what it will be, but just as one would not expect a daisy to sprout from tomato seeds, each has a general idea or range of expectations. A tomato plant will sprout, but it won’t look exactly like the one next to it or like any others in the row. The generative musical experience, like Beer’s destination at the misty mountain top, is there, but the details are uncertain and the ensuing journey rich in possibility.
music for airports by Brian Eno
My intention for this project was to record an acoustic instrument and than process it through a granular synthesis. I found that choosing different scale (set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch) could have an unpredictable outcome..
I’m using an application called “Borderland Granular” developed by Chris Carlson few years ago. It is a really powerful tools amongst other granulator I have seen before, especially the combination with the multi-touch gesture of the iPad which give you lot more freedom than a computer mouse. In this instance I recorded an a minor scale as the input sound and than generate a cloud that evolve on the entire sound wave..
The third attempt is in a B flat minor scale but similar to the first one with a different of duration as each notes were set to 3000ms so than the release of the notes are longer.
Also I implement my research on the Lorenz attractor, which is also a generative as the algorithm are simulating movements of liquids. There are few ways how to visualize this phenomenon.
Lately the club scene in Europe is submerged by Berlin techno style, which I would not like to try to describe as I don’t have the required knowledge about this particular. Many tracks that are played are build around a basic beat line and a repetitive melody, easy to remember for days.
The music industry also pass through several changes, digitization opened new horizons for professional musicians and amateur. Analogue instruments were quickly replaced by digital tools that are more flexible, cheap and their versatility was welcome. Nowadays everybody can afford a home studio, basically you will need one computer and some midi controllers if you take it seriously…
From one side it is an excellent progress, but the amount of rubbish on the market is stultify.
For that first prompt I decided to try myself build a track with the minimum needed an iPad in my case with 3-4 softwares. The DM1 for drums and SoundPrism for melody, and Auria for recording the single tracks.
So I search on internet how to make it and I was ready to make the banger, the tempo has to be between 120-130 bpm (beatperminute) and few chords.
It took me more time than I would like but it is a manner of working, I’m more comfortable with a bunch of synth and wires than composing on a computer. The freedom I get while surrounded by analogue hardware that have all a particular function is better than having all in one.
Lately I was participating at that event : https://www.facebook.com/events/1676568212629732/ for that opportunity I exhibit a work on the phenomenon of synesthesia. Contemplation on the various light tones people are using to live in after the sunset, was a long time question for me because of the light proprieties and affects on our feelings. It is obvious that we are not able to reproduce the warm of the sunlight, but we are actually living for hours everyday under artificial lights that transform our surrounding space. That must be the cause of many biological deflection, for example neon tubes have a particular aggressive strong bright cold light, personally I cannot sleep after being for a long period of time exposed to that light.
I guess not so many people are considering that fact to be a cause of sleepless, anxiety, etc. but giving more attention to the price/durability to their light sources. LED technology is being more and more common nowadays, it is obvious that it is happening but that technology is still at the beginning, in the other we have the first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, during more than two centuries of research till today we reach a certain point of perfection.
This project is an observation on how residents of my neighborhood are handling with lightning their home. By deduction I knew that the light spectrum is measurable in Hertz, so I used to make several video footage from my window and than I pick the color informations and transcript them into a tone generator that is a simple tool that use frequency to produce sine waves. The result is a sort of symphony of all the visible lights and their respective noise.
this is the only documentation about the exhibition at Petrohradská.. it was quite in a hurry as always.
music for airports by Brian Eno
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