intent/expectation

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> disagree: glitches/failure are the lack of intersection between intent
>> and
>> expectation...again, this could be construed as context
>So you see glitches/failure as intentional misuse or abuse?
no...it's the lack of instersection between intent and expectation...it can
never be only one or the other...think of the classic information chain:
sender -> noise-> receiver...the failure occurs when the noise acts to flip
the function of the message...there are instances of artists using this
device (such as record skips on a vinyl record or CD fuckups on a CD) but
that joke (in and of itself) is no longer funny or pertinent...that's why
Markus has pushed past foregrounding the CD skip into new territory...

> Is there a
>shelf life to a glitch?
yes...once the "joke" is gotten or the syntax absorbed then it becomes
"worn out" or "obvious" as a signifier...this also depends on the cultural
context i.e.: how distant the end user is (in time) from the original
transmission of the signifier...this sorta explains why "The Strokes" are
getting so much hype: the audience didn't catch Velvet
Underground/Television the first time around...read: "recycled signifier"
for those with VU/TV records and "new signifier" for younger demographics...

> What happens when the bugs become acknowledged
>features?
then grandma fires up the Dell she got for xmas, makes a glitch track and
puts it up on mp3.com...or you get a Lo-Fi/Sci-Fi TDM plugin from
Digidesign...or you get a glut of glitch music on CDR labels...etc...

> Is this just aesthetic shock then, bound to wear off?
Duchamps bicycle wheel is no longer shocking (tidbit: the original was
built around 1913 yet he didn't show [the 3rd version of] it until the 50's
because he wasn't sure whether it could be considered "sculpture"...the
Futurists thought it was)...so yes, the brain adjusts to shock (and schlock
for that matter)

> Is this
>just another technique for Stockhausen to absorb or is it a chance to
>listen like Cage (to see failure/error as just another possible result)?
if you offload the phenomenon of perceiving "error" onto the end user then
it is simply a subversion of their expectations of technology...

Klee said: "Genius is the error in the system"


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