Re: [microsound] City Of The Future - another approach

[devslashnull <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excuse me if this has been covered already, but I have a couple 
questions and comments about the "City of the Future" project:

>Kim wrote:
>>>I thought the title was fitting due to the current world situation...it is
>not an overt political theme for the project but it implies hope for a city
>in the future...so while this could mean 'Baghdad' it could also mean the
>city you live in/near or a city you like to visit...a city could also
>represent any large collection of various types and races of people...

  "fugadeserebros" <fugadeserebros@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
so far i've noticed that almost everybody has taken the "sci-fi" 
approach to the project, and that's ok; i'm big fan of sci-fi movies 
and even bigger fan of stanislaw lem's books (the author of solaris), 
but there is the other side of this invitation: thinking about the 
city of the future.

1. So then is the audio excerpt from "Solaris" a "required 
ingredient" for the project, or did it merely serve as the impetus to 
Kim for proposing a much more open ended project?

2.  Perhaps in the same vein as the Stone and Ripple project, 
participants could upload components which relate to the the "City of 
the Future" theme which might come at it from a different angle as 
suggested above by fugadeserebros. For instance, I have some spoken 
word bits from various architects of the modernist period (ie. Corbu, 
Neimeyer, Mies, etc) speaking about various things architectural, and 
the City of the Future  (at least as it was imagine in their 
heydays...)

Any thoughts on that?

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