[microsound] [as] october 2004

[Benjamin Green <b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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02.10.04
Si_COMM & S.E.T.I.: [as] HYPERLANGUAGE

A sound environment specially commissioned by Ben Green for transmission 
on Resonance 104.4 FM. Copyright 2004.

Project OVERVIEW: This recording is a commissioned piece designed to 
thematically relate to the PROBE CD released by VIVO of Poland 
(www.vivo.pl) in April 2004. After being approached by Ben Green to 
record a new work, we decided to construct a piece which would 
compliment these recently released recordings, and further elaborate on 
some of the themes set down in the sleeve notes for PROBE.


PROBE examines the notion of an impending new species of Posthuman 
beings. These bio-technological entities from our deep future, will bear 
only the merest trace of their human origins, and will no doubt greatly 
exceed what we currently understand to be the limits of human 
performance and intelligence. Far from being a sci-fi fantasists’ dream 
of transcendence, these theories hint at a very real possibility for the 
future of mankind.

Given that language appears to evolve alongside the great leaps of human 
cognition and intuition, how might the language of these Posthumans be 
constructed? What will language become?

Language is both a system of communication and an information processing 
tool. The roots of human language appear to have emerged during a period 
of information overload. The existing communicative methods of primitive 
“proto-languages”, a series of semi-coherent vocalisations, 
social/emotional interaction, and pre-verbal physical gesture used by 
early Man were “overwritten” in response to an overload, or chaos that 
arises when the informatic capacity of this previous set of languages 
could no longer cope, or had reached a new level of complexity. Given 
that hominids continually acquired new skills, for example- tool making; 
their lives increased in complexity. The early hominid mind could no 
longer cope with the richness of it’s life solely on the basis of its 
perceptual continuum, and language began to take a whole new 
evolutionary leap. In relation to the human brain, evolution on a 
biological level has reached its peak ( the head of an infant could only 
become so big in order to pass through the hips of its mother, and to 
retain the capacity for mobility – a vital factor for survival) , and 
after all of the physical mechanisms for increasing intelligence are 
exhausted, nature has conspired to increase human intelligence by using 
a technological, rather than biological strategem.

We are currently poised on the brink of ever more rapid transitions in 
technology, and our interaction with it. The human communications 
landscape is exponentially increasing in volume, speed and capacity, as 
we strive to reach out into the Universe, and connect with each other in 
more complex, accelerated ways. To an extent, for the first time, it is 
We who are being transformed by our technology, and not vice-versa.

As we speak, successive generations of young children are being thrust 
into the fast lane of cutting edge communications technology by their 
rapid (and somewhat remote) interactions with mobile phones (and the new 
accelerated language of “texting”). The mass usage of Computer games, 
and Personal Computers (particularly the World Wide Web), have led to 
the common utilisation of ever more complex and abbreviated 
terminologies. The internet in particular is a breeding ground for new 
language, as knowledge and ideas are transmitted globally at high speed. 
The Net has its own unique semantics, particularly, hypertext and 
hyperlinks, which we see as the foundation of a HYPERLANGUAGE – a 
revolutionary new spoken (if such a term will exist) mode of 
communication for the deep future. The recording project – 
HYPERLANGUAGE, is an artistic speculation - an analysis of our potential 
relationship with highly advanced communications technology in the deep 
future.

Given that tool-making generated a major shift in thinking that led to 
the foundations of spoken language – it should come as no great surprise 
that new technologies and cognitive structures (the evolution of the 
mind), should seed the development of a new kind of universal language – 
a non- verbal HYPERLANGUAGE that is communicated at vast speed and 
capacity through rapid transmission systems that will greatly exceed 
anything we could possibly imagine at present. What we present here is 
an imaginary switch point at some futuristic information exchange, 
inhabited by fragments of human vocalisations, hybrids of what we 
currently understand as language, fused with digital information, and 
all of the inherent noise that accumulates in an overloaded system.

The evolution of a new form of language, its trajectories and impact 
from a psychological, developmental, emotional, and educational 
perspective are deeply interesting to us. Please submit comments and 
feedback to the Lagowski blog:

www.lagowski.com
www.ecm323.co.uk
www.vivo.pl

Si_COMM updates at the blog: http://sicomm.blogspot.com
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09.10.04
Dale Lloyd: one hour as air pressure variations from a doorway/one hour 
as volatile & fixed principles

air pressure variations from a doorway:
I recorded two performances of air pressure manipulations using only a 
wooden door to maniplulate the tones. Very slight movements were 
required to capture some of the subtle nuances and overtones. The 
recordings themselves are not manipulated or processed. Aside from the 
air pressure tones themselves, there are also incidental sounds which 
come from the hallway outside the door, from a room upstairs, from a 
nearby refrigerator in very close proximity, and on the second recording 
of the two, I had mailing tape holding the door lock open, which was 
gradually coming unstuck, that made occasional high click sounds. On the 
first of the two recordings, I used duct tape, hence the lack of such 
sounds.


volatile and fixed principles (excerpt):
This is a segment from an upcoming release with the leeraum collective 
in Switzerland. The entire work was created using various kinds of metal 
objects, environmental recordings, and electronic sound sources.

http://www.and-oar.org/dalelloyd.html
http://www.leerraum.ch
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16.10.04
[no show]

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23.10.04
anték vvon cunt: one hour as fürv

O que e um prato nacional?

Pergunto-me e responda pela voz de Fialho de Almeida: <<Uma composicao 
culinaria rebele a escrita dos manuais, caracteristica, inconfudivel. 
(...) Transmite-se por tradicao; os estrangeiros nao sabem 
confecciona-lo, mesmo naturalizados; tendo chegado ate nos por processos 
lentos, e contrapovras de bilioes de experimentadores, sucessivamente 
interessados em fixar na sua forma irrepreensivel, resulta ser ele 
sempre uma coisa eminemtemente sapida e sadia. (...) 0 prata nacional e, 
como o romanceiro nacional, um produto de genio colectivo: ninguem o 
inventou e inventaram-no todos.>>
(in Jose Quiterio, Livro de Bem Comer)

http://66.225.223.75/furv/
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