[microsound] objet petit a

[Exegene <exegene@xxxxxxxx>]

"It is here that I propose that the interest the subject takes in his own 
split is bound up with that which determines it -- namely, a privileged 
object, which has emerged from some primal separation, from some 
self-mutilation induced by the approach of the real, whose name, in our 
algebra, is the /objet a/." -Jacques Lacan, _the Four Fundamental Concepts 
of Psycho-Analysis_

Difficulties of interpretation owing to his obscurantist tendencies aside, 
in Lacan's discourse there appears to be no Ultimate Reality knowable (if 
at best conceivable) reflected of 
which are the images we manipulate, the above "approach of the real" 
suggesting that the unqualified real entails that which is delivered by 
apprehension, but not that which apprehension meets against, if one is 
allowed to place oneself in the the Knower Before Knowers' reference 
frame. Obvious potential anguish and confusion ensue from the lack of 
certainty in real's equivalence to real.

I ask of those .microsounders who in their work have approached the 
certainty of the real to what extent and how they have so done. Is it 
possible to investigate the onions within onions on a timbral basis? In 
cutting up or resequencing the components of voice samples, is there any 
way to favor one truth kernel over another? What developments have occurred 
on the technological front that concerns itself with modifying voice 
recordings for broadcast such that the modification is unnoticed, or 
displays its traces as innocent?




-- 
Dear Patron Saint,
your lips are lopsided
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