http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:08:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While making the piece "mass and momentum" I had been involved in exploring two levels of what had been at that time called the "open source revolution", inasmuch as this movement had trickled down to me as a sound-artist. The first level, on the plane of distribution and software: I used ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2009/11/22/some-further-notes-on-making-mass-momentum/ http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2009/04/02/improvisation-series-ammo-nite-gig/ http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2009/04/02/koncert-at-plan-b/   http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2008/06/10/a-perte-de-vue/ Preamble I had recently relocated to Liege, Belgium. Called “the burning city”, it is an industrial town whose nearby factories were developed by John Cockerill in the Dickensian age. It smelled in certain declivities just like Buffalo, the rust-belt town in New York where I was born. These notes, in retrospect, ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2008/05/28/architecture-and-silence/ "hunger/makes the world blind" --a poet once said... the following theses where found in an archive recently. whatever they are saying, and i think that it is what they say that could be interesting, the echos of novalis and debord straining for an impossible synthesis make for amusing reading. 1. life seeks ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2008/03/29/fragmentary-theses-on-communication/ 1) Noise is centrifugal, not centripital. There can be no consensus on Noise. Noise moves away from all centers of identification. There will always be more Noise than one can listen to. Inappropriateness is the priority of Noise.2) Mothers against Noise(M.A.N.)is most likely a creation of the publicity department of ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2008/03/29/other-theses-on-noise/ I What the fuck is Noise?Precisely because of its indeterminacy noise is the most sensuous human activity / practice. To try to fix it or to make it a genre is as fucked up as believing in democracy.IIIf you make noise it is likely that somebody else is going to hear you, this means ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2008/03/29/theses-on-noise/ The following was included in a performance at the new Staalplaat in Berlinhttp://www.lepetitmignon.de/The improvised preamble, however, ended in this manner:...I have a few times received suspicious emails from people doing geneaology searches...my surname, Gburek, is Polish...my surname, I was told a few years ago, means something like Grumpy and Obstinate ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2007/06/26/anagywnas-the-impenetrable-silence-of-stone/ On a train ride from Berlin to Gdansk, I encountered that laminal experience wherein not only auditory consciousness gains access to the deepest internal and bodily experience of hearing that is the externally silent transversal of dreams but also the sensitivity grew that there was indeed a code that could ... http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/2007/06/26/apropos-yannick-daubys-hybridism/