Comments for Tuning is a Function of Time

Comment on I want my Phill Niblock by ACS

ACS — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:00:48 +0000

yeah, true. Although I distinctly remember “I’m not convinced.” as coming after Phill’s denial of the connection.

I think that what is particular in the connection, though, is process-as-labor, not just process for its own sake—not mechanical process, but the human deviations. Process as an intermedia link is a fairly standard idea.

Comment on I want my Phill Niblock by beau sievers

beau sievers — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:46:17 +0000

actually i just asked, of the videos, “are they all of people working?” (they are.)

but i think the relationship between the video and the audio is on the level of process, and also in a certain approach to mass, movement, and form.

Comment on Transverse Temporal Gyrus! by Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:51:09 +0000

Elegantlly written with vivid words that generates audiable concepts from thoughts on a page. I enjoyed the read, and would have enjoyed the experience with you! Keep it up! Dad

Comment on Geography by richard badalamente

richard badalamente — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:33:38 +0000

Found this engaging. Wanted to understand the words, but couldn’t hear over the dissonant music. Maybe you could include them. Sort of an atonal poem. Alternatively, put the spoken part in the “foreground.” Enjoy tuning in here. Keep it up.

Comment on (un)fortunate news, for you by alyssa

alyssa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:52:18 +0000

Excellent picture choices. Also, I wish we lived in the same city (which we haven’t done in literally five years) because I don’t have many friends who like to go to readings with me, especially like the treadmill one you went to. Read: I miss you. Too much? Sorry.

Comment on In the Blink of an Ear by Seth Kim-Cohen

Seth Kim-Cohen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:29:27 +0000

If we’re talking about Lucier’s more recent work, I agree with you. And truth be told, I don’t think it’s as interesting, as strong, or as radical as his late-60s & 70s work. In the book, I primarily deal with “I am sitting in a room” (1969) which I think engages a great deal more than acoustics. The score/text says as much: “I regard this activity, not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact…” Check it out, it’s chapter 7. Thanks.

Comment on In the Blink of an Ear by ACS

ACS — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:19:19 +0000

A ha. And I think you just convinced me to buy the book, or at least to see if there’s a copy lying around at ISSUE. I still had a tough time with Lucier, though, because he didn’t seem to fit with the other elements of what you were talking about and the NYME. In other words, Lucier’s work does not seem to concern itself with the social elements that you list, but rather with the natural world and with science (although, these elements are always political these days). Thanks for the thoughts.

Comment on In the Blink of an Ear by Seth Kim-Cohen

Seth Kim-Cohen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:28:49 +0000

“IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD ANYWAY SO WHO CARES IF IT’S COCHLEAR OR NON-COCHLEAR SETH”

Agreed. Problem is – and this is the crux of my book – too many sound and music people cling to the notion of sound-in-itself. There’s an implicit belief that sound – pure, non-signifying – resides outside or above the world of petty concerns: economics, politics, gender, sociality. Sound needn’t dirty its hands with the real of reality. It is amorphous, transcendent, ephemeral. My point is that this is escapist and avoids the very real connections of sound to the world. The thesis of the book is not that sound should avoid the ear, but that it should add a concern for the complications of the real world to its unavoidable aurality.

Comment on No(stalgia) New York by alyssa

alyssa — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:01:30 +0000

curator? sweet deal.

Comment on Smells Like IKEA by nancy

nancy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:41:47 +0000

ah, what a wise decision.