Nathaniel Clark » Art http://nathanielclark.org Mopping the floors of consciousness Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:04:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Essential Noise Art Band Phase http://nathanielclark.org/2012/03/the-essential-noise-art-band-phase/ http://nathanielclark.org/2012/03/the-essential-noise-art-band-phase/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:41:59 +0000 nathaniel http://nathanielclark.org/?p=740 Digging through some old thoughts, pictures, and tetchy sound files tonight, perhaps trying to re-capture some experimental ground lost in the last few years of professional computing and Dev Team running… dug up the vital, & sadly brief, noise/art ‘band’ Tucker and I formed, post-Skald Cluster and pre-everything else. An apt description:

A feverish exploration of the sonic fringe. Listening to the things you refuse to. Cannibal structures in MAX MSP and PD; eviscerations of late-80s guitar pedals; Furby Clusters tortured with Soldering-Irons; oceanic installations; reactive war environments; quiet whispered karmic pockets.

Unlike many of my nigh-pretentious run-on poetics from that era, this doesn’t make me cringe. It actually perks up the unused portions of my brain, gets me all eager to fire up PD again. And perhaps I will. But right now, I am going to upload some almost-totally-but-not-quite-unlistenable audio tracks to Soundcloud.

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…[R]ather than creating immutable, unchanging spaces that define a particular experience, they suggest inhabitant and structure can—and should—mutually influence each other. -Ethan Marcotte

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Such to the dead might appear the world of living — charged with information, with meaning, yet somehow always just, terribly, beyond that fateful limen where any lamp of comprehension might beam forth
–Thomas Pynchon, Against The Day

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]]> http://nathanielclark.org/2009/09/commando/feed/ 0 quoting beauty http://nathanielclark.org/2006/03/quoting-beauty/ http://nathanielclark.org/2006/03/quoting-beauty/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:48:52 +0000 nathaniel http://nathanielclark.org/nexus/?p=212 Again, for test purposes:
“For a start, I think, we must stop treating beauty as a thing or a quality, and see it instead as a kind of communication: Beauty is an unstable property because it is not a property at all. It is the name of a particular interaction between two beings, a self and an Other; I find an Other beautiful. This act of discovery, we shall see, has profound implications”. –Wendy Stiener, Venus in Exile

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