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Music for writing

Posted April 18th, 2009 by doll_yoko

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Author/s:

doll_yoko

Writuals for Writing:

scents, sounds, objects - to help get into the zone

Where the Radio Stops, the Music Begins

Posted November 22nd, 2008 by Lindsay

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Where the Radio Stops,

In 1895, Breuer and Freud published Studies on Hysteria, a seminal account of the development of the first scientific method for analysing the realities of the human mind, which suggested a new way of making inferences from the symbolic forms created in dreams using techniques such as free-association. This same year also saw the development of one of the first motion picture cameras by the Lumiere Brothers. The Cinematograph, a device that acted as a camera, developer and a projector, had its first public demonstration in the form of a twelve-film screening in Paris. The Cinematograph not only pipped Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope to the post as the first publicised machine to enable a ‘cinematic’ event, but also hailed the start of an era of innovative communication, story telling and recording of realities.

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Lost Music

Posted July 28th, 2008 by Lindsay

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My research today took a poetic wander. In thinking about the electromagnetic environment and how 'on land' we are submerged in modulated mumblings, my thoughts turned to the electromagnetically silent world of the deep, a world where radio and light don't penetrate, a world that can only be felt through other senses; the skin, the emotions, sound. Today I started looking at the Titanic.

Titanic Hull

Posted July 28th, 2008 by Lindsay

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This is a picture (2004) taken of the hull of the Titanic 92 years after she sunk. The wreck lies at approximately 3,500 metres below the surface of the water, which is the same distance as the tops of some alpine peaks. This very beautiful and peaceful photograph along with a selected few other relatively hi-res images can be found at the Boat Shed

All photographs by Robert Ballard, the original diver discoverer of the Titanic wreck. The image was retrieved from the above link.

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by the photographer

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John Cage: Silence and Silencing

Posted July 24th, 2008 by Armin Medosch

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Publication Type		Journal Article
Citation Key		1997
Year of Publication		1997
Authors		Kahn, D.
Journal Title		The Musical Quarterly
Volume		81
Pages		556--598
Number		4
Publisher		Oxford University Press
Publication Language		eng
URL		http://www.jstor.org/stable/742286

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Funkhaus circuit

Posted July 12th, 2008 by Lindsay

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I found this and other beautiful circuit drawings whilst foraging in the derelict back buildings and basement of the Rundfunk der DDR, Funkhaus Nalepastrasse. Even thought the main building is still used for recording and performance, the back buildings are a hive of discoveries for the explorer with skip-raking tendencies with all sorts of communicative artefacts lying around from 70's intercoms to glass tanks for battery making.