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One of my pet life-projects is testing the postulate that we go about our lives perceiving ourselves through the eyes of others. Its a physical absurdity, of course … might be better to say that we perceive ourselves through how … Continue reading →

Serial composition — or the twelve tone technique — is considered one of the most important aesthetic developments in 20th Century compositional thought. What bowls me over is the banality of the technique. In its most generalised form, as devised … Continue reading →

Karlheinz Stockhausen, considered an important pioneer in electroacoustic composition, predicted in 1977: space will become as important as pitch in the traditional music (Stockhausen cited in Worrall 1998) Despite increasing technical means the role of space in music still requires … Continue reading →

Ambisonics, a technology used to create spatial audio experiences, is bad technology for the home (and most public performances). Before arguing this point, let me define how I am judging technology: A technology is only as good as the experience users … Continue reading →

As the integration of technology, into the arts, matures I see a pattern forming. Technology does not give us access to things other-wordly. It does not expose objective realities about our material world that help us understand it in a … Continue reading →

A little while ago, a coder by the name of Kyle McDonald put together a  bunch of code and libraries that enabled mapping photos of different faces onto one’s own face. The question being, ok but what can you do with … Continue reading →

Martin Heidegger wrote about both technology and art. He said that whilst technology and art are very different things, they are both ways of revealing. Technology, or at least ‘modern’ technology, presents a big threat to humanity. And this threat … Continue reading →

This is the most refreshing thing I have read in a long time. Its actually very liberating. I have been studying Pierre Schaeffer, his works and his words for a while now. He is the pioneer of the famous Musique … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading and re-reading Heidegger’s ‘The Question Concerning Technology‘ now for a couple of weeks. Its a difficult read, but it is starting to sink in. Its dawned on me that his warning is particularly potent for contemporary technologies … … Continue reading →

Argghhh. Heidegger, your writings are so cryptic. When you say: Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens … do you mean: That it is the … Continue reading →