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When thought makes a judgement about something, if the judgment is in the positive (in other words I am moving  closer to the goal) then it ‘feels’ good. When I say that it ‘feels’ good, I mean that there is … Continue reading →

Do not knock. – Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility. It subjects them to the implacable, as it were ahistorical demands of objects. Thus the ability is … Continue reading →

For this revolution [that of the electronic medium (my words)] has effected, summarily and almost completely, a transfer of the limits of musical composition from the limits of the non electronic medium and the human performer, not to the limits … Continue reading →

I am exhausted by the inaccessibility of the music I produce. (yet fear to produce something accessible on the basis that it may be perceived as superficial) Just had to get that off my chest. Its a fine line. On … Continue reading →

This is a very interesting question. Ambisonics is cast as a medium that allows the composer, or game designer or whoever, to model a 3D soundfield the experience of which is close to the sonic experiencing of real space. I … Continue reading →

Marshall McLuhan apparently coined the term “the medium is the message” … circa 1964 in his book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). I havn’t read the book. I’ve only read the wikipedia entry. But its enough (for what I’m thinking … Continue reading →

In a discussion about the tension between art and technology my doctoral supervisor, Brogan Bunt, brought my attention to a quote by Charles Baudelaire: Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being … Continue reading →

Here, I am attempting to understand human thought by trying to work out how one could imitate human thought through a programative language. First, please read the previous post. I’ll have a go at answering the question I raise in … Continue reading →

A gentleman by the name of York Holler who apparently had a hand in shutting down the West-deutscher Rundfunk (an important studio in the production of electronic music), said that he thought that tape music was obsolete and that spatialisation is superficial… … Continue reading →

My gut feeling is that (spatial-audio) augmented reality (AR) is going to go the way of virtual reality… it’ll dribble on a bit then fizzle out. AR has the taste of that wow factor feature that never really delivers, that’s … Continue reading →