Rain in films
Rain in films, a remix/podcast for the film magazine Détour. It accompanies an article (in Spanish) about the same subject. It’s included on a special issue about landscape in movies.
View ArticleRetinal pessimism
“…Retinal pessimism is not simply the failure of the phenomena of perception, the physiology of the retina, or the science of optics. Nor is it the conviction that whatever one is seeing is the worst...
View ArticleThree recent interviews
Three recent interviews: Les Femmes Folles: This one is about why I do what I do, and a bit of politics and feminism. Power Moves Label: This one is about music, sound, and noise, and a bit about...
View ArticleIntroducción a la música industrial en Canino
«Música industrial, dicen por ahí que eres la más ruidosa y transgresora, la más oscura y grosera, la perturbada que se atrevió a convertir los experimentos de vanguardia más intelectuales en pura...
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Mobile Painting: Art’s Newest Expression (1922)
Attempts have been made to coordinate color and music color and music, but thus without encouraging results. The color-organ, or Clavilux, invented by Mr. Thomas Wilfred, and presented recently in New...
View ArticleReadings
• What’s in a flicker film? Edward S. Small and Joseph Anderson. Communication Monographs, Volume 43, March 1976. • His African Journey: An Interview with Peter Kubelka Scott MacDonald. Film Quarterly,...
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• From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations B.C. ter Meulen, D. Tavy and B.C. Jacobs b. European Neurology Vol. 62, No. 5, 2009. • Décor by Timothy Leary [read]...
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• Sensational technologies [read] Annet Dekker and Vivian van Saaze. Digital Creativity 2005, Vol. 16, No. 2. • Speaking of Art as Embodied imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding...
View ArticleSitting with crossed legs
“When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them —as if legs were...
View ArticlePirotecnia para los tímpanos y la corteza cerebral
“El aire que vibra, la membrana que palpita, el hueso que se mueve, el líquido que oscila y los impulsos electroquímicos que se precipitan como fuentes sobre el cerebro expectante. (…) Los sonidos...
View ArticleCryptoamnesia
“Cryptoamnesia is characterized by having a thought you’ve had before without realizing that you have had the thought before. The easiest way to observe cryptoamnesia is in episodes of plagiarism where...
View ArticleIncivility and procrastination
“Si uno empieza por permitirse un asesinato, pronto no le da importancia a robar, del robo pasa a la bebida y a la inobservacia del día del Señor, y se acaba por faltar a la buena educación y por dejar...
View ArticleWe do not have a body
“We do not have a body: we are our body.” Consciousness and Perception: The Point of Experience and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit by Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum
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• Medicina tradicional china [leer] Daniel Reid. Ediciones Urano. 1999. • Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction Colin Ward. Oxford University Press. 2004. • The Laws of Simplicity John Maeda. The MIT...
View ArticleLa herida únicamente puede curarse con la lanza que la hizo
O, como dice un párrafo de Parsifal, de Wagner, “la herida únicamente puede curarse con la lanza que la hizo”. (…) Entren al perverso placer del martirio prematuro: “¡Ofendimos a la Madre Naturaleza,...
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• Mis problemas con Amenabar Jordi Costa, Darío Adanti • Las casualidades no existen [leer] Borja Vilaseca, El País • Political Music [read] David Smooke • Bats, Rats and Packs [read] Eugene Thacker •...
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• Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard [read] Tom McCarthy, The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010 • El elogio de la sombra [leer] Jun’ichirō Tanizaki • Lenore #1-13 Roman Dirge •...
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• Oskar Fischinger: the animation wizard who angered Walt Disney and the Nazis [read] Adrian Searle • Vampyr [read] Catherine S. Cox • Apología de Sócrates Platón • La audiovisión Michel Chion • Butes...
View ArticleLa muerte es una constante en el mundo del netaudio…
«La muerte es una constante en el mundo del netaudio, como en casi todas partes. Hay sellos que desparecen de golpe y otros que van dejando de moverse poco a poco. Hay plataformas que se quedan...
View ArticleNot understood at all
“On the other hand, sound and video artist _blank’s conceptual performance seemed to be misunderstood, or rather, not understood at all. Her deep and exacting exercise on deciphering and exposing how...
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