Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0606232355460.24410@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: lexicon, analog
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:55:57 -0400 (EDT)
lexicon, analog http://www.asondheim.org/rottate.mp4 - in this a segment is repeated diachronically (temporally). if segment = S, then we have S*n - n repetitions http://www.asondheim.org/maudmachine.mp4 - in this a single segment is constructed synchronically (spatially). space collapses onto itself; if space = S then we have S*x = S. So there'a a _vocabulary_ constructed here, against which Poser/motion capture, Blender, etc. plays. http://www.asondheim.org/maudmachine.mp4 - at least in a while this should be up. It's very simple reverse echo set to 'maximum' but you can see where this is going, how it would work w/ poser, or with even a vocabulary / calligraphy of the figure - meanwhile for me it's uncannily beautiful, Maud suspended in space Meanwhile I've been working mainly with a short piece of the Maud material which I'll make into an .mp4 either tonight or tomorrow; the rendering is horrendous. It's simple but works. The tapes together constitute almost a lexicon of figuration - it's hard to explain, but there are so many possi- bilities, in terms of video, but also aesthetics, philosophy... I'm unclear about the nature of the fetish in the construction of the original tapes, in which stage left/right, horizontal/vertical, closeup/ distance interplay in a semiotics of desire outlined by the bar-barriers of the material; I see this as minimal signs of humans on a planet within which they remain benign, localized. Just got down humming through the 15 mini-dvs, and will begin working more with them now. Your roof, the flute silhouette solo, the picnic, all are cinematic, perhaps a story in that -