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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: resonant phenomena, Undine with an explanation
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:41:52 -0400 (EDT)
resonant phenomena, Undine with an explanation http://www.alansondheim.org/undine.mov http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/undine.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/undine1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/undine2.png explanation - i first explored wave phenomena in undine.mp3, using electric oud, imagining emergent forms that interfered with each other, sometimes close to inaudible; the matrix is deep bass, as if the forms were rising to an uncanny surface. i then used second life to create the two still images, undine1.png and undine2.png, which represent the use of a 'pencil' that was given to me, and that allows me to leave trails or traces of objects behind a moving avatar. the avatar outlined a portal, which then produced its own bathos, own phenomena - intrinsic, through scripting, but also extrinsic, in relation to what the recording computer could accommodate. it took a great deal of time to create undine.mov, a looping video of the phenomena - which include both particle production and repeated texture mapping, to the extent that the computer, inworld parcel, and external net connection would allow. so the result is a mapping of complex interactions among a number of phenomena; the ideal - what was set - would be a total mapping of revolving textures, which i knew (even with overclocking the computer itself for example) would prove impossible. i imagine all these phenomena interlocked - the still images, as on a desktop background; the (modified) electric oud matrix playing continuous- ly, and the rat-a-tat video giving an inworld outworld dreaming of what might be a universal pulsing. ( such a pulsing is always broken, always confounded, always local - such dreaming tending towards an absolute, romanticism suturing the anguish of authentic loss )