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this is the place i brainstorm, archive, and keep track of things. site: gary-mart.in x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x The Pudding - Essential Words YouTube sampler https://ypc2000.fun ladybird book of maps i finally finished weather fm

weather fm practicing scales sound bites loop remixes #fff8e7 Sprezzatura The thinking game Protein structures documentary MJ interruptions Design your own artist residency from @olivia_rafferty

Choose a location place: park, street, museum media: novel, film, game online space: live webcams, online collection event: football match, gig, train journey

Medium sketches/paintings, spoken word, field recordings, poems/observations, instrumental, short scenes
Time commitment Weekend, two weeks, month, season
Where to share Social media, local space, radio show, website, zine

Event: Penpont - 5-6 August 10-4:30 Community archeology project Castell Einion Sais - ///range.admire.intensely Solar eclipse August 12th - 6pm, &:05-7:16 peak, 8:10 ends. Meteor shower after eclipse. Get extremely clear about what you want to be known for. Make sure anyone who lands on your thing can understand it in seconds. Make your feed outcome-based, center the reader not yourself. Make it unmistakably you. Don’t worry about red tape - leave a trail of nibbles until you’re ready to launch. Start before it exists. Tinyfingers.net Kemistry Nia Archives VXRGO Sheba Q NOLI KLO Donya B Bass Selectacee Sherelle Anna Morgan Instead of buying more less we should buy less more The early bird catches the worm The early worm gets caught by the bird Asian Kung-Fu Generation Nano-Mugen Compilation 2008 Field Work London - NTS1

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walking around my home patch maps: human, ant, pigeon scale/perspective layered on top of each other. ties into the idea of recording as composing - recording a soundscape always captures a human/individual perspective, even if you try and be silent to remove yourself from the scene.

garden design workshop at Peak with Sarah Price capital likes the idea the world is complexly interconnected, with no clear boundaries, this gives it an alibi for exploitation without clear responsibility. so, yes ontologically everything is flattened, but politically it is not and cannot be. *edit: found more people on this anti-OOO position because it’s good for capitalism - I feel there is an is>ought mess up - just because things are ontologically the same doesn’t mean it’s cool to exploit/extract. in fact one of the cool things about ontological flattening is that it challenges the idea that there is a privileged way of accessing the world, i.e. white/male/euro/thought - what if we did something else?

ant wings freshly shed everything is connected, everything is political what do you do if your ideas are shit and you can only prompt shit music/film outputs?

office at River Clydach artificial = (hu)man made, not natural or spontaneous To watch: To read: Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer - Wendell Berry Sounds Wild and Broken - David George Haskell Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature La Moustache - Carrere Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life - Peter Cheyne TV for Ioan: What Sam Sees In the Womb: Animal Babies Animated Book Read Alouds A Real Bug’s Life Outdoor Boys Alton Brown Cooks Food Unlikely Animal Friends Nailed It Podcasts for Ioan: The Gnomes of Wondergarten Heartwood Hotel Gardenkeeper Gus Deep Blue Sea Supergreat Kid’s Stories paint the browser https://jspaint.app that moment when you realise music’s entanglement with sand and bricklayers - working on systems thinking with students:

Against Software Development (found in article by Maya Man) https://www.rntz.net/post/against-software-development.html BYLINE https://www.bylinebyline.com CODOMESTICATION How Parenthood Opens New Paths in Performance-making and Touring Interesting performance piece focused on touring the concept rather than the artist/work. Inspired by ‘restrictions’ of parenthood, artist creates performance piece that is performed by local children/parents https://performeurope.eu/how-parenthood-opens-new-paths-in-performance-making-and-touring/ https://wakinglife.pt/storytelling/sonic-insurrection-part-2 The Simulacrum of the Rave: Notes on the Festival Industrial Complex MTV Rewind https://wantmymtv.xyz/player.html

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the gatekeeper is now the algorithm? (that’s why there’s so much investment in AI ritual > routine the most exciting developments for me all broadly share a form of ecofeminist, queer, posthumanist, speculative and new ecological realist foundation. this type of work creates the liminal spaces - those that define any fixed form or definition - that I see as necessary for transformation. everyone’s on stage and no-one’s in the audience some books: The Dark, John McGahern Amongst Women, John McGahern Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan Foster, Claire Keegan Dubliners, James Joyce Ulysses, James Joyce The Singularities, John Banville Birchwood, John Banville White Noise, Don Delillo Underworld, Don Delillo fishing: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNhad-jyqjb/?igsh=MWJ6YWkxcWd2NHhlYQ== Looking to exist between DIY html websites and ethical machine learning (build your own data sets with consent from people) hmmm newsletter/live studio/sketches broken growth check out Weaning How can I apply Access-First Design principles to lectures/workshops? Do lecture slides exist in this approach? If so, what’s on them? How are conversations - where some of the vital learning happens - captured? What are the benefits/drawbacks of text on slides? Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert “It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you!" start where you are use what you have do what you can sometimes being analytical can often just be a more evolved form of disassociation ~~artificial~~ intelligence collective intelligence we can be so focused on making the best product IN the world, we forget to ask about making the best thing FOR the world. ‘we need to learn to read the air in a way that better recognises the forces moving through it……. reading the air means more carefully attending to the ambient determinants of self and realising there are times when disrupting the given ambience, becoming meiwaku, can serve as an important way out from one mood to another.’ - ambient media landscapes + ambivalent calm Waves and tides Machine-learning governance: private companies making unaccountable decisions, undermining democratic oversight and public influence. make your own paper Successful female musicians historically have got where they are despite inequality not because of the equality they had. Moving forward is not about shitting on the past, it's about learning from it and perhaps not glorifying the elements that don't align with the values of today's society Everything AI can do, you can do meta. experiential futures world building / imagined futures stuart candy - situation lab Jas - light/synth workshop at PMStudios https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/jasmine-butt ~~nature(al) vs unnatural~~ nature(al) vs supernatural surely everything in the biosphere is nature(al), or naturally occurring - spider webs and sainsbury’s are natural plants n the same way. Confidence: the lack of the need of approval or validation from others in decision-making. Microcontrollers Adafruit feather bluefruit 32_(u)4 teensy 4.1 Reflections from 10 Reasons for Deleting Social Media… reasons for: I don’t post anything anymore anyway Shit business model Stifles creativity Causes anxiety Constant distraction Makes me grumpy barriers: Network effect FOMO FOM-opportunities and keeping up with contemporary models actions?:

Make a list of resources: people; mags; blogs; sites, to visit regularly rather than relying on things to pop up
Get a new email account
Move drive content to somewhere new (Dropbox?)
Change emails
Modify website/blog

new way of finding people: Actually going to events Visiting websites Asking for recommendations Noting names on books/projects new way of sharing with people: Newsletter Zines Workshops Bandcamp Getting work featured elsewhere!!! Posters/postcards ——— Nature is a normative term. Nature is a sort of anthopocentrically scaled concept, designed for humans, so it’s not strictly relevant to thinking about ecology. Realising there are lots of different temporality formats is basically what ecological awareness is. it’s equivalent to acknowledging in a deep way the existence of beings that aren’t you, with whom you coexist. Once you’ve done that, you can’t un-acknowledge it. There’s no going back. Spreadsheet websites https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hEccPsEgTzLTMbthg6hUdxMOE-9A-iNYQbQfGGoLqhA/edit?usp=share_link The man who interviewed the windHe has spent three decades making recordings – but has never captured the wildest sound on Earth. So, armed with his trusty fluffy dog on a stick, Tim Dee heads for the Wash to find the perfect windwww.theguardian.com|Tim Dee tr-808 = acoustic guitar. people hear a lot with their eyes and see a lot with their ears. stressed and unstressed symbols ⚫️➖ used as graphic notation for performance creative response. create an artificial genre, with rigid characteristics. Lucky Dragons on 'songs': "I think music is still very much in a song age," Rara replies. "Very few people are making work without a specific duration or end point—and I think the sense of time and ending is integral to our idea of a song. Some [Lucky Dragons songs] are very short-lived, just a few sputters and then gone; other pieces revolve around shepherd tones and expand for hours. Technology hasn't changed the structure of songwriting entirely; I think more about the way free jazz changed the structure of a song." "Maybe it depends on what is meant by 'song,'" Fischbeck says. "A song in my mind is something that is completed once it is distributed and can come back in a changed form through a listening reaction. That's optimistically vague, but it keeps me calling what we make 'songs' instead of the much more technologically neutral 'tracks,' which doesn't imply any human interaction at all!" what/where is the suburbs of the internet? "what cannot rust still shows its age through resolution" - @laturboavedon auditory illusion: illusory sound texture. 2017 hierarchy of needs, as designed by Conrad Hackett: self-actualisation esteem social needs safety and security wi-fi battery "-"In existential mathematics […] the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting." The implication is intuitive. The more you're willing to pause and take in your surroundings, the richer your experiences can be. The details are more vibrant, the colors more full.-" Ana Roxanne. For some natural number n, n·n = 25. installation where the visual is only visible if the audience makes noise. the more noise the more visible the piece becomes. why are we so goddam quiet at galleries? new format for music shared on social networking sites. equivalent of a gif? music purposely created for short loops? to include visuals! would they be abstract colours and shapes? or black back with sound caption? i think the latter. on perfectionism & mental health: "in this new visual culture the appearance of perfection is far more important than the reality." i share therefore i am. Intelligibility (communication) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org you can still make party music and discuss an agenda. Fatima Al Qadiri. what sounds are curated as data? would you listen to all the tweets you read? actions--> data--> quantified--> measured. bee music

art in the countryside. Creatives are leaving London 2024 Creative leaving cities for countryside Why artists and designers are moving out of big cities arts and culture breaking out of the big city Ruralism and escape in the new roaring twenties Why millennials are leaving cities

Chinese artists go back to the land: our cities are insufferable rhythm = pitch. using the mic to write text translation without the correct setting speaking Welsh to an English robot. bore da, sut dych chi? da iawn, diolch florida psittaci diane neal. datamoshing - use text edit to embed memories/stories in a photo. taking the noise of the world and tuning it in to something you can live with. sejlma. what is local music? and world music 2.0, all here. sample packs here. the laptop is most intimate musical instrument now. talks from HH. limbs = stems. Critical Sonics: Political voices in electronic music "if the idea of protest music was popularized by folk singers in the ‘60s, like music itself, many more forms of it exist today" "electronic artists working in primarily instrumental music have to get creative". asterisk out consonants instead of vowels. chat with Miles: four colour theorem and counting as different animals. dolphin = binary, lobster = base 4. why do we use the face to represent the self? selfies without faces. laconic means brief. i ~~see~~ hear what you mean it was love at first ~~sight~~ listen would you ~~look~~ listen to that i'll believe that when i ~~see~~ hear it i ~~see~~ hear what you mean what is the purpose of a selfie? unity 3d, blender, gimp, ableton. https://developers.google.com/vr/develop/unity/get-started-android what makes a vr experience more 'real' compared to a book? hypothetically, could one create a digital Plato's cave? if so, i would want to switch the visual aesthetics of donuts and snakes and see the result of this virtual cultural conditioning when the test subject was released to the wild of the real world. phonetic scores make up words for people to say sounds are implied eel el elle l ll le lee ellee lleee a ah ahb ab abb abba ahbha b bb less thinking. more making. yoga for a dull moment, i was having a dull moment. "most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts." - MM story/text where all the visually biased language references are replaced with auditory equivalents/alternatives. "we employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions." - MM "i ~~see~~ hear what you mean." "would you ~~look~~ listen to that." "~~thereafter~~ thenafter." a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack". skip & shuffle revolution. time, of course is the one thing that most listeners don't have at their disposal these days. me: the Internet has created the illusion of a busy lifestyle for people, allowing us to manage more tasks by decreasing the temporal demand of each one. create an 'album' for the contemporary consumer. meri dua hai lakh janam tak tu ho unki dulhan samjh na mujhko sautan binti karke jati h cnstnt cnsnnts teriyaki outfit lactatia raymbo fflwfflyd i'm not a.... does that matter? the question should be, are you interested? then off we go. 4x4 game play music launchpad + connect 4 i played the guitar properly for the first time since forever, meaning i learnt to play something new*, and it was like meditating. the focusing on my fingers like breathing, and getting it wrong and then starting again like those thoughts that pop in to your head you accept and then move on from. *living in the country by Pete Seeger. no such thing as an instantaneous cube or sound that doesn’t move from one point to another in space. sounds inhibit time, but are transmitted through space. blodgen skeppleby dronthimis techno optimism nmp use phone: texts/calls/tweets/fb/tumblr/email as trigger for musical activity Holly Herndon: laptops are intimate medium is the massage 45 min dance album all songs can move from one to another modular musick bpm breaths per movement. times new ramen. more yoga more sleep. embed written memories in the file data of an image about the image. share image as .txt file with instructions on how to view. condense a memory written in full to 8 syllables. record each syllable and thread together in ableton. or use _loop to trigger (up to 6) syllables for performance. bus spar pass crush front zup quick sip - a year 7 memory condensed to 8 syllables.