Dematerialisation.

sufi

sufi

lala
The Auschwitz Memorial has launched a “historically accurate” digital replica of the former concentration camp for filmmakers to set their pictures in, breaking a long-held taboo around shooting features at the grounds where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazi regime.

At the Cannes film festival on Thursday, the organisers of the Picture from Auschwitz project said they have harnessed “cutting-edge 3D scanning technologies” to build a digital model of the concentration camp that matches the site in its current state “down to every single brick”.

A second phase of the €1.5m project will involve 3D scanning the adjacent Birkenau site, which is roughly 30 times larger than Auschwitz, as well as building historically accurate digital replicas of the crematoriums and gas chambers that were destroyed by the Nazis in late 1944.
 
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GhostofKinski

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luka said:
relinquish the earth-suit. no more Schuman the Human. show's cancelled people.

i know, and dont need reminding that the first recorded music is the first real break here.i know dematerialisation doesn't begin with the digital. i also know the digital doesnt begin in the '00s
and yet it seems reasonable to suggest we are in the process of acceleration.

it wouldnt be unusual for a human of 2018 to wake up, reach blearily for phone, scroll through
news feed, after shitting and showering return to phone over breakfast, stayed glued to phone
throughout commute, get to work, put down phone and sit IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER SCREEN
ALL DAY, phone over lunch, phone home, phone in bed before sleep.

not to mention socialising on whatsapp and orgasms with pornhub.

at that level of usage it is no exaggeration to say that SCREEN IS NOW PRIMARY ENVIRONMENT
and that, like in the phantom tollbooth, the world outside is disappearing. (the screen doesn't begin
with computers, the page is a screen. a painting is a screen. the screen always has a frame, is boundaried.)

i've mentioned how architecture is dematerialising



and simon's recent article on autotune nudged me into making a whole thread about this process
https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-auto-tune-revolutionized-the-sound-of-popular-music/

also worth linking to the autotune thread
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=13199
and the vr building thread
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=14196&highlight=architecture

it seems to me that once music making switched primarily to in-computer, and especially with the advent of autotune (and forgive me if this seems especially obvious/trite) sound no longer has a direct physical referent, and even the voice gets further and further away from the exigencies of breath of lung and tooth and tongue.

and it also makes intuitive sense that people who live their lives in a screen would require a kind of screen music. dematerialised tunes for dematerialised people. lusting after digital bodies. meeting in disembodied space.

i would never advocate any putting of the vehicle into reverse. we have the music of the past when we want physical referents. even something like dilla's dequantising (in the service of a fabricated organicism) seems retrograde. this is an area where i can happily be an accelerationist and want to see musicians lean into the process (not that they need any encouragement) and never look back
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FZ would much later in life/career become so disillusioned by working with human beings (He was self producing, out of his own pocket $$$)
Having to deal with musicians who had ego's/got too high, as well as booking tours, manufacturing the material product (vinyl/cd/tapes), He for a few years worked/composed almost exclusively on the Synclavier. On a side note: the record 'jazz from Hell' which was completely instrumental, was released with a 'Parental warning' sticker by the PMRC.

 
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version

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pattycakes_ said:
Are any of the synclavier albums worth a listen? Think I skimmed one or two and they weren't much cop
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My dad had the CD of this one back in the day. Don't think I ever heard it, but the cover was captivating at the time.

www.frieze.com

Frank Zappa’s Genre-Defying ‘Civilization Phaze III’

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’
www.frieze.com www.frieze.com

web-zappa-frank-civilization-phaze-3-1994.jpeg
 
pattycakes

pattycakes

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That was my impression. He basically wanted to make classical music with it and it didn't come out all that great. But that was just 2 albums and I think there's a bunch
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
there's a collected works anthology on rutracker. you grab it and then you will never listen to Zappa ever ever again.
 
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GhostofKinski

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pattycakes_ said:
That was my impression. He basically wanted to make classical music with it and it didn't come out all that great. But that was just 2 albums and I think there's a bunch
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Precisely! I have heard world class famous musicians all say in one version or other "FZ is a genius composer impersonating a rock star"

John & Paul (Beatles) sent him a telegram after hearing , We're only in for the money',..
Dear Mr. Zappa; Either join our band or get out of the business.
 
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