Digital Music as CGI

[version]

" ... the individual artist’s own labor can become competitive with the machines that produce our most grandiose sci-fi. Finally, there can be indistinguishability between the sheer productive capability of capital and the loner armed with vision and software — one of the dreams of electronic music all along."

Music Review: M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate

When is the future? The hopeful answer would be now, because it demands the present to be revolutionary in scope. Perhaps that’s the utopian dream of science fiction and much of cinema in general. Glowing screens could frame a technological transition of the social ego into a more revolutionary...

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[luka]

does the current way you experience sound not imply synesthesia?

always yes. thats a large part of what i am talking about.

 

[luka]

so when you model a sound you are modelling a material and a movement and even an implied physics

 

[version]

so when you model a sound you are modelling a material and a movement and even an implied physics

 

[wektor]

so when you model a sound you are modelling a material and a movement and even an implied physics

yea its a shame peopel who do visuals don't take such simple fucking clues


btw there was quite a cool piece of presentation(?) in powerpoint(?) done by MESH about sound design, I'll try to look it up

 

[wektor]

 

[luka]

with a bouncing ball youve got a compression at impact and then a satisfying boing back into shape

 

[version]

 

[luka]

those are good examples version. they sound like executive toys. there's a kind of slack jawed idiot pleasure to be got from watching them in motion.

 

[luka]

with a bouncing ball youve got a compression at impact and then a satisfying boing back into shape

another common thing is bubbles surface tension increasing as it expands before shattering into a million scintillant pieces

 

[luka]

i want to say there's not much sene of a resisting medium with this stuff, that it takes place almost in a vacuum.

 

[wektor]

an acousmatic polish classic
what kind of slinkies are these you reckon?

 

[luka]

a lot of continental Europe is besotted with the pogo stick particularly the Dutch and off into the eastern regions

 

[wektor]

people should make more visuals that look like this

 

[wektor]

a lot of continental Europe is besotted with the pogo stick particularly the Dutch and off into the eastern regions

it was like a late 20th century thing wasn't it?

 

[luka]

joy for them is a pogo stick. its the purest expression of joy for those cultures.

 

[version]

 

[luka]

a lot of the time youre playing with metamorphosis the magical transformation of one thing into another like T2 or Michael Jacksons Black and White video etc

 

[luka]

me and mvuent were trying maybe not very successfully to describe it as it applied to electroacoustic music a while back

 

[wektor]

a couple good visuals I've seen recently that match what you hear sort of well (probably cause they're reactive init)

I love the use of light in the latter and how it somehow matches the higher frequency spectrum
fucking exceptional