Cartoon Physics/The Revenge of the Tangible

[luka]

This thread is a reminder that music goes beyond the body. That it posits a future body and a future physics. The physics of outer space and other planets. That we are not subject to the usual earthbound restraints within these worlds. Time can run in two directions at once. We ourselves are capable of bilocation. Astral travel. Are multi-limbed and each limb jointed and articulated at several points. This is the real science of evolution. The dream precedes the flesh.

 

[luka]

It's also a reminder that consciousness is non-local.

 

[entertainment]

My dad wrote a paper on this, it was about teaching kids how to describe sound in non-scientific terms or something.

I do some work at a tiny label and they're doing a series of compilations with different curators. For the next one, they got DJ soFa, and he's put together this concept comp of "cosmic music for children." Got all kinds of trippy songs that have very much this cartoony aesthetic. Apparently it tested really well with children as interpretive exercises. Can't find any of the cartoony ones on youtube, but this is quite good as well.

 

[vershy versh]

This thread is a reminder that music goes beyond the body. That it posits a future body and a future physics. The physics of outer space and other planets. That we are not subject to the usual earthbound restraints within these worlds. Time can run in two directions at once. We ourselves are capable of bilocation. Astral travel. Are multi-limbed and each limb jointed and articulated at several points. This is the real science of evolution. The dream precedes the flesh.

Watching vids of people breaking it does look cartoonish though. It's all rubbery, jerking limbs and bizarre movements. This one's all on the London Underground.

 

[vershy versh]

The guy at 2:03.

 

[luka]

I got really sentimental watching that underground video a few years back. it really got to me.

 

[luka]

I'd recently reread UBIK and seeing the same tunnels and the same station with slightly regressed technology etc spun me out too.

 

[vershy versh]

I dunno whether it's representative of the time, but the people in the background all seem very cold. If you did the same thing now, I'd expect a bunch of people standing around watching, clapping along, filming on phones etc.

 

[luka]

Yeah the coldness is part of what makes it so affecting I think. It's very beautiful and very sad

 

[vershy versh]

Yeah, it's got an undercurrent to it. The expressions on the faces in the background.

 

[sadmanbarty]

a pivitol moment in luke's life story is seeing pop locking near covent garden when he was a kid.

i've never seen anyone so mesmerised by a single moment in their life like luke is. people talk about the birth of their first born with less unabashed sentimentality.

 

[luka]

I used to watch them all the time. Once me and my mate stayed there all day and every time they asked for volunteers we'd keep volunteering. We were very young obviously, children.

 

[sadmanbarty]

We were very young obviously, children.

that's the bit i worry about...

what exactly happened?

 

[vershy versh]

that's the bit i worry about...

what exactly happened?

Don't sully the memory for him!

 

[sadmanbarty]

he got pop and cocked

 

[sadmanbarty]

i hope the perpetrator popped into police custody and got locked.

 

[vershy versh]

I remember being similarly transfixed when I first saw a couple of older kids skating. There was some event in the evening at my primary school and these guys in year six were in the back playground doing kickflips, skating the benches and stuff and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

 

[sadmanbarty]

i suppose luke's old enough to have seen a whole culture be born and die. that must do something to you; to have outlived an era.

being in my 20's, stuff being 10 years ago is always a bit astonishing. i remember seeing youtube videos with "10 years" written by the upload date and being shocked. uk funky and the gully/gaza war being over a decade old were similarly amazing.

 

[vershy versh]

MIXMASTER RONEDEE
1 year ago
Thats me, first and last dancer in white on this video, and you'll never guess who choose the music ,,,, the video was made by Geoff Stern as a bit of fun, it was no way intended to be an official music video for Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) he was at the London film school at the time and it was one of his school projects, looking at the London dance scene he went on to do another film with myself and Dion, in colour on 16mm called r2d2,,, Geoff Stern went on to have some success in photography with portfolio called "Geoff Stern jazz", looking at the jazz funk scene in London at the time,,, I'm all grown up now

 

[vershy versh]

being in my 20's, stuff being 10 years ago is always a bit astonishing. i remember seeing youtube videos with "10 years" written by the upload date and being shocked. uk funky and the gully/gaza war being over a decade old were similarly amazing.

Yeah, I get that too. I can't quite get my head round the 90s being almost 30 years ago. I'm so used to the 80s being 20 years ago. Dubstep being like fifteen years ago is a real eyebrow raiser.