resonating objects

my little transducer

Audio stuff

http://aporee.org/
The largest online audio map, to which anyone who wants can upload their field recordings.

http://listen.hatnote.com/#en
Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed.

http://www.michaelgallagher.co.uk/how-to/starting-out-with-field-recording

http://quietamerican.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R63MOFTxx8
Nic Collins shows how to turn speakers into microphones, microphones into speakers. From the DVD in "Handmade Electronic Music -- The Art of Hardware Hacking" (Routledge 2009).

http://www.soundsofeurope.eu/about/

electric drawing

first electric drawing

first electric drawing
arduino///processing///potentiometer

hello_world

exxonerate

Stuart Ewen presents Mind Games & Activism: Marketing, Persuasion, and the Myth of the Hardwired Public

Gustave Le Bon /// Pavlov // John Broadus Watson - Little Albert ////

 

arguments against the use of parataxis:

It is not, then, the facts in themselves that strike the popular imagination, but the way in which they take place and are brought under notice. It is necessary that by their condensation, if I may thus express myself, they should produce a startling image which fills and besets the mind. To know the art of impressing the imagination of crowds is to know at the same time the art of governing them.  

Gustave Le Bon. "The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds".  

this week we'll show you the face of evil like you've never seen it before

because whatever you think  of any of these people, they don't in fact share the same historical space, they don't share the same historical circumstances and what you have is in this ad for the History Channel is  the collapsing of things which have nothing to do with each other  in order to create a meaning. This is completely illogical but it is very powerful.  

  A policy framework is a logical structure that is established to organize policy documentation into groupings and categories that make it easier for employees to find and understand the contents of various policy documents. Policy frameworks can also be used to help in the planning and development of the policies for an organization.

 

Definition of conduction

noun

[mass noun]

• the process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through the material of a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions, without movement of the material.
• the process by which sound waves travel through a medium.
• the transmission of impulses along nerves.
• the conveying of fluid through a channel.

Origin:

mid 16th century (in the senses 'provision for safe passage' and 'leadership'): from Latin conductio(n-), from the verb conducere (see conduct)

 

As you see, I am all in pieces!

You know what a Leyden jar is it's the classical apparatus for storing electricity...  There was once upon a time a celebrated physicist, a man of science, called Professor Tyndall. He was manipulating a large battery of Leyden jars, while lecturing. Through some carelessness in handling them he received a very severe electric shock. It was so severe it knocked him out. ...He recovered himself, so to speak, very nearly at once. ...He was able to address the audience and reassure it immediately. But while he was reassuring the audience, his body appeared to him to be cut up into fragments. For instance his arms were separated by his trunk and seemed suspended in the air.

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Technology as Efficacious Action on Objects . . . and Subjects
Jean-Pierre Warnier
Journal of Material Culture 2009 14: 459 DOI: 10.1177/1359183509345944
The online version of this article can be found at:
http://mcu.sagepub.com/content/14/4/459

 

I have already suggested, a subject may be a subject-with-his-embodied- fountain-pen writing an article, or a subject-cum-Boeing 707 in the action of piloting.
This is where an ethnographic case may be usefully brought into the picture. In several recent publications (2006, 2007, 2009), I have tried to show that the people of Mankon (Cameroon) have a sophisticated bodily cum material culture focused on envelopes, openings, surfaces, contain- ers, the human skin, and on all the actions pertaining to the transit of substances through the apertures of the body and all kinds of vessels. People identify with containers and, since Mankon is a kingdom, the king identifies with a pot full of unifying ancestral life substances.
More precisely, for example, mothers give a daily massage to their newborn babies until they are able to walk. They work the skin of the infant with palm oil or industrial baby lotion, beginning with the shaved scalp and working all the way down to the toes, paying much attention to the folds of the skin around nose, mouth, ears, fingers, toes, genitals, buttocks, etc. They do not leave a single square millimetre of the skin untouched. Similarly, adults focus health practices on the skin. Rituals of marriage and succession are performed by anointing the skin with a mixture of palm oil and crimson camwood.
Such practices turn the bodily surface of the subject into a supple, shiny and healthy envelope. Although this is not explicitly verbalized in an emic way by the Mankon, I would gloss such practices by saying that young infants, adults, brides, grooms and successors are manufactured as leak-proof, sound vessels in order to retain healthy substances and all the principles of fertility and well-being within their skin-container. In other words, they are made to identify with material containers. No doubt, the facts that the human body itself is a container with a cutaneous envelope and openings, and that the self is built as an envelope by anaclisis on the lived experience of the skin envelope as indicated by Didier Anzieu (1985), play an important role in such an identification. This is underscored by the elaborate and extensive use of all kinds of material containers and substances embodied through sensori-motor conducts, and by the care that is paid to the openings and surfaces of people and containers alike in order to store given substantial contents and to make them circulate.

Ampullae of Lorenzini

Electroreception:

At some point during the evolution of elasmobranchs the lateral line pores around the snout developed a sensitivity to fluctuations of the electrical fields in the sharks habitat. These modified sensory organs are known as the ampullae of Lorenzini. They consist of relatively large bulbous pores filled with a gelatinous substance. Connected to the pores are cylindrical canals in which the gelatinous secretions are stored. At the base of each pore is a sensory nerve which transports the electrical signals (which are collected by sensory cells lining the pore) to the brain. Actively hunting sharks may have as many as 1500 ampullae around their snout and head whilst more sedate species may only have a few hundred. The ampullae also react to a lesser degree to temperature and pressure changes.

The ability of sharks and rays to detect weak electrical signals in their surroundings may be one of the greatest factors relating to their survival through the millennia. The organs are sensitive enough for hammerheads and some other sharks to detect the small electrical signals put out by their prey whilst it hides motionless below the sand. In fact the ampullae are so sensitive that they can pick up voltage fluctuations of just 10 millionths of a volt or the equivalent of the electrical gradient of a AA battery with wires put into the sea 1 mile apart. It has been suggested that the widened heads of the hammerhead family may be an adaptation designed to increase the triangulation capabilities of their electroreception. 

When sharks are close to prey it appears that their electrical sense takes over from sight or smell. This would explain why sharks which have been chummed to a fishing or shark diving boat will sometimes attack the propellers and other metal objects rather than the bait which has been put in the water in front of them.

circuit

painting with thirty pieces of silver

“Bobby, do you know what a metaphor is?”

“A component, like a capacitor?” *

A capacitor stores a charge in an electrical field. It might be subject to resistance, crossed wires, open circuit; signals are lost. There could be a residual spark in the system. This is a pre-digital painting. It didn’t anticipate its future as a google-able image. I don’t think it considered itself as image at all and it barely holds together as painting. It is a makeshift, improvisational structure something like a vernacular circuit board cobbled together from discarded pieces. It is a washed-up, wasteland assembly of hard and soft structures, trying to find a position somewhere against the vast wave of commodification about to break all over the new decade that was the ‘90s.

*William Gibson Count Zero 1986

Painting in the RCA Collection, currently up in the SCR I hear

Doctrine of similarity?

TIKKUN / repairing the world

Lurianic Kabbalah has also been used to explain the role of prayer and ritual action in tikkun olam. According to this vision of the world, God contracted part of God's self into vessels of light to create the world. These vessels shattered and their shards became sparks of light trapped within the material of creation. Prayer, especially contemplation of various aspects of the divinity (sephirot), releases these sparks and allows them to reunite with God's essence. Wikipedia

According to Isaac Luria's Kabbalist doctrine of Tikkun, the breaking of the 'vessels' of God's attributes scattered divine sparks in fragments throughout the material world. The task of healing these broken vessels, an enterprise in which "man and God are partners", reestablishes the "harmonious condition of the world" not as a restoration, but "as something new".

Susan Buck Morss p235 Dialectics of Seeing

PERAS

My Dear Friend
Where the cross is etsia [seutaria] the photo is being taken from Pera, European side. I am going to Seutaria on Sunday or Saturday, that side is where the Sultan is living. Yours





PERAS

	πέρας

extremity, bound, end

1. of a portion of space
   1. boundary
   2. frontier
   3. the ends of the earth
   4. the remotest lands
2. of a thing extending through a period of time (termination)

electric ray

electric spring

Ford Driver/3D scanner

1 grab pictures from webcam
2 convert to rgb format
3 remove green & blue
4 threshold red components to remove shading

to detect scanned profile and extract x-y coordinates
each frame will get taken at different rotation angle so z-axis can be extracted

long cat

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein

'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'

'He thought about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesnt know I exist. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another. He had never thought of this before, the similarity between an electric animal and an android. The electric animal, he pondered, could be considered a sub-form of the other, a kind of vastly inferior robot. Or, conversely, the android could be regarded as a highly developed evolved version of the ersatz animal. Both viewpoints repelled him.' (Dick, 1968: 36-7)

instruments of 'interpassivity' - Zizek- 'Is It Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?'

The Uses of experiment:

studies in the natural sciences

By David Gooding, Trevor J. Pinch, Simon Schaffer

soft circuit : LEDs in parallel

un éclair… puis la nuit