MidTerm

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Hermetic Synch Remix (Think..anagram)

((4))A sense I get from Miller’s writing.  I don't see the writing and hear the sound… I feel it.  I feel the “flying” that is so often mentioned the flow, looping.  It is continuous.  A splashing of water, waves, one after the other over and over, one connecting to another.  A “theater of networks” being performed by the eb and flow.

((2))It doesn’t need to be in any particular order, the reader can “drift” and “fly” through the music un-constrained, in response, to streams of information.  The music serves to supplement not direct.  To give a second sense of things. It is lending to the idea of multiple “environments.”  Often times I have listened to this while writing about digital mediums.  Although Rhythm Science is a physical book, I can’t help but see it as something digital.  It seems like something that could exist in several digital forms (and indeed it does).
   ((6))   As I write this I do realize the constraints of my language… of my understanding.  I can’t hope to understand Rhythm Science at least not in the scope of my words. Not in the scope of remixed words.  I can barely scratch the surface of Miller’s meaning and can only access a small point of my understanding.  As I process, so do the words.  I understand fully however my language limits what I know that I understand.  However, as Miller says, tapping into the network, “flipping open a laptop” can help.  It all comes down to a word game however, the words dictate meaning, and they dictate sound.  “The beginning. That’s always the hard part. Once you get into the flow of things, you’re always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion.” This conclusion.

((3))It feels

((1)) “The beginning. That’s always the hard part. Once you get into the flow of things, you’re always haunted by the way that things could have turned out” (Miller).  Once you get into the flow of things there is no turning back without a loss of time and therefore space. Miller’s writing has a certain “flow” a visceral and poetic prose that mirrors the senses.  His book was accompanied by sound and music and therefore, my remix is as well.

((5))At this point I recall the very first sentence... “You’re always haunted…” Could I have approached this in a different way?  My words…and all words are a virus.  Jean-Luc Godard states “the limits of language are the worlds limits …the limits of my language are my world’s limits, and when I speak, I limit the world, I finish it.”  Nothing can be done with the multiplication of words… agents of an “omni-sensory condition, a compilation of local, distant, and virtual spaces.” Everything however can be stopped by language… by words… the extent of our knowledge and our continued flight through data and networks is dictated by our language.  As it grows so does our knowledge and our freedom.  Not just spoken language but any form of it.  As technology progresses, as we create new coding languages, as we expand those we have then we continue our flow, our un-constrained loops. 

      

*All text quotes from Rhythm Science by Paul Miller

 **Godard quote from Vivre Sa Vie