Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

tedious work shades of gray in a tiny specter.
etaoinshrdlu..monotonous.. translating media spectacle news etc into
this. gray stream ofindifference..The key to having this kind of idea
succeed in. general is not merely to workout an effective transform
method from char to. pixel etc. but to have themethod reveal something
unexpected of the. underlying structure of the sourcematerial. If the
transformation results. simply in a stream of meaninglesscolors or chars
then it will be of little. interest even as a conceptsince the concept is a
fairly common one to be. honest. There are a lot ofpeople right now
who mistakenly believe that they. are making radical art byturning
photos into music pictures into text etc.. As with all works ofthis kind it
is by breaking through to the next level and. having the workblossom
into something that nobody has ever seen before or could. haveexpected
to see that turns the idea from a mere amusement into art.OK but. not as
a program art shouldn't care about itself being this or thatcritical.
penetrating revolutional reversing undermining etc. In my viewart is
quite. natural it doesn't need a program to live no more than we do.Lot
of things I. do are very stupid things I don't mind that. And also
thequackfraudulent. issue the artist maybe had some conjurer traits
from thebeginning staging. something he not necessarily believe in but
as atechnician of imagination. lies and language. How does he differ
from say apolitician then He's clear. about it everybody knows it's a
scam open sourcescam so the art context is. reflective revealing its
staging. What aboutbeauty and wholeness Well there's. always some
endorfines in resolving thingspotential and exhaustion beauty in.
understanding things wholenesses atdifferent levels which is like
cashing in. on the structure but there arealways remains and other levels
expansion and. consolidation chaos andstability. Beauty taken over by
design etc wholeness. by.. welll it's stillthere but like code source not
wholeness as image but. its counterpartconstruction. Art should be
more absolute not this or that my. view thoughyou didn't ask..What I
am thinking about right now is how to. translate a ()colorspace into
music in a more sophisticated way. than is usually done.There's a
natural mapping to (pitch rhythm amplitude). but it's obviouslynot a
simple . If one uses microtones one can get an. octave span ofpitches
from to but I don't know how to get rhythms. that form aset and
amplitudes is way way way too many.(pitch. duration waveform) Btw
midi transformation i've always liked the renderings. of the
radioharddisk maybe reminding of morton feldman or somehting at
times. noemata. Advent x. Grete immediately ran out to Hans and
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