false<![CDATA[Rhythm Science (Mediaworks Pamphlets)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172436278m/175687.jpg1756871"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. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about."<br /> --<i>Rhythm Science</i><br /> <br /> The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science -- the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world.<br /> <br /> Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes... What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material -- with him rhyming!"<br /> <br /> Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes.<br /> <br /> Miller's textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and Marcel Hermans). They sustain the book's motifs of recontextualizing and relayering, texts and images bleed through from page to page, creating what amount to 2.5 dimensional vectors. From its remarkable velvet flesh cover, to the die cut hole through the center of the book, which reveals the colored nub holding in place the included audio CD, <i>Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives</i>, this pamphlet truly lives up to Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld's claim that the Mediawork Pamphlets are "theoretical fetish objects . . . 'zines for grown-ups."169728132004Rhythm Science (Mediaworks Pamphlets)total:56|5:10|4:25|3:10|2:8|1:3|5619987740falsefalseFri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004Tue Jul 24 17:38:31 -0700 2007Tue Jul 24 18:03:37 -0700 2007 This book is a complete stream of consciousness essay on media, technology and their interactions and the parallels with the interaction of life and art (art imitating life imitating art etc etc.)
...more...]]>
40falsefalseSun Dec 21 07:47:27 -0800 2008Sun Dec 21 07:56:10 -0800 2008
more...]]>
40falsefalseThu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009Fri Apr 03 09:29:25 -0700 2009Fri Apr 03 09:32:44 -0700 200950falsefalseThu Nov 15 14:21:16 -0800 2007Thu Nov 15 17:50:54 -0800 2007
more...]]>
50falsefalseWed Sep 03 12:30:22 -0700 2008Wed Sep 03 12:33:03 -0700 200840falsefalseThu Mar 15 22:30:49 -0700 2007Thu Mar 15 22:31:28 -0700 200720falsefalseFri Aug 22 02:13:42 -0700 2008Fri Aug 22 02:13:51 -0700 200800falsefalseSat Nov 14 09:44:31 -0800 2009Sat Nov 14 09:44:31 -0800 200900falsefalseSun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sun Oct 25 20:22:00 -0700 2009Sun Oct 25 20:22:11 -0700 200900falsefalseTue Sep 15 21:01:26 -0700 2009Tue Sep 15 21:01:53 -0700 200900falsefalseFri Sep 04 12:36:53 -0700 2009Fri Sep 04 12:37:35 -0700 200950falsefalseSat Aug 29 17:54:26 -0700 2009Sat Aug 29 17:54:26 -0700 200900falsefalseThu Aug 06 03:06:45 -0700 2009Thu Aug 06 03:06:45 -0700 200900falsefalseFri Jul 24 18:58:57 -0700 2009Fri Jul 24 18:58:57 -0700 200900falsefalseSun Jul 19 15:22:24 -0700 2009Thu Sep 10 22:39:06 -0700 200900falsefalseMon Jun 22 21:36:33 -0700 2009Mon Jun 22 21:36:33 -0700 200920falsefalseSun Jun 14 10:28:25 -0700 2009Sun Jun 14 10:28:25 -0700 200930falsefalseWed May 27 05:37:34 -0700 2009Wed May 27 05:37:34 -0700 200910falsefalseWed May 20 06:37:22 -0700 2009Wed May 20 06:37:22 -0700 200930falsefalseFri May 15 05:28:06 -0700 2009Fri May 15 05:28:06 -0700 2009
http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=175687