"... it takes a little sand in the palm of the hand and once we get lost in a hopeless mass inconceivable ... [1] "
The Structure of musical revolutions: music and science (Para Series / / EELS)
Good evening and welcome to this 21 th Listening Room.
In these times of uncertainty (political, economic, ...), the average person likes to have a base on which to rest. A core of certainty. One way of seeing the world reassures. For some it is religion that is this horizon of meaning (the subject of our previous listening room), for others, the so-called spirits "Cartesian" is the science that fills this role.
Science discovers, confirms, makes possible: the litany of verbs that reassurance is long.
Opposite, there are those that science scares. The philosopher Martin Heidegger talked to him (before sinking in his delirium pro-Nazi) to arrest the world. Putting the world to our service, leaving him to lose his poetry, his magic.
We will tonight explore these two facets of science. As in a previous listening room devoted Revealed Corps (during an evening-opening to see the painting of Stephen Lengrand the Bunker), I will offer you a ride. We'll go to the Big Bang to the emergence of life, from mammals to infection, drifts back to the slow ... All these theories are "paradigms": they are true until the moment they leave room for more ...
Bon voyage and see you in 45 minutes! Thank you for listening ... enthusiastic
1/Intro Tracklist: Madrugada Eterna The KLF (KLF Communications) At the dawn of the 90s, Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond install their ambient soundtrack to curious minds. KLF stands for Kopyright League Front and our two buddies fighting for the free use of sound. We're still in the infancy of music and dance, the year after, our two buddies squat the planet with their album The White Room. This excerpt puts us in the miracle of eternity (if my translation is correct) and comes from the album Chill Out. Not bad for a start ...
2/Fisk We Saw Orion Industries (Highpoint Lowlife) The planets of the solar system we place immediately before the question of the origin of the intoxicating world. Theory Big Bang is, I think, the paradigm in this regard. I recently read the fascinating things about the topic I will not venture to summarize for you except one: if you take a spaceship and fly you straight to the infinite well ... after a while ( very long time science) you return to the starting point ... I do not know if that reassures me ... It looks like the formation of a government. Fisk Industries is the musical vehicle Mat Ranson, a "visual artist" based in London.
3/Future Sound Of London Lifeforms (Path 1) (EBV / Virgin) Active since the 90s, this group of ambient music is comprised of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougan. They are still active, especially on the web. A small detour to their site takes you into their world: graphic design, music, community, etc.. The acronym means of their label EBV Energy Brain & Violence. Squatting directly in this virtual world (they were among the first to give a concert broadcast from the studio but in the virtual world thanks to the then emerging ISDN technology), they gave him his credentials. The song is based Lifeforms double album of the same name. The max, we are 7 paths (path) different. The biological metaphor (and its parallel with the canvas) is a great source of inspiration. Here we find the voice of Elizabeth Frazer (Cocteau Twins, very influential group in the '80s).
4/Icarus Mutations (Leaf) These life forms are emerging mutate. The cell will become more complex. In a glass of water, living embryos in the grains of sand, worlds ... The music of Sam Britton and Ollie Brown talks about this annoying tingling. They combine contemporary music to sound manipulation, plus a dynamic electro-acoustic.
5/They Might Be Giants Mammal (Elektra) We are in 1992, the year chosen by NASA to be the International Year Space. Well, imagine that tmbg were chosen as "musical ambassadors" of the event. It must be said that these two guys are crazy for science. Their album Apollo 18 was there to testify. Mammal is a hymn to the vibrant world of mammals and also in life. The bat (the only flying mammal), cat, dolphin, dog, koala, bear etc. ... all are invited to celebrate this miracle: the blood that flows through this mysterious room with four cells: the heart. Nod to 2010, European Year of Biodiversity.
6/Manitoba Mammals Vs Reptiles (The Leaf Label)
Life is struggle, selection. This small tribute to mammals could not last. In this piece, Dan Snaith (Manitoba is the project of one man) we call to order. Faced with us, other realms, other rule. This piece feels confusion, discord. It is from the album Start Breaking My Heart (Electronica Album of the Year 2002 at the Canadian Independent Music Awards).
For Dan, mathematics literally flowing through his veins. Dad, Mom are high-level mathematicians. He chose the arts, but still earned his PhD in mathematics in 2005. His musical project still exists but has had to change name: he was under the threat of a trial of a certain Richard Manitoba (aka "Handsome Dick, ask Ingrid to translate), the leader of The Dictators. Dan's thinking is clear: it is as if The Smiths were a trial for John Smith ... or something like that.
7/Propaganda Dr. Mabuse (ZTT) In 1984, when the strike hit my teens, I have not seen the film by Fritz Lang. Yet the strangeness of the video, the novelty of her will leave a strong impression on the clay of my young mind. 25 years later, a visit by two masterpieces of the cinema will in a real pizza oven the same dough, much less young. Dr. Mabuse, the man who, by force of his thought, control the entire underworld of the city. His ghostly apparitions were already a feat for film (itself a derivative of science devoted to the study of movement), but the man clearly said "shit" to science. Sell his soul to the devil the temptation has always been great. Propaganda offers a rereading of this topic in a pearl-pop, which has lost none of his eternal youth (another myth: Faust, Dorian Gray, etc.).
8/Hᾰkan Libdo This Looks infected, does not it? (Musick to play in the club) vs Naama Iannis Xenakis (Erato) performed by the Ensemble Xenakis led by Huub Kerstens. Here I propose an unlikely encounter: The movement of my hand will syncopated mix of electronic music Hᾰkan Libdo that of Iannis Xenakis.
Let's start with younger, based in Stockholm, this great man of electronic music has published more than 250 projects (albums, singles, remixes, downloads, etc.). It touches everything and has a taste for the covers trash. I took this piece for his next laboratory, dangerous, experimental. We need gloves Rubber hear that stuff. Otherwise, these sounds will attack your ears. It takes Dettol, the Isobethadine (oral or ointment - I'm talking about our many representatives of the pharmaceutical world) ...
Facing him, Iannis Xenakis, whose song has just been infected by the sounds of the cadet. Naama means "flow" and is based on the sound of the harpsichord. I transcribed the commentary track in English (you will see: it's very easy to translate but not to understand): Naama calls for "periodic structures thanks to a group of transformations and exahedric stochastic distributions. We can discuss later, using a small beer, the meaning of it all.
9/Schaeben Voss & The World Is Crazy (Jürgen Paape remix) (Kompakt) Its label does not tell us much about this duo: Heiko Voss and Thomas Schaebens loves to dance. I think what interests me is the title! The world has gone mad. Speed, testing, the frantic search of profitability ... The sound pulse! A slick synth moves, your foot starts to warm up his role metronomic. You want to dance but you remember that you're listening to a chamber. That's the sound Kompakt! [2] Slow down. A paradigm shift is needed ...
10/Headhunter Paradigm Shift (Tempa) This piece is based on the theme of this new listening room. I borrow the title of the book Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. For Kuhn, a theory is true for a certain period of time. After a change of mentalities and ways of seeing (he calls it a paradigm), we change the criteria of truth. This disc of young Headhunter (Bristol) is called Nomad and was recorded in different cities where he was invited. Other tracks on the CD are also largely inspired by science: Lifeform, Prototype, Technopolis Physics Impulse Headhunter etc. ... is there a player Khun? I like to think this assumption ... The Dubstep music inspired by the scientific literature that could be better for a kid who could be my son.
11/Twisted Science Theme from slow (Lo recording productions) On the site of Lo Rec, there is little info on this artist. Lo people describe their label as "providers of fine esoteric music Since 1995." And it's true that the label is well respected (even if confidential). Graphically, the covers are worth the detour. This CD, bought on sale, has never really been listened to by my ears yet curious. It is pretty indigestible. Thanks to you, thanks to the project name (Twisted Science, I could not at least try), I came across this little gem: This ode to slowness that is for me an invitation to observe the phenomena (the handful of sand Gombrowicz's quote ...). The rooms are listening vehicle decay and rediscovery of what was home ...
[1] I borrow this wonderful term to Witold Gombrowicz in his Cosmos, Denoël, 1966 .
[2] It is possible to go Cologne dance with me a few times a year. By bike, train or car: Join the KKTB (Kölnischer Kunst & Tanz Betrieb, an offshoot of the Chambers of enthusiastic play).
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