Noise is the unconsciousness of music
“The Merzbow noise is abstract, minimal, deprived of mimetic content. Its effect is immediate, an overload of the nervous system, not being able to sort out the information into categories of relevant...
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Cyberpunk moments where I live. Just warming you up.
Blade Runner (1982) All those cyberpunk moments where I live. Just warming you up. Walking alone. Walking alone when all of a sudden you look down. Doesn’t make any difference. Maybe you wanna be by...
View ArticleIntroducción a la música industrial en Canino
«Música industrial, dicen por ahí que eres la más ruidosa y transgresora, la más oscura y grosera, la perturbada que se atrevió a convertir los experimentos de vanguardia más intelectuales en pura...
View Article“Caliza” by Stauffer
I’ve made this video for the track “Caliza” by Stauffer. It’s not the kind of thing that I usually make, but it’s still abstract (mostly) and a bit dark and hauntological. The post “Caliza” by...
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Mobile Painting: Art’s Newest Expression (1922)
Attempts have been made to coordinate color and music color and music, but thus without encouraging results. The color-organ, or Clavilux, invented by Mr. Thomas Wilfred, and presented recently in New...
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“Clavilux”, short story by Robert A. Wait (1929)
The audience stirred in an uneasy manner. The curtain should rise in one minute. The absence of music seemed to bother a few. Others raised their heads expectantly from the bright colored programs in...
View ArticleTo look this simple
“It takes a lot of money to look this simple.” The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, Kyle Chayka.
View ArticleThe aesthetics of simplicity cloak artifice
“…we might be able to hold the iPhone in our hands, but we should also be aware that the network of its consequences is vast: server farms absorbing massive amounts of electricity, Chinese factories...
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Simplistic, archaic, and destructive
“Most ideas of history are simplistic, archaic, and destructive.” Complaints: Part I (1969), Donald Judd.
View ArticleThe more words, the less true a text feels
“Writing about emptiness is difficult because words document presence. As soon as you point to something in writing, it’s there, even if what you point to is empty floor. Language often seems like so...
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The Lightning Field
“The Lightning Field (1977), by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. It is comprised of 400 polished...
View ArticleSilentiarius
“Silentiarius, Hellenized to silentiarios (Greek: σιλεντιάριος) and Anglicized to silentiary, was the Latin title given to a class of courtiers in the Byzantine imperial court, responsible for order...
View ArticleEthics and aesthetics
“Ethics and æsthetics are one.” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Pero había que vivir de algo
«Rechazaban la mercantilización del arte: “El espíritu y el dinero son dos polos antagónicos. Si vendes ideas espirituales por dinero, vendes el espítiru al dinero y pierdes el espíritu”, proclamó...
View ArticleObeying the clock
“In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to wake up, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock.” The Shallows, Nicholas Carr.
View ArticleMindless rituals
“…software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless ‘rituals’ whose steps are ‘encoded in the logic of web pages.’” The Shallows, Nicholas Carr.
View ArticleThose that do not align with the canon
“Glitched bodies—those that do not align with the canon of white cisgender heteronormativity—pose a threat to social order. Range-full and vast, they cannot be programmed.” Glitch Feminism, Legacy...
View ArticleWhen gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield
“When gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield. When you get rid of the binary, gender becomes a playground.” Gender Is a Playground, Kate Bornstein’s Interview, Zackary Drucker.
View ArticleNostalgia has no cure
“Whereas homesickness might be alleviated by returning home, nostalgia has no cure simply because one is typically nostalgic for a time other than the present. Until the invention of time reversal,...
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