Allen Strange: Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls (1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · electronic music, modular synthesis
The bible for analogue freaks and sounddesigners. Allan Strange’s book is perhaps the definitive text on modular synthesis methods, written from a standpoint that’s musically understandable, as opposed to requiring a part-background in electronic engineering to understand. Useful both as a textbook and a reference document, the book also contains numerous illustrations and diagrams of modules by Moog, ARP, Buchla et al.
Publisher W. C. Brown Co, 1973
ISBN 069703612X, 9780697036124
Length 160 pages
Vivian Carol Sobchack: Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, body, cinema, death, ethics, materiality, perception, phenomenology, technology, temporality, vision, writing
“In these essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today’s image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a broad range of popular sources to explore bodily experience in contemporary, moving-image culture. She examines how, through the conflation of cinema and surgery, we’ve all ‘had our eyes done’; why we are ‘moved’ by the movies; and the different ways in which we inhabit photographic, cinematic, and electronic space. Carnal Thoughts provides a lively and engaging challenge to the mind/body split by demonstrating that the process of ‘making sense’ requires an irreducible collaboration between our thoughts and our senses.”
Publisher University of California Press, 2004
ISBN 0520241290, 9780520241299
328 pages
Keywords and phrases
phenomenological, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, metonymy, irreal, Elaine Scarry, rience, catachresis, Roland Barthes, Martin Heidegger, Decalogue, cyborg, Aimee Mullins, Walter Benjamin, synecdoche, Street of Crocodiles, Million Man March, prosthetic leg, transform fictional, semiotic, Medium Cool
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Comments (4)Georg Flachbart, Peter Weibel (eds.): Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, environment, quantum computing, ubiquitous computing
“The creation of new environments through the use of developments in Information Technology is significantly altering not only architecture itself but also the roles and tasks of the architects. Architecture can no longer be described in the terms we are familiar with since it no longer corresponds to the form of architecture as we know it: an inclusive and exclusive structure, clearly defined, with a single interior and a single exterior. For architects, the challenge of the future will increasingly lie in creatively coming to terms with hybrid environments, understanding and exploiting the design potential of digital spaces within the physical world, and redefining the role of architecture within a visually dominated culture. This volume presents a valuable and attractive contribution to the contemporary discussion on this subject.”
Publisher Springer, 2005
ISBN 3764372753, 9783764372750
272 pages
Key words and phrases
qubit, quantum computing, Mixed Reality, Utility Fog, Point Cloud, Smart Dust, autonomic computing, active world, Grid computing, computer-aided design, quantum mechanics, Virtools, multiverse, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, peer-to-peer, Shor’s algorithm, LHC Computing Grid, quantum dots, Ubiquitous Computing
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