Ouroboros - for ensemble and live, digital audio-visual media
composition PhD dissertation recital
“Sonic algorithms act, but they do so as part of an ill-defined network of actions upon actions, in which unintended consequences can become critically important. ... They are never an internally closed system, but a catalytic network of relays connecting one analog domain to another. ... Formal logics are inherently incomplete and indiscernibles exist. Machines break down, programs are buggy, projects are abandoned and systems hacked. Humans are literally infected by abstractions. This is no bad thing, because like the virus which produced variegated tulips of a rare beauty, infection can be creative too.”
– Steve Goodman and Andrew Goffey, in Software Studies
“Now that we've eaten of the tree of knowledge paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back. As thought grows dimmer, grace emerges more brilliantly. But grace itself returns when knowledge has gone through an infinity. Grace appears most purely in that form which either has no consciousness, or an infinite consciousness.”
– Heinrich von Kleist, in On the Marionette Theatre
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