Event Detail

Two new works of electronic music:

- All sorts

- conscientiousness

Two synths were programmed to have internal dynamic mechanisms, where the musician can mix what processes co-occur and couple together creating rhythmic vibrations. Timbres reach into heavy saturation and unexpected resonance shapes via containing high volume signals with power-preservation.  Signals are projected to higher-dimensions and rotated with other signals or oscillators, altering and adding to the psychedelic sound of the instrument.  

Coupling helps multiple processes find a central tendency, a rhythmic voice coupled to a chaotic process gives the chaotic process inflections of pulse timing and due to bi-directionality the rhythm is perturbed by the chaotic process creating phase changes. Demarcations as decelerations form among processes, the consistency of decelerations in terms of its resonance can mask or reveal activity depending on the relations and the actions of the musician.   

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The titles of the two works All sorts and conscientiousness signal to the old and new problematics of power and follow from these sentences lifted from instructional documentation of IBM’s Watson-based Personality Insights service:  “You need text written by the person whose personality you are interested in. It should contain words about everyday experiences, thoughts, and responses.  This service applies linguistic analytics and personality theory to infer attributes from a person’s unstructured text. Gain insight into how and why people think, act and feel the way they do.” **

**A new IBM service providing micro-targeting capability -- or the antidemocratic identification and persuasion of consumers and voters alike by personality metrics. The Watson system it is based on is general purpose and generates responses to questions using methods of web-based inference. The founder of IBM Thomas J Watson started the corporation up on the technology of census processing, developing punch-card machines to automate sorting and tabulation of populations into grouped types.  Before punch-card technology the census would take 10 years to tally and after only 3 months.  Watson would later work closely with the Nazi party through subsidiary branches in Germany to furnish nazi officials with as many as of such machines with single-use punch-cards that were in the exact shape of the dollar bill as he could, keeping 90% of the profits.  IBM employed workers went door to door to collect population data in search of Jewish people throughout Europe to later abduct and work to death.  The IBM punch-card machine served as an enabling technology for the high-speed realization of Hitler’s idea. It is a haunting example of capitalism and fascism becoming indistinguishable.