It’s hard to think that a shot time ago, it was hard to make electronic music. 50 years ago, the first experiments in electronic music were made in Milan. That equipment is now preserved at the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali of Castello Sforzesco, Milan. Here is a magnificent set of photographs of the studio.
I just read one of Elaine’s postings and I’m getting quadruple déja vu. Is it possible to get your mind blown in four directions?
First I started writing on the notion of Dreams in narrative (1):
If the narrative of dreams is spacial, then time lives somewhat outside of the narrative. How does the mind make connections between scenes that seem disparate or disjointed? What is the difference between awake and asleep?
Then I started reading this wonderful book Expanded Cinema. In the forward, Buckminster Fuller talks about anticipation, which is not a surprise, because he’s one of the forefathers of cybernetic theory (2):
The comprehensively anticipatory
Design science revolution—
Being intent thereby
To make all of humanity
Successful in every sense.
The very first line of the book, Gene Youngblood writes (3):
The question what is life, says Norman O. Brown, turns out to be the question what is sleep. We perceive that the sky exists only on earth. Evolution and human nature are mutually exclusive concepts…When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded
consciousness.
The fourth being Elaine’s posting.
