Author suggests a haiku:
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
Tribute to Kobayashi Issa
I hack not, therefore I do not exist
how should I go about the very contemporary culture?
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I confess that everyone around me keeps on insisting, or arguing that at one point or another, sciences, arts and technologies must be studied together. I want to discuss about what could possibly draw me to do that.
It seems the quicker one gets her/his hands on it, the better. But hear me out and take a look at the video of Herman Kolgen, to see where my inspiration, visual and sonic, comes from - it's simply mesmerising: |
I used to write essays about Plato and Aristotle, and I would still manage to convince someone that French existentialists believed in God. I can even write poetry. But writing codes? How deep is this thing, and how many people are here to already do that? I mean, I still do consider myself to be computer-literate.
I did have a moment of doubt though, while still in Amsterdam, in winter 2015, when I saw Kolgen's piece "Seismik" in the festival Sonic Acts. Deep and dark night, cold wind blowing in large urban areas of the capital city. I was on my way to catch a last train, after having seen his performance, there was one though on my mind, that I couldn't let go - how on earth can you make a piece like "Seismik"? I love these moments of fascination. When you start wondering, what would you need, to make something similar happen.But you realise, that all the tools that you have at your hand are not enough to advance to any direction. One needs skills... After two years now, already in 2017, I find myself in the North of Danemark in a (mainly student) city called Aalborg. The Sonic Acts festival is taking place in Amsterdam in about in a week. It's not by chance that I re-watched Kolgen's video today. It's because I've enrolled into this program, called Media Arts Cultures, which makes us travel fast and travel far. And that's the reason, why I find myself in Danemark this spring - get the feeling of what it feels like to make seismic vibrations to our world perception. We have quite few enthusiastic and brilliant minds here, at the university, who are ready to push the boundaries of what is possible for us, master students, a little further, and show us why being friends with arts, sciences and technologies is not such a crazy thing. Things get developed, needs increase, fascinations advance in distances, scopes and dimensions. We will still find most of the lived and experienced things beautiful and important. The "Sony" Walkman was an integral part of my free time, I was completely lost in that thing. Tamagotchi, Tetris, the first gigantic Nokia mobile phone and the games that we, as kids, played on these things, will never be erased. |
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As the scratch sounds in the Ballad of the Broken String of the Icelandic band (that I discovered thanks to Sweet S.💋) - they just make these familiar feelings to come back from the past, but with a spice of dream and wonder. Again, it's an enriched sonic perception. |
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The reason, I'm writing this blog post now is - I am on the edge to start this intensive four month journey with some very bright and inspiring people, be it my course mates, be it professors. I feel the things advance pretty quick here, and two weeks past through in a blink of an eye. Our vdmx or reaper illiterate minds will pass to mode of trying things out, and creating our own sound pieces and video pieces.
We finished with the technical setup in the classroom today, and tomorrow we should start diving in video editing and making activities. I think it's nice to know what inspirations came first to our minds, and what I dreamed of just the moment before I hit the program button "start". |
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Leaving you with some todays ideas for personal Haiku generation and images surrounding the person of George Mačiūnas.
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