61 Mirrors

I’ve been staring at the screen for too long, thinking about what should I write about. It has been more than two years since I write something on the blog. Over these years, I haven’t stopped writing about music and art, I just fell into the trap of losing interest in reviewing my drafts and publishing them. But today I’m pondering and trying to escape. what better way to escape than writing briefly about music? 🙂

This year started rough and not as I expected it to be, and if I have to think of a moment where I was at my best clarity, had to say is when I attended SKALAR’s installation. A large-scale created by the artist Christopher Bauder and musician Kangding Ray.

SKALAR is an audio-visual installation that explores the impact of light and sound on the complex perception of humans. With an outstanding multi-channel and sound system, SKALAR gives you a profound and unique experience.

SKALAR is discussing and demonstrating Robert Plutchik’s theory, which is known as the Plutchik wheel. The emotion wheel describes eight basic emotions: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, anticipation, trust, and joy. When you enter the space, at first, you will be fully immersed in darkness. The moving mirror will then move and change the color palette to stimulate and affect the sensory of your primary emotions, beginning with anger and ending with joy. The light is a major element in Bauder’s work but in this specific artwork, he is representing the endless cycle of time and its effect on the human’s emotions.

The sound was a crucial addition to the artwork. The sound piece merges between dark ambient to industrial techno just to set you in the right mood and give the most alluring experience. The combination between the rhythmic movements of the light and multi-dimensional sound creates a shifting space between a intense state of meditative and unsettling for the viewer.

God bless the people of the internet. I found the full performance on Youtube. For sure isn’t as outstanding as attend it live but worth to watch it.

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The Wilderness Within The Machine

Daniel Temkin has always been a huge influence in my life, I admire his work/philosophy in Glitch & Art.

I have been studying him and his notes (with Hugh Manon)& I came across to this interview and I found his answer about the difference between glitch and generative art is significant. So I thought why not to share it here!

Can you draw a distinction between generative art (which can feature algorithms) and your concept of algo-glitch demented?

I call it algo-glitch demented, as opposed to algorithmic art (which I understand meaning generative art that uses algorithms). I’ll have to paraphrase Philip Galanter and say that generative art is any practice where the artist sets a system “in motion with some degree of autonomy,” resulting in a work.

“Glitch is a cyborg art, building on human/computer interaction. The patterns created by these unknown processes is what I call the wilderness within the machine.”

What makes algo-glitch demented is how we misuse existing algorithms, running them in contexts that had never been intended by their designers. Furthermore, there are moments of autonomy in algo-glitch, but this autonomy is not what defines it as algo-glitch; what’s more important is the control we give up to the process.

 To read more about his interview with Motherboard online magazine

Stay awesome & inspired!