taking selfies without the self. walking with an analog instant camera, I captured places where the word “self” was laid out in fragile, fleeting materials (leaves, paillettes) and then photographed during its slow decay. The idea of self concerning the human body is also connected to specific body parts: the eye, the hand, the face.…
In one of our first brainstorming sessions (I believe around December 2020) we noticed that ‘autonomous systems’ are often described using the prefix ‘self-‘: self-organization, self-regulation, self-observation, self-referentiality, self-adaptation, self-sensing, self-performing, self-generating, self-determining. That’s how we decided to experiment with the term: maybe the word ‘self’ can provide an altered access to ideas of autonomy,…
when we write about self, does writing change the object written about?does overwriting change my sense of self? my self-ish-ness? self written as a word is an object like many other objects. a combination of strokes on paper, bits in a storage, pixels on screen that create meaning by leaving imprints in my mind. is…
Creation of the score One experiment I want to conduct that relates to the double bass and the intervals is to create an electronic piece that uses the same pitches, but going up to much higher harmonics. This will allow two things: 1) an expanded possibility of pitches, and 2) precision of tuning and steadiness…
What is the barrier between object and agent? Double bass not performed on, but enacted upon Where is the autonomy of the self, of the double bass? Create a system, a loop, a feedback, between the double bass, the agents, and some kind of exciter How does the exciter interact with the agents? Do they…
There is a snowstorm outside, wiping out the visible world in front of my window. I am sitting inside, staring at the white wall that suddenly resembles the landscape outside. When darkness falls, the white will be softly replaced by another non-colour, turning my window into a mirror that reflects the light from within. Seeing…
Autonomie Project 1 – self Begin with the smallest possible impulse An identity A single sound The sound is processed The processed is processed The processed sound becomes the self Again A new identity