On 14. May we had the first talk in our series “Open Feedback Loop”. Our guest was Dario Sanfilippo, presenting (live from Sicily!) his ideas about autonomous complex systems in sound. We talked about emergence, the edges of chaos – how many edges does it have? – about the role of the composer-creator as “gardener”…
The more I think through it and work on it, the more it seems to me that music itself seems to be a system of systems, a sort of paradigm for systemic activity. From the ancient times on, music was considered the harmony of the spheres, an audible expression of the system of the whole…
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…
All concepts of autonomy call for a subject that determines autonomy in relation to it. The subject, the self thus appears as primary condition and starting point of an autonomous system or an autonomus relation. We have been asking ourselves: what and where is the self autonomous, and how can we describe or approach it…
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…