to move up and down
“Play The Rings Of A Tree Trunk Like A Record”.
Turns out a student by the name of Bartholomäus Traubeck created a project entitled YEARS for the specific purpose of converting thin tree rings into music. He did this by using a Playstation Eye Camera, which read and converted the wood grain into music. This information was fed into a laptop running Abelton Live and the musical output is something directly out of a horror film. So, next time you’re walking alone in the woods, think of this music and savor the chills running up and down your spine as you realize that trees, were they able to sing, would terrify you.”
Very cool.
(Source: , via lyfizh4rd)
I
• animal behaviours are determined by a combination of instinct and sense perception
• something’s ‘nature’ is its instinct, its ‘nurture’ is the sum of its sense perceptions
Steam rises off a pond at dawn. Chlorine corrodes the skin off a palm, rubbed unknowingly. The clouds act like the sky’s punctuation, denoting pauses, breaths, tone.
II
• animal behaviour is therefore the expression of the sum total of experience up to just before the moment of that behaviour
• a mouse that makes its home in a garbage pile could not have made its home in anything else except that garbage pile
They’ve turned the drinking fountains off for winter. A collection of CDs is suddenly like devalued currency. A single dog trots leashless down the quiet road.
III
• an animal’s behaviour is a necessary symptom of the state of the universe
• animals are conceived by a parent, and breathe
• music is conceived by a parent, and breathes
• music is an animal
• the way music sounds is a necessary symptom of the state of the universe
• if you do not like it, then like the mouse, the steam, the chlorine, the clouds, the city, the cardboard box, the leashless dog, you do not understand it
• there are many things I do not understand
Swarms are so cool.
“[Seeing the beauty of our world] becomes a lot easier when you are swimming in our ocean of air and can see the curvature of the earth while hurtling towards the ground.” - K. De Paus
S.E. Rogie
Man, Stupid Being
“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”
-Richard Dawkins
Protocells. At the boundary of the living and the non-living.
Ignacio Torres. Stellar.
