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Marc Couroux: “Sabotage the Audiostat! Hyperstitional Paracoustics & Chronoportational Pragmètics”
The London Graduate School in association with Art + Philosophy @ Central Saint Martins presents:
“Sabotage the Audiostat! Hyperstitional Paracoustics & Chronoportational Pragmètics”
Marc Couroux (York University, Canada)
4-6PM on April 15, 2014 in Lecture Theatre E003 in the Granary Building at Central Saint Martins.
Music’s amenability to cybernetics is underlined by Claude Shannon, who defined a “singing condition ” as the inability of an automata to recognize its loopy entrapment. Music’s particular affordances, vitalities, and teleological necessities could serve as a model to help ensure a preordained future through the transformation and regulation of extra-musical sound, channelling the impersonal, inhuman death drive (positive feedback) into homeostatic equilibrium (negative feedback). Noise, far from being a nuisance to such cybernetic systems, is in fact essential to periodically restart them. How might an effectively transgressive practice operate given the alien, invasive neuro-military-entertainme
Free event, all welcome.
