Monday, March 21, 2011

Creation of Static Assets

I haven't had a chance to fully gather my thoughts on this, as it seems to be a very complex web that one moment I understand, and the next it evaporates. But through the processes that were uncovered and in an attempt to achieve static or alienation from understanding I ran my first physical test and uncovered this.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/3cff32z1y3pe8yb/Test%201.wav

I have no idea what this is or was, other than music. I took a random music file of which i have 0 knowledge about. I don't know the artist, genre, country or origin, instruments.. nothing. i then removed a one minute sample from a random location, and ran it through 7 steps of destruction and this was what came out the other end. (I did not record the steps in any way, and thus will never be able to repeat this in exactly the same way ever again)

Now, the process that I am beginning to understand is that this is not about creating a particular thing by this series of steps. I do not have an end goal in mind like create a song or to create a specific type of sound or anything like that. But it is simply to generate a sort of alien moment. Upon achieving that moment, the asset can then inform me as to what it needs. This then has two possibilities. To be used as an object in my existing practice, or to be used in an unknown series of steps to arrive at yet another version of static. This second process is basically an 'unknown second step', allowing practice to remain open, flexible, etc. With this flexibility it is unknown if i will arrive at a wholly unique conclusive object, or if i will simply end up with another object of static to then be propelled into my existing practice. Only the moment of experience of the static can inform that decision.

1 comment:

  1. justin -- this is the clip i was referring to in my previous comments.

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