Eric Kluitenberg - The Sound of Theory
What does theory sound like?
The sound of theory could be equated with the sound of the theorist’s voice - often largely untrained and not really set for the stage, failing, hampering, which might breathe some life and humanity into theory (even anti-humanistic, post- or transhuman theory!).
But this does not tell us what the sound of theory as such is like, i.e. as an autonomous object, independent of its ‘author’.
Perhaps it is better to address this question to a machine rather than a human - we might get a better answer.
Then again, one might opt for another approach and turn it (the theory object) into a song - what would / could that sound like?
Well, let’s see..
Eric Kluitenberg is a theorist, writer, curator, and educator working at the intersection of culture, politics, media, and technology. He is the Editor in Chief of the Tactical Media Files online documentation platform for Tactical Media. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, and teaches cultural and media theory at the Art Science Interfaculty and the Interactive / Media / Design program in The Hague.
Noise / Flowers - Exploring the uncontrollable, exciting and beautiful sounds of the electric guitar in a musical way
The duo came together to explore some of the fascinating and exciting sounds inherent in the electric guitar that they were unable to explore in other contexts. The set up of electric guitar, through fx pedals and into one or several guitar amps is a delicate combination of not fully controllable parameters that change in subtle ways in different spaces - partly due to the acoustics of different room. Even different electricity supplies in different buildings can cause noise and colour the sound which travels through the aforementioned the electrical circuits, and the delicate combination of different controls that can almost never be set exactly the same way twice also has a big impact. What's more, sounds such as feedback, pedal hiss, alternative tunings, beating tones and non-equal-tempered chords that can result from these are again delicate and slightly out of control parameters in this context.
Instead of trying to tame these parameters and trying to replicate them in each performance the duo performs open improvised forms, searching to create compositionally-minded performances that allows these uncontrollable parameters to be used in at times an abrasive, yet attractive and sonically rich way.
Flowers/Ghosts is an improvising electric guitar duo based in den Haag. Consisting of Gonçalo Oliveira and James Alexandropoulos-McEwan. The duo draws from their backgrounds in jazz, contemporary classical composition and rock to create performances that explore the beautiful, fragile, uncontrollable and noisy sounds of the electric guitar, creating unrepeatable instant compositions that move between ambient, jazzy, bluesy, noisy...
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In November 21 two persons decided to put on high visibility jackets to try and walk into places where they were not supposed to walk into. In June 22 of the same year a person had decided to follow people around with a trombone in his hand. These were not performance art pieces and neither were their conspirators aware of the voluntary car crashes, almost fatal bleedings, stalkings and the compositions of one peculiar man -who had radical ideas about what to do with your spine.- that paved the way for creating the framework on which such initiatives operate.
Thus, how can a performance artist even get away without cutting a finger nowadays?
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