ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Broken Object: JLIAT Opens up a Sine Wave

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Broken Object: JLIAT Opens up a Sine Wave

In my previous post on sampling I mentioned that the going rate today is usually 44, 000 samples per second. So what happens when you take an ultra smooth sine wave and analyze it so that you start to hear the individual samples?

Well, you hear nothing but a sequence of clicks, separated by silence.

JLIAT convincingly shows how one 1/44khz slice of sampled sine wave consists of nothing other than two strands of silence. One is longer and the other is shorter. The jump between them is where the click is heard. This jump is presumably the sensual trace of the sampled object (the sine wave) translated by the sampler.

Trans.late = meta.phor = across.carry

It's like seeing a hair connecting two objects that are invisible or opaque or voids.

You are highly, highly recommended to look at his website, and to see the other YouTube videos in the series (this is the last one).

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? said...: http://nonmusicology.blogspot.com; March 10, 2011 at 10:09 AM

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Broken Object: JLIAT Opens up a Sine Wave

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