Thursday, 14 June 2012
Pseudsday Phthursday

Until I read the TLS today I didn't know there was such a thing as a "remixologist". Katherine Hayles reviews Remix the Book by the improbably monickered Mark Amerika.

Writing an incantatory prose lineated as poetry [does this just mean prose with the line breaks in silly places? -- M.J.] Amerika performs as well as explains, an artistic practice he calls "remixology". He "samples" Alfred North Whitehead, Nam June Paik, Allen Ginsberg and a host of others, in his role as "VJ Professor" (by analogy with a DJ, a VJ improvises a mixture of video images as well as sounds). Such performances are "postproductions" (because they sample from pre-existing material) carried out "with just in time/ source material as part of an open-source lifestyle". "Remixologists", then, are artists who

stand with their hyperimprovisational instruments
on whatever ground of the moment
they happen to be playing on as they
port their narrative/network potential
and its manifest aesthetic facts
into the compositional playing field
their novelty generation operates in

[...] In Amerika's vision, the artist's goal is to work towards an ecstatic state in which he is consciously and unconsciously performing in sync with complex feedback loops.

But who will sample the samplers? Someone, presumably a re-remixologist, called Rick Silva whose "art and research has been supported through grants and commissions from places such as Turbulence, Rhizome, and The Whitney Museum of American Art":

The “Isarithm” remix is sourced from the 184 sections of Mark Amerika’s “Sentences on Remixology 1.0” essay. Each sentence becomes a 30 frame video multi-verse where forms oscillate between intelligible lines and illegible texts. The video is accompanied by Woulg’s music which samples Mark Amerika’s “Consider the Is” audio reading.

Remixing should not be confused with free mixing. The latter is forbidden by the Koran, but presumably not the former, since the Koran is itself a re-re-remix of Judaism, Christianity, pagan Arab myths and the desires of that arch-sampler/remixologist Mohammed.

Posted on 06/14/2012 9:50 AM by Mary Jackson
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14 Jun 2012
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14 Jun 2012
reactionry
[as usual haven't the foggiest what HF is about - any readers should find the below as accessible as it is execrable - too sleep depraved and too lazy to clean up the meter - must be the one Irish great grandfather in me - an erstwhile NER writer once told me the one-drop rule applies - i suppose that "the troubles" generally refers only to northern Ireland and no, I don't know jack squat about Irish banking - and don't want to]
 
 
the troubles
 
this Mick Land, this emerald isle
takes lucky charms 'gainst sea of troubles
good times only last a awhile
from lascivious votes to bursting bubbles
must reset and must re-finance
kiss the Huns, forget frail France
and must retouch begorrahian grey,
liars led by donkeys - Erin go bray 
Brussels says nothing that can't be fixed,
cruelest of desire and sod re-Micks'd


14 Jun 2012
reactionry
Life Is Like A Box Of Stupid Similes
 
And the doggerel in the comment above is like totally a barbaric yawp.
 
 
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