Thursday, August 24, 2006

MAPPINGOFSENSORYEXPERIENCES
PHASEONE

Passenger of Shit - Floating with my Poo[wank 001 (br-03)]

PARTONE
My sensory experience in based upon an interest in electronic music/sound/noise.
An ordinary night out in the square surface rainforest turned into a extra-ordinary electrotronic 6 sensory wide experience. It started out relatively similar to any other night out with a suggested sound pressure cube to experience with some humans that I know. We met up at Jono house and exchanged data information for a while, our consciousness becomes glazed and slightly internalised as it becomes harder to comprehend life after some Delta-9. Our brains are working harder to function with a new chemical balance and a new perceived environment; in turn our senses are heightened. The sonic environment exists deeper into an unfamiliar space and presence, tactile experience lasts longer and it feels as if the solid pavement is slightly compressed under my body weight. As I look around a new world is appearing where non visible space is occupied, light reflects under a new exponential formula.
I have arrived at the sound cube where strange things are happening.
We understand the next human is turning on his central processing unit; meanwhile a group of humans in front of us is exchanging energy through concentrated surfaces. Our bodies, already unbalanced, are flushed with new chemicals which intensify our sensorium. We know now this environment threatens our evolution as a human being.
The noise data begins, so intensely compressed and condensed into electronic digital pyramids forced against our eardrums pain flows throughout our brain as it feels as though someone is cutting away the inside of your mind with mathematics. Instantaneously the human condition searches for answers as a 255BPM barrage of sonic forces strike throughout your body mass. I experienced anaesthesia of the olfactory and gustatory senses as the auditory, visual and tactile senses dominate the field of experience purely for survival reasons, then the next second of music.

Spore - white noise

PARTTWO
For the second part of this investigation i have chosen to select a personal interpretation of art manifest in white noise on a television. Appropriation of an object or experience as art aside, I would like relate the electronic experience mentioned in phase one to the common experience of white noise on a television. I relate the two purely for the fact of the absolute human attraction to the noise. The two become very similar when talked about in the context of attraction. We have evolved to be ultimately aware of our surroundings however subconscious the awareness may become, sudden changes from our normal surroundings instantly affect our awareness and focus the appropriate senses to regain control of our environment. The supporting experience from white noise on the television is the half a second of confusion and anaesthesis of the non vital senses. This is exactly the experience of experimental electronic sound/noise.

PARTTHREE
The final part of the sensory experience investigation I would like to relate to the initial part one.
The object I tried to find was a glass or crystal pyramid, they are hard to find. Often many sounds are directly related to shapes/environments by the listener. We can specifically describe the surroundings created in our minds by the type of music we have listened to. Hearing low slung gritty electronic bass often conjures images of a square chrome creature lurching through a misty swamp in a world where sorcerers in white gowns cast magic upon insurgent army from cryptania. The fast pulsing highly compressed electronic triangle wave sounds I heard on that night can only be likened to a pure crystal pyramid elegant in their composition and sharp at all points but full at the same time.

AUSTINHALL

1 Comments:

Blogger Malte Wagenfeld said...

Hi Austin

Good storey telling - nicely written.

I do like the illustration on the album cover even though it is somewhat disgusting.

I like the link between the music / noise and the glass pyramid; the concept that sounds take on forms..

There is of course the classic album cover by Pink Floyd - 'Dark Side of the Moon' although in the case it is the breaking of light into its spectrum via a prism that is of interest.

3.5 / 5

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