Finally, the English version of „Digitalität tanzen!“ as „Counter-Dancing Digitality“ is out: https://doi.org/10.14619/0481 (you can download the PDF for free, open access, later you can also order a print copy if you want). Digitality is imposed upon us! To change …
Click & GlitchWith Deleuze or Boulez, we can speak of rhythm in terms of transversal disjunction or non-periodic clicked music. When we listen to a piece, we always hear other things, which Deleuze describes as forces, duration, sensation, and lightness, …
Click & Glitch Mit Deleuze oder Boulez können wir vom Rhythmus im Sinne einer transversalen Disjunktion oder einer nicht-periodischen geklickten Musik sprechen. Wenn wir ein Stück hören, hören wir immer auch andere Dinge, die Deleuze als Kräfte, Dauer, Empfindung und …
Editor’s Note: This piece, written by several authors, oscillates between plural and singular voices, with the intended effect of collaging three perspectives together in a unified décollage. “I’ll never forget the time I went to Dimes Cafe at 4 am …
Negative Being The Body-without-Organs (BwO) is like the Tao, in that it just about always escapes definition, always evading the words. In simple terms, it is like a sheet of white paper. In more complex terms it is like “union” …
On Bodies, Musical Bodies, Dancing Bodies, and Bodies without Organs
“If there is a modern age, it is, of course, the age of the cosmic.” (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus) Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) are among the few contemporary thinkers who incorporate cosmological questioning into their …
Where does the stereo effect begin, the point at which hi-fi becomes so uselessly refined that the music is lost in the obsession with its fidelity? Where is the point at which the social becomes so uselessly refined that it …
The word minimalism, at some point, became lost. As many editorials have expressed, “minimal” became a dirty word from its attachment to a trend that occurred in the mid 2000s, particularly in Berlin, where a ‘new minimalist’ movement emerges from …
Non-Music Part II: On Minimalism, Affects and the Martial Art of Defensive Tripping
Wo beginnt der Stereoeffekt, der Punkt, an dem die Hi-Fi-Anlage so unbrauchbar raffiniert wird, dass die Musik in der Besessenheit von ihrer Wiedergabetreue verloren geht? Wo ist der Punkt, an dem das Soziale so nutzlos ausgefeilt wird, dass es selbst …
Part I: Non-Music, (N)Ontology, and Distinguishing Bubbles. It is important to remember from the offset that ‘non’ is not identical to ‘anti’ or ‘counter’, for example, ‘non-philosophy’ is not an ‘anti-philosophy’ in the sense of Badiou, although his work on …
Like advertising, fashion, and cinema before it, music rules today as a dominant ideogram of power. Not a reflection of a serious materialist power which emanates elsewhere and that precedes it, music is a real ruling laboratory of the age …
What is Rhythm? What is Rhythm? Rhythm is a temporally extended pattern in which information-transmitting processes take place. It can be described by the following parameters: spatial (distance, movement, neighbourhood), temporal (speed, limit of human perception, infinite time scales versus …