This is what our media practice is: we assemble lots and lots of small bits and we compile or find patterns within them.

Murmuration – like jazz. One neuron doesn’t know what all the other neurons in your brain are doing, but it still works.

Extract one part of your given soundscape and think of it as a thing in itself, remove it from its context. Treat it as an object. Play with the sound – stretch, loop, re-create. Use same procedural, rule-given thing for each part. Making machines: machines have inputs an outputs and they do stuff in between.

Create a rule and stick to it. Trust the process. Realise this is a very effective and efficient way to produce work.

Removed the necessity of composing a complete work.

Fractal.

Possible avenues:

• vibration
• “revolution”
• “touch”

Abstraction.

A word only means something literally by virtue of what it is not. There is no intrinsic connection between the word and the thing.

This is not gonna be good.

The past week I’ve been swamped (emphasis on the swamped) with assignments that I’d not given myself due time to complete, thereby surrendering my right to complain about them. I got the work done, I felt ok about it, but after every assignment comes the “I swear on my life I’ll start it earlier next time!” cry for help which every time remains unanswered.

Participation for this studio was minimal at best, I forgot that juggling a week of assignments from other classes tends to eat up your designated free time to blog about noticings. Most of my participation for this class mostly revolved around thinking about this class, without necessarily any action being done. To be fair, I didn’t feel like there was anything I was behind on, or needed to catch up on, or have done, so I’m not feeling particularly guilty. This is the limbo that exists after assessment submission, time given to regroup your thoughts and do better (participation wise, too) next assessment. I have been noticing new patterns of thought that have come out of this studio, a lot of ye old ‘philosophical pondering’ if we’re being cliched, but I do believe this studio has changed my outlook on a lot of things. Putting that thinking to action is the next step.

This time I’ll do better, I swear on my life.

Sidenote: Trainspotting is overrated.

This is my word.

Comprehensive, flowing, intelligent. 3 words my essay writing lives by now.

Alien phenomenology – everything is alien to everything else.

Stop viewing things as ‘snapshots’.

Expansion of relations.

The artefact beholds the maker – not a photographer without a photograph with your name on it.

What’s the difference between ontography and typology? Ontography rejects that things belong in one place (like library classification.)

It is impossible to identify all relations things have to one another, that’s why they’re all alien to each other.

Instead of thinking of things as a fixed entity, think about where they will be in 10–100 years.

We are just containers for our DNA and once you pass reproductive age your body starts to break down because you’re no longer needed.

Make lists that arrive from specific constraints.

Oulipo.

Find a constraint upfront and follow it.

Better work after surrendering some of your agency to your technology.

Ecology

Our agency is a participant in an ecology.

Documentary as a way of trying to listen to something instead of imposing ourselves on it.

Sound file to image, image file to sound.

Technical media can record accidents whereas writing can not.

What can the image track become for the sound track rather than just service it?

Exploded view diagram in sound of something** – think like a different species.