We are the new circus.
We are the envy of the fucking world.
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We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which ‘now’ was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents’ have insufficient ‘now’ to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. … We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition
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Emails from my nephew
thank you for france so sweet,
thank you for the ratatouille we eat.
thank you for the weather that is zero degrees,
thank you for the red leaves in the trees.
thank you for the cooking, what is that,
thank you for the kitchen with lots and lot of rats!
happy french thanksgiving!
the earth, the planets, our sun, sirius, pollux and arcturus, rigel, aldebaran, betelguese & antares pistol star. Do you think he’s superior to others? V354 Cephei and VV Cephei VY Canus Majoris and the Milky Way Galaxy Andromeda Galaxy Gubolar cluster galaxy and the observable universe.
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This is definitely the clearest explanation of just intonation I’ve ever seen. In just intonation (as opposed to equal temperament), all the notes are in whole number ratios with each other. Standard equal temperament, on the other hand, takes the octave as a 2:1 ratio and then splits it up into 12 even parts. The frequencies of these parts are close to, but not quite, whole number ratios.
See? Describing it makes it practically impossible to understand! Watch the video and hear the exacerbated wiggliness of equal-tempered chords. The video is an ad for some system that automatically fixes up your intervals, but if you like oscilloscopes, you won’t want to miss this! (How’s that for a sales pitch?)
(via immanent discursivity)
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