Essays
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errormancy: glitch as divination
“…divine by airy impressions, by the blowing of the winds, by rainbows, by circles round about the moon and stars, by mists and clouds, and by imagination in clouds and visions in the air.” – Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1) To the…
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infinite sound in the silence of a grain
“We can see that beneath the level of the note lies the realm of micro-sound, of sound particles. These are the building blocks of complex sounds. Like the quantum world of the quarks, leptons, gluons, and bosons, the micro-sonic domain…
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the grain of the auditory field
“The sound of the escalator’s motor had become indistinct, although I could still feel a faint rhythm transmitted through the steps, which I assumed were caused as the links of the chain that drew me upward were engaged by the…
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Reflections on silence
When you listen to silence, silence listens back to you There is no traffic hum or any other urban sound. There are no trees around or even the softest breeze to filter through their leaves. With nowhere to find…