tag: tom schouten planetary cycle counter: somewhere around 28*365 current mode: open source dsp geek other modes: audiovistual artist motto: the truth is in the machine, as long as it works
my interests are mainly in music, video and computer software and hardware. but more about the interaction between them. other interests include math, physics, evolutionary biology, psychology and philosophy of mind.
seriously, i'm interested in structure and deconstruction of this structure, or: "structure can only be beatiful when understood" vs. "deconstruction can only be beatiful when not understood". this boils down to aestetics and the relation with tension between control and understanding on one side, and lack of control and understanding on the other side.
on a more pragmatic level: i like to write very structured applications or extensions to applications to use them to make strange automata and noise experiments, with sporadic excursions into more structured musical forms. it's all a synergy of math, code and chaotic systems.
code:
PD extensions (creb and pdp) http://zwizwa.fartit.com/pd
music:
online music projects http://mala.wha.la BULT with Yves Degoyon (fr): http://mala.wha.la/bult_review.html
A big thank you to BEK for organizing the p1k53l workshop. It was a great succes, and will hopefully be remembered by all of us as the 7-day gathering that really made a change. In our world of global communication, initiatives like this are needed to make people meet eye to eye, instead of just the electronic channels, to get a good balance between the technical, artistic and personal levels of communication.
The only thing you need to do, BEK showed, is to bring likeminded people together, give them good food and shelter, and lock them into a room with a fridge and a toilet. The result is one organic burst of creativity. Thank you BEK!
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