This week we embrace our ever-present dark sides with author and researcher Isabella van Elferen. After experiencing a Quantum Haunting via Kevin L. Ferguson, and getting our digital groove on with Axel Bluhme’s new XOXX Composer Project, we dive into the shadow side of modernity and dance at the borderlands of the Enlightenment sipping absinthe – extolling the virtues of this place for the broader culture. We then tackle the shadow sides of music itself, and take on the topic of timbre – a word that even refuses a single pronunciation, never mind definition. Only to end up with a midnight stroll through the darkened woods on the haunted trail…
Audio excerpts and installations in order:
Quantum Haunting, Kevin L. Ferguson: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/quantum-haunting
Kanaleneiland, Utrecht: Justin Bennett: https://archive.org/details/aporee_24499_28432
Video demo for XOXX Composer Project:
http://xoxxcomposer.axelbluhme.se/ or Synthtopia: http://www.synthtopia.com/
From Free Music Archive (freemusicarchive.org):
Natural Snow Buildings: "Gothic Suburbia" from "The Night Country"
Simon Mathewson: "Gothic Son" from "Osseoperception"
Bureaucratica: "Southern Gothic" from "Calling All Fiends"
More information on our guest can be found at:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/staff/cv.php?staffnum=855
For complete show notes, as always, go to bansheemedia.com
