RE: [-empyre-] aesthetics of failure, microsound literature

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Not literary, but I'd point out two sites that are using microsound in
interactive visual work: Peter Luining's http://ctrlaltdel.org &
http://lfoundation.org ; and also Servovalve's http://www.servovalve.org .

Early net.art was, visually, often simply rectilinear and 'conceptual'
because of bandwidth and hardware constraints. The aural analog is
'microsound', is it not?

In a literary vein, the French lettrists are fascinating.
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lettrist/lettrist.htm , particularly the
section on Isadore Isou (still alive in his nineties?), is great.

ISIDORE ISOU  Believes in the potential elevation beyond WORDS; wants
		  the development of transmissions where nothing is
              lost in the process; offers a verb equal to a shock. By
		  the overload of expansion the forms leap up by themselves.
ISIDORE ISOU  Begins the destruction of words for letters.
ISIDORE ISOU  Wants letters to pull in among themselves all desires.
ISIDORE ISOU  Makes people stop using foregone conclusions, words.
ISIDORE ISOU  Shows another way out between WORDS and RENUNCIATION:
              LETTERS. He will create emotions against language, for the
              pleasure of the tongue.
          	  It consists of teaching that letters have a destination
		  other than words.
ISOU          Will unmake words into their letters.
              Each poet will integrate everything into Everything
              Everything must be revealed by letters.
POETRY CAN NO LONGER BE REMADE.

ja
http://vispo.com

ps: this all is not so much linked to an aesthetics of failure of technology
as to the exhaustion of traditional poetry.


> Hi, empyre.  I'm slammed at work right now, so the best I can do is pose
> a few questions . . .  So, here are two:
>
> 1.  We've already talked a little bit about technology and art, but
> perhaps we can go into the idea of failure, of pushing technology past
> its limits and using the resulting cracks, stutters, and fissures as raw
> material for new work.  I'm thinking here of Cascone's essay on the
> aesthetics of failure, among others:
> http://www.mediamatic.net/cwolk/view/8470.
>
> How is this being used beyond simple technique?  In other words, is work
> being made that addresses the idea of failure as structure,
> strategy, etc.?
>
>
> 2.  What kinds of sound/literature connections might there be with
> regard to microsound?  For instance, I've been reading up on Morton
> Feldman a bit recently, and I've discovered multiple references to the
> work of Samuel Beckett.  Any novelists, poets, playwrights working in a
> microsound vein?
>
>
> Best,
>
> G.