Re: [-empyre-] a bit on delay

[Felix Sattler <felix@querformarte.de>]

dear lars, alan, -empyreans-,

Tuesday, 06.04.04, 10:21 Alan Sondheim wrote:
>  Another comment - one
> learns of course in grade school that lag characterizes eveyr 
> interaction,
> that, in terms of phenomenology and physics, information takes time to 
> be
> processed and travel. So it's inherent; I wonder how this could be 
> brought
> out more?

lars provides a very interesting thought about this when he states 
below:

lars mai wrote:
> maybe parts of the fascination with these delays comes from a certain 
> sense
> of "space" involved, analogous to reverbation in a physical room, but 
> this is
> of course questionable...

i find that "reverberation" idea indeed fascinating. as we are talking 
about the net,
it is almost like asking for the boundaries of the universe (or a way 
to experience them).
in terms of sound, reverberation determines the physical/virtual
dimension of a room and also its material characteristic (i.e. tiles vs 
carpet result in
totally different frequency filtering).
especially mirko kubein's film reminds me of a famous piece by 
electro-acoustic
composer alvin lucier, "i am sitting in a room".
----
In I am sitting in a room, several sentences of recorded speech are 
simultaneously
played back into a room and re-recorded there many times.
As the repetitive process continues, those sounds common to the 
original spoken
statement and those implied by the structural dimensions of the
room are reinforced. The others are gradually eliminated. The space acts
as a filter; the speech is transformed into pure sound. All the 
recorded segments
are spliced together in the order in which they were made and 
constitute the work.
----
(taken from: http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1013.html)

do you think that streaming media codecs provide the same feel for the 
"resonances"
of the net?
 in lucier's piece in the end we hear just "the room" stripped bare of 
any content as the
original voice dissolves totally.

if the same happens with streaming media, what do we hear/see then? can 
the
"resonance of the net" be described by streaming media?

ultimately curiously

felix

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