Re: [-empyre-] kicking off - noise

[su b <suballard@optusnet.com.au>]

Hi alan,
I began thinking about noise when I did a brief catch up on information 
theory and became interested in all these large arrows pointing into 
the 'communications models'. The arrows were consistently labeled 
noise! And it seemed to be a (paradoxical ) constant. I think noise has 
developed for me now into a metaphorical term which finds its way as a 
traveller between analogue and digital models. I'd be reluctant to 
label it (or anything for that matter) universal. To me, the occurrence 
of noise, both visual and sonic, is aesthetic but also material, so it 
is quite specific and located, rather than universal. However this 
contradicts my first point that noise seems to appear everywhere in the 
models - i guess it is this contradiction that interests me the most. I 
think of digital media as inherently contradictory, and this is what 
keeps me interested, it is simultaneously pervasive and specific.