[-empyre-] materiality

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi, just want to add a note to Lynne Sachs' beautiful response. I've 
always been fascinated (and have written extensively about) by the 
difference phenomenologies of analog and digital, and one thing so 
characteristic of analog synthesizers - they're oddly transparent to the 
world, not black-boxed. Patchcords allow almost anything to go in and out 
almost anywhere, and the synthesizer appears more like porous 
architecture, hardly present, a kind of organic filter. I never had the 
feeling I was going _to_ an analog unit, but instead, in an uncanny way, 
that I was _inhabiting_ it. Coupling this with the living conditions of 
the loft, and one is being within a habitus, an environment where life and 
production merge -

- Alan

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