December 2011
42 posts
WatchEthan Rose - Player Piano:
“Through a slight modification of its mechanism, a 1926 reproducing player piano plays back a manipulated and continually looping paper roll. The artist applied bits of tape to the paper to block the pneumatics from striking keys resulting in a much sparser composition than was originally intended. The resulting sounds of both the mechanics and tones of the...
WatchEthan Rose - Movements:
“Movements consists of over one hundred manipulated music boxes powered by electric motors that are attached directly to the walls of a gallery. Rose altered and reduced the melody of each music box by selectively bending back tines. Through this process of intervention the manufactured machines become individualized by human influence. The altered motorized music...
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The Wiphala (Quechua pronunciation: [wɪˈpʰɐlɐ]) is a square emblem, commonly used as a flag, representing thenative peoples of all the Andes that include today’s Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and parts of Argentina, Chile and Colombia. It exists in several modern varieties, which represent the Inca Empire (Tawantin Suyu) and each of its former four regions (suyus).
The Cusco Wiphala consists of...
“Chinook Jargon (also known as chinuk wawa) originated as a pidgin trade language...”
– Chinook Jargon
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
– Joseph Campbell (via double-double-you
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