I spent the entirety of a breathtakingly clear weekend in a basement studio recording the first official Powernap release, I feel further supported in fancying wav forms as plastic sheets that one bends, stacks and stretches in 3d space. Well I had my mind thoroughly blown by this video today. I feel like it might be fake it gives me such a futuristic feeling, similar to that fake smell recorder that some film student “invented” for his senior project at Bard, which actually turned out to be real. So actually dissimilar to that.
As the age of tangible media comes to a close, I think we see here (or rather feel) (all that remains is smell/taste, essentially the same) the beginning of an era of embodied media production. Creation through the manipulation of symbolic objects in the physical plane. Or rather a further collapsing of the distinction between physical and virtual space. Feel how plastic the sound becomes?
Self Transforming musico-linguistic objects…..fourier would be proud. Now about that smell recorder…
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110
The AMAZING Mapping episode of This American Life. Pumpkin Map. Powernap.
