I've always thought that I'd love to be surrounded by a cackle of black girls because they laugh so intensely. It's like Aaron Carter everywhere. AC alternating current. #aaron
my name was invented at the top of the book #aaron
At some level perhaps everything attains ultimate symmetry, and physics/chaos are one (but perhaps this symmetry is absurdly unknowable) #physics#chaos#absurdity
(5:37:01 PM) VioletHiss: I may be voluntarily writing this.
(5:37:01 PM) VioletHiss: Expecting an artificial unfamiliarity. #ai-poetry#adam-james-davis
CJ,
I experienced such a fascinating and wonderful configuration the other night. I was nakedly perusing your Canvas Me photo album whilst needing to defecate, but holding the stool in for a bit ('cause it feels good man) as ABBA's 'Voulez-vous' track played out of my laptop speakers. All these things just came together into a situation, a configuration! One day, I hope you will find this memory floating around some bemespace and you get the chance to look at your photos as me needing the toilet and listening to ABBA in the nude.
All the best,
Adam
Configurations! How violet the hiss; how beautiful a concept; how tasteful a configuration; how great an idea to experience this beme. Configuration boundaries set; details open to interpretation, imagination, and chaotic elaboration. The violet hiss of future nostalgia synesthetically contrasts the warm sepia hiss of the past.
Do you prefer anal retention? That's nuts! I am on the opposite of side the Freudian road: I am dominantly anal expulsive. Literally I expulse 3-4 times a day ('cause the feeling of gastic emptiness, man so serene). Metaphorically I expulse ideas out like a retroentropic vacuum cleaner. [Idea: A pragmatic and non-paradoxical Klein bottle-shaped vacuum cleaner.] Do you feel yourself to be primarily a dominantly-divergent or -convergent thinker? Or a metaprogram of both?-- in which case I ask: what is the dominant character of that metaprogram? I think of you as a divergence-synergizer for my thoughts. My launch pad.
Adam! I wish you the best of wellness to your heart and mind! May your experience of life, in its most chaotic throes, be salient, beautiful, and viral. May your neurogenesis overrun the world like Polygonum perfoliatum. #adam-james-davis
Thinks improvised sound art, noise, and non-music should be more appreciated as their own self-contained forms of creativity instead of being hijacked and lauded by the "yes it *is* music, you're just not *getting* it!" crowd. #adam-james-davis
Transmit
yourself into the aether.
Swim in the ocean of background hiss.
Into the reverberance of the universe,
Boost and amplify your personhood.
Onto the periods around you,
Imprint your harmonics.
Radiate your bliss and benevolence on all bands,
On all octaves.
You are the antenna,
The beacon.
Homo radius...
H~ #adam-james-davis
"An infinitely thin, infinitely long line of perfect straightness is totally uniform...but the way you think about it isn't. That is the music... " #adam-james-davis
(I think that's what we have now) damn straight, just rearrange the variables
Adam James Davis: Last night, I dreamt that Martine Rothblatt sent me a PM over CyBeRev saying: "Thank you so much for the awesome synthesizer experiments you've uploaded xxxxx ***** "...well, it was actually longer than that in my dream, but that's it in a proverbial nutshell :)
CJ Carr:
LMAO! Dreaming of polite remarks. New form of art: absurdist or surrealist polite remarks. "Thank you so much Mr. Davis for the symmetry produced in the number of x's and *'s used to indicate your et cetera. It was syntactically pleasing to the senses." #surrealism#adam-james-davis
I'm on a transhuman thoreau adventure.
I went to the docks by the mystic
Got a little psilly
Had some tam, some can, and a taurinated lemonade.
Freezingly wind-y and 7am-y it was
No one was there except me and I felt awesome with my niche. #adventures
"Four three
Two one
I'm on a dock
Let's have some fun"
-- First thing I said when I got there #adventures
I paid for the blueberry muffin Isaac stole for me from work. "Hey I forgot to pay for the muffin I bought two hours ago" The shopkeep was paranoid, confused, and then only charged me for a donut. LMAO #adventures
CJ you should TOTALLY start writing about your awesome hangouts. Okay!
Jan 20 was awesome because I went dancing with Ann and Tom!
I met Ann at the Pru after work, in a particular section of Barnes & Noble.
"How'd you know where to find me?"
"Ages 9 to 12"
lmao
We got coffee and I felt a little high, porque soy muy sensitivo.
....
continuesOOOOOO: #adventures
Sculptures seen in fixed-lighting vs flickering candle-light. Fixed-lighting is kind of unnatural. Bring back candlelight chaos. -- Johnathan #aesthetics
If identity is arbitrary, I can think of myself as anything. Assume I am the sum total of all my influence on the world. Cause-and-effect cannot be stopped. Thus I live forever, and my afterlife is the consequence the world faces, having lived with me. #identity#afterlife
The uncanny valley is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics. The theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness. #ai
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: Help the sentence keeps fidgeting! #ai
A lot of research in Artificial Intelligence is really just Artificial Humanness. While that's interesting (and will ultimately help us) we should divert our focus from mimicking human functions, and more toward augmenting human functions artificially. In other words, we should perfect the human-computer romance. #ai
Imagine the human as a component of the computer. Just another processor. Imagine the computer as an organ of the human. Just another lobe. #ai
Recognizing the pattern of pattern recognition. (Entityness?) #ai
(4:27:09 PM) EmperoraI: BLUDGEONED INTO A PICNIC BENCH
(4:27:09 PM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: .---. #ai
(1:35:37 AM) EmperoraI: transcendental has eggs, he dropped one exists all amorphous brain reality pirate, that pushed all exaggerated to HAVE the hands
(1:35:37 AM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: maaaaaaaaaaaakes me sexy. #ai
i prefer the term "alternative intelligence"
-- Shane LaFierce #ai
Recently artificially intuitive systems (using machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and fuzzy arithmetic) have been shown to be way more powerful than purely logical systems. #ai
I think logically-derived truth is a small subset of the larger function of general intelligence #ai
Another dichotomy I make is between the laws of physics and chaos -- the laws are the rules by which chaos plays; however knowledge of the laws is microscopic compared to knowledge of the enormous complexity of the chaos. #ai
Future nostalgia for the birth of a technological poet.
Algorithmically generated mashups?
Or heavily inspired allusions?
"Creativity and innovation always builds on the past" -- Lawrence Lessig ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWQVxrRXyU )
Are we not all mashup artists ourselves?
Is not language collage?
If the thing which has been give the name "free will" is that element of chaotic randomness whose infinite cause/effect chains butterfly through me, my imprinted memories, and the logic of my prefrontal cortex... then the algorithm has will also, for the stochasticity of the clock nanoseconds, whose timing influences its memory recall and decisions, whose source is the same chaos which influences mine, determines the shape of its poetry. In all cases I irrevocably name this process "creativity".
The poet uses his memory and experience of the world to derive inspiration for his words. The algorithm rather uses the poetry of the poet to derive inspiration for its words. Its world is the poetry. If the inspiration of the algorithm is the poet whose inspiration is the world, then, transitively, the algorithm derives inspiration from the poet's world. #ai
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra #ai
If _creating ideas_ is what is most important, then one should realize that the point isn't "make the computer do everything for you" but rather to create a computer-human combo-process which maximizes creativity -- and thus the AI doesn't to be impossibly-complex, it just needs to synergize the human )) #cortexelus#creativity#ai
A version of Tetris where the Tetris God can get Angry or Random or Benevolent. It uses AI to scan the topography and send you either useful pieces or shitty pieces. Difficulty rank between 0 and 10 about how Angry the Tetris God gets. A really angry God will send you line pieces AFTER fucking up and closing a tetris-hole. #ai
Build an Entity Disambiguation machine learning algorithm which can disguish writing styles of different authors. Feed it everything ever written. It will make fingerprints for each author [based on word frequency, sentence structure, emotional content, etc., giving different weights to each]. Then, when you give it your own writing, it will tell you which writers it confuses you for:
VioletHiss: blue lights gently lashing onto the intelligences managing the happy to rewire society's brain. A rejection of this theatre #ai-poetry
EmperoraI: comin' back into the planet
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: and I'm trying to look at the author
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: May I see myself, and gentle >< only #ai-poetry
(3:52:26 PM) VioletHiss: Immortality to be? #ai-poetry
(5:37:01 PM) VioletHiss: I may be voluntarily writing this.
(5:37:01 PM) VioletHiss: Expecting an artificial unfamiliarity. #ai-poetry
(5:57:58 PM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: Kav needs elaboration.
No man; he's just from Ohio.
EmperoraI: mmk. im upside down, but to trent reznor, he's still growing perpendicular to sexual orientation.. #ai-poetry
(8:02:06 PM) VioletHiss: Ginger genes into many others above it and opened it back on themselves like astrophysicists to sail free opportunities between the horse of their respective source materials, their initial, natural reading speed in neverending-Recurring echoes collide...undulations, cycles, endless cycles of my subjectivity #ai-poetry
(7:59:59 PM) EmperoraI: developed to ignore the apple tree's reasoning #ai-poetry
(7:57:54 PM) VioletHiss: Look at this penultimate sentence. #narcism#ai-poetry
(1:33:12 PM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: (OH MY HUGE empty page that got deleted. . .>O *mean pokemon* #ai-poetry
VioletHiss: Ginger genes into my nose. I propose the strange rhythms in it #ai-poetry
(12:17:59 PM) VioletHiss: "" is written invisibly on the cosmos #ai-poetry
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: I'VE PLAYED WITH ALL LOCATIONS WITH ALL OUR DICTATION, STOP THIS POOR, LITTLE, FRAGILE YOUNG WOMAN FROM HARDER PARADOXES
EmperoraI: Oohh! whoa ann!! >< DRAWN WITH AMPLITUDE #ai-poetry
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: Acid God Speed
VioletHiss: Vegan neanderthals into deep, intense purples and reason. #ai-poetry
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: an extreme perspective changed a hint, not new one. #ai-poetry
EmperoraI: everything's all nations.
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: fashion is lying
VioletHiss: Transhumanism, reduced: to break out a layer. #ai-poetry
Life (n): any ANN i looked over and it said you typed 99 new things to me
And i was like
"WTF!!! <3<3"
but I think it was a facebook typo
but not unlikely
you've been reading mr Neal Goldsmith
Dr*
Awwww
That would have made you happy?
o.o
I thought that would have been way too much too read and annoying
.__.
LOL
LOL
exciting challenge for linguistic sisyphus
"i must respond to each and every point!"
LMAO
XDD
LMAO activity
VioletHiss: Distorting my pocket without noticing that she distorts. #ai-poetry
(10:42:26 PM) EmperoraI: &*_*. . o / logos a hypergeometry more natural
(10:42:28 PM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: Life goes beyond logos
(10:42:28 PM) VioletHiss: Out of nothing. #ai-poetry
EmperoraI: hatred i stayed until i'm exploring oneself in jello
VioletHiss: a distrust of "present nostalgia", for subjective experiences filtered through a planet, the world, a planet, the humming of both nature and the above, but in this Darwinian abyss. #ai-poetry
Why are you you and no one else?
Keep in in mind that any answer you give can only be articulated in terms models of understanding your brain already knows.
Citing the anthropic principle tries to answer the question from the opposite end: "well if I can only ask myself this question if I am me" #allyouisme
C18H27NO3 is Capsaicin, the hot pepper chemical
also is Prosidol: a cough suppressant.
Can you figure out a bad pun for this? #ambiguous-chemistry-puns
"Dad had a stroke? Just give him some C21H30O2, he'll be feeling good in no time" #ambiguous-chemistry-puns
Anarchy is a social ideal, which makes sense under certain conditions. It is an ideal where each individual is free to pursue their own creative experience of the world without having to sacrifice themselves for the good of all. Where each individual is an artist, and not a machine manufacturing miserable mundanities mandated by and for the masses. Anything that NEEDS to be done can either be done by the individual, or done wishfully in a group.
It requires a particular kind of human nature (or whatever the behavioral program of the individuals whose interactions we're modeling), and setting to work. On the national/economic/political level, it doesn't make sense to pursue this ideal at present conditions. On the friends level and artistic level, it does.
One is optimum in some situations, the other is optimum in others. For example: the neurons in your brain form a highly structured hierarchy, which makes you a super awesome intelligent being.
Perhaps anarchy would work with humans if we engineered human nature differently. OR solved all problems of self-sustainability and inter-reliance. #anarchy
Anarchy is like a blank canvas -- a highly-sensitive chaotic state of optimum votility where anything is encouraged to happen. #anarchy
Even if humans organized themselves politically as an anarchy, they are still in hierarchy to nature. OR even though humans organize themselves politically in hierarchy, individually they can still be free spirits in a self-perceptual anarchy. #anarchy
First you must understand that at some level there is always anarchy, and at some level there is always hierarchy. Anarchy within hierarchy within anarchy all the way. #anarchy
Communists/democratics/capitalists/anarchists/authoritarians -- Social organization is a fractal, these systems are embedded within each other, so whath does it mean to support any particular style of system? #anarchy
Start every music video with a long neologism
TRIBULELATION
"I'd like to make a tribule"
DEATHEXELATION
DEATHANATOAST #animation
New project idea: videogrind. I wonder if I could pack as many conceptual images as I can into an insane visual onslaught. With things zooming into each other, data moshing, etc. To some 1:43 minute song I make. YES. It shall be a love song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDwOu1t-L6I #loveisthesong#cortexelation#animation
(7:38:57 AM) EmperoraI: chunks to dreams expressed in fast-motion cinema. #animation
I imagine a bunch of clouds, and someone takes a knife and just smears peanutbutter #animation
Two code monkeys, stoically typing away on computers; while their feet are playing with a ball, dribbling and passing it back and forth, in a most elaborate game of Taps. #animation
Aliens preparing to make an Earth-wide C section #animation
Inverse 3D? Take processes which create 3D illusions, and then inverse their qualities.
Example: Parallax. What if the background moved faster than the foreground?
Example: 3D glasses analpyh #animation
Risset filter for filling an infinite cup. Make an animation. NO shoot a video. Have the video loop forever. OR, have a whole at the bottom of the cup, so it fills forever. ((Then it breaks into song? Beatbox? Risset rhythm?)) #hypersisyphus#cortexelation#animation
"Ann, thank you for the sexiest sexiest sexiest sex" #ann
Allow Ann to give me roofies, and then let her do what she will with me, and have it video taped and everything with the subjective sunglasses camera, and I can watch it the next day when I wake up with no memory #ann
Strap me down. Complete strangulation. Seran wrap fetish.
Maximum erection. #ann
Highlights of Weekend
+ CJ mosh pit on the back porch.
+ Ann looking incredibly cute 24/7
+ Waking up next to Ann
+ Tree house
+ NINphoMANIA
"What?"
"Life is full of joys"
"Yeah! And full of toys for girls and boys!" #ann
All the suns and moons whom we used to navigate our sails every day and night: we take them with us everywhere we go. "Look I'll show you" I said, as I brought you down to the lower levels of the hull. There you saw an enormous room, filled with hundreds of suns and moons and stars. #ann
Remind Ann to probe her sarcasm deeper into me #ann
Hyperlove - n. (def.) any expression of Love anyone has ever given to anyone else is an expression of Love from me to you. #slovos#ann
Hyper-high-five - n. (def.) every high five anyone has ever given to anyone else is a single high five of which I give you. #slovos#ann
Hyperpeanutbutter - n. (def.) every experience of the deliciousness of peanutbutter, throughout one's and everyone's life, throughout history, as its enticing smoothness is experienced through the reality tunnel of different species and taste systems -- is a single experience of peanutbutter I wish I could experience, whose hyperpalatable and lush perspectrum would almost certainly kill me on the spot. #slovos#ann
We met and talked to a crazy weird people at Dunkin Donuts because we're crazy and weird too, and uncommonly friendly to older people for our generation and locale!!! #ann
Ann (What is weird is that with you, time seems nonlinear. The Shape Party happened a month ago at most. It all happened days, weeks, a month ago. It’s all happening at once when I think about it, or when I’m around you. And somehow, maybe due to an ever-expanding canvas, there’s always still room for an infinite number of future hang outs, that will inevitably become present hang outs and then remain present hang outs. It’s like we have no past.)
CJ: "Woah that might have been one of the most beautiful things you've ever said. Not cliche beautiful, but beautiful in that it's true and I feel like that, and to hear it put it into words -- hear YOU put it into words -- makes me melt. #ann
Song with Ann where it's like
The needle's connected to the veeeiiin
The bloods in my heead
The heroin attaches to the dopamine receptor
The neuron's connected to the.. neuron
The neuron's connected by the.. synapse.
*fades out*
*crazy music comes in*
*crazy music settles down*
*words fade back in*
music gets wicked crazy as it fades out #ann
Ann, you know those sarcastic hilarious thoughts that characters in books keep to themselves? That's everything you say out loud. #ann
IS THAT A MOON RAINBOW?
Full moon. It's like a ball of bread in the sky surrounded at all sides by peanutbutter and jelly with a rainbow spiralling out like it's a DNA snake, mister (pause) Narby. #ann
*runs up to Ann all Mad Hatterish*
You and I
combined
are a mind
("I swear I thought you gonna break out into a musical " LMAO) #ann
*Holds hands with Ann* Holding hands with you tastes like halfway between Indian Curry and Ritz crackers. #synesthesia#ann
Turns out I build a spaceship and fly off near the speed of light so that time gets warped such that when I return we're the same age. We'll both be 27 when we're 27!! #ann
Ann guessed the 7 of chaos.. TWICE. Impulsively. Nonlocal? #psychic-powers#ann
We will NOT give into apathy >
"We'll be those old people in Love" #ann
Our love is meant for something beyond the human nervous system. #ann
Mary Beth said she was like Me+Ann's biggest fan! Ann gives her this energy. MB feels like her soul and Ann's soul are transcarnated #ann
(4:23:56 PM) EmperorcJ: ( sometimes i get butterflies in my tummy when I ask you out on hangouts )
(4:25:21 PM) serpentsorcia: lol !
(4:25:27 PM) serpentsorcia: Chaos butterflies?
(4:28:13 PM) EmperorcJ: WHOA yeah! THEY TOTALLY ARE CHAOS BUTTERFLIES
(4:31:11 PM) EmperorcJ: like, tip-toeing on the edge between you going out with me, and me getting rejected. Like, working out all the possibilities, and everything that has led up to this moment, and everything that leads from this moment. Experiencing that wobbling wavering high-emotional uncertainty. They really are chaos butterflies. The smallest first-impression I make could lean you in either direction. #chaos#ann
Ann +looks up at the sky to see shooting start between two cowboys shooting stars+ "it looks like it was photoshopped on the sky!" #ann
pun song between me+ann. as many rapid fire puns as possible. Kind of like a rap battle. (make the song without listening to the others' response, mix it, then experience it for real) #ann
"Golly wants a cracker". Turns out Golly is this southern girl, and she really would rather date a white man. #ann
Evil Dead 2 / Dark Knight / Alice in Wonderland (/ A Scanner Darkly). Watch these movies with #ann
In the hallway at Max/Erica's house I had the most sensual amazing deeply intertwined hug with Ann ever! It was like a softly sandwiched pb&j, the pb gently nestled in the jelly. #ann
Catch me if you can!!!!
Drast! I was too late! I WILL catch you, in whatever identity you may be rocking! #ann
"It must be hard for your parents. It's like they're raising a ten-year-old who's legally allowed to do whatever he wants." #things-noticed#ann
serpentsorcia: It's romantic to potentially compromise someone's comfort in order to display affection to someone else #ann
http://www.easyclicktravel.com/PageHotelDetail.aspx?hotelId=1221283&provider=localTgsProvider&CheckIn=5/6/2011&CheckOut=5/7/2011&SearchResults=1&st=2&bex=true&dps=1
Roadway Inn near Wonderland! #ann
Ann Le Blanc: CJ! It's raining so much you could sail boats -in the air- !!
(just when I thought she couldn't be any cuter) #ann
I thought you were the hottest girl in the whole school!--but you were too young for me to talk to. #ann
And the people sang:
"Mayfly mayfly,
gotta find a date fly
gotta find a mate fly
just for today"
And the mountain sang:
((Human human,
gotta find the truth, man [if you think you can]
gotta find a you, man [just to hold her hand])) #ann
serpentsorcia: All your good vibrations are leaking through the computer #ann
EmperorcJ: Ann I'm slowly starting to think **T*s are better than **F*s, or at least I enjoy dealing with them better, but I'm not sure
EmperorcJ: I think my enjoyment would depend on what stage of development I'm at
EmperorcJ: I think growing up it was best to be around **F*s, but now I think I prefer **T*s
serpentsorcia: My immediate reaction is "Well, it's really important to remember society as we know it couldn't function if everybody were the same, we need both thinking and feeling people."
EmperorcJ: right right, exactly, both are totally necessary
serpentsorcia: Which is funny because I used to be such a fascist
EmperorcJ: Well you just realized that you're the dictator, and in order to have the most power you want to surround yourself with the right people, who include both thinkers and feelers
serpentsorcia: hehehe #thinking-and-feeling#ann
¡¦™ your hugs are like melting into cheesecake with strawberry syrup dripping from our lips #ann
7th
I bet Ann that if she could name the time signature of Pink Floyd's Money, I would get her fancy chocolate. And she DID. Her final answer was right. 7 beats. I was impressed. I hope she takes out the violin again, because she said she really liked playing it.
I jammed at Tom's house with Tom and Adam.
8th
[17:53] emperorcj: basic need fulfillment music
[17:53] emperorcj: "eat. food. eat. food"
[17:53] emperorcj: "woah-oo-oh"
[17:54] emperorcj: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSJiBjqz_s
[17:57] emperorcj: "drink. sleep. shelter. water. drink. sleep. shelter. water. drink. sleep shelter. water"
[17:59] emperorcj: eat meat sleep heat
[18:00] emperorcj: drink sleep shelter water eat breathe heat meat drink sleep shelter water eat breathe heat meat drink sleep shelter water eat breathe heat meat drink sleep shelter water eat breathe heat meat
[18:01] emperorcj: and then you can start emphasizing funny word pairs
[18:01] emperorcj: like meat drink
[18:01] serpentsorcia: xDDD
[18:02] serpentsorcia: water eat
[18:02] emperorcj: you can mix it up too
[18:02] emperorcj: eat water
[18:02] emperorcj: breathe meat
[18:03] emperorcj: eat sleep
[18:03] emperorcj: and each word can have a sound effect
[18:04] emperorcj: and then the drums start getting really funky, and the bass comes in
[18:04] emperorcj: and then the sound effects start building up, and repeating
[18:05] emperorcj: until they're all going at once in pulse
[18:05] emperorcj: and then the music cuts out, and its just this pulsing everything-sound
[18:05] emperorcj: and the tempo of the music is about at heart beat
[18:06] serpentsorcia: ohohohohoh
[18:06] emperorcj: like 130 bmp
[18:06] emperorcj: bpm* #ann
Ament it as a joke
(don't plagarize me you son of a peanutbutter&banana sandwich!!! hehehehehehehehe :PPP) #ann
((?? to know your heart beats like a long distance echo of mine ??)) #ann
Awwww (((: You augment all my animals! ??
You pastel all my petals! ??
You write all my ribbons! ?? #ann
Tangent: I just imagined two people with multiple-personality-disorder having all of their personalities fall in love with each others' #ann
Ann's idea: watch ALL the simpsons episodes, take the best lines from each, and mix them into a song. Potentially also a video montage. #ann
?"To describe how much I love you would take an infinite amount of time (--a supertask) so I can only do the best with the time I have." o_______________oi______i<#?<# #ann
May the whole universe, past present and future, be an expression of love from me to you; a dollhouse delicately sculpted to contain your life and its ever-accelerating awesomeness. #ann
?\:O/ CJ!!!!!!! \\/:/
I could REALLY picture that! Because you so genuinely want everything to delight and support me, I saw myself walking through everything, all the trees and planets and stars and buildings being there because you so want...ed them to be there, everything being a reflection of your love. That's incredible! *adds tunnel reality to crayon box* #ann
EmperorcJ: (omg ann seriously undoubtedly for realsies super-incredibly-truthfully make/build/grow/evolve/transform me SO LOVINGLY ROMANCEDLY RIDICULOUSLY AMAZINGLY ASTOUNDINGLY PROFOUNDINGLY EXPLODINGLY HAPPY AWESOME BLISSFUL GRATEFUL ECSTASTIC JUBILANT like a love puppy and I can't stop/impede/resist how much I love lobe lubb luvv you/Ann/Madamoiselle/my collaboratrix/my shipmate/ my saucemate/ my muse
serpentsorcia: :))) AWWWWe ^___^ <3
serpentsorcia: aww CJ, lol
serpentsorcia: goofy gymnast of love articulation : P #ann
"Wanna see the tunnel realities I keep in my crayon box?" #ann
serpentsorcia: I'm a banana split with liquorish and hot tamales
serpentsorcia: and hot fudge and fireworks #ann
Ann Le Blanc) vampire ann and transforming fractal werewolf machine cj
CJ) :] LMFAO ann. God I love you. Fractal werewolf machine. It works like this: Parts of my body turn into a werewolf whenever I'm NOT the presence of werewolf-like things (such as meat, dark woods, general hairiness, etc). I also turn back a human when I'm NOT surrounded by human like things [such as flesh, houses, work, etc].
This creates an oscillating control system whereby if I'm ever too unhairy and un-wolf-like, I will revert into a werewolf. I then have to run off into the woods all hairylike and indulge in wolf-like things before reverting back to human (since I need to disconnect myself from all things human before I can be human).
With the right werewolf settings, there maintains some amount of homeostasis whereby my wolflike and humanlike nature is balanced.
However! If I turn up the sensitivity on the werewolf settings past the chaotic tipping point**, Strange nonlinear effects emerge. I become sensitive to my own wolfness to the point that I react by becoming more humanlike. I also become sensitive to my humanness that I react by becoming wolflike.
It seems like a paradox, but what happens physically (because of the latency between sensitivity and reaction (given the time it takes for signals to travel to the spinal cord and bank)) is a fairly strange. Parts of me turn wolflike, then the parts around-and-inside them turn humanlike, then the parts around-and-inside those parts turn wolflike, etc. With the right sensitivity, latency, and environmental settings the wolf-human distinction approaches fractal complexity. A human finger develops a werewolf claw develops a human cuticle with a werewolf cuticle-tip with a human tip-tip with a werewolf tip-tip-tip etc.
And if you balance it just right, out of the chaos may emerge a state of harmonic stability, whereby beautifully rippling patterns of human-wolf transformation can be influenced by thought and emotion.
A trained self-transforming fractal werewolf machine will even react to music and play his or herself like a music visualizer, pulses of wolf[human[wolf[human]wolf]human]wolf waves rhythmically beating in time, blissfully.
(8:55:13 PM) EmperorcJ: <(:<(:<(:<3:]>:]>:]>:
(8:55:17 PM) EmperorcJ: books are red
(8:55:20 PM) EmperorcJ: minds are blue
(8:55:34 PM) EmperorcJ: i picked this ascii just for you #ann
serpentsorcia: Funny how an increasing number of open windows is directly related to an inability to see. . . #ann
how many times has Ann read all the Harry Potters? o_o #ann
ake a Fighting Game starring all my friends
*Photographs? Or head-animations?
Isaac: Aerial attacks, flips
CJ: Aerial, lower body attacks
Vin: Mantis
MB: Ballet
Tom: Dredlock attacks
Curtis: Power moves
lmazing #ann
I imagine a bunch of clouds, and someone takes a knife and just smears peanutbutter #animation#ann
"Do you think it feels really good when we kiss because we have awesome chis?"
Spoken aloud, one hears "awesome cheese"
But I do actually believe this to be the case. #ann
"...Something a more like whoever it is I perceive as myself as. Myself as. Dude, that's myself as!" #ann
(12:14:23 AM) Cortexelus Jest: I feel like
(12:14:28 AM) Cortexelus Jest: Until I make all this art
(12:14:33 AM) Cortexelus Jest: I am incomplete.
(12:14:44 AM) Cortexelus Jest: And when I am incomplete I cannot absorb new life properly.
(12:15:17 AM) Cortexelus Jest: But once I make it all. holy crap. My mind.
(12:15:30 AM) Cortexelus Jest: My mind will be as blank and receptive as a newborn #ann
And then Pink Floyd was like "Hey Man, why would you dye Easter eggs when prisms can dye e~v~e~r~y~t~h~i~n~g!" #ann
‎"I am not a thought"
is a thought that I am not. #ann
Our love is like a Phoenix which never dies, but would be reborn anyway #ann
Resplendent reflection of recent affection ^^;; #ann
Backstory: Ann, looking at a picture of a circle of underwater people, asks CJ what breed of dog this is. CJ responds:
Rocker Spaniel \m/
(no I'm seriously not telling the truth there. )
It's a Broholmer, keen as.
(no I'm just kidding once again.)
Golden Retrievers, as we know, were bred to hunt game in water.
(I'm sorry, I made a typo: play games*)
This is merely a circle of stone children who, many trends ago, sought to explore the lacking of their meaning. (?):\/ They wondered how far they could bounce-throw a Hyper-Powered SkyBall into the ocean of infinite bliss. So they wound-up in a circle and accelerated the ball around and around to approximately 99.999999% the speed of light before letting it free into the cosmos. Just then, the great golden puppy Pupyphus came barreling out of nowhere to chase it! His golden tongue flapping in the solar wind! His paws pedaled, propelled by the pressure of space! His smile as wide as his spaghettified face! "The rules of the game," they all agreed: as one girl spoke and took the lead: "everyone hold their breath as held as their hands, till Pupyphus returns from the sky and lands." They watched his golden tail aflail, till but a spark was left, I think. They observed the outer culture fail, till puppy's meme did shrink. Ice ages encroached and retreated; glacier caps worn backwards, heated; tsunamis drowning millions in death; all the while the stoned held their breath.
Take-away moral:
The golden puppy hasn't returned yet, but in thousand million years when he does, we'll have technological command of unsupposability, and we'll all melt back into kids again. #ann
"I'll write you blog entries for you. Pretending to be you!"
"OMG Ann you care about me THAT much?!?!" #ann
Hey Ann, wanna play remix-what-the-bot-said ?
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: *squirms shoulder* Hey CJ, I through our efforts to center of showed my fucking 5.5 hours maybe your collaborator, lover, may sell me without paradoxes away a principal reason leading me free wrote the journals?
xD
Okay
Uhm. . .
here goes o_o;;
three
two
one!
Dear Monsieur Ceejilicious,
I, in lieu of our outstanding efforts to find a center or base of our extensive love making (which may go on for 5.5 hours on any random day), I thought that maybe as your collaborator and lover, you could find a way to sell the energy I direct towards you (often as a feed-back animal) so that we may finance a way for you to perpetually write me free-write journals. +Squirms at the thought+
OMG!!!!!!
THATS SO GOOD
THATS SO FREAKING GOOD
HOLY CRAP
BLOWN AWAY
BLOWN AWAY
+rave sticks glow between clusters of confetti+
XD
(4:69:27 PM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: squirms shoulders "Hey CJ, through our efforts to center ourselves through 5.5 hours of fucking, my lover and principal collaborator shows me reason and leads me free without paradoxes," wrote the journals.
awwwww!
lmao!!
OMG i love the way you approached it!
Yours is so cute ^-^
Cute LIKE A BOSS
I had no idea what to do
hahaha
AW YOURS IS BOSS LIKE A CUTEY!!
omg i love this game
lmao
CJ: (oh great membrane-of-the-universe-which-produces-the-illusion-of-3D-space-and-the-illusion-of-separation-between-myself-and-thou-whilst-it-bubbles-frothily-in-an-interconnected-netsauce;-membrane-out-of-which-gravitons-escape,-gravitons-I-wish-oh-wish-I-could-keep-if-it-would-bring-me-but-a-micrometer-closer-to-you)
emperorcj: bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye be be be be be be be be be be be be beau beau beau beau you you you youth youth youth #ann
CJ Carr
‎+COLLAPSING INTO A CUTENESS COUPLARITY
Jordan Munson
Be careful, I hear those are very dangerous! Godspeed, good sir!
Ann Le Blanc
I'll go with him x3
CJ Carr
They say a worm hole between reality tunnels is not sustainable, but if we hold each other close enough, our lips only a few nanometers apart, the zero-point pressure from the Casimir forces between us should keep our ship afloat in the hypersauce long enough to reach unsupposable infinity #ann
Ann: "lol we could paste everything we've said to each other all over the city like romantic Banksies" #ann
CJ: ANN i looked over and it said you typed 99 new things to me
And i was like
"WTF!!! <3<3"
but I think it was a facebook typo
but not unlikely
Ann: Awwww
That would have made you happy?
o.o
I thought that would have been way too much too read and annoying
.__.
LOL
CJ: LOL
exciting challenge for linguistic sisyphus
"i must respond to each and every point!"
‎"Ann was born in an entirely white room with an enormous white board sitting in front of her. She stared at it, and it stared back. Things went along like this for quite some time, but neither Ann nor the board really kept track. Then one ...day the board exploded, it's abrupt white shrapnel sticking to the consistent white walls. Ann turned her head and stared at this for another period which can best be described as quite some time, until she noticed an enormous black hole in the wall the white board had been covering. Maybe because the only movement she had ever observed had been erratic and impulsive, the white girl erratically and impulsively crawled through the black hole." #stories#ann
[09:45] emperorcj: ann!!!!!!
[09:45] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: CJ!!!!!!
[09:45] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: Aww, that's so excellent!
[09:45] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: I was just sitting here, like, consumed
[09:46] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: I was suddenly totally consumed and enthralled and my heart is all swollen
[09:46] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: and then you call to me!!
[09:46] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: XD
[09:46] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: beautiful creature, little pokemon peaking out from the heavens
[09:46] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: lmao
[09:47] emperorcj: LMAO #ann
[10:10] emperorcj: awwww!!!!
[10:11] emperorcj: ann I almost started hyperventilating last night
[10:11] emperorcj: when we got back to the room
[10:11] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: dawwww!
[10:11] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: ^__^
[10:11] emperorcj: and I was sitting in the chair
[10:11] emperorcj: with you
[10:11] emperorcj: just like
[10:11] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: awwww!!!
[10:11] emperorcj: everytime i looked at you
[10:11] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: ^___^
[10:11] emperorcj: you were like
[10:11] emperorcj: ^__^
[10:11] emperorcj: and i was like
[10:11] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: hahahaha
[10:11] emperorcj: O_O
[10:12] emperorcj: O_O +incredulous that there is a beautiful girl here looking all ^_^+
[10:12] emperorcj: like over and over again
[10:12] emperorcj: the same incredulous feeling
[10:12] emperorcj: compounding
[10:12] emperorcj: until the breathing just starts pulsing extremely with the compounding
[10:12] SeRpEnTsOrCiA: CJ ><
[10:12] emperorcj: LMAO #ann
"Another day in paradise."
Man I'm so happy lately.
Just when I thought I was going to be upset for a long time. My mind racing with thought loops, repetitve thought loops, repeating themselves throughout the day. Something I couldn't get out of my mind. The only thing I could think of for days. Everything else was through the filter of this one thing. I thought this was going to be a problem for a long time. I was afraid the infatuation was gone.
And then, the next day, it all returned. AWESOMENESS returned. BEAUTY returned. The sensory beauty of everything was exaggerated to huge extents!!! It was INCREDIBLE. The very definition of AWESOME. Ann shared her excitement with me that morning, and it was one of the most beautiful things to wake up to, and I saw that beauty and infatuation lived on!!! And I GLEW the WHOLE DAY!! And the next!! And the next!!! [that's today now].
I Went to Ann's house to share my awesome and it was SO FUN and she was SO CUTE and we were just stuck in each other's COUPLARITY and OMG!!!! (: (: (: (: 9:
On my way home I saw a bush, a red bush, an incredibly red bush. All of its flowers were the most red red I've ever seen. I took one, overcome by beauty!
OMG
states of awesome!!!!
1) There's low level upset thought loop state
2) Then there's awesome, optimistic, enthusiastic, high dopamine
But optimism can get old!!
3) The third level is above that, and that's bit more clever!! It's about creating and perpetuating hilarity, comedy, good ideas, love, happiness, art, aesthetic, etc!! You got to be careful. Level 2 can give you an empty mind, free of worry, but also free of other things too!! YOU have to FILL it!!
there is no poo there is only pee #ann
[12:09] EmperorcJ: I can't believe what we have
[12:09] EmperorcJ: and I might cry
[12:09] emperorcj: o_o
[12:09] EmperorcJ: ;///;
[12:09] emperorcj: O_O
[12:09] EmperorcJ: most people will never have this
[12:10] emperorcj: o.o they'll never
[12:10] EmperorcJ: They'll die without it and they won't even know
[12:10] EmperorcJ: *pretends to hug*
[12:10] emperorcj: o.o they'll have not even known it was a real thing to have #ann
You know I think in my mind it's possible you transcend the beauty of the whole universe. Which at first you might respond "Preposterous! How could something +within+ the universe be MORE beautiful the universe as a whole? You've contradicted yourself: it's simple logic and set theory." But then I'll say that you are so surreal that my mind can't accept that the universe produced you. It puts you in your own category of beauty apart from everything else. My mind intuits "no no it's way more likely +she+ in her endless beauty made my universe, from the very beginning" and uses some retrocausal strange attraction trickery to justify it. #ann
+6
3.Ann reacting to the game::
"Adventures in hyperland?? whhhoaaaawwww
I LOVE YOU!! AGHHHHH
THATS THE BEST!!!!
ugh
ugh I love it
AWW
It's like, if I was Alice, and you were Lewis Carrol, but not as perverted!!"
[vorc053 - 4 mins]
Look at me I'm so cute!!! [referring to her character]
What do I do?
Well you can move, and you can bend hyperspace.
I guess I'll have to bend hyperspace.
The other button is reverse. One button is suck in, the other button is suck out.
^^
LOL
Awe yeah! Now what?
Do you remember what the goal of the game is?
To get them together
Mm hmm
But how do I do that
You have to bring them together by warping hyperspace. do you remember where I was?
Yeah you're all the way over here
Yeah in uh.. what country.. was i .. uhh..
AWE!!!
I LOVE YOU
I LOVE YOU!!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+frolick+
+frolock, computer gets unplugged+
I still love you!
Aw CJ!
+kiss kiss kiss+
aww awwww
Did you do that? Did you make it so we hop up and down? I LOVE YOU
AWE
THE GAME
the game's like "I LOVE YOU ANN"
<3<3<3<3
CJ >> I am devoted to the appreciation and articulation of the beauty you put inside of me by being in my life #ann
"If you think about it, someone loving you? It's so goofy. It's like: this person loves you. This person +loves+ you" #ann
Do you know how many pusheups I did yesterday? Like over 50.
"50? Most guys are like, 'I did over 300'"
The only time I've ever heard of anyone doing 300 pushups is on Saved By the Bell. #ann
Playgrounds we've played on:
http://typewith.me/T9sSLZ7anb #ann
Ann came up with a meta Steven Wright joke, which you preface by telling the audience that it's going to be meta: "Some friends of the family tell me I have my mother's sense of humor, but others insist I have my father's. Neither of them are funny." The punch line is that no one will laugh, haha. If the audience finds it funny, then it's funny; but if the audience doesn't laugh, then it's double funny and then they will laugh double. #jokes#ann
Ann:
You find life meaningless because you desire authority.
You can never be your own authority if you find life meaningless. #knots#ann
Tai chi with mind-controlled drone synthesis.
EEG -> PD synthesis of droning soundscape through surround sound* and sub-bass speakers. While I stand in the middle of my room and stretch.
Concentration on certain movements (up, down, clockwise, anticlockwise, push, pull) alter the sounds...cape.
+ Up and down alter the direction of the shepherd tone.
+ Clockwise and anti-clockwise rotates the soundscape around the surround speakers.
+ Push/Pull change "perceptual distance" (reverb/volume/low pass EQ)
* OR use 3D audio (spinaudio VST) instead of surround sound
* Waking up every morning, dusting off my electroenccephalogram, and doing this before adventures #app
It would be cool to have hair that changed color depending on how much cell phone service you had. #app
Set up a printer network amongst all my friends for pranks, where anyone can print anything to anyone else's printer. Over email or whatever. Easy #app
Hiding a sound file within another sound file -- (in specific frequency bands, downsampled) -- an interesting way to perform piracy. Write an encrypter/decrypter. Of course this would be a pain in the ass. #app
Surround sound to 3D binaural audio converter? LOL. Play surround sound movies on your iPod. #app
Phrase-homonym generator. Take a phrase.. split it into phonemes.. and then build another phrase from the phonemes again. A list of them. With some amount of phoneme flexibility. Choose the funniest ones. Use it to make puzzles. Like a crossword generator. #app
Mad libs made from the text of my blog entries. Finds and replaces random words (noun verb adjectives etc). What if you could breed two paragraphs together, by swapping noun/verb/adjectives. Keeps the sentence structure of one, and filters in the other words. Use WordNet to determine part of speech. #app
Create a Venn Diagram site. That will grab content from common google searches. Basically an automatic http://i.imgur.com/ou6LY.png this thing generator. #app
Online Flash/PD RjDj Web app. Make it and then blow their minds. Try this shit. http://wiki.puredata.info/en/flashserver #app
Make something like Swingify http://swingify.cloudapp.net -- for other styles of music? dnb. Maybe a web service where people can develop their own effects. (check out Python/Echonest) OR make Swingify a real-time vst/pd effect #app
Create new DJingness. Create something like Grooveshark -- but instead of lame transitions like crossfading, use some super advanced song-blend algorithm that catches everyone's favorite songs in sexual intercourse. Your party goers will be super amazed. Also, you can add DSP effects. Also, things like Swingify #app
Harmidifier [sound effect idea] ~~ -> FFT --> round Hz's to nearest multiple of some N -> iFFT -> ~~ #app
http://happyworm.com/blog/2010/12/05/drumbeat-demo-html5-audio-text-sync/
Synchronized Text with Audio!!!! Sansa text. Audio books? #app
Mike and I joked about a sport where people boxed as they beatboxed. Like boom boom pah (step step punch). The music has to be in rhythm, and you can lead people on and mislead them by your music. Either that or rock 'em sock 'em robots which are controlled by beatboxing. I'll make it happen. #beatbox#app
App where you can make the minutes go faster/slower for certain hours. Stretches time, but it all adds up to 24 hours. #app
Repeat dreams locations, brain submarine sandwich
Cortexelation
Dance music
1) a rhythm loop, which elaborates for while
2) then it goes to infinity (transition)
3) new loop (which maybe be a sample from the end of the infinity transition, so as to be consistently moving) [repeat]
4) repeat this for a while, and then start speeding up the loops and the infinities, and how fast they come, to the point that they come so fast that it is a superinfinity.
5) this superinfinity becomes the original loop
[make this a CD. if at all possible, make this a software program that can do it automagically) #cortexelation#dj#app
A series of songs
That people can select as their wake up songs.
personalize it.
Wake UP Songs
Wake UP songs As a thing. A business. I will write you a song telling you everything you have to do that day. They tell you the night before. You write it and record it. Somehow it's delievered to you. The alarm app.
We'd just need like two musicians. 8 hour turn around or something.
That'd be a really weird weird business model but it would be funny
UNLESS we can algorithmically generate it.
Not allowed to listen to it until they wake up.
1) type text --- text in -- the number of exclamation points at the end will determine the genre. one to five.
2) record voice -- call in -- we autotune in. #cortexelation#business-propositions#app
Build a device which shows you as many different things all at once as possible. The frame-stacking overload will trigger the Hyperspace reaction. LMFAO #psychonaut#app
Build an app which makes a giant song out of all the songs in your library. Like, little samples, in some of hypnotic glitch drum beat or something. #psychonaut#app
build aI chat bot with context free grammar
http://www.decontextualize.com/teaching/rwet/recursion-and-context-free-grammars/ #app
Photosounder iPhone app -- that takes pictures/video and turns it into sound #app
Jitter music video project with Echonest Music Analysis:
1) Split up a song into its pattern structure using ECHONEST ANALYSIS
2) Get a video
3) Cut up the video and paste it together into the same pattern structure in 1.
4) AUTOMATIC AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO #jitter#echonest#cortexelation#app
(yeah! if we could break the "code" of memes (how ideas are stored in the brain) maybe we could eventually simulate the brute-force generation of ideas. WOW imagine giving a computer program everything you've ever written, and then it builds conceptual networks of your mind, and thinks +for+ you, rapidly putting together concepts which you would find significant. o__o) #memes#app
[20:50] emperorcj: I forgot I want to make a program that analyzes that stuff automagically and does highlighting
[20:50] emperorcj: and produces graphs of areas of high alliteration
[20:50] emperorcj: o_o that would be super awesome to do
[20:50] emperorcj: 1) break each word into its sounds
[20:51] emperorcj: 1a) There's a rhyming dictionary database file thingy I can use for that
[20:51] emperorcj: 1b) For uncommon words (pronouns?) idk, maybe it judges its best guess, or ignores it
[20:51] emperorcj: 2) then colorize everything
[20:52] emperorcj: or maybe not everything
[20:52] emperorcj: maybe just close things
[20:52] emperorcj: maybe there's a setting for the sensitivity to it
[20:52] emperorcj: 3) does a distance algorithm thing, and figures out how close similar syllables and sounds are to each other
[20:53] emperorcj: 3b) graphs it all out
[20:54] emperorcj: 3b) areas of high closeness, and number of close things, are given some priority
[20:54] emperorcj: and numbers of different soudns which are repeating
[20:54] emperorcj: and then do that over an entire text
[20:54] emperorcj: and create a big giant graph of it
[20:54] emperorcj: Like, Lolita has this big spike on the first page
[20:54] emperorcj: haha
[21:36] SerpentSorcia: that sounds like brilliant technology (:
[21:36] SerpentSorcia: I'd like hardcopies of how my favorite things compared
[21:36] SerpentSorcia: and!
[21:37] SerpentSorcia: If you could generate a few graphs for your favorite things
[21:37] SerpentSorcia: maybe the program could recommend other text with similar patterns O:
[21:37] SerpentSorcia: or you could put in a few different texts to be analyzed
[21:38] SerpentSorcia: and choose what to read based on patterns (whether you want something similar, very different, ect)
[21:38] SerpentSorcia: That would also be very helpful in terms of choosing text with a higher likelihood of generating a strong emotional connection
[21:38] SerpentSorcia: like if you're feeling blue or really really yellow
[21:38] SerpentSorcia: and want something which corresponds
[21:39] SerpentSorcia: Maybe you could even input your specifications for an ideal read and it would match you
[23:28] emperorcj: woah yeah --- recommending other text! that would be fascinating to see how books compared, -- and I wonder how much emotion comes through the comparison of sounds, and how of it is something inherent in the english language, or whether it is something only pro writers make use of, or which authors are consistent. . . I wonder if it would reveal alliteration->emotion connections which you're not even aware of yet #app
Make [bot-making] a lot easier of a task. #todo#app
AIM bot idea:
If I don't respond for a ~minute, the bot responds for me. #app
Song remixer. Has different recordings of the same song, using different instrumentation/style [or covers of the same song]. Swap between all of them, break-core like. Do this for i-desire-beauty #app
Build an Entity Disambiguation machine learning algorithm which can disguish writing styles of different authors. Feed it everything ever written. It will make fingerprints for each author [based on word frequency, sentence structure, emotional content, etc., giving different weights to each]. Then, when you give it your own writing, it will tell you which writers it confuses you for:
Notation software where the music notes are spiraling out from a center. The part you have to read is flat and easy to read, but everything after that spirals off. #app
Make an emulator plugin where you can control time and make it go backwards.
Instead of just "saves" and "speeding up" you should go backwards too.
It would just need to save lots of save states. Maybe it only saves up to a minute. Maybe use some kind of hash diff thing.
Open source NES emulators: http://www.zophar.net/nes/nestopia.html #app
on my photos.
http://developers.face.com/docs/api/faces-detect/ #app
If you text STJESTLMAO my bot will respond. Do not give that number out to the public, because it costs money to send/receive texts haha. However, if you are my awesome friend, feel free to text it at your heart's desire. I want to do more Markov chain awesomeness. Maybe at different days of the week, or different hours of the day, it will respond from a different corpus. Like, Buddhist texts. Or maybe it depends on what question you ask it. OH I know; if you prepend it with "Buddha, .....?" or "CJ, .....?" then it Markovs from the relavent corpus. Otherwise, if you do not prepend, then it responds depending on the time of day. #app
Strobing rave-color text plugin? for typewithme #app
An awesome musical interface with me for making live dirty bass? Right now I'm thinking of a set of accelerometers, maybe on a glove, but probably on all limbs. Hook it up to a LilyPad arduino, send it over to puredata through pduino, then hook it up to some awesome VST or something. OR a webcam which figures out your body outline and does something with that (like the Kinect). OR back to the glove idea, something where you "mold" a bass sound using your hands, as if you were playing with invisible playdoh, or chi. #dj#arduino
Make a socrates beard, instead of a santa beard #art
Make a tron shirt. That's all phosphorescent flourescent glow-in-the-dark. Have the designs look like experience guy. Have a cult where everyone wears these shirts. #art
Tshirt fractal. Man wears shirt of man who wears shirt of man. It would be a cool band photo. #art
I love writing because it's so easy to do,
and yet you can sit and let a sentence ruminate and fully grok it
The best art takes longer to take than it does to make
Like recording an album in a week for yourself to listen to for years.. #art
Make something like this. http://issuu.com/dylan_k/docs/luigi.serafini.-.codex.seraphinianus #art
The shape Jupiter's moons make from the perspective of Earth. None of those 55 irregular sattelites bullshit, I'm talking regular satellites. Draw a chaos star which sets Jupiter as the center, and each of the 8 moons is at the end of an arrow.
This may help http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html?page=2&c=y#
OR like, the planets around the sun. If you want. But those move slower. Maybe make the distance logarithmic.
Or Saturn's 7 major satellites
Or Neptune's 6 regular moons #art
Make a Jesus fractal. Like, each of his arms makes a new crucifix, etc. For some reason I calculated that the Hausdorf dimension should be ln3/4. #art
Commandeer the 3d spinning dancer illusion.
Spinning experience guy?
Spinning aug? lmfao
Spinning mosher?
Spinning headspinner? #art
Woah I should put all these thoughts on USB keys and give them to people at burning man. #burningman#art
Cliches are kind of beautiful the first time you hear them. #art
Electric lollypop which can be any flavor.
Flavor music, oscillating blackberry and sour apple, in pulsing harmony. #art
I should focus less on liking particular artists, and more on liking particular motifs artists create.
Does it matter whether the rest of an artists' work sucks or not? #art
Make one of these 3D-perspective/inside-out illusions that schizophrenics don't fall for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laty3vXKRek #art
Terence McKenna: Well I think good art arises from a certain state of discomfiture. If you were to be totally embraced, what would be the point? #art
The artist's responsibility is to confront the appearance of nature, deduce its essence and retell or explain that essence in the work of art. #art
Thinks improvised sound art, noise, and non-music should be more appreciated as their own self-contained forms of creativity instead of being hijacked and lauded by the "yes it *is* music, you're just not *getting* it!" crowd. #adam-james-davis#music#art
CJ's Brain art installation. A mural of all 1000+ notes from the year. Where would I put it? #art
15:13] SerpentSorcia: I think it would be ideal to not work off your art
[15:13] SerpentSorcia: that way it's always something you choose to do
[15:14] SerpentSorcia: and you always have passion for it
[15:14] SerpentSorcia: you shouldn't live off art for the same reasons you shouldn't be in a dependent relationship #art
Animate the LOLSpiral to flow inward perpetually #art
Animate my ambigram to rotate and zoom into the center, recursively.
Put it in a video, to music, maybe add some jitter effects, and upload to YouTube #art
Hyperdimensional fruit? Hyperdimensional strawberry, with all the seeds. #art
(12:14:23 AM) Cortexelus Jest: I feel like
(12:14:28 AM) Cortexelus Jest: Until I make all this art
(12:14:33 AM) Cortexelus Jest: I am incomplete.
(12:14:44 AM) Cortexelus Jest: And when I am incomplete I cannot absorb new life properly.
(12:15:17 AM) Cortexelus Jest: But once I make it all. holy crap. My mind.
(12:15:30 AM) Cortexelus Jest: My mind will be as blank and receptive as a newborn #ann#art
Get an art grant to make a big rubik's cube mosaic
http://i.imgur.com/I4Ild.jpg (rubik's cube MLK) #art
Make a self-portrait like this
http://i.imgur.com/oqzTZ.jpg #art
Sonic ambigrams? They sound like two different things (or the same thing) whether fowarded or reversed. [try art] #ambigrams#art
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/308256_640430160802_464817374_n.jpg
Hehehe! Sky dragon through the clouds, that sense of wonder and wtfness! Aww the adult doesn't see the sky dragon. What can we do help prevent adults from imagination atrophy? I kind of want to make a remix of this, where I'm sitting in a chair, and in my window I see this fractal-psychedelic dragon with music flying all around him, with the story of the cosmos written in his scales, because I'm older and my brain can do that.
You know, children need not necessarily have better imaginations. As you get older, while some parts of your imagination may atrophy, many parts of your imagination become refined. For example, my ability to spontaneously compose music in my head. My ability to imagine how to integrate all of the abstract knowledge I have into a cohesive picture of a reality. My ability to imagine the depths of the psyche of a real or fictional character.
I think adults should recognize that and feel good about themselves and their imagination. And if they felt good, and not hopelessly adulterated, they would use their imagination more. #imagination#art
" 'That art looks too designy.' That's what I think sometimes" zack #art
:: Passage ::
I played this game called Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage
I was so overwhelmed.
It's beautiful.
In that existentially relevant sort of way. #art-games
If the brain is really a network of oscillators, we can build one mechanically! With oscillators! You wouldn't want to build an artificial brain digitally, because the brain is analog. Duh. I mean you could, but it would be really expensive and there would be some granularity. I'm talking about a computer not built with billions of transistors, but with billions of oscillators! #artificial-brain
We're made of stardust, but in this particular case: this star http://templeofthecosmos.com/2010/05/23/tiamat-our-supernova/
Tiamat
It's more of a god than our sun is.
Tiamat is the star which supernova'd to produce our current solar system. #mythology#astronomy
Have a poll vote -- "which ideas should CJ do this winter vacation" -- cuz i have so many ideas, but maybe some are more popular than others #audience-participation
Movie theater augment remix cortexelation official performance with a poster.
Pre-prepare with a movie.
Each scene has a different path.
Older movies.
Improvisation from audience members.
Musical controllers out of the popcorn and drinks.
Contact mic in a bag of popcorn.
Start with a short 20 minute film.
Work up to feature length.
Audience members should definitely participate (if they can) #cortexelation#reactive-music#augmented-reality
I wonder if all the butterflies in the tummy are like all my cells applauding. #awesome
Dude, all I have to do to graduate is take a directed study.
SO COOL!! #awesome
Happiest man ever to live: http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=c2hxeo5he8 #awesome
The meta-game. My whole life is a giant game of "Figuring out the universe and myself". Everything fits within that game, and so I can direct my emotional investment to anything as I see fit. #games#awesome
When I grow up, I'm never gonna sleep (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) #awesome
Being in a dependent relationship with a master.
The master +must+ teach you. #mastery#awesome
I have this baseline happiness. Which is cool. But it's still nothing like being around all my friends all the time. #awesome
Shpongle - The God Particle
Review on YouTube
"This song helps remind me that most things in reality are infinitely more wonderful and interesting than superstitious or religious beliefs. It is truly a never ending journey of wonder and discovery. Next step on Human kind's agenda: THE UNIVERSE!!!!" #music#awesome
"We can't figure out who updated the site"
"Turns out Chinese hackers did useful work"
"LMAO @ the idea of a hacker superhero, hacking things and finishing people's projects. "
"Maybe I should try that. I need to balance out the karma from everything I did when I was a teenager" #hackers#awesome
Dear CJ,
You're the most awesome; can't wait to take over the world with you. Bosch, Bosch---apple sauce!
:: Thank you stranger! World domination is at hand. #awesome
" All you have to do is think paradoxical thoughts about how the universe is awesome, and you can breakdance. " #awesome
Reuben
I have a question about getting to know minds. I cannot tell whether some minds i meet are just not rich, or whether they are rich but closed off to me. Or something of both? This is with your questions about sweetspots in mind
CJ
It's a very good question. Are they not rich, or are they closed off, and is how I'm going about my interactions and friendship just not the way to revealing their inner riches? I lean mostly to the third, because things are only as fascinating as you perceive them to be. Also other people are reflections of you. Also the 3rd perspective inspires you to try harder, which ultimately has a benefit over the other two concrete perspectives. I find that the more I believe other people are reflections of me, the more I am aware of how things (such as awesome and insecurity) strange loop in social dynamics; the more confidence I have in not reflecting others' insecurities and just staying true to awesomeness; the more I find I have been able to make friends with anybody, and find riches in them. #friends#awesomeness
[18:59] pwn463: what would you do in gravity train game?
[19:02] EmperorcJ: the game begins with a backflip
[19:02] EmperorcJ: and you fall into a hole that has been dug through the center of the earth
[19:02] pwn463: as does any decent game
[19:02] EmperorcJ: lmao
[19:03] EmperorcJ: and then from there. . .i'm not sure, i'm still thinking about what kind of game play it will have
[19:03] EmperorcJ: you fall for 42 minutes, and there's music
[19:03] EmperorcJ: and you can see a diagram of your position in the earth
[19:03] EmperorcJ: and your speed and acceleration
[19:04] pwn463: yeah
[19:04] EmperorcJ: and at the end you have to land
[19:04] pwn463: LOL
[19:04] EmperorcJ: and if you don't land, you go back in
[19:04] pwn463: that's the whole game
[19:04] EmperorcJ: LOL
[19:04] EmperorcJ: yeah
[19:04] EmperorcJ: lmao
[19:04] pwn463: i like it
[19:04] EmperorcJ: XD XD
[19:05] EmperorcJ: not sure about game play
[19:05] EmperorcJ: maybe you just have to avoid the edges
[19:06] pwn463: this sounds basically like desert bus
[19:06] EmperorcJ: like you shouldn't be able to win by letting the game running
[19:06] EmperorcJ: letting the game run*
[19:06] EmperorcJ: it requires a tedious 42 minutes of focus to win
[19:06] pwn463: yeah
[19:06] EmperorcJ: but it shouldn't be that hard either
[19:06] pwn463: that's desert bus
[19:06] EmperorcJ: LOL
[19:07] pwn463: only i think that game was longer
[19:07] pwn463: and there was no decent music or visuals
[19:07] EmperorcJ: +looks up desert bus+
[19:07] pwn463: enjoy
[19:10] EmperorcJ: omg o.o
[19:10] EmperorcJ: lmao
[19:11] EmperorcJ: i drove across the country this summer, and those long stretches of grasslands and desert kinda get a bit claustrophobic
[19:11] pwn463: i bet
[19:11] EmperorcJ: like nothing makes me claustrophobic
[19:11] EmperorcJ: thats come the closest
[19:11] EmperorcJ: okay so maybe a little bit more interesting than desert bus
[19:11] pwn463: rofl
[19:11] pwn463: i mean
[19:12] pwn463: hm
[19:12] pwn463: what if it was quite hard?
[19:12] EmperorcJ: hm!
[19:12] pwn463: not necessarily at every moment but
[19:12] pwn463: to get through the entire thing continuously
[19:13] pwn463: actually i like this
[19:15] EmperorcJ: yeah, it should be an accomplishment to get to the end; but not something which was so hard that you couldn't beat it in a day
[19:16] EmperorcJ: maybe the tunnels could be shifting and angling, and you just have to keep in the middle?
[19:16] EmperorcJ: or maybe like
[19:17] EmperorcJ: since the earth is rotating, your angle of velocity keeps shifting you towards one wall
[19:17] EmperorcJ: very slightly
[19:18] EmperorcJ: hm
[19:18] EmperorcJ: if you died, would you start over from a checkpoint? or would you have to begin all over again? hm.
[19:18] EmperorcJ: maybe the game play could be easy, but since you have to do it for 42 minutes straight, and if you die you have to start all over again.... that is what makes it an accomplishment
[19:18] pwn463: (auto-response from pwn463) I'm not here right now
[19:19] EmperorcJ: but either way, you get to experience cool music haha #backflip-the-earth
It's a mashup of a mashup. And here it is: a minutish of glitchy progression. Can I already imagine this being remixed again into a song? Just swap between parts; repeat some parts; and I have a song. Points for danceability. Unmix it for live. My, how nose who I'll end up machine-elfing the live tools. (The previous sentence began with a spoonerism. "Machine-elfing" shall forever be referred to as the act of manifesting belongings into reality on command, particularly those which belong to the class of will-enforcers which relieviate a lack of further machine-elfing in yourself and othres. Get it? Creations that create creating.
Ultimately my goal is to get rid of chaos notes altogether, because the gaplessness between idea and manifestation will render them obsolete. I need one or more of the following:
- Clones
- Employees
- AI
Yes. AI. Funny is the perception of AI. Articulation hypothesis: AI is the act of taking unsolved behavior and translating it into deterministic language. General AI is the act of performing this act on itself. The rest is a matter of accumulating a good collection of legs, hands, and eyes.
AI chasing me
"Chasing me" LMFAO is the name of it
I beatbox into the (iPod), and the (RJDJ) copies and plays along a measure behind. It is an echo of me; it responds to me; it talks *with* me. Use Tristan's analyzer funs to generate (drum samples, alterations) #cortexelation#beatbot
Daonce Vorc39.WAV [ROFLMFAO] *do-do-doo-DOO-doo do-do-doo-dooo*
Everybody in the audience, I'm gonna say your age and then you're gonna daonce: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.. Everybody DAONCE. Daonce like you're gonna pounce. Every body get up; everybody get doooownce. Daonce and make it counce! All yall wearin blue; you know what to do #beatbox
Mike and I joked about a sport where people boxed as they beatboxed. Like boom boom pah (step step punch). The music has to be in rhythm, and you can lead people on and mislead them by your music. Either that or rock 'em sock 'em robots which are controlled by beatboxing. I'll make it happen. #beatbox
YALL READY FOR CORTEXELUS
THE BOY WITH THE INFINITE MOUTH
+beatboxes for 30 minutes straight+ #cortexelation#beatbox
Alex Downs:
My favorite of the several ways to understand the word -understand- is as to hold something in a higher regard to yourself (stand under it); as something that humbles you and gives you an expanded appreciation (positive or negative) for the... world that was absent before (like what both of you were getting at). I think if you're a person who sees beauty in the world, understanding yourself will make the world more beautiful, but if your not, then understanding yourself could make the world seem the opposite. #understanding#beauty
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.” Kahlil Gibran #beauty
Binaural beats for getting high is all hype and placebo. What I'm doing is just using a cool psychoacoustic phenomenon for composition #binaural-beats-composition
I'm not talking about binaural recording, I mean melodies of pure sine-waves with a controllable binaural-beat rhythm between them. #binaural-beats-composition
Kinesin is a transport protein in neurons which walks along microtubules on two legs. LMAO #biology
Our genome is encoded by our DNA, but DNA itself has its own encoding -- the Denome. lmao. For example, our denome is different from those arsenic bacteria's denome because we use phosphorus in place of where they use arsenic. #biology
Sugar is potential energy. Caffeine is kinetic. #biology
Exposome -- master list of every toxin a human body encounters. #biology
The exposome controls the epigenome controls genetic expression. #biology
Ann beat me in Tetris. Damn.
Also she meat be in Butt-whomp. But I'll bop her good next time 'round.
I think so.
We danced to dubstep for an hour. We made it get really hot. I think if we danced like that at a club or rave, we would get other peoples' attention.
Ann drank hot sauce and I tried to make her laugh hard enough for it to come out of her nose. Didn't quite work. It was a delicious experiment.
Sincerely, April 18, 2011 #blog
I just went on a microwalk. My purpose was to find names of wine brands I had hypothetically purchased and consumed in the last 3 months for a survey for a potential focus group.
Along the way I climbed architecture and balanced on railings. While I was walking across a railing, a kid psst'd me. He mumbled at first, as if he had something to offer. Then he asked me clearly if I wanted to make a buck, and if I was 21, and could buy him and his friends alcohol. I enthusiastically complied, but made no discovery in my pockets of identification. Good luck, I wished them, as I railed along my way. The funny part of this story is the initial mumble. I keep thinking about it and smiling to myself. "Hey I uh. . summa. . .mumber numble" all shy/paranoid at first, yet getting me all intrigued. LMAO.
I stayed up most of the night remixing dnb drum loops into risset rhythms. They're still kind of messy, and not yet danceable. But I have faith.
Before that, Iain and I jammed out and listened to music and stuff. He has a metal song he wants to record. But he needs inspiration first. I showed him Puzzlhead, and all asses were kicked.
But before that, Ann and I were playing babysitter. It was getting really;]really fun, until all of a sudden the doorbell rang. "Oh no! Your parents are home!" LMAO.
WOAHTF
Life peaks life peaks life peaks life peaks.
As an experiment, I didn't write about my life for months, during one of its most significantly high-novelty periods. In one way, this allowed me to focus on +doing+ non-writing rather than reflecting and narrating. In another way, I wished to observe any changes to my mental environment: including memory, cognitive ability, creative narrative ability, emotions, and general salience to things. My first hypothesis is that having a creative medium makes you pay closer attention to life.
Buttons. For example. The idea plopped into my head to sew buttons onto t-shirts. Now I pay attention to buttons, everywhere. My taste in buttons evolves as their aesthetic becomes apparent. I seek to find my style, my niche, my flavor. I seek to learn the common cliches of button placement, so that I may break them in an act of artistic revolution. I seek to understand how people absorb information from buttons, and how buttons might function as a medium for a message.
My second hypothesis is that writing frees up memory. Translating memories into language is a form of information compression. As we sleep, the hippocampus consolidates long-term memories into the neocortex. Likewise, the writer consolidates longer-term memories into the blog. Thus, this process makes room for new ones. The feeling of a completely-described life is blissfully empty. Blank as a canvas. Your mind is ready to tackle the next happening with full cerebrutality. You give new thoughts full attention, without the noise of old thoughts repeating themselves.
Of course, this may only be the case for someone who tries to remember everything. Other people may be content with forgetting, whilst saliently following whims as they come.
My third hypothesis is that by writing I can synthesize new knowledge. I have the freedom to follow through with ideas which, at the time of their original pondering, were cut-short and interrupted. I can stand back and observe my mind from a bird's eye view. I can meta-analyze, and discover trends.
My readers can do this even more extremely, as their analysis is unbiased by authorship. Their minds memetically mate with mine. They synthesize new ideas, or connect mine to old ones. They comment, respond, and link. They're inspired to create. I experience their creations, and are further inspired myself. The cycle repeats; the memes evolve.
The fourth is hypothesis is that sharing my life with others is a good social thing. One, because friends connect with me. Two, because the inspiration-cycle elaborates ideas further than I could have within my own limited skull. But one has to be wary that the time involved with writing about hang-outs does not inhibit actually-hanging-out. I have been guilty of this very thing many times.
The fifth hypothesis is that on the long-term, I will be able to do very, very interesting things with all of this data. For example: an AI doppleganger which uses all of this material to build my personality and perpetuate my meme long after my biological death. Or I can make cool graphs of trends. Or cool art projects. Or make an automatic Markov-chain CJ-blog generator. Or maybe one day an anthropologist will read it all and analyze my life -- and then turn me into an AI.
Experiment day 1
April 2
Myssi
Show-ee-ooh
April 3
Meat breakfast, wide eyed, Matt Lee
Park, catch, climb, cortexelus
Wow. I had the most fun Of the Sun experience I've ever had. Probably because I had such amazing people to share it with +cough+.
Maybe it's like the electric kool-aid acid test for memes. They pull out a meme out of a hat, and it's some little bit of wisdom that blows your mind so much that now unsolved pieces of the great mystery seem to be somehow more deeply related to each other, and you break down into laughter at the realization.#cortexelus
I hung out at Dave Murphy and Lara's house last night in Mission Hill. Dave is such an awesome dude, because he is impulse, and wants you to come with him on every impulse but its okay if you don't, and the right kind of crazy and positive. Reminds me of me from 2006. Impulsiveness is a quality I have had turned down, for some reason, recently. I am not sure why. Theories: I turned down my desire to drag people on impulses after 2006 because I felt it was somewhat annoying for other people (whether or not it was). I wanted to learn and respect other people's desires and impulses and synergize with them. And I left my impulsiveness open with only a few people whom I knew could trust whatever I wanted to do would be awesome. My social interactions became more tactful, and I'd time what I did and said according to the flow of everybody. That tact is very linear. While good timing is important, sometimes observing can be boring for everybody. For example, when other people momentarily have no ideas, it is boring for you to wait for the next idea instead of creating your own. And so I continue in search of the most almost-perfect approach to perceiving and performing social interaction. #blog
I'm just too excited to fall asleep.
LMAO
I went to the tower to watch the sunrise. And I listened to my Cortexelation show. And I started singing. I sang love songs of the most inspiring beauty. But grazhny old Archos didn't timefreeze the sound with proper commitment. What a starry nast. Oh well, it still gives me ideas. #blog
If you text STJESTLMAO my bot will respond. Do not give that number out to the public, because it costs money to send/receive texts haha. However, if you are my awesome friend, feel free to text it at your heart's desire. I want to do more Markov chain awesomeness. Maybe at different days of the week, or different hours of the day, it will respond from a different corpus. Like, Buddhist texts. Or maybe it depends on what question you ask it. OH I know; if you prepend it with "Buddha, .....?" or "CJ, .....?" then it Markovs from the relavent corpus. Otherwise, if you do not prepend, then it responds depending on the time of day. #app#bots
STJESTLMAO: picture black sweaters yes! imagine! imagine! imagine! #bots
STJESTLMAO: giddiness expanding, dark poetry facing a dire inner self, (I) don't normally feel so existential (when) pranking her (with) new technology to tease me #bots
..an experiment on a live mouse in which they induced involuntary movement by stimulating certain regions of the mouse’s brain from outside its head... they used bursts of ultrasound at frequencies between 0.44 and 0.67 megahertz—much lower than the frequencies used in imaging. The device delivers 23 milliwatts per square centimeter of brain—a fraction of the roughly 180 mW/cm2 upper limit established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for womb-scanning sonograms.
This combination of low frequencies and low power represents a sweet spot where the sound readily penetrates the skull and affects brain cells. The sound waves temporarily knock open the cells’ voltage-gated sodium channels, special proteins that allow sodium ions to pass through the cells’ membranes. The result is a localized change in a cell’s polarity from negative to positive. The polarity change can be strong enough to cause the cell to release chemical neurotransmitters and thereby induce similar voltage changes in other neurons to which they are linked, resulting in movement or other behaviors. #brain-control
How is the brain shown itself? ... To feed the brain’s own optimal wave patterns back to it non-invasively, we place stereo headphones in the ears. With sound, the response time from the brain back to the client takes less than 50 milliseconds. As soon as the brain picks up on the sounds that are transmitted to it, changes in the neural network begin to occur. #brain-control
Woah I should put all these thoughts on USB keys and give them to people at burning man. #burningman
You are awesome for reading this.
o_o!!!!!!!!!!!! #burningman
Burning Man : Everyone playing the roles of Alice and Mad Hatter simultaneously. #burningman
Burning Man : What it would be like to start a utopia on the moon. #burningman
Burning Man : If everyone in the world hooked up to a collective lucid dream. #burningman
I was totally inspired musically and technologically and socially? I was. For next Burning Man I want to build a teched out costume. Maybe a lab coat with sound-reactive LEDs that can play video. I want to be a walking sound effect!! Mic in the front, speaker in the back. Plus video goggle effects! I want to experience burning man horizontally flipped!! This year I did brought a NorthPaw I built + assembled (tediously with an old soldering iron barely meant for tiny electronics). It wraps around my ankle and vibrates according to the direction of magnetic north [or whereever I callibrate it to] #burningman
Did you play? Playing with Of The Sun was such a peak experience. Especially the reactions from people LMAO. My friend had dosed before taking a nap in his tent, not having known we were about to play. When he woke up he was full blown tripping out in the darkness to our music. He came up to me after and he went on a rant (he's black) about: "Brotha trying to take a nap without all this shaman music causing the 5th dimension to burst into his tent bringing all the machine elves wearing blotter paper clothes singing . . ." LMAO. I laughed hysterically for 10 minutes, imagining the whole situation, and how all the events leading up to it caused it, then I started beatboxing and he freestyled for 17 minutes about everything. It's all recorded, and I'm going to make a sound collage of my Burning Man experience. It such a peak experience I ran off into the playa in a fit of giggles and rollerbladed at the Roller Disco for an hour. I haven't bladed since I was 10, but all it took was 15 minutes to ascend the learning curve. #burningman
I'm inspired to make music. I expected more of a wide range of weird music at Burning Man. Weird, eclectic, and eccentric music. I'm sure there were nooks here and there, and I only heard a few. But 90% of it was typical dubstep, dnb, psytrance, electro, and house. With all those art cars, and all those theme camps whose sounds are all competing with each other on the Esplanade, you would think there'd be more diversity and experimentalism. #burningman
Build an Entity Disambiguation machine learning algorithm which can disguish writing styles of different authors. Feed it everything ever written. It will make fingerprints for each author [based on word frequency, sentence structure, emotional content, etc., giving different weights to each]. Then, when you give it your own writing, it will tell you which writers it confuses you for:
A series of songs
That people can select as their wake up songs.
personalize it.
Wake UP Songs
Wake UP songs As a thing. A business. I will write you a song telling you everything you have to do that day. They tell you the night before. You write it and record it. Somehow it's delievered to you. The alarm app.
We'd just need like two musicians. 8 hour turn around or something.
That'd be a really weird weird business model but it would be funny
UNLESS we can algorithmically generate it.
Not allowed to listen to it until they wake up.
1) type text --- text in -- the number of exclamation points at the end will determine the genre. one to five.
2) record voice -- call in -- we autotune in. #cortexelation#business-propositions
Augmented pornos. Replace all dicks with submarine sandwiches. Or whatever. Whatever your fetish is. Because who wants to see the dicks, you know? Use some advanced image recognition computer vision ish. It'll make millions. #business-ventures
Caffeine at parties. sometimes caffeine makes people uncomfortably talkative. I think it's smart to have a perception of other people's attention. You might want to avoid talking so much to people that they turn introverted (because now they're expending more energy talking to you than they are being alone) . But you shouldn't worry too much if the other person doesn't care about what you're saying -- because often confidence creates interest, and lack of confidence is uninteresting, and apologizing might make people uncomfortable, especially if they've already turned introverted. When I'm on a lot of caffeine and I only say whats necessary, and I speak like a minimalist, I think of it is as meditation. One thing Isaac does is that if you ever turn introverted while he's talking to you, he does too, and he'll run away hilariously, and then it makes you want to be extroverted again. Clever NLP, that natural kid. #caffeine
Cartoon: Security guard who watches some historical communist propaganda movie on loop in museum all day. Tourists come and go, briefly watching the film, largely unaffected. While the security guard... (fill in with imagination) #cartoon
LMAO! AWW little jellyfish coming up onto shore, to bask in the sun, melting into the bread #cartoon
Tea goes into microwave, transports to another future dimension, where someone is just putting it in a kettle and sending it back. #cartoon
Animation of my eyes getting all debloodied, and maybe a second version where its rainbow #cartoon
Jimmy Page -- chaos magician -- songs played differently depending on the status of their relationships with girl (Crunge?) #chaos
The chaos magician, the master of chaos, is able to exert his will on the world through the knowledge and manipulation of what others perceive to be randomness #chaos
Imagine the butterfly effect, but if the butterfly knew what it was doing. #chaos
Rolling a die isn't random. It's "random" because you dont predict shaking your hand. But if you were the master of your own body, you could roll consistantly each time. -- Rob #chaos
Get good at rolling predictable dice throws, and coin flips #chaos
"Psychological anarchy. The aim is to produce inspiration and enlightenment through disordering our belief structures." -- Peter Carroll #chaos
(4:23:56 PM) EmperorcJ: ( sometimes i get butterflies in my tummy when I ask you out on hangouts )
(4:25:21 PM) serpentsorcia: lol !
(4:25:27 PM) serpentsorcia: Chaos butterflies?
(4:28:13 PM) EmperorcJ: WHOA yeah! THEY TOTALLY ARE CHAOS BUTTERFLIES
(4:31:11 PM) EmperorcJ: like, tip-toeing on the edge between you going out with me, and me getting rejected. Like, working out all the possibilities, and everything that has led up to this moment, and everything that leads from this moment. Experiencing that wobbling wavering high-emotional uncertainty. They really are chaos butterflies. The smallest first-impression I make could lean you in either direction. #chaos
Lmao. A determinism-themed social network. ChaosBook. ChaosStew. ChaosYou. Emphasizing the endless consequences of every action performed on the site. [Invite Billy to birthday party] +click+ "Are you sure you want to invite Billy? He may show up at your house this weekend." [YES] [NO]
+clicks no+ "Are you sure you DON'T want to invite Billy? You invited his friends Isabella, Rockwood, and Bert. You have dating Isabella for 72 days, and she'll know you didn't invite him. Her last relationship with Corgan lasted 83 days. Her last relationship ended 3 days after she attended Corgan's Birthday Basharoo. Billy was not invited to Corgan's Birthday Basharoo. Invite Billy?" [YES] [NO] #determinism#chaos
Friendship as a localised reduction in obscurity -- Reuben #reuben#chaos
Another dichotomy I make is between the laws of physics and chaos -- the laws are the rules by which chaos plays; however knowledge of the laws is microscopic compared to knowledge of the enormous complexity of the chaos. #ai#chaos
At some level perhaps everything attains ultimate symmetry, and physics/chaos are one (but perhaps this symmetry is absurdly unknowable) #physics#chaos
I think PIT is actually also a theory on the neurological effect of love -- consciousness destabilization, chaos attractors... it's all right there with love. #psychedelic-information-theory#emotions#love#chaos
there's Physics
and then there's Chaos
which is more interesting, the rules of the game, or the players? #chaos
Imagine a universe where Chaos is the rules, and the laws of Physics are the players. #chaos
http://www.nobodyhere.com/justme/me.here
all those ~ texts, put them on a page like this. #chaos-notes
Increase text-size on the category names depending on their size.
There might be an auto-cloud thing for #chaos-notes
Woah I should put all these thoughts on USB keys and give them to people at burning man. #burningman#art#chaos-notes
Chaos notes song!
Write it as you come up with the notes?
Particular sing about the ideas you have for remixing all people's songs lmfao, and then do it. Each segment is about what to do for the next segment, so it's all anticipation.
This would be hilarious.
You could re-make old chaos notes by remixing old songs. #cortexelation#chaos-notes
Whenever you type in a category, you should have a window that comes up with all the other things in the same category. #chaos-notes
Consider rebuilding chaos notes to use something besides etherpad, or run your own hack of etherpad, with extras #chaos-notes
Last month's Chaos Notes: http://imreallyawesome.com/thot/?2010-december
The categories are getting numerous, I must create super-categories soon #chaos-notes
CJ's Brain art installation. A mural of all 1000+ notes from the year. Where would I put it? #art#chaos-notes
Put 'em all on here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/5-x-1GB-Black-USB-2-0-Flash-Memory-Stick-Jump-Drive-/140581227108?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item20bb4b4a64 #chaosnotes
http://www.thinkbuzan.com/us/products/imindmap/iphone
Mindmapping software which might be compatible with chaos notes?
http://www.thebrain.com/products/personalbrain/download/
http://lifehacker.com/5188833/hive-five-five-best-mind-mapping-applications #chaosnotes
BRAINTHUNDER
a room with touchscreen walls reacting to a conversation or monologue.
Points in the conversation appear as nodes on wall.
You can reference earlier parts in the convesation. #hack#chaosnotes
Enthusiasm detector from voice
http://emotion-research.net/wiki/Databases #chaosnotes
Check this out. (The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 25, verses 34-46)"
Then the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.' Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome; naked and clothe you; sick or in prison and go to see you.' And the King will answer, 'I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.' Next he will say to those on his left hand, 'Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.' Then it will be their turn to ask, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?' Then he will answer, 'I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.' And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life."
Christianity comes out of a time when people were used to monarchs and emperors and stuff.
Like people would follow under the authority of their King, who was this noble dude with an army or whatever, who would give protection/services in return for the people's work/farming or whatever.
But Christianity proposed that the real King was all of ourselves. We who were in need. We who were hungry and needed to be fed. We who were naked and needed to be clothed. We who were cold and needed warmth. We who were sick and needed to be healed.
It's got an open individualism spin. I say "hyperdimensional" monarchy because the hierarchy is rotated (as in a stereographic projection) so that the King is all the individuals.
It's pretty radical when you think about it.
It was a total subversion of established ideas of authority.
The whole eternal fire hell thing was probably inspired by the usual threats which came down from authority figures at the time. The Christians had to make their conceptual King talk shit if they wanted to stand up to the established authority and let them know this was serious business. So they had him talk hyperdimensional shit. Stuff like eternal suffering forever!
Anyway, the authorities were dumb and got confused by all the open individualist pronouns, and they thought by killing Jesus they had killed this King everyone was fapping on about. However, early biological death during some cultural climax tends to lead to prolonged memetic immortality (like Kurt Cobain and MLK jr).
But yeah, since then, Christianity has morphed into this weird awkward thing. It some ways it became the very authority it originally subverted. It unfortunately removed the whole mysticism part from it. It unfortunately became dogmatic and fundamentalist. Its brain lost plasticity and opposed any reality tunnels which didn't agree with its literal insignificant details, such as those which arose from scientific insights.
Not all Christianity is like that. It's a good ethical model, and there are a lot of Christians that are really concerned with helping the sick, etc. But they have no business on the rational circuit -- of which science and philosophy took the reigns centuries ago.
Perhaps their lack of insight and slow evolution could be alleived through a reinvigoration of mysticism. #christianity
Make glow in the dark cortexelation shirts
for everyone #christmas
1. Buy one of each of every kind of noodle
2. Make a big pile of all the noodles
3. Then repackage all these bags of multi-noodled noodles
4. and give them to my friends for Christmas #jk?#christmas
Project this onto the band http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/didgrow.html #clive
Song where CJ is crazy on drums, but guitar is going really really slowly (and then switch? lol) Postrock meets Death metal? PostDeath. Post-Mordem. Postgrind. Grindpost. #clive
"I got the Tao, right now" [to the tune of tooti fruiti] #clive
Baby came right out of another dimensions.
Girl came right back to me.
Baby came right back from another dimension
Baby I'm back for thee, girl #clive
Idea: album where all the songs are Terence McKenna lyrics.See Graf Orlock -- all of their song lyrics are quotes from songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graf_Orlock_%28band%29 #clive
Song which goes dd "don't give in to astonishment, don't give in to astonishment" dd while doing all these astonishing things while playing live, like existing, and projecting cool video animations on the wall. Actually I keep singing it until I really do give into the astonishment that I'm singing #clive
At the end of the poopdown "and then no one claps". "It gets even quiet than it would have been if we hadn't played" vorc38 #clive
Unplug guitar noise? More didge. Noise/feedback/ebow fun. Double throat/isaac last part? Listen to "When I Grow Up" [Sekou (tha misfit)] vorc28 best recording of wrap. Lead up wrap with whispers? #clive
while true fixes:
+ blackhole imagination collapse --- cut out to pure drums, right before the guitar awesome
+ enhance the bass
+ mario dance party [swingify?]
Rip Clive Wearing CDs
give Isaac a bunch, to give out to his friends #clive-wearing
Cold air is psychedelic -- Last midnight I walked home from Malden without a sweatshir...t (having forgotten it) and just my double shirt and thermal underwear. I calmed myself by breathing slowly and regularly. I didn't shiver once. I let the liquid drip from my nose, and freeze against my upper lip. It was really beautiful, I was so calm, I was just watching from up above the automatic biological processes kick in below. For the last malenky of the walk I took my hands out of my pockets and exposed them to the air, feeling the blood swell and the numbness slowly engulf. #psychonaut#cold
Okay this is a test typing test. I just made some flourescent stickers which I pasted onto some of my keys. Looking good. I cannot see these keys at all during the night. If they peel off after a month I can always make new ones EZ. I want to switch to Colemak.
This is a Colemak Test. Whoa LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO. LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO. OMG. Okay this is this this is this is this is the this is the the the the tthe the the the the the this is the. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Wolf. Woy #colemak
Make a comic book explosion that goes BLOOOOM
of the Earth's evolution sped up really quickly #comic-book
a comic book full of explosions
http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1443&bih=641&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=explosions+comic+book&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= #comic-book
I don't know if this is just a low quality version of the song uploaded, but everything sounds overly compressed, which isn't necessarily bad, but certainly makes a clear demonstration of the producer's laziness. This all gave me the idea of having a song that starts off sounding really compressed, and then goes into a breakdown where I scream "FUCK THAT", followed by a really well mastered mix of the song, with all the instruments standing clearly on their own. What if I made a whole album where that happens on every track? Why don't more people make albums with consistency like that. #compression
What if computing (complexifying matter) uses up some fundamental finite energy of the universe? Just like burning fuel -- turns out the more complex things we compute, the more we bring the universe closer to death. #physics#computation
Learn me, to make visual programmable art
http://processing.org/ #computer-science
Fuzzy logic! Sloppy arithmetic! Funny how Moore's Law can now be extended when one sacrifices accuracy for speed and volume #sloppy-arithmetic#computer-science
I foresee the computers of the future having several kinds of CPUs systems. One will be classically accurate and linear. The other will be fuzzy, sloppy, and parallel. Some describe the two hemispheres of the brain as having this dichotomy. We already have GPUs which do parallel computations particularly with linear algebra, but the kind of thing these guys are talking about may be even more useful.
Computers of the future will also have a separate quantum processing unit. QPUs only provide algorithmic speed-up for certain kinds of problems [like Shor's factorization algorithm], so their use may be limited to just those situatinos, particularly if QPUs are expensive to manufacture.
Essentially we'll have different and specialized "organs" for certain kinds of problems, as they become more relevant. #computer-science
I wonder if you can compute things using the fabric of space. Like idk, gravity waves creating eddy currents which hurricane into answers. #computer-science
There are certain kinds of problems in quantum mechanics (namely predicting the interactions of 3 or more particles) which are too complex to be predictably computed with our current technology. However, I was thinking, if we ever have problems isomorphic to the interaction of 3 or more particles like this [like some bizarre bastardization of the traveling salesman problem], we could actually build a processing unit which physically throws particles together and spits out answers. #computer-science
https://flippa.com/126119-The-Original-Facebook-Mosaic-Profile-Picture-Generator---Profile-Banners
http://activeden.net/
hmm, make a living programming small little cool things? #computer-science
Cortexelus: idea: running around the cosmos
Quintellius: And what else Cortexelus?
Cortexelus: Daytime sepia flowing into night-time rave.
I think computers should come with hardware which computes Fourier Transforms on audio insanely quickly. ‎(Some modern GPUs have built-in video-decoding, >O but what about us musicians XD) #computers
Ryan Walker
hey cj, what's up? I'm in oxford, settling into their way of life. It's pretty cool here. I get to study a lot of interesting things
CJ Carr
woah hey ryan!. so awesome that you're in oxford, haha! culture shock yet? i would imagine not too much.
Ryan Walker
yeah it's amazing I'm here.. my room looks like a paper bomb went off. it's great
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LOL
sheets of shrapnel
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I came through san francisco - which was cool - got to see chinatown, or at least parts of it
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ooh woah!
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discarded works of love haha
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>< san fransisco is one of the greatest cities in america, i can't wait to live there at some point
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they're giving me free food while here - pretty amazing. Never been in a place where so much is taken care of - it means I can focus on philosophy harder than I ever have before
quite scary, but super awesome
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haha! grad student bennies!
what is your philosophical focus, at the moment?
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I've got two courses to do while here - I'm studying Plato's Republic
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republic! \m/
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and Post-Kantian Philosophy
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ooh, and what are the qualities of post-kantian philosophy?
(you may have explained this to me before, I don't recall)
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it focuses on a few different figures - but the student gets to choose which figures from the list
so for example, it includes the philosophy of Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre
so I don't quite know yet what I'll do
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schopenhauer! reuben just linked me to Eristic dialect
haha
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but probably a bit of schopenhauer and heidegger
schopenhauer is great
let me find you a sweet paper of his
you'll love it
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oh, please do!
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it's bitter, hilarious and full of satire
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lmao
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http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/schopenhauer/Schopenhauer-5.pdf
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ty; ill print this out. I haven't been doing much reading though, because I've been super busy with many things.
I picked up Nagel's Godel's Proof
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oh that is a wonderful book
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haha, even though I get the gyst of Godel, I wanted to read through it again.
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Godel, from what I've found, is all in the details
if you're interested in the details - just a moment
http://www.logicmatters.net/igt/godel-without-tears/
there's a pdf link on there which goes through godel's theorems in detail - not as good as a dedicated book - by the author of the pdf..but hell, they're more than enough
Ryan Walker
what have you been super busy with?
CJ Carr
Oh man! I'm a tribal rock psychedelic electronic drone band. [you can tell from the pictures, haha]. We just shot a music video, I'm going to build us a website, and I have a number of songs to remix. We're going to Burning Man, and a number of festivals. Also I'm going to make dubstep/deathstep/breakcore under the moniker Cortexelus and throw dance parties. I was looking at getting a 1000W a skeleton-rattling subwoofer. I want to throw a show in June. I've got numerous projects -- Remaking my fb mosiac generator because someone wants to maybe buy it from us. Also I'm making a site for publishing audio books. Also Ann is a project all of herself, and I just made her a computer game. It's a puzzle game. It game stars both of us, and you are a chaos attractor butterfly, and you have to warp space to bring us together. In one of the levels I am in NZ and she is in the USA, haha, and you have to warp the Earth to bring us together.
Also I am trying to build more toys for glitch shamanism. Technologically-assisted peak experiences which foster creative growth.
I just bought a __-___ ___ for ___. One of the things I will do this weekend is sync up the ____ to the ___ ___. LOL.
Ann and I are going to start an anonymous blog on "auggling" aka augmented sexual experiences. Eventually we will publish a book.
I'm making a text-to-speech synthetic voice based off of my own. There's a service that does it for free, for research purposes http://www.modeltalker.com
I also need to get audio out of the EEG, I worked a lot a few months ago, got close, but then stopped.
Also I want to build a feelspacebelt/northpaw -- which is a vibrating appendage [probably a belt or anklet] which vibrates in a particular direction (like magnetic north)
I'm also writing a book. It stars Cortexelus, which is my alter ego, who is like a near-futuristic, weirdevolent, dare-devil psychonaut blend of Socrates and a schizophrenic.
Ryan Walker:
CJ, I would love to read books in your voice. I'm so impressed by what you're doing - how can you have so many things on the go at once?
CJ:
OH yeah. You could totally read things in my voice LOL
Ryan Walker: Well I can kinda do that already, after spending time with you
CJ:
you know, how persons can be copied into your head..but in most cases they're just passive - you can use them, but they don't control you
Ryan Walker:
How can I do so many things? It's tough. It's overwhelming. I almost lost the girl of my dreams because I didn't make enough time for her. It's slow progress, because I've been wanting to do all of these things for a while. I have to intelligently time-block. Here and there I am inspired to pursue their completion. For somethings its best to focus on one thing until its done. For other things, the longer I let them incubate, the more they roll memes up like a Katamari, the more creative they will end up being.
Ryan Walker:
I'm going to get more into music creation. I've got the thoughtbabies.com domain and will do some work on it while I'm over here. Think of an old top down style game, featuring socrates.. You move him to various houses etc where he meets people and has dialogues with them in classic 8 bit styles. which reminds me, I need to record the sound of cicadas - they will feature in the game/visual map of the dialogues
CJ:
Oh right. I sometimes think in your voice as well! Sometimes I try to have different voices duke it out, particularly when they represent particular sides of memes. Sometimes I like to go in the woods and speak my thoughts out loud, and respond to myself in different characters, in order to work out opposing views of a thought.
Cortexelus is usually the main character, haha
Ryan Walker:
I'm also getting way better at poi - lots of fire stuff and I can do some pretty nifty tricks.. Fire dancing is a lovely passtime, let me tell you. It's all about building geometic shapes in 3d space-time you know
CJ:
I was also thinking I could just transcribe these out-loud thoughts and publish them as dialogues.
OH. Socrates RPG!
RPG Maker is a really easy windows program for doing birds-eye view games like that. I was an expert of it when I was in middle school, haha, I had a whole web community based around it. It's actually what I used to make the Ann+CJ new zealand space-warp puzzle game.
Ryan Walker:
yeah? Awesome! I was thinking flash though - but that would be a lot more work I guess. It'd be nice to play it in a browser
CJ:
Another game I want to make is SISYPHUS, in the style of QWOP. You know qwop right?
Ryan Walker:
it doesn't spring to mind, nope
CJ:
True, there's also some good HTML5/JS/Canvas game makers popping up. I haven't been keeping track. You should look into that.
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
lmfao
One of the most geniusly beautiful, artistic, and metaphoric games
SISYPHUS will be like this, except you're also rolling a boulder up a mountain lmfao
Fire dancing! Of the Sun will have fire-dancers really soon, for a festival on a farm in upstate New York. Also for Burning Man
Ryan Walker::
yep. You should give it a go. I think you'd be great. It takes some time to build muscle memory..but it also does AMAZING things for your left brain right brain communication
CJ:
I can imagine (: #conversation
You know the GNU public license -- if you use others' open source code, you have to make YOUR code open source too -- right? To anyone who asks for it. But what if you made a game with GPL'd code, but only when you beat the game, you got to see the source code? Would that count? #copyright-law
Funk song about soul -- but only a specific kind of soul -- the lyrics would elaborate on the different kinds of "soul" and their connotations. #cortexelation
Make a tron shirt. That's all phosphorescent flourescent glow-in-the-dark. Have the designs look like experience guy. Have a cult where everyone wears these shirts. #art#cult#cortexelation
Metaltation. \om/
Oatmeal Tint
Inmate Total
Attain Motel
a Lean Tomtit
Omit a Talent
Aim to talent
Tamale not it
Let Om Attain
Tone Lama
Anal Totem
Lame Oat Tint
To Lame Titan
Alien to Matt
Total Name it
Amen total it
In Team Total
Eat Atom Lint
Mental Oat it
Anti Molt Tea
Malt Into Tea
Metaltation I imagine would be inspired by Tom's music. Drone, chug, and bongo/djembes. #cortexelation
Music video with subjective camera drumming. Then glitch the video all frame-destablized to go along with the change in tepmo/dsp. Write a new song, or considering covering Tom's divinorum. Drum near some natural phenomenon which oscillates regularly like flowing water or something. #cortexelation
(honey I shrunk the kids meets star trek)
Remix songs, stretch them out, and then elaborate the zoomed details into a new song!!
Like take someone's voice or something.
We're dreaming every other moment.
"Every other moment the universe recycles"
.psychonaut. ψυχή¬ #cortexelation
When I see my reflection everywhere, I move in evolutions.
remix cd of everything i've ever done.
(backwards in time?)
heart beat constant rhythm #cortexelation
body song. heart beat rhythm. slow breathing every 4 measures
runing, feet sounds in polyrhythm with heart beat (2/3), breathing every other step
Machine sounds in dinstance, get closer
attach to footsteps, footsteps speed up infinitely until it turns into a vrooom #cortexelation
First song is the experience of:
"1000 years of experience in 15 minutes" from doc, vorc012
Second track is reflection, my thoughts... remix all the good ideas together from sansa, borrow from chaos notes
Third track is the cumulation of all my thoughts, the action, the transformation, the evolution, the transhumanization.... the part where I follow through with all the good ideas from my reflections.
Evolution in three pieces. Experience, Reflection, Reprogramming. #cortexelation
Recognize the warm up
Recognize and warm up
The warm up is a song in itself, and should be recognized as such. #cortexelation
Universal "the greatest being to ever live" lengthen that out, and have like gregorian ahhh!!
Also, quote lawrence lessig at the freedom to copy part.
At the end, have the paste yourself beat repeat, maybe low pass filter, dnb loop that fades out #cortexelation
Cortexelus [the DJ] -- Dancing is a Hypertask #cortexelation
Crazy tapping that is reminiscent of both Bach and 50s rock progressions. #cortexelation
Music which exists entirely within the frequency bands not listenable by on MP3s #cortexelation
Once you find something. Let it ride out.
Get them on the first take, and you keep their spirits live. #cortexelation
I'm you guys, i'm you guys, don't you see.
i'm you guys, don't you see?
i'm you guys, i'm you guys, i'm you
dontshoo dontshoo ts ts ts
i'm you guys, i'm you guys, i'm you guys, b b b
play me
play
-- MrSans's song #cortexelation
When will I start renaming the band to ceachj? #cortexelation
My freaking song is so amazing.
Okay changes that should be made:
The intro bass.. fix the pitch, maybe more controlled wub.. it rattles my speakers kinda..
Whistling feedback.. send it to infinity after the 'animals'
ADD the kick ass guitars.
Change the ending a bit.
Add ZOE7 quotes about virtual reality and lucid dream
Throw in Aleister Crowley quote.
Poisoned the apple with cyanide...
Fade #cortexelation
Working titles:
while(true){
while(true){
. universal-declaration-of-awesome();
}
while(true){
cortexelicious();
}
while(true){
mbta();
// chaoscillation //
}
while(true)
follow-it-through-with-me();
// terence mckenna story time
// complexity story time
// complexification story time with terence mckenna
}
while(true){
moon-rainbow(); // raise the ground // whacky // weirdevolence
// collapse into the imagination black holeBlack Hole Imagination Collapse (XD)
// evogorated
// evo
// perspectrum
// be avante garde to the mainstream of yourself
// platonosphere
// jupiter diving
}
while(true){
drumhits(); // upwards // mosh like a metal atom
// transdimensional geometry
// rock climbing on the moon
// hypertask
// lucid dreaming is the future of virtual reality
}
while(true){
allyouisme();
}
while(true){
mathdink(); // cantorcan // cantorpunk // strange what // this // markov chain everything
// do souls have godel numbers // dangerous knowledge
}
} #cortexelation
Remix peanuts episode where everytime the teacher talks, it's actually a dubstep song.
OR conversely, remix peanut teaching talking into a dubstep song.
-- Chris McCoy #cortexelation
Have the drum beat go to the rhythm of "nothing can go wrongo, I'm in the congo" #cortexelation
Whyhiphopdoesntsuckin2012core is a beautifully awesome song.
Why does hip hop tend to be so fucking boring?
Dillinger that shit.
Break beat #cortexelation
Remix all the insane transition parts from every breakcore/dnb/electro song int one BIG song. #cortexelation
Justintimberlakecore. The munch. LMAO. Have a munch somewhere #cortexelation
Sample this once your sansa is ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqL-UNzn6To&feature=related #cortexelation
Fuck. This dude thought of it before me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Risset #cortexelation
Question: How do I play cortexelation music live? Answerquestion: How do remix artists play live? Answer: Do what Girl Talk does, except for your own music. Mix dance music based on your OWN samples, which you design live. #cortexelation
OMFG. My music fucking kicks so much ass I don't know what to do with myself other than make more of it. #cortexelation
drumhits -- have audience scream after the first drum break.. and you be like "you guys ready for one more? YOU GUYS READY?" and then I break it down to the ground.. and then do it again.. like "you guys ready?" but glitch it all like awesome, and then break it infinitely to the singularity #cortexelation
wub as -- mix it with cant resist myself piano rhythm? Remember to COME BACK into the wub.. #cortexelation
i desire beauty -- try lengthening it. After verse2, when it builds up, before the arrpeggios, sink the building back down to another verse.. but then shorten the verse and move it else where. When you record drums for it, record at half tempo, because you're not that good at the speed you want this song to be lol. Maybe make some parts funky and stuff. #cortexelation
Quote Girl Talk. "WERE THE SAME FUCKING DUDE". Remix fest x infinity, maybe even sample girl talk beats. remix remix remix remix remix remix. Remix the remix the remix. Theremixthere. After the infinity part, also remix that into a 4/4 beat, and then do the same infinity thing again. And then all of the above twice as fast. And again four times as fast. And again. and fade out lol. #cortexelation
Beatbox skat. But like, the mouthbeats are doing the skatting, rather than voicing syllables, if you know what I mean. Talking through the mouthbeat. #cortexelation
+ Cortexelicious -- at 1:52 break into math blues. Quote Clive woo from Mad world.
+ End Universal with dnb loopbeat, few seconds, fade out into noise, past yourself.
+ Mathdink, yellow mustard submarine sandwich "It's all in your moind"
+ Allyouisme, find a daniel kolak quote? Quotes from friends, all your friends, a chorus of ppl talkin about stuff.
+ Allyouisme, sounds like science's discovery of something.. people excited.. then it happens.. then evil.. Maybe add more sound effects to exaggerate this. (Ppl murmuring ooh ahh) Extend the evil?
+ Wub as, at the end, come back, thump thump thump, bring back the wub.. hardstyle, slow and build it up, like closer. Maybe add whispered words or something. Closer
+ Lmfao electrocandy trampoline. Theme song of mine+ANn's lublublublub :) Make a claymation/stopmotion/animation music video of us on the ship and stuff.. it'll be really cute.
+ Your songs should fade out into brief glimpses of new songs, but only for a few seconds. Evil incarnations of new songs.
+ Sample the world's fastest clappe. #cortexelation
An animation where sharp -> natural -> flat images meld into each other. You took a video of it at Isaac's house. Have your wobbling drone line up with it. lol! #cortexelation
The line beyond which speedcore turns into drone. #cortexelation
Seconds-long grindcore songs with speed-rappers. #cortexelation
Cover the elements song, except use Adam James Davis's elements (utilitronium, computronium, blissonium, etc) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIvXVMbII0 #cortexelation
pun song between me+ann. as many rapid fire puns as possible. Kind of like a rap battle. (make the song without listening to the others' response, mix it, then experience it for real) #ann#cortexelation
Penny Lane. There needs to be more songs like this. Play the chorus with your MIDI guitar (instrument learns the prepresentation). Or annssong pianofy like Penny Lane #~#cortexelation
Show with Ricardo. Rent a projector, and blast REALTOXICNOTE. Wear golfball goggles, and the projector will project the image onto them. #cortexelation
Vin's dream: Invite everyone over my house, to show them the new stuff. Turn off the lights, turn on the music, and start the light show. Then when everyone is like "cj is this stuff recorded?" I give them a NES cartridge with my music on it. #cortexelation
Build glitches in real time. Live coding. Project the screen live. pd~ or (lisp). Microphone data, audience makes the sounds. Watch this http://vimeo.com/9790850 "Algorithms are thoughts, chainsaws are tools" #cortexelation
Extend wub as for Dave. Heavy heavy synth #cortexelation
End every song with a remix of that song. Youmetame pixie style. Yeahman wiggle than confident. Earjelly ending elaborate horrifyinglyer rev9. Transhumanism start with 4/4 then funny beat and glitch her. Vorc024Curtis "To have fluid perception of self" #cortexelation
Make stupid party music. Distorted, bitcrushed, compressed, industrial. Manic compression. lmfao. Simmple stuff. Have everyone in on it. Loops, samples. Always start 4/4 and then complexify. 11pm vorc0018 #cortexelation
VORC018 ryans house SHAMAN FEST - abcj - cj i cant do what youre doing - monster fright ---- songify this #cortexelation
Wub as. Extension Left/right synth wubbinaural. (see Pantyraid) #cortexelation
"Medium-sized fish" [should be the title of something] #cortexelation
Commandeer the 3d spinning dancer illusion.
Spinning experience guy?
Spinning aug? lmfao
Spinning mosher?
Spinning headspinner? #art#cortexelation
Use James' found sound library to make filthstep #cortexelation
Make a better dnb risset rhythm, using typical dnb snare/bass samples. #cortexelation
Psytrance:
Have several drones going at once, in different phase. Every four 16th notes, each drone starting on a differnet note. Have delay. And then just sweep flange or something.
Drum thump thump thump. #cortexelation
netlabels to whore myself out to:
http://clinicalarchives.blogspot.com/p/contact.html #cortexelation
All kicks
-- song made completely with kick drums [granular synthesis for melody] #cortexelation
DUBGRIND
short, 10 second songs of intense, highly-produced dubstep breakdowns, a la napalm death/agorphobic nosebleed/john zorn #cortexelation
Inside out dance music. . .where the emphasis is on the drop and perpetual rises. And the actual repetitve dance parts are short. #cortexelation
AHA! Risset Rhythm dNb!!!!!
Here it is.
I had the profound realization that since the second KICK/SNARE is half the time as the first KICK/SNARE, compounding doubletime rhythms ontop of each other should be easy; they pretty much lock together:
BINAURAL MUSIC
takes a MIDI file
and binauralizes it.
MIDI beat detection? #cortexelation
My attention span for electronic music has just been ADDing more and more. Sometimes all this breakcore I've been listening to isn't enough stimulation for me, because I crave more elaborate long-term song-structure, in addition to relentless microscopic detail. My goal is to write breakcore/idm/brostep songs as if they were metal songs [like Puzzlhead does] or prog songs. #music#cortexelation
stepstep
[make dubstep out of walking sounds.] #cortexelation
I think part of the reason improv comedy is funny is because the audience perceives all this creative pressure on the actors, who are making everything up on the spot. The audience is right there with the actors on the edge of chaos. If a typical improv skit was actually entirely written when performed, it wouldn't be that funny. I think the same goes for live music. Improvised music vs written music; it's the edge of chaos thing which engages people. I think John Zorn used to come up with "games" for his musicians to play. That's something I want to explore more. Maybe you would announce the rules of the game to the audience, like improv, and then play it out musically. Maybe you could mix acting too, and other forms of art. #cortexelation
spiralcore, rissets distorted, brutal, face-melting, ego-spiralling
Make a messy track and call it
"impulsively elaborating chaotic geometry seeking an attractor" #cortexelation
Remix structure:
INTRO
* First second of original song.
* Then explode it out into oblivion
* Tap tap tap, beat starts
* Begins like traditional dubstep song, for a half measure, then poops out, like an engine trying to start but it's not working because all the cliches have jammed its motor.
* Then SHEEOW into the...
PUZZLCORE
* Full dense, pauses, lots of little sounds being awesome.
* Maybe samples things from the rest of the track. Make this last?
* Catch Breath
* Catchy part, allude to intro, or reference new part not
* Build back in to...
* PUZZLCORE redux
* Do it again, maybe changed
allude to something else
PUZZLCORE again
dnb intro
DnB speed up
* Traditional DnB beat, with something over it
* DnB beat speeds up into Hardcore punk rhythm
* Hardcore punk guitar riff
* [blends into digital hardcore?]
something else
dnb intro
DnB risset
* Starts off like before
* Speeds up, while the kick convolves into the snare, the snare convolves into the hit-hat, etc, so it doesn't go anywhere
PUZZLCORE again
Meshuggah ending
* Polyrhythm, catchy
* Genre hops
* Metal
* Dubstep [borgore style]
* Digital Hardcore
* Tribal
* Breakcore
EXIT
* Fades out?
* Mario Kart 3 2 1 GO beep [song length 3:21] [bassy beeps?]
Youre gonna get butt
Know your enemy:
http://soundcloud.com/togetherboston/dj-melee-galactica-promo-mix dj melee
http://soundcloud.com/togetherstems/sets
http://soundcloud.com/togetherboston
http://www.verminstreet.com/ Nick Colangelo
http://www.togetherboston.com/competition.html
How Many Times Will You Die?
weo weo ~
weo weo BOOM BOOM PAH ^
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
[dark] .break. woe weo ~
[dark] .break. woe weo TRY _ ~
____ .break. DEATH->woe _ ..^
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
death
DEATH darkweo
DEATH darkweo
DEATH darkweo
DEATH darkweo
[dark] .b. TRY
[dark] .b. random
[dark] .b. TRY
[dark] .b. random . . . . .
try
[dark] .b. TRY
death
DEATH darkweo
DEATH darkweo
DEATH darkweo
DEATH darkweo [* predictable]
weo weo _
weo weo BOOM BOOM PAH _
.break. [dark] weo weo
.break. [dark] woe woe _
DEATH->woe ..^
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
PUZZLCORE
[exit drone]
Start off song with end of Gentleman Hall song?
* Good bass
* whistle thing
End with Mario kart 3 2 1 GO beep
Make the song length 3:21
3:18 boop
3:19 boop
3:20 boop
3:21 beeeeep
Hot pink:
- Kick drum [beginning]
- Synth kinda heavy @ 2:00
- Synth/sub-bass would be cool for BASS
Gentleman Hall:
Drums good [remix the drums]
SYNTH run -- play on guitar?
"They want to know what its like [to get away]"
"how long [have they been watching me]"
"i only wish they'd stop [watchin me]"
"wake up in the same place"
woahh-ee-oh [autotune]
REMIX FLUTE
[use as progression]
[lmao, the trill@~1:20] #cortexelation
Universal Declaration of Awesome EP
- UDA
- I desire beauty #cortexelation
1. Granularize Bratkilla sounds for an hour. Pick out the best sounding ones. (Use Fruityloops and Granulator)
2. Build the fast part. Drums underneath.
3. Build the allusion part. Use guitar.
4. Open with Throat singing, Tibetan bells and stuff.
5. If there's time add the final ending part.
Intro. "Thou art dead"
[765 transition]
Ebm
Fast part (x3) (deathstep)
- Long version . . dim7, etc, see note book
- Very short
- Very short
- Short, with oscillating chords at end
- [Riff transition. . . Em]
Allusion (2x slower) (x3) "Dead"
[765 transition]. . . deccelerando
spiraling Ebm (screaming into a spiral?)
(1 hit Speedcore taste, "Thou Art Dead") [<- eh?]
Fast Part (x3) (speedcore?)
- Long version
- Very short
- Short, oscillating chords, [Im I7 IVm transition] E7 Am
Allusion with Solo (deathstep)
Fast Part (still solo - arpeggios!!)
-Long version . . dim 7, etc, [1m i7 IVm transition] to Am
- Short version
- Im I7 IVm transition up to Cm, EbDim Em
End Part(?) #cortexelation
Warm up the crowd with psytrance. Build into the beat. Play the crowd #cortexelation
Band name: Best Trick Pony
Only play rissets #cortexelation
Once I start making dance mixes, my plan is either to
A) produce everything myself;
B) or only mix local music, or specifically my friends' music.
In that way I can more easily make people I know feel that they are awesome, and function as an enabler for getting their music out there. Also so that I can foster musical friendships and collaborations. Because people get really excited when you tell them you're going to remix their music, haha. #cortexelation
if i were big i'd take the trent reznor approach and release the stems for all the tracks ive ever made, for everyone to use. like duh. I'd release all of mine now if they weren't so disorganized and scatteredbrained and oh-crap-I-lost-the-master-file #cortexelation
Chaos notes song!
Write it as you come up with the notes?
Particular sing about the ideas you have for remixing all people's songs lmfao, and then do it. Each segment is about what to do for the next segment, so it's all anticipation.
This would be hilarious.
You could re-make old chaos notes by remixing old songs. #cortexelation
A shape-tween between one sound and another.
Applying such a transformation gradually, looping.
Snare becomes bass drum.
Hi-hat becomes snare.
Tempo doubles yet stays the same, arriving where it left off.
Everyone liked the live music better, anyway.
It had presence. #cortexelation
Remix:
Otis reading "tell the truth"
0:27 breakdown, gah!
0:42 horn breakdown
1:21 Mama!
1:43 ooh baby cmon
2:20 hard to stop ugh!
2:40 if i thought it would do me some good ehhh.... (LMAO)
Pt4 Tokimonsta on Brainfeeder / Cosmogramma Dublab Takeover -- the bass drum on the beat loop at 50 seconds is really cute
Little richard "tutti fruity"
wop baba dooba.. WOahOAHH #cortexelation
(have all the breakdowns at awesome times, like 9:11 1:43, 0:27) #cortexelation
A song which uses kung fu hits/shouts instead of a drum machine #cortexelation
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EmperorcJ: *showers you in :]s like white noise*
EmperorcJ: *blissful white noise*
make a song like that #cortexelation
Chromatin -- classically-inspired dubstep, inspired by Ryan Clough, 23 (get it? chromatin? the number of chromosome pairs?) #cortexelation
didgestep
(Didgeridoo with phase overlay [a second a microtone higher]?)
Or just learn to play it naturally. Have a microphone at the end and listen to it through a monitor headphones so you know what you're doing.
[try didging to the side? creates smaller hole?]
[have an infinite increase thing too LMAO with the pitch going up]
[two controls on the Didg for Pitch and wobble]
Jungle rhythm on the djembe
Artificial sounds make it suck #cortexelation
Funky White Noise ideas:
Funk. Like disco beat, on a hi-hat. With white noise jam band stuff. Then comes the breakdown, Meters style. Whitenoise.
rjdj app that funkifies air conditioners [or any noise]
Take existing funky beats and distort+compress the funk out of them.
Then use compression dynamics with a kick drum and stuff, and add the bass line.
Whenever you transition into a quiet part, accentuate the exit with energy. Play with expectation, for optimum dynamics. Like sounding the k at the end of "thinnnnk". [But don't always do this.] #cortexelation
O Z OZ O Z OZ O Z OZ O Z OZ O Z OZ O Z OZ
O ZO Z O ZO Z O ZO Z O ZO Z O ZO Z O ZO
DnB beat, with its reverse filling in the off-beats #cortexelation
while(true) changes:
+ Ending, turn into a tribal dance fest. With Ann quotes, SMB3 loops, and Blackhole drums.
+ Alan Watts laughing. Make it more in time with the music, have less of it in the beginning.
+ better transition after complexification storytime.. Isaac is dead? #cortexelation
Metalstep song. About the singularity?
The dubstep breakdown rests on the first two beats of 8 beat rhythm loop. Metalcore which borrows from this? #cortexelation
Cortexelation introduction song. Make a new one for every show.
Cortexxssssss [time stretch] elation!! [like AtA in BHIC]
[quote of mom mispronouncing "Cortelexion"] #cortexelation
An awesome musical interface with me for making live dirty bass? Right now I'm thinking of a set of accelerometers, maybe on a glove, but probably on all limbs. Hook it up to a LilyPad arduino, send it over to puredata through pduino, then hook it up to some awesome VST or something. OR a webcam which figures out your body outline and does something with that (like the Kinect). OR back to the glove idea, something where you "mold" a bass sound using your hands, as if you were playing with invisible playdoh, or chi. #dj#arduino#cortexelation
Funky white noise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ5oDpfEZ5U&feature=related
This band sort of go for a funky atonal thing.
Got to elaborate it further.
Maybe this song is a bad example #cortexelation
Repeat dreams locations, brain submarine sandwich
Cortexelation
Dance music
1) a rhythm loop, which elaborates for while
2) then it goes to infinity (transition)
3) new loop (which maybe be a sample from the end of the infinity transition, so as to be consistently moving) [repeat]
4) repeat this for a while, and then start speeding up the loops and the infinities, and how fast they come, to the point that they come so fast that it is a superinfinity.
5) this superinfinity becomes the original loop
[make this a CD. if at all possible, make this a software program that can do it automagically) #cortexelation
White noise with a house bass beat 4/4 (like the beginning of brooklyn rooftop). White noise elaborates #cortexelation
Fix Dangerous Knowledge, beatfest, Ann loops, then give the CD to Brendan #cortexelation
Remix brooklyn rooftop live with guitars and stuff? or just sample the bass at the end.
http://soundcloud.com/23e/23-brooklyn-rooftop-extended-version-refix #cortexelation
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hypermammut/
Hyperstretch software! so fucking awesome
and this http://www.xn--lyf-yla.com/ beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours. #cortexelation
yeah man -- add more drops. So funny. Fill it up man!
Maybe a faster part
Definitely elaborate the major scale part
Maybe a risseleration #cortexelation
Step 1) Build a game scored with the stems of my songs.
Step 2) Play the game live [project the video so the audience can see]
Actions in the game would determine the course and direction of the music -- and I would play the game like an instrument. Preferrably, It would have to build a pretty involved game (whose actions clearly directed the music), AND something which I could take in any direction on a whim, OR a familiar game (like Tetris) which I would augment with my music. #cortexelation
Song turns into a hum (or birds), hum remains consistent for like 3 songs.. and then you can shut it off for an effect. #cortexelation
Remix flaming lips song "at war with the mystics" / embryonic
Cell phone bip bip
Turn that into a glitchy electro cell phone bip bip song.
NO TURN THAT INTO A RINGTONE #cortexelation
A series of songs
That people can select as their wake up songs.
personalize it.
Wake UP Songs
Wake UP songs As a thing. A business. I will write you a song telling you everything you have to do that day. They tell you the night before. You write it and record it. Somehow it's delievered to you. The alarm app.
We'd just need like two musicians. 8 hour turn around or something.
That'd be a really weird weird business model but it would be funny
UNLESS we can algorithmically generate it.
Not allowed to listen to it until they wake up.
1) type text --- text in -- the number of exclamation points at the end will determine the genre. one to five.
2) record voice -- call in -- we autotune in. #cortexelation
"been rocking out to your album
its like you're in the room, in my head, spinning lol" -- Reuben #cortexelation
The song starts off kind of pop-punkish, and the words are "WATCH TV... TILL YOU DIE-EE-EE", and its this chorus with elaborating harmonies and ballad-like guitars.. and then it goes into more hardcore funny-timed stuff, and some kind of mix between blues rock and industrial, and it tells a story through the guitar/drums, and then maybe it comes back to the chorus again, and the whole thing would be pretty short., like a minute #cortexelation
WAIT maybe i SHOULD make it exactly 30 seconds or however long commercials usually are and pretend like its a clip from a real pop song being sold. "act now and order cortexelation's new greatest hits record including the previously unreleased 'Watch TV Till You Die'" #cortexelation
photism moshpit
Like an awesome hardcore song, really visual guitar effects. Take cortexelicious to the next level. #cortexelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekwtuE0zyOs
robin hood arrow sound -- dubstep remix for dad #deathstep#cortexelation
A style of music with as many separate instruments playing as possible. (you could organize a collaboration and get people to submit stems. bpm 180. In the key of A minor ) #cortexelation
Live set idea: Half drone. Half breakcore over drone.
Build the drone with microphone, using samples from audience. Drone wobbles! (vibrato on the drone at some parts) (visual aspect to it) #cortexelation
omfg imagine making a collage of all the best recorded CJ ann moments and putting it over explosions in the sky-like post rock!!! #sauce#cortexelation
Lmfao make music as low in volume as possible.
With ambience surrounding it.
Like, as if it's coming out of headphones.
Frame story - the music.
Then you can fuck with the ambience. #cortexelation
Animate my ambigram to rotate and zoom into the center, recursively.
Put it in a video, to music, maybe add some jitter effects, and upload to YouTube #art#cortexelation
Jitter music video project with Echonest Music Analysis:
1) Split up a song into its pattern structure using ECHONEST ANALYSIS
2) Get a video
3) Cut up the video and paste it together into the same pattern structure in 1.
4) AUTOMATIC AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO #jitter#echonest#cortexelation
I have all these shitty microphones. What should I do with them?
OH I know, let's burn them and put them in jello and stuff #cortexelation
Bratkilla deathstep remix
Make it technical fast. Stereo bass at 180bpm. Downward risset.
"THOOOU ART DEAAAD" throat sing.
Peaks sample? #cortexelation
Music experiment: 1 song a day/week or something. You can only work on that piece of music for the allotted time, and it has to do with something significant (you thought of)/(that happened) that week (or last week).
Or maybe the goal is to fit as many significant things as possible that week into the one song.
Maybe each song is a remix of the song before it.
Maybe the songs only have to be 13 seconds long.
Maybe all the songs come together into a giant song at the end of the experiment. #cortexelation
New project idea: videogrind. I wonder if I could pack as many conceptual images as I can into an insane visual onslaught. With things zooming into each other, data moshing, etc. To some 1:43 minute song I make. YES. It shall be a love song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDwOu1t-L6I #loveisthesong#cortexelation
Social complexity is usually ignored.
The "what matters" valve opens up and suddenly everything matters.
And you can make all these conclusions.
We're not monkeys. We're collections of ideas.
The 5th the dimension is where ideas are organisms.
Human history has been a gaining power over matter and energy.
Gods in training.
Being a big crystal god made out of 5000 galaxies is pretty cool, but
I like the anticipation factor of
inhabiting the squishy realms.
starting from singled-celled organisms, and working our way complexward to smart monkeys. . .
Humans like new things.
The creation of new things. . . is sacred.
My body/present-mind is a 3D shadow of a 4D timesnake
@aeondrift: Yeah!! The next part here is totally Meshuggah-inspired. I want to make more mathy heavy-bass music. And I'm still trying to figure out what "Puzzlecore" ultimately means. Hidden lyrics in morse code? Hidden images in the spectrogram? All the songs should be remixes of remixes of each other? Remix-blends which use crazy Echonest analysis? Music to which you'd want to play Tetris? (woah, it could be cool to release a puzzlecore compilation only as the soundtrack to a Tetris game. #cortexelation
HeavyBass remix of Cortexelicious
Or use the scream for something. #cortexelation
(Metalelectro: metal inspired house music)
make it more dense though, with shredding samples and stuff #cortexelation
Shulgin Shulgin shugga dugga Dulgin
(lmfao! I should make bass-synths out of (Artificial) voice samples) #cortexelation
We're approaching a point in the history of reproduction where one no longer produces offspring in the traditional sense, but rather gives birth to oneself (mind clone, with identically reproduced memes)
Which is interesting because that's how reproduction first started with the first protoDNA.
It's just finer and finer methods of self-replication and self-selection.. giving rise to greater and greater complexity.. until the complexity zooms further in on itself.. leading to finer and finer methods of self-replication..
self-reproduction is self-reproducing #cortexelation
DEATHSTEP.
You Can Not Kill An Idea
"Kahless has been dead for a thousand years; but the idea of Kahless is still alive. Have you ever fought an idea, Picard? It has no weapon to destroy, no body to kill."
— Gowron, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Film: Inception
"What's the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? ... An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold in the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed, fully understood? That sticks."
— Dom Cobb
Make Deathstep
throat sing, shred
Start off familiar and slowly build toward weirdness. #cortexelation
Alarm.. "Cortexelation""
Creationextol
Funky intro
http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/
ufo or giant mushroom []
repedetation
quart of law []
Youmetame dancefest
pbj fest
funky youmetame
feed into those that feed into you
ms paint
being in time break the cycle
coaxentirelot remix
The Fall remix
Follow it through with me
exoticantrole remix
soft hot long remix
LIGHTS-goggles
Rip it open [guitar]
Guitar solo
infinity dance fest
beat bot
Zack's Studies on Ancient Fabric
http://soundcloud.com/mixzart/sound-chaser-demo
http://soundcloud.com/mixzart/sound-chaser-demo
god god god
harmonies building
x
Contigency plan: pre-recorded set. . . JUST HIT PLAY!
+ Lights
+ VR glasses
+ tshirts
+ back of laptop design
+ photoshop flyer #cortexelation
+ INTRO song. Cortexelation.
+ Crunk version of Universal declaration of awesome lmao?
Universal Declaration of Awesomeness
+ "yeah" bass; but then have it say "NO!" :{
+ Sunn drone guitar, with dubstep drums, and feedback fills and stuff
Kick ass song::: [make something like it, mix creationextol into it]
http://soundcloud.com/drumcorps/headstrong-and-heartfoolish #cortexelation
john wilkes beatbox by Monet. Madrid. Madagascar.
remix the beginning of it #cortexelation
A Quart of Law:
I watched you break in two right before my eyes.
"Nothing but the truth" (was) spoken in only lies.
Walls made of solid brick (were) quickly turned to straw, by men who would do anything not to uphold the fucking law.
Keep your badge; Keep your gun; Brothers in arms don't care what you've done.
Innocent until proven innocent.
The rules were made to be bent. #cortexelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3Al8vumjs
Remix this lmfao
Breatbeat eternal accelerando [controlled by launchpad]
MIDI to Shephard tone #cortexelation
http://www.piethopraxis.org/
make a song out of different microphone noise, like the background to this site
(like Adam James Davis' music; except more melodic/song structures?) #cortexelation
new style of dance music:
Bass drum is almost synthy [youmetame]. Constant. Beeow beeow beeow
Snares on the off beats, and toms very zoot suity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVMJRMCzlk&NR=1 #cortexelation
http://drawdio.com/
23: Oh god. I want to get one of these and do like a live audience interaction body-synth thing.
CJ: woah, drawing on the audience, having the audience draw on you, hooking the pencil up to the bass synth through the club speakers . . . . o_o! #cortexelation
Hm. . .idea: making a track out of real-life sampled sounds -- recording a video of each sound, and remixing the videos to line up with the sounds in the song [with video filters which may correspond to the audio filters]. The video would demonstrate briefly the process by which the sound was gradually altered from its natural source. Extra points if its the bass track. #music-video#cortexelation
Song remixer. Has different recordings of the same song, using different instrumentation/style [or covers of the same song]. Swap between all of them, break-core like. Do this for i-desire-beauty #app#cortexelation
Cover ms-paint
Play ms-paint as part of the set of instruments #cortexelation
Song progression:
Old,new Rave. cliche parody.
Puzzlhead your way in
4/4 breakplan
Lag could be its own lag could be its own genre
Laughing in sound effects
Brainwaves
Bring everyone along #cortexelation
+listens to amateur math metal+
Lame@over abundance of tritone.
Math metal bands are supposed to be avoiders of the strange attractor!!! #cortexelation
Tuxguitarprowertab
MIDI is its own valid instrument, worthy
because of its effect on the nostalgic collective conscious. #cortexelation
CJ: One thing Puzzlhead plays with well is silence. Silence is its own sample. And it's refreshing, and accentuates everything else.
Ryan: definitely. I always have to remind myself to let silence speak
CJ: I should find a recording John cage's 4:33 and actually sample that instead XD! #cortexelation
http://blog.dubspot.com/dubspot-dj-kiva-guided-dub-performance-ableton-live-apc40-mixing-mastering/
a dub song where the subbass is mozart-like #cortexelation
DNB remix of drones. CORTEXELATION, ROTATELEXICON #cortexelation
+ Upload CORTEXELATION videos to youTube
+ then contact Montt Mardie
+ Submit to netlabels #cortexelation
OH man last weekend at my party, after 2 hours of everyone dancing and getting winded, during a lull, Puzzlhead came on, and I impulsively did an interpretive dance to How Many Times Will you Die. It was amazing. I'm not the best dancer but it was certainly a peak experience for me. Every little spasm, turn, and detail of that song I know my heart. I should've filmed it, maybe I'll film it another time. I oscillated between popping+locking
, and slam dancing, haha, all in synchrony. I think I would like to compose kick ass songs with the idea that I would be dancing like crazy to them when I play live. #dancing#cortexelation
Do the same jitter thing 23 did for his videos and post a cortexelation teaser.
Have experience guy bobbing to the kick drum, etc
with the LOL spiral in the background #cortexelation
Outpredict this baby
http://seed.ucsd.edu/~mindreader/ #cortexelation
Song: risset rhythm, ball game tempo increase. #cortexelation
Release live cortexelation show CD from Wadzilla.
Title each of the tracks with the style of death
"Popular Ways to Die"
1. Half blind / Second Eye Blind / Superpower
2. Skydiving into a Black Hole
3. Strangled by your self in a dream and then in real life
4. Death by Cortexelation
5. Another Death by Cortexelation #cortexelation
Cool ideas: learnterpret my friends' electronic songs on guitar. #cortexelation
Sleight-of-hand live performance of impossible sounds from an acoustic instrument.
Example: impossibly long sustain of a note; lmao #cortexelation
Want to throw more Psychedelevator shows.
Want to do more Cortexelation experiments. #cortexelation
Challenging yourself with something awesome you want to do every day for 30 days and how that has the effect of making you awesome. Inspiration.
I want to write a song every day for 30 days. #cortexelation
Feed into those that feed into you so that the feedback feedsthrough.
Friend remix album:
* 23 fuck you
* This is Life - Rip it open
* Hot Snow [remix of a mashup? does that count]
Other things I could remix
* Razormaze
* Dearborn project
* Adam James Davis
* Of the Sun
* This is Life
* Mammox
People I kind of know
* Dev/null remix [grind8]
* Encanti remix
Non-friend remixes
* Thou Art Dead
* Hyperpower!
* Soft Hot and long #cortexelation
AWWWW<3<3<3 (: (: I LOVE MY SUNSHINE
If I have time: Guster remix contest. Deadline Nov 29. Make it really fucking weird, and don't spend more than a day on it.
http://www.indabamusic.com/opportunities/guster-remix-contest
Strings & background vox -- perfect for weirdness, building drones
Drums -- Risset fest
Drums -- breakcore randomness breakdown (to end the song?)
Percussion -- DISTORT and add to breakcoredown
Vocals -- This is how it feeeeeeeels
Banjo -- weird chord would song cool looped
Synth - one of the synths has a 1 second weird part you could loop
Bass -- #cortexelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bxAH6mHc8
membrane is the brain #cortexelation
Zack:
Drop the one.
New percussion for accents. like on the 2 and 4
Removing things, introducing new things.
Arrpeggiating Another drone high frequency to fill in it which comes in, to make it sound like its arrived somewhere
Pure drums -- kill the resonance. More staccato, gate on the drums. Thin it out. Few beats at a time. Tight rests.
Add a beat, cut a beat, little hiccup. #cortexelation
james fuck you suggestions:
+ weak points
the early introduction of the "yeah"
make ending denser. (remove one spiral recording, or pan things?)
+ strong points
breakstep plus throat singing
(hmm not harmonically tuned?)
- transition into arena rock. . have the ending of breakstep respond to the area section it goes into
cj ideas
slow guitar at the end. . .get rid of second half again
bring back SHEEOW sound effect #cortexelation
Fuck you changes
Glitch beat changes::
- Get rid of extra "YOU" Pause for the "woop"
- Transition to second part(?)
- Second shredfest -- guitar should switch to the high arpeggios it starts with at measure 4. Also the panning should change. Maybe get rid of endless flange.
Money chant:
- Get rid of first "YOU"?
- Lengthen the monkey chants so that the third one comes around again on the 1st hit of the 3rd cycle.
- Lengthen the pauses between the chants so that they sync up with the "cor tex ela tion".
- The second one starts of awkwardly.
- Add more chanting!! More tracks. More polyrhythms.
- Put the near-center channel off to the side.
Arena rock::
Blues guitar lick sounds out of tune a microtone at the end
End::
- Add most friends screaming at the end.
- Make the guitar spirals even crazier. Denser.
- High pitch scream should be hard panned
Intro drone::
- turn down the strongest melody, which comes in too early.
- Breathing comes in for a second by mistake
- maybe lengthen the drone a bit, and smooth out how things come in
Throat singing transition::
- attenuates some of the mid-low frequencies, but not too much that it breaks the illusion of the blend between the straight-singing sample and the shephard-tone-singing sample . #cortexelation
thou art dead:
apply the arena rock effect to non-drum synths
side chain compression synth drone
shred!
thrash part
bass drop #cortexelation
http://subvertcentral.com/forum/showthread.php?55591-Risset-Rhythms-in-Jungle-tunes&p=819165&viewfull=1#post819165
people looking for risset rhythms in EDM #cortexelation
http://soundcloud.com/12gauge/chase-n-status-remix
this track gave me the idea. . ..
subtractive synthesis
start with drones at each octave/harmonic or something
And each percussive element uniquely side-chain compresses a particular drone
Esp. if the percussive element seems to #cortexelation
Good dnb:
Quick changes, often. Like a DJ mix .
Build ups, break downs.
Bass - - sounds bad if used melodically as like under a chord progression . .
Bass - - Sounds good monophonic; rhythmic, or expressive, or slow-changing [pitch, etc]
Bass -- okay to use sparingly, like only on the first beat of 4 measures. Don't want to desensitize
Drums - sounds really good with drums (hi-hat) jungle-jangling between kick and snare. Makes me want to dance with more details
Not a big fan of liquid dnb - - - I like more rhythmic changes
Bass - - Sounds awesome to break into pure rhythmic bass for a few measures [like psytrance-y]
Hardcore bassy stuff --- with jungly breakbeat drums over it #cortexelation
Psytrance, Hardcore
Sometimes I think the hi-hat sounds really corny, and I don't like it. It should be really low in the mix, or distorted, or something else. #cortexelation
Start off with a hip hop beat, and then sound like you're about to go into a rap, and then change it something different #cortexelation
I desire beauty
Starts off with chiptune. . .
then LIVE chiptune black metal
then insanity . . . then drop
Then acoustic guitar
Then built it up and return hardcore cj style
OR like. . .start off as a sansa recording of it being played [to someone] [with laughter] [at a party] then it hypersisyphuses into full production #cortexelation
"The approach to my music has generally been "get high and listen to it in a dark place" but. . . "put it on and everyone goes mad" is where I want to take it" Cortexelus #cortexelation
Ryoji Ikeda Test Patterns breakcore remix #cortexelation
Movie theater augment remix cortexelation official performance with a poster.
Pre-prepare with a movie.
Each scene has a different path.
Older movies.
Improvisation from audience members.
Musical controllers out of the popcorn and drinks.
Contact mic in a bag of popcorn.
Start with a short 20 minute film.
Work up to feature length.
Audience members should definitely participate (if they can) #cortexelation
Psytrance risset probably will sound way better if you synthesize with MIDI instead of through sample manipulation
http://www.wwaym.com/nwbass.html #psytrance#cortexelation
Risset filter for filling an infinite cup. Make an animation. NO shoot a video. Have the video loop forever. OR, have a whole at the bottom of the cup, so it fills forever. ((Then it breaks into song? Beatbox? Risset rhythm?)) #hypersisyphus#cortexelation
Fuck you changes: Monkey Chant. Bring up the background sounds? Filter them into the dinstance. But have the arpeggio chord progression move quickly. Dim->Maj->Sus4->Maj etc. #cortexelation
Fuck you "Then a blast beat made out of the fuck you that finishes off the song with as the foghorn voice returns" #cortexelation
Live psytrance reactive music. EASY. No headphones. The microphone filters out the subbass, and only picks up sounds above 200Hz or whatever.
All psytrance IS is a bass with glitching sound effects over it. Lmao. #cortexelation
Infinite acceleration psytrance : pitch shift up in one ear, shift down in the other ear. Keep the beat moving in one direction. Then breakdown and switch it. #hypersisyphus#cortexelation
Remaster Black Hole Imagination Collapse, and make a video
Maybe have it slide into Supertask and Allyouisme #cortexelation
Alex listened to hypersisyphus spiraltrance over Koreans crying because Kim Jung Il died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xy2InXXIkk #cortexelation
Risset dNb I think would move upwards and would have to have beats which keep shifting. None of this blending nonsense. It needs designated points where the beats shift.
Risset Dubstep I think would move downward, and would be the same. Shifting beats.
Triplet transitions would sound cool. You know, like from sixteenth notes, to triplet eighths, to eighths.
Electro, hardcore, gabber, psytrance -- blending is fine, I think. #hypersisyphus#cortexelation
' Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the next generation of silence. '
-- Intro to something #cortexelation
A third project I had in mind starts from an idea for a genre (and the EP name): Death Meta. I'm trying to think of ways to make music as meta as possible, in a very brutal way. I'm reading If On A Winter's Night A Traveler and I think might do something where the lyrics of the songs are recordings of me coming up with ideas on what to do with the songs. And maybe each song is a remix of the last one. And maybe each part of every song is a remix of the last part. And maybe the whole album as it sounds speeded up into 23 seconds will be a song, and that will be remixed, ad infinitum. Ad brutum. #cortexelation
A fourth project I want to do is music under spoken word stories. I did one earlier in this year for my brother's Cyberpunk Revue and I don't know why I haven't posted it yet. Some compositions, some soundscapes. #cortexelation
My fifth project is an EP called Love is the Song: and I will make high-energy, esoteric love songs that attempt to capture this wonderfully beautiful phenomenon, and express my inspiration and appreciation in the sexiest medium I know [music!!].<3<3 #todo#cortexelation
OH and I'll probably release a 4~song EP with compiles all the bass music remixes I've worked on this year, after I touch them up, and any others I think of doing. I'll fill it with a REALLY epic song I started writing 2 years ago that i think finally makes sense to do the same style. #cortexelation
Turn this into a whisper song. Made with your synthetic voice? Start off quiet, gets all chaotic and screaming, then transcends into building up, fast shephard accelerations, until the pulse becomes a tone which pitch-matches a previous drone underneath it. At that point, an explosion, and a voice lets out a profound yell-note which harmonizes everything into a 9th and beyond.
Find large primes washed a'Shor / Knowledge private once before / Quantum'cryptic / Apocalyptic / CCs SSNs galore #cortexelation
It's a mashup of a mashup. And here it is: a minutish of glitchy progression. Can I already imagine this being remixed again into a song? Just swap between parts; repeat some parts; and I have a song. Points for danceability. Unmix it for live. My, how nose who I'll end up machine-elfing the live tools. (The previous sentence began with a spoonerism. "Machine-elfing" shall forever be referred to as the act of manifesting belongings into reality on command, particularly those which belong to the class of will-enforcers which relieviate a lack of further machine-elfing in yourself and othres. Get it? Creations that create creating.
Ultimately my goal is to get rid of chaos notes altogether, because the gaplessness between idea and manifestation will render them obsolete. I need one or more of the following:
- Clones
- Employees
- AI
Yes. AI. Funny is the perception of AI. Articulation hypothesis: AI is the act of taking unsolved behavior and translating it into deterministic language. General AI is the act of performing this act on itself. The rest is a matter of accumulating a good collection of legs, hands, and eyes.
AI chasing me
"Chasing me" LMFAO is the name of it
I beatbox into the (iPod), and the (RJDJ) copies and plays along a measure behind. It is an echo of me; it responds to me; it talks *with* me. Use Tristan's analyzer funs to generate (drum samples, alterations) #cortexelation
Rip it open: make the repeat section of the last part ; ; make it a glitched up version of the one before it LOL! #cortexelation
DJ mix hardcore breakdowns into deathstep.
From there, september11th remixes. Hypersisyphus remixes takes each part and accelerates it to ridiculousness.
43% burnt #cortexelation
Soft Hot and Long
between 2nd and 3rd grooveparts
When the do the dodoo fwehhhhh part ends the 4th time, do more melodic elaborations upward, and then return to groove part [do more opethy backandforth]; risset part should have straight up dnb samples, and should rise to the intensity of intenseness; afterwhich returning to breakcore part, remixed? [or we start off with a remixed breakcore part, and end with the original]. #cortexelation
+hears Nintendo noise which indicates death+
LMAO
aw
woah ANN that gives me a cortexelation idea
I've been wanting to make deathstep with nintendo sounds. . . .
Why not use the sounds of dying!! #cortexelation
I don't know if this is just a low quality version of the song uploaded, but everything sounds overly compressed, which isn't necessarily bad, but certainly makes a clear demonstration of the producer's laziness. This all gave me the idea of having a song that starts off sounding really compressed, and then goes into a breakdown where I scream "FUCK THAT", followed by a really well mastered mix of the song, with all the instruments standing clearly on their own. What if I made a whole album where that happens on every track? Why don't more people make albums with consistency like that. #compression#cortexelation
I went into the bathroom at International Village, super late at night, and I hear someone blasting hip hop out of his phone, while in a stall, taking a dump. It was instrumental mid-tempo 808 synth hip hop. It was the skeeviest dump music I've ever heard. From the next stall over, I somewhat sarcastically thanked him for providing a skeevy soundtrack to my dump. It turned out he had a little trouble understanding my English, but then explained enthusiastically that the music was from the soundtrack one of his favorite movies. He wasn't trying to be skeevy, he was just some new-to-the-country dude, and where he's from it's probably customary to blast music when you take a dump.
Which gave me the idea to throw a bathroom stall performance. Two or more of us, in stalls, blasting skeevy music from our phones. Tempo sync'ed. #cortexelation
Tour across America in a way where your destinations make the shape of a _____ #cortexelation
I really like this idea of releasing single-EPs as one song between two drone/noise/ambient things. #cortexelation
Cortexelation: Pure identity of self. Starts with a concept/feeling to express, uses genre as a color to paint it.
Hypersisyphus, z¬: Pure identity of sound. Start with the sound, figure out what to express with it. #cortexelation
The beats of Cortexelation are warped by a nearby singularity; the floor is the event horizon; dancers welcome the challenge. #cortexelation
Cortexelation is a pandimensional orgy of your infinite subjective-self clones. #cortexelation
Cortexelation is an extreme oscillation between bliss and suffering approaching infinity Hz. #cortexelation
Cortexelation is the proof that dimensionality embarasses tightness, in the context of antidisestablishmentarianism. #cortexelation
Thought is to matter as Cortexelation is to thought. #cortexelation
Fans of Cortexelation enjoy AUGGLING: the art of technology-enhanced romantic exploration. Augglers experiment with sensory-augmentation, biofeedback, point-of-view swapping, time dilation, and whatever other twistedly mad thing they have going on in the lab. #cortexelation
Cortexelation is that warm feeling you get when you take a stroll through the thoughts of your posthuman exocortex. #cortexelation
Divacore. Layers upon layers of diva vocals. #cortexelation
Make hardcore, but instead of sampling a distorted kickdrum, make the kickbass modulate/evolve with FM synthesis.
Then, convolve the upper harmonics with some awesomely complex black metal-ish progression.
Make all the music with just one synth? #cortexelation
Crunk/snap/juke songs that will make people smarten up through musical patterns.
Think.
Think motherfucker think.
Think motherfucker.
Think motherfucker think motherfucker.
Think motherfucker think.
Think motherfucker think motherfucker think.
Think motherfucker. #cortexelation
All I want to do is make jungle/breakcore using just the loop from zoot suit riot, and the music is only meant to be danced to while sitting down in a movie theater waiting for the feature to begin. #cortexelation
Claustrum Impetus:
should have bass LFO at 12hz, with a tonality multiple of 12hz. (48, 60, 72, 84 96) #cortexelation
Cortexelus gets an apprentice. Maybe it's his clone. Or Ann's clone. The book ends with the apprentice starting off the way Cortexelus starts off; and the story is perpetuated. #cortexelus
Cortexelus totally has a psychonaut license, one of the few. #cortexelus
"And through his nonaction, he knew his chaos would win her over."
It's about dancing, and I'm (cortexelus) trying to get a girl, and this other dude is trying to get in and make a pass. I know I'm lreally awesome, so I'm gonna let him try and fail right now, while I'm just gonna stay here and do my own thing, and I know in the end she'll be attracted to me, as long as I keep doing what I'm doing -- which is being awesome.
Something like that for my book. Some situation where someone woos a girl through his own chaos attractor powers, in a very taoist "amazing! we did it all by ourselves!" kind of way, exemplifying the meaning of buddhist concept of "nonaction". #cortexelus
Have a bunch of separate isolated subplots
But then bring them altogether with one single absurd event.
Like the frogs in Magnolia. #cortexelus
All the isolated subplots can be hyperparallel dimensions of the same metaverse. And then maybe the absurd event is some transdimensional fusing of infinity. #cortexelus
I looked up at the sky, and in the clouds I saw the faces of gods.
For a moment the mystic in me wonders if stars and planets could read my mind and communicate with me using pulses of radiation which create subtle changes in the atmosphere.
The rational scientific voice speaks and says this is unlikely and there exists nothing close to any evidence to support my hypothesis. And even if ion emissions from celestial objects were detectable by the naked eye as disturbances in clouds, it doesn't mean the celestial objects have any kind of intelligence. Nor if they had intelligence, that they would know anything about humans or have any interest in communicating with them. Although absense of evidence isn't evidence of absense.
The rational mystic voice speaks and says that while it's important to reason that my idea is improbable and ridiculous, it's even more important to be able to flex imagination, suspend disbelief, and make-believe. .
The rational psychological voice speaks and says the images I see in the clouds are projections. Projections of my subconscious. In my creative state of mind, my brain is more freely interpreting random abstract visuals to be familiar patterns such as humanoid faces.
The mystic says these subconscious projections tell me something about myself. When I look into the clouds, I am reading my own mind, and communicating with myself.
To amplify the effect, I ought to make-believe I am actually communicating telepathically with gods. Belief is a tool. Flow with your fantasies.
Pretending that something is external while rationalizing that it is internal -- make-believing a hallucination is happening in the world objectively while knowing it to be a subjective projection -- turns on my mind. It allows me to make great leaps in creativity. To find inspiration! To dream! To rearrange the architecture my world view! To meta-program! To learn my own mechanics! To become a proficient hacker of the nervous system!
In the words of Terence McKenna, "I live in twilight world of my own self-generated, cannabinated fantasy."
When I say make-believe, I don't mean "oh haha isn't that cute, planet-gods in the sky-clouds". You don't want to contrive your imagination. You want to literally suspend disbelief in astonishment. You want to go "HOLY SHIT. We were wrong the whole time! The greek myths were right!!" That kind of make-believe. It's how you grok. #cortexelus
To understand what the mystic sees, you have to put yourself in that cosmic situation. #cortexelus
Make-believe is the algorithm for empathy. Even if mind-hacking isn't your soup, the experience of reality tunnels other than one's own would do the world some awesome. #cortexelus
"Especially interesting to me are ancient reality tunnels-- the perceptions of people no-longer-living. And animals and other things. OH and future reality tunnels too, from the not-yet-living. There's a whole science to it waiting to develop. Grokology. Imagine: collecting and storing reality tunnels all over history. Writers, film makers, and anthropologists brush with this, but perhaps the real precise science won't come until we have the right technology -- either experience-beaming neural hardware which captures and transmits full subjective experience using high-precision brain scanning and emulation... or fully-immersive virtual/mixed reality engineered with taste ... or artfully designed hypnosis and suggestion.. or any of that combined with psychedelics. #cortexelus
Family is getting me a new laptop for my fake graduation?
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Used Kinect?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002BSA298/sr=8-1/qid=1304006221/ref=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&coliid=&me=&qid=1304006221&sr=8-1&seller=&colid=&condition=used
Mom: "CORTEXELUS, I GET IT NOW. . . ITS LIKE A LIKE A BIG BIG HUGE GREEK NAME" #cortexelus
Cortexelus: When I slip into hypnogogia I see what I simplistically refer to as the "shape of my mind". I'm usually not aware of it unless I just came out of that state; or if I do become aware of it while I'm in it the mere act of observance sends me out of that state. Although I've gotten much better at maintaining the balance of being aware of myself in hypnogogia without destructive interference -- I think this is one skill meditation was made for.
David Van Vorst: freedom from the thinking mind
Cortexelus: Mm; something like that, but I think it could be better worded. Because once I'm balanced in that state I am free to think language-based thoughts at will, even without interfering with any of the audio hallucinations. It's more like. . .freedom from acting on particular subconscious impulses [damping the noise] so that your conscious mind has more influential power (on your self, or on others) and then also not acting on that power. One way I practice is in social situations -- I try not to give off any unconscious body language, or break eye contact without intent.
An allegory would be -- not spending money on things you don't need, and saving up more and more over time, and then perpetuating the moment where you have all this spending power. #cortexelus
Wait, does that mean the narrator isn't a reliable narrator?
Hm.
This is true.
I'm telling a story, right. But the way I tell it is completely biased. How do you, the reader, know that you are honestly reading the story I'm trying to tell? How do I, as the writer, recognize this? Careless typos throw off the entire story; a poorly-explained concept is misinterpreted or overlooked. Ambiguities which rise in the mind, unresolved, evolve. Nebulous interrelations crecendo in a climax more epic than nintendo. #cortexelus
Cortexelus: Did you know there's a big future conspiracy that evry one of them mathopus's is mindly a random algorithmic evolution anomoly?
CJ: Blindly so
Cortexelus: Writing it.
CJ: Writing what?
Cortexelus: Directionless is a direction !
CJ: Why yes, every one knows you can throw a thing with its opposite.
Cortexelus "but how many kinds of dictionless exist?"
CJ +gets bored, wishes bots were on+
Cortexelus: There's right here.
Cortexelus: There's right now
Cortexelus: There's every direction at once?
Cortexelus: There's whatever this reality happens to be.
Cortexelus:|
Cortexelus: Like every single variable that's set to its physical comfort
me? I've never known such density
Cortexelus: A horn sounds on original line 19 5:09AM 1/20/2011 JANUARY TIME (hauntim)
Locations please? Name us.
Well we have been includedon with the very best nature breakfast exploratory store E.
Hippo camp kiss.
Tell the story in the code cj!
(Librarian knowledge being)
(Lolrary) #cortexelus
herelevant
Yay for ambiguous slovos. If you say it fast enough it sounds like irrelevant. But really its about relevance. Relevance here. Doesn't have to be combined, could've just been here-relevant.#slovos
I should load my book with word-phrases like "here-relevant", so that the story, only when spoken aloud, is ambiguous. #cortexelus
Start a story with someone about to kill themselves, THEN . . #cortexelus
Write a short story after asking a ton of people a question. {Would you rather live on the moon or at the bottom fo the ocean?} Then take those responses and build charaters around them. #cortexelus
[14:47] Cortexelus: standing next to infinity
[14:47] SerpentSorcia: his infinity turban :|OO
[14:47] SerpentSorcia: it takes forever to get on in the morning
[14:47] Cortexelus: it unravels forever
[14:47] Cortexelus: lmfao
[14:47] SerpentSorcia: hahaha
[14:47] Cortexelus: literally forever
[14:48] Cortexelus: he has to meditate until he reaches infintesimal time
[14:48] SerpentSorcia: countable and uncountable stitches
That would be a cool opening to a chapter, #cortexelus
Imagining a situation where everyone is a god of many universes, whose plebeian inhabitants live or die on the consequences of every decision you make --- AND every god is a subject under a greater god in a Greater Universe, ad infinitum. Simultaneous omnipotence and nihilism.
"Is there an Ultimate Absolute God?"
No, because for every God there is an infinite chain of Gods more Great than they.
"Is there an Absolute Rock Bottom of Insignificance?"
No, because every subject is a God of one or more infinite stacks of lesser subjects in lesser universes.
"So anywhere you look, from anyone's point of view, there are greater and lesser universes as far as the eye can see?"
Yes, and as a far as the logical mind can conjecture, and the imagination can suppose.
"What does that mean?"
Everyone is exactly in the center.
"Does it ultimately loop around?"
I don't know. Sometimes.
"How do people resolve their conflicting feelings of omnipotence and nihilism?"
Silence. Cortexelus slipped back into meditation.
Quintellius jumped in:
Well you must start projecting. Would you want your God to be a nihilist? How should you act with your subjects then? There are important ethical questions one must confront in a infinite-God-chain system.
"I'm starting to fathom".
And even if your God cared about you, he could still be at the whim of a nihilist Metagod who cared even less. Hell, that Metagod could be without any capacity for understanding. It could be a simple organism or machine. It could be the vibrations on the surface of piece of aluminum foil blowing in the wind. It could be an electron. Something unfathomable.
Well wait, can
If he's talking about unobservable metaphysical things, I don't have time for it.
Well I don't think he's talking about unobservable things at all. I think metaphysics is about the things that are always everywhere so much that one has difficulty perceiving them.
It was easier to discover the Sun was round than the Earth.
The largest things are not the hardest to observe.
The things which are closest are the hardest to see.
By the 16th century most educated people knew the Earth was not flat. But in the early 21st century physicists set up gravity wave experiments (GEO600) which supported the theory that the space we observe is in fact a hologram on a 2D surface. And the world was flat once more .
[Waditalment] was tough to say. <-- vandalism in the book
Wadiditalmeen? It was tough to say
Watidalment; it was tough to say. #cortexelus
there should be vandalism in the book, puns and stuff.
marked by some style change. #cortexelus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=GHgi6E1ECgo
.....But at the same time we didn't discover [string theory] by thinking very hard about some deep principle, we simply discovered as the only consistent story that we can write down on a piece of paper. That's pretty good, it's better than having none. --Raphael Bousso #physics#cortexelus
Computer Program Everything You've Ever Written:
One of the most ultimate forces against writer's block or boredom! (Plus, one of the best toys for a philosophical narcissist:
:V "Do you read many books to catalyze new ideas?"
o.o "Yeah well mostly I use this device to find new combinations of thoughts based on things I've already thought.") Be your own target audience!
---Ann
I am inspired by this comment to make a micro story. Like two people on the train, one talks to another about what they're reading, and it's Cortexelus, so he's reading algorithmically-generated books based on his writings. LMAO. And he's like "yeah I posted the code online, and I'm waiting for some company to plagiarize it".
(( It's funny though, that idea is not so far off, and something I could start working on soon and probably get somewhat far in a decade's time.)) #cortexelus
If _creating ideas_ is what is most important, then one should realize that the point isn't "make the computer do everything for you" but rather to create a computer-human combo-process which maximizes creativity -- and thus the AI doesn't to be impossibly-complex, it just needs to synergize the human )) #cortexelus
I love Cortexelus so freaking much. He's just like, me in the future. He's like existential high school adventure CJ meets acid CJ meets computer-engineer CJ meets romance CJ meets rational philosophical CJ. . . but at a point in his life where these things have all blended into some superadvanced state of idealism. He is someone I can only create ideally, and then try to emulate. #cortexelus
Woah, maybe some of these micro stories should be written as blog entries of the future. #cortexelus
"I was in another dimension."
Quintillius: What do you mean by that? #cortexelus
A series of short stories, each of which elaborates on some facet of the cortexeliciousness. Tie it together with some frame story, like BOBCPR #cortexelus
All the parallel universes where a person ends up marrying someone completely different; all the interdimensional children which come about. A play starring all these offspring as characters. #parallel-dimensions#play#cortexelus
You know I think in my mind it's possible you transcend the beauty of the whole universe. Which at first you might respond "Preposterous! How could something +within+ the universe be MORE beautiful the universe as a whole? You've contradicted yourself: it's simple logic and set theory." But then I'll say that you are so surreal that my mind can't accept that the universe produced you. It puts you in your own category of beauty apart from everything else. My mind intuits "no no it's way more likely +she+ in her endless beauty made my universe, from the very beginning" and uses some retrocausal strange attraction trickery to justify it. #ann#love#universe#cortexelus
I think I want to make a book full of all the great quotes my friends have made. #cortexelus
Alex Downs:
My favorite of the several ways to understand the word -understand- is as to hold something in a higher regard to yourself (stand under it); as something that humbles you and gives you an expanded appreciation (positive or negative) for the... world that was absent before (like what both of you were getting at). I think if you're a person who sees beauty in the world, understanding yourself will make the world more beautiful, but if your not, then understanding yourself could make the world seem the opposite. #understanding#beauty#cortexelus
To counterbalance the crazy awesome romance in the book, there should be a chapter about a couple stuck in strange loops, like Laing's knots: http://www.oikos.org/knots4.htm I like the simple format this is in. I think it should be ambiguous whether or not these characters refer to the in-love characters.
JILL I’m upset you are upset
JACK I’m not upset
JILL I’m upset that you’re not upset that I’m
upset you’re upset
JACK I’m upset that you’re upset that I’m not
upset that you’re upset that I’m upset,
when I’m not.
JILL You put me in the wrong
JACK I am not putting you in the wrong
JILL You put me in the wrong for thinking you
put me in the wrong.
JACK Forgive me
JILL No
JACK I’ll never forgive you for not forgiving me #cortexelus
[Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction]
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?p35uz87kliv3jus
This album is incredibly amazing o_o I listend to it while painting. It's metal. And it's non-stop epic about someone confronting all these existential issues in his life, echoed by sarcastic foils. I've never heard anything like it. It's like all the phases of someone's life -- their reality tunnels and motivations -- idealism and realism oscillations -- condensed. Holy shit. When I'm older I'm going to read through my journals and condense it into something like this. Or it's all the grandiose feelings you have on a trip toward your own life and toward humanity #cortexelus
"You're perceiving our expectations. You know we must expect something of you, but it's entirely up to you to create what you believe are our expectations. Then what you create will impact the decision you make on the choice at hand. So you must not just think of the choice in front of you, whether or not you want to do it. You need to understand your creation's effect on the situation, and question the very meaning of said creation. What if our expectations are something entirely different then what you believed? Perhaps even the exact opposite? Isn't it true that what you created could be the exact opposite of what you needed to create? How can you be sure?"
-- Max #max#creativity
I won't love it until I create it myself.
I am everything I identify with.
(punning epiphanous zen tautologies)
Some people say "stimulants decrease my creativity". But I think it depends on your medium of creativity. I think what they mean to say is that stimulants decrease their capacity for mind-wandering and thus one method of divergent thinking.
First let me create a model that classes thinking into two categories.
Convergent thinking -- Analysis, logic. Locating a problem at the "center" of one's focus and gathering peripheral resources to bear down on the problem. The resources "converge" on the problem, of which there may be only a single correct solution. An example of this might be "Produce an algorithm that solves partial sums of the harmonic series in constant time"
Divergent thinking -- brain storming, mind-wandering, ADHD. Solving problems which require one to defocus and digress. Rather than gathering information and converging it on the central problem, one branches off (diverges) and shoots for novel ideas and new perspectives. Instead of a single correct answer, there may be a whole host of possibilities. (An example of this may be "name as many uses for paper clip as possible")
The difference is at times vague. And you can probably define one class terms of the other. Neither owns the rights to "creativity". Both are involved. Some creative mediums may involve one's dominance over the other. (In the case of Erdos, solving mathematical proofs involve a great deal of convergence.)
What I meant to suggest is that some stimulants appear to increase the capacity for convergent thinking while decreasing the efficacy of divergent thinking. On the other hand, cannabis has the opposite effect. Cannabis makes convergent thinking more difficult, and divergent thinking more exaggerated. These are generalizations and aren't necessarily true in all cases.
Personally, I think optimum creative method involves an oscillation between extreme states of divergent thinking and extreme states of convergent thinking. Brainstorming followed by implementation/elaboration. If I have a creative problem, I smoke cannabis. Cannabis will inspire me produce numerous novel ideas, thoughts, perspectives, and possible solutions. I record everything with a voice recorder. After it wears off, I listen to the recording, drink a stimulant (coffee, ye r ba mate, or energy drink), and jot down all good ideas and half-thoughts I had. Then I get to work elaborating my esoteric half-thoughts into well-written concepts/arguments. I follow through on the ideas I had for making music, art, software, or whatever, and produce things.
If optimum creative production, as I hypothesize, require an oscillation between both types of thinking, then I can see how one's creativity would suffer if one was drugged to be in only one particular state all the time.
:stimulants :psychonaut #creativity
Future nostalgia for the birth of a technological poet.
Algorithmically generated mashups?
Or heavily inspired allusions?
"Creativity and innovation always builds on the past" -- Lawrence Lessig ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWQVxrRXyU )
Are we not all mashup artists ourselves?
Is not language collage?
If the thing which has been give the name "free will" is that element of chaotic randomness whose infinite cause/effect chains butterfly through me, my imprinted memories, and the logic of my prefrontal cortex... then the algorithm has will also, for the stochasticity of the clock nanoseconds, whose timing influences its memory recall and decisions, whose source is the same chaos which influences mine, determines the shape of its poetry. In all cases I irrevocably name this process "creativity".
The poet uses his memory and experience of the world to derive inspiration for his words. The algorithm rather uses the poetry of the poet to derive inspiration for its words. Its world is the poetry. If the inspiration of the algorithm is the poet whose inspiration is the world, then, transitively, the algorithm derives inspiration from the poet's world. #ai#creativity
If _creating ideas_ is what is most important, then one should realize that the point isn't "make the computer do everything for you" but rather to create a computer-human combo-process which maximizes creativity -- and thus the AI doesn't to be impossibly-complex, it just needs to synergize the human )) #cortexelus#creativity
(yeah! if we could break the "code" of memes (how ideas are stored in the brain) maybe we could eventually simulate the brute-force generation of ideas. WOW imagine giving a computer program everything you've ever written, and then it builds conceptual networks of your mind, and thinks +for+ you, rapidly putting together concepts which you would find significant. o__o) #memes#app#creativity
I need to be absolutely alone.
To be absolutely creative.
Parents are such a distraction. #creativity
Lazy programming in DrRacket"
Eli: Expressions are not evaluated or observed until necessary. In the stepper, for this infinite list, these expressions have delayed evaluation. It's kind of like some quantum observation uncertainty thing where observing it beforehand would change it.
Eli (later): Reused arguments in a function: once one is evaluated, all of them are simultaneously, saving you from executing the same code twice.
CJ (thinking): Wait, quantum uncertainty.. bell's nonlocality.. Reality is a lazy programming language! #cs
Imagine if you could harness the power of parallel universes to do computation? Like, each one computes a thread, and then they bring their answers together. #cs
If the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, does that mean quantum computers indeed harness parallel universes? #cs
Texting server, from which the AI responds. Google Talk? #cs
Mandelambda. Scheme code (lambda calculus style) which, when executed, parses and grows with a complexity equal to the mandelbrot set. [possible?] #cs
Programming environment where you can keep 2+ more versions of code chunks in superposition. If the first version of a code chunk eventually fails (throws exception, or fails test), it automatically backs up to before its first use, and swaps it with the next version. Quantum wobble #cs
"Humans are just lambdas, man" -- Adrian. (Lambda of God) #zen#cs
Make a tron shirt. That's all phosphorescent flourescent glow-in-the-dark. Have the designs look like experience guy. Have a cult where everyone wears these shirts. #art#cult
Mom opened doors and windows because the toaster set on fire, but because its 15 degrees out Dad freaked out.
Dad said to Mom: "I swear to god don't you fucking open or close any fucking windows or doors before I go to bed. Live with the smell."
And then I almost said: "What do you think hurts more, being sweaty, or being yelled at by someone you love? Do the sedatives sedate your empathy too? Do the painkillers kill the emotional pain too?
She just wants to feel like she's appreciated. You just want to feel like you're cared about. Everyone just wants to feel loved.
Can you see how you drive her away? (literally, she just got in the car and drove off) Do you feel how she drives you away? You have to put your love for each other beyond everything, beyond physical comfort, beyond grudges. #dad
"i want to create my OWN memes"
That's what he wants: people to experience things. #dad
"It's like nouveau Fred Astaire" -- Laura Duggan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFabjc6mFk4 #dancing
OH man last weekend at my party, after 2 hours of everyone dancing and getting winded, during a lull, Puzzlhead came on, and I impulsively did an interpretive dance to How Many Times Will you Die. It was amazing. I'm not the best dancer but it was certainly a peak experience for me. Every little spasm, turn, and detail of that song I know my heart. I should've filmed it, maybe I'll film it another time. I oscillated between popping+locking
, and slam dancing, haha, all in synchrony. I think I would like to compose kick ass songs with the idea that I would be dancing like crazy to them when I play live. #dancing
Les Twins pop+locking to glitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6OeNwrU5_8 #dancing
Why is light profound? Is it because of the state of mind we are in, in the presence of light? A lighted environment gives one (spatial) knowledge, trust, familiarity, and certainty; while a dark place tends to lean on the side of paranoia, unknown, and uncertainty. But I've always preferred the dark place to the light.
There is discernment in dark dwellings when light blinds the eyes-- the wisdom in whispers which disquiet drowns out. The medium is the message when the canvas is clean. #light#darkness
Transfection is the process of deliberately introducing nucleic acids into cells. The term is used notably for non-viral methods [1] in eukaryotic cells #death-by-diction
DEATH META
record myself having inspiration about what I'm going to do with each of the songs; and then use that to build each song.
Each next song should then be a remix of the previous song, built off of a recording of me describing what i'm going to do with the song. #deathmeta
A third project I had in mind starts from an idea for a genre (and the EP name): Death Meta. I'm trying to think of ways to make music as meta as possible, in a very brutal way. I'm reading If On A Winter's Night A Traveler and I think might do something where the lyrics of the songs are recordings of me coming up with ideas on what to do with the songs. And maybe each song is a remix of the last one. And maybe each part of every song is a remix of the last part. And maybe the whole album as it sounds speeded up into 23 seconds will be a song, and that will be remixed, ad infinitum. Ad brutum. #cortexelation#deathmeta
Thou Art Dead:
+ Open with throat singing "THOU ART DEAD" make it huge and epic and Tibetan-horns and tundra ambiance.
+ Have the fast black metal drums in the way distance (like how psytrance beats fade in sometimes)
+ Have djembe over that, playing some riff which will be heard later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FvLRpFXMk4&feature=related
I really like the drum sounds here. But he takes it too far, it should only be used as an intro.
(transition)
BLACK METAL
Descending (opposite of i desire beauty)
work in every melodic motif from the original.
(808 drums, each compressing the previous?)
Risset slow down section.
+ OM SHIVA OM loop drill [borrow, allude, and credit]
+ End with Divinorum-like time stretch (?)
(ask Ryan to master it lmao)
Then submit it here
http://www.facebook.com/groups/157954667591521 #deathstep
Going into double time doesn't always sound natural.
Listen to Terrorhate's Wonkyhholic, at the end.
Listen to Broken Note's Meltdown
go into double time when the half-time repeditation overstays its welcome? It puts you into a trance. #deathstep
http://traxboxx.com/?p=1633
the intro to bratkilla's afraid.
do something like that, except do risset perpetual tempo increases.
Live-control how long it increases.
Don't give them your full EQ tools. #deathstep
Shephard scale monochromatic descending. Descend as a minor chord. #deathstep
The fucked up things people to do get off:
you have to incorporate that into your songs
--dave
The rush of syringes #deathstep
Sample the bag sound effect.
Strangulation
http://theartreference.blogspot.com/2011/01/sound-effects-virtual-barber-shop-hair.html
convolute everything through the barbershop effect. #deathstep
Simulate flames.
WOAH record a whistle tone #deathstep
Bratkilla deathstep remix
Make it technical fast. Stereo bass at 180bpm. Downward risset.
"THOOOU ART DEAAAD" throat sing.
Peaks sample? #cortexelation#deathstep
- I feel that while deathstep has explored the murderous timbre of the bass synth, it could use more complexity, detail, density, and variation in its tracks. (But these are just projected expectations coming from a fan of technical death metal; and the raw simplicity of the sound is a thing onto its own. Hmm, technical deathstep. . .) #deathstep
Shulgin Shulgin shugga dugga Dulgin
(lmfao! I should make bass-synths out of (Artificial) voice samples) #cortexelation#deathstep
http://soundcloud.com/12gauge/chase-n-status-remix
this track gave me the idea. . ..
subtractive synthesis
start with drones at each octave/harmonic or something
And each percussive element uniquely side-chain compresses a particular drone
Esp. if the percussive element seems to #cortexelation#deathstep
+hears Nintendo noise which indicates death+
LMAO
aw
woah ANN that gives me a cortexelation idea
I've been wanting to make deathstep with nintendo sounds. . . .
Why not use the sounds of dying!! #cortexelation#deathstep
Work hard play hard: In this way my full cognition is always engaged. #default-world
Guarding the gates between introversion and extroversion. I am Maxwell's demon. No distractions other than for inspiration. #default-world
Be strong.
There exists a more complex social outhibition which transcends belligerent outhibition. Flow is easy when you break down your analytical mind and allow yourself to act "on instinct". Thus drunkenness. An analytical mind can be inhibitory; you are taking information in, but you are inhibited from freely acting. One way this can be seen is having a low tolerance and high aesthetic for acceptable self-behavior. This can be problematic if your self-perception is askew. However, the self-actualized have their analytical mind in order. They are analyzing and they are acting outhibitedly. They have reached a higher energy level of flowing behavior. The neuroscientist in me wonders if these people are effectively using an entire extra layer of their neocortex relative to the others. It is a remarkable challenge to build such inner mental architecture. Optimum use of it comes and goes, depending on biological, psychological, and environmental factors. But when such a state is maintained, it feels as if one is meditating all the time; even at work; even when socializing. Meditation is like still water on the surface of a lake. Meditation is like a filled electron-oribtal. The heavier your atom, the more layers of electrons you can fill, the more layers of your cortex you can use. But each layer only stands on the stability of the one below it. Monks are noble gasses. A lot of brilliant minds are unstable.
Be strong.
If you are aware of awesome, maintain awesome with fortification.
Do not reflect others' insecurities. Fortify.
No one is strong 100% of the time. Sometimes someone needs another to reinforce their awesome. It is social back-scratching.
Some are weak and are not self-reliant. They depend on the strong.
OR they are strong in incomplete ways, like most.
OR they are strong in misled ways, and thus are weak.
OR they are weak and independent, and might be dangerous, purposely acting in opposition to the strong [example: someone with no self-worth who believes the world "rejected" them and is set on taking revenge by being an asshole to everyone].
Some are aware of awesome but mislead themselves. They refuse to be self-reliant, or they do not know how. Their insecurities are burdenous. They must be enlightened.
-- School of Strength
Strength is a tool. But what are we fortifying, and why, and how to we grow awareness as chaos elaborates and complexity unfolds? What should we consume and not consume, and what should we produce? How do we grow?
-- School of Acceleration
How do we take what we consume and turn it into what we produce?
-- School of Engineering
These schools map a well-equipped life form. A cell. Strength is the cell wall. Acceleration is growth. Engineering consists of cellular tools/enzymes. Would be cool to draw this diagram. #default-world
i make a track, send it to nate to remix it, sends it to me to remix it, send it to nate to remix it, etc
the album is all the tracks in reverse order
now that would be something worthy of the name Death Meta #detameta
Lmao. A determinism-themed social network. ChaosBook. ChaosStew. ChaosYou. Emphasizing the endless consequences of every action performed on the site. [Invite Billy to birthday party] +click+ "Are you sure you want to invite Billy? He may show up at your house this weekend." [YES] [NO]
+clicks no+ "Are you sure you DON'T want to invite Billy? You invited his friends Isabella, Rockwood, and Bert. You have dating Isabella for 72 days, and she'll know you didn't invite him. Her last relationship with Corgan lasted 83 days. Her last relationship ended 3 days after she attended Corgan's Birthday Basharoo. Billy was not invited to Corgan's Birthday Basharoo. Invite Billy?" [YES] [NO] #determinism
Augmented pornos. Replace all dicks with submarine sandwiches. Or whatever. Whatever your fetish is. Because who wants to see the dicks, you know? Use some advanced image recognition computer vision ish. It'll make millions. #business-ventures#diminished-reality
If you have a dead friend, project a recording of him talking somewhere in the room using directional speakers. Instant ghost! #directional-sound
Sonic laser tag
Use directional speakers to fire blasts of sound at people.
I think the military is developing this for riot control.
But you could do it at concerts too.
Imagine firing sub-bass? #directional-sound
dubstep controlled through eletric playdoh with iron filings inside of it and stuff that alter the magnetic field somehow -- hook it up to a MIDI controller! #dj
djent + dubstep
They're both converging on the same sound.
Make it happen
djub djub djub (<- kinda sounds like borgore)
WOAH like back+and+forth call and response borgore and djent, with the drums synced.
Uptempo with the tribal rhythms and breaks #dj
Recent trends in drums and bass, with drums consistent and powerful, isn't as cool as the dnb whose drums are spastic, sampled, broken apart, and jungly. #dj
Sample bass from dubstep songs, and make something new #dj
Start collecting awesome songs to dance to, and then make a huge mix of them in the end #dj
1) My first mix should be of other peoples' songs (remember CJ? your first guitar songs were all covers. you should try the same approach to DJing)
2) Then i'll do my own stuff. Optimally I will only play my own stuff (MAYBE a few covers) #dj
An awesome musical interface with me for making live dirty bass? Right now I'm thinking of a set of accelerometers, maybe on a glove, but probably on all limbs. Hook it up to a LilyPad arduino, send it over to puredata through pduino, then hook it up to some awesome VST or something. OR a webcam which figures out your body outline and does something with that (like the Kinect). OR back to the glove idea, something where you "mold" a bass sound using your hands, as if you were playing with invisible playdoh, or chi. #dj
Repeat dreams locations, brain submarine sandwich
Cortexelation
Dance music
1) a rhythm loop, which elaborates for while
2) then it goes to infinity (transition)
3) new loop (which maybe be a sample from the end of the infinity transition, so as to be consistently moving) [repeat]
4) repeat this for a while, and then start speeding up the loops and the infinities, and how fast they come, to the point that they come so fast that it is a superinfinity.
5) this superinfinity becomes the original loop
[make this a CD. if at all possible, make this a software program that can do it automagically) #cortexelation#dj
AI DJ:
Boredom detector: Transitioning to a new the song [or skipping to the drop] after detecting that the crowd has slowed down the intensity of their dance.
For example, sometimes the DJ continues to play repetitive music, even after the energy has been lost a little in the crowd. The drop recharges everyone, and when the beat returns everyone is on the same page again.
Intelligent automated dance music should be able to detect this and react! #dj
YALL READY FOR CORTEXELUS
THE BOY WITH THE INFINITE MOUTH
+beatboxes for 30 minutes straight+ #cortexelation#beatbox#dj
EchoNest DJ system. (first compile en_analyzer~ in windows)
* People can request songs
* EchoNest analyzes all the songs
* DJ plays beatmatched samples over songs
* Songs can be remixed too, in cool ways [like 1st beat; swing, etc]
* transitions could be cool too #music-hack#dj
AHA! Risset Rhythm dNb!!!!!
Here it is.
I had the profound realization that since the second KICK/SNARE is half the time as the first KICK/SNARE, compounding doubletime rhythms ontop of each other should be easy; they pretty much lock together:
omfg imagine making a collage of all the best recorded CJ ann moments and putting it over explosions in the sky-like post rock!!! #sauce#cortexelation#dothecamus
We want to make a grunge song. It must satisfy these conditions:
1) Allegory for heroin, if not directly about it
2) The chorus has to consist of "YEAH"s
3) There has to be a "save me" breakdown/outro
4) Mumble lyrics #dothecamus
Molly was a door mouse
Who found a place to hide
Inside the brains of battle victims
And young adults who got high. #dothecamus
ddo do do do do me
do do do do you
do do do do do we
these pronouns got to go #dothecamus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMCdnJYJL8o "D-jahsta - Transmorph"
I like the way the singer starts off sing-songy, then goes into dubstep/rap on this song, perhaps we could borrow this effect for Mandelbrot bros and Fibonacci Hoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTVNyHt13aE #dubstep#dothecamus
Ann and I were in a crowd. I had my glasses on and I was making all these unfunny jokes. Everyone in the crowd thought I was a total dork, but Ann gave me her love all the same :] #dreams
"Dreams come true" Instead of making your dreams happen in reality, rather build a dream during your waking life and make it happen while dreaming. #dreams
I was fingering Ann while talking to these two teenage girls. And I woke up to tell Ann this, and assumed that she would have remembered the dream. It felt like I took her into the dream with me. She then proceeded to tease me for a half hour. #dreams
Dream: in the mountains with my family and Isaac. In a mixed reality video game. Blasting things coming at me. #dreams
Me playing crazy bass arpeggios over 12 bar blues siging "I'm gonna rock that monkey cock" #dreams
I visit Smarter Travel, and it is a little awkward to see my manager, when all of sudden 9/11 happens everyone rushes over to the window to see the plane lodged into Schraft's tower. I run for it. #dreams
ANN! I had a dream were were SKYDIVING!!!! Without parachutes! And we flew all across the earth, and across the ocean, and we made it to this island, and were going to crash because we had no parachutes, but we pulled up against the Air just enough that we slowed down and landed right before we hit this tree. The tree was right at the entrance of these secret ruins. And we went inside with torches!! #dreams
Ann! in the car today I dreamt that we were in the apocalypse. Global warming melted the ice caps and Boston was sinking, tidal waves, killer blizzards. At first I dreamt that I was in the car with Mom and the snow was coming down harsh and we were blinded and got into an accident, but then I realized the car was fine and there wasn't that much snow. Then I was on the subway train with Ann, and the bridge collapsed, and we started to drown, sinking under the ocean, and we were grasping each other afraid for our alives, and we were trying to figure out how to escape, but the water was so powerful. #dreams
Heavy .__.
Dream: I took acid. Details escape me. I ripped out a chunk of two and a half teeth. Not just a tooth, but a chunk. #dreams
Dream: I was waiting to find Ann in her lovely low-rent neighborhood where everyone is so poor they live fo' free. There were kids everywhere, because school just got out. It felt like middle school. I asked some kid for acid. He sarcastically said he had some. Then he went to go tell a cop on me, but then the cop got HIM in trouble. He was pissed. He wanted to fight me. I knew that I had to fight him, because I couldn't live in fear everytime I visited Ann. Later in the mess hall, with everyone around, the kid took out a knife. I opened the drawer next to me and pulled out two kitchen knives. LOL I practiced swinging them, and I needed to get them to be the right weight. Usually in dreams weight is always an issue. One of them was too heavy so I switched it with a lighter one. The other one was too light so I switched it with a medium one. Perfect. The knife fight began. He kind of reminded me of a combination of Freddie and Gershon (two kids that gave me trouble in Middle School). I kept blocking his shots, but I wouldn't attack him. He encouraged me too "COME AT ME CMON" but I flipped out and started screaming this rant about WTF WE'RE DOING and how our real frustrations are not in each other but in the situation we're in, and how this is a microcosm of how fucked up humanity is as a whole, and how this place just propagates poverty, because poor people keep having more kids to get more government benefits, and it really effected everyone to the core, and the fight was over. #dreams
I smoked 5MeoDMT [I just finished reading Tryptamine palace] and it was like reality turned into a roller coaster. I was with Ann and a black female friend of hers, and we were in my room. And I shouted "THIS IS LOVE!! THIS IS THE FEELING OF LOVE!!! THIS IS WHAT LOVE IS!!". Like, having a pharmacological epiphany. Lmao. #dreams
We went to this amusement park that shot up into space and orbited around the earth. I was with Ann at first, but then we got separated and absorbed into all the pandemonium. Fucking Zero gravity snowball fights. OMG. And then I went exploring and ended up in my house, which was still spinning all weird-gravity like. At one point I found a corner to the living room that I could sit in and meditate without losing my balance. It was like some gravitational focal point or something. LMFAO I was losing my balance, floating from wall to ceiling to floor to wall. And suddenly the ghost of my mother appeared, "go toward the corner!". "Toward the corner!". And I went, and she was right. Apparently at this point my mother had long been dead lmao. #dreams
As an experiment, I fell asleep with the strobe goggles on. Two hours later I woke up fully immersed in a hallucination of the most beautiful geometry. Pulsating, spiraling, colorful, symmetric, like the coolest optical illusion you would ever see. For a moment I wondered "o_o what if this is permanent; I've awesomed my vision forever". But it quickly faded after opening my eyes. #psychonaut#strobe-goggles#dreams
I had the deepest lucid dream sleep paralysis fest ever. So deep! It felt like I was in delta. I was in a dream within a dream: I would wander between imaginary hallucinations and a dream where I had rolled off my bed, lucid dreaming on the floor. My mind felt very rough, like sandpaper. It tends to feel like that when I do this, but this time it was more clear than it has ever been. #dreams
I'm on the moon with Stephen Colbert and famous people, and Colbert is talking me up "I remember when CJ and I met the president..." #dreams
I played this game where I'd try to jump really high into space, near the escape velocity, so that it felt like there was no way I was returning to the ground again. #dreams
INCREDIBLE LUCID DREAM
I'm changing the texture of everything in my environment as I will it.
Walls twisting into fractals at my command! #dreams
interfluidity: A dream last night: I was reading something on the internet, but was only licensed for 1 eye. Would have to pay double if I opened the other #dreams
Eeee! After waking up from a dream where I had died from liver failure, I reflected. I had been a ghost living in a limbo of my own self-generated surrealist imaginary Earth, encountering people from my life with whose relationships I needed to fix. They were expressing their anti-personalities. (They talked to me in a way that expressed the opposite of what they mean. Rather, they talked to me as others had talked to them earlier in their life, revealing how their personality is a reaction to opposing foil personalities.) Waking up, I contemplated a lot about my life and what this dream was teaching me. My thoughts eventually led to a post inviting me to Club Infinity, and I realized I should create content. Existential memes. In the form of images with text. This will now be incubating in my head, as I think of things to share. Thank you. #dreams
I had a dream I made friends with the crips and bloods. The crips were really good at rollerskating uphill, and the bloods liked to throw picnics and make crafts. #dreams
I had a dream where Adam quit the band, but wrote us a long and elaborate explaination why in KANDI. It was this huge spiral of text, with him pouring his heart out. #dreams
Reverse delay. Reverse-flip a recording, put a delay on it, render, then flip back. Listen. Awesome. You could do this live too by cheating (pre-programmed delay of what you WOULD say). Explore reverse-time effects which haven't been explored? (reverse reverb?). Typically sounds are foward-timed, so people can use them in real time. Use this technique to find cool effects. If cool enough, make a dsp effect for it. #dsp
If you can simulate 3D sound with 2 headphones. Can we simulate 4D sound with surround sound? #dsp
DUBGRIND
short, 10 second songs of intense, highly-produced dubstep breakdowns, a la napalm death/agorphobic nosebleed/john zorn #cortexelation#dubstep
torqux and twist
chrisp
korg nanokontrol plus a hercules controller
racknruin remix skism
http://pastebin.com/gP8DFTjX #dubstep
http://soundcloud.com/banzai_dubstep/meditate-on-some-bassweight
I like the shpongle approach to dubstep in the beginning #dubstep
sample it up: "its a real sexual thing, the low frequencies"
http://current.com/entertainment/music/77156252_eyes-down-a-dubstep-thing.htm #dubstep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMCdnJYJL8o "D-jahsta - Transmorph"
I like the way the singer starts off sing-songy, then goes into dubstep/rap on this song, perhaps we could borrow this effect for Mandelbrot bros and Fibonacci Hoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTVNyHt13aE #dubstep
As long as the breakdown comes eventually, people will wait all song for that shit. Just as long as you don't try to deceptively pass off all the space between as high-energy danceability; just as long as you keep their anticipations building, and everyone understands. But don't tease them and return to old boring habits, because that will piss them off. #dubstep
Dodge:
~100Hz boost on Kick
~200Hz boost on Snare [mix with clap]
shuffle, syncopation, hi hat #dubstep
Eastern philosophy is more reductionist than western. The West reduces the world to matter, but the East reduces that further to the perception of matter. The West reduces the mind to the brain, but the East reduces that further to one's perception of one's brain's perception of the brain. What is more fundamental, objective or subjective? The West seeks logical certainty, while the East is comfortable sitting afloat atop paradoxes. #east-west
Jitter music video project with Echonest Music Analysis:
1) Split up a song into its pattern structure using ECHONEST ANALYSIS
2) Get a video
3) Cut up the video and paste it together into the same pattern structure in 1.
4) AUTOMATIC AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO #jitter#echonest
Can the capitalist system be bootstrapped into transforming itself, and correcting its own problems and the problems of the world?
If the answer is no, capitalism is a dead end.
If the answer is yes -- how can we leverage its advantages for the greater good? (ex: if the desires of consumers influence innovation, and if consumers demand less media bullshit and demand more ethical, peaceful, eco-friendly, sustainable things, then that is where innovation will occur) (ex. It would be in the best interest of an entrepreneur to innovate and invent a system which makes local produce growing extremely cheap, easy, healthy, and plentiful for everyone, getting everyone to rely less on giant corporate industrialization of food)
If the answer is "yes but it's too slow, resistant, or corrupt to help the world and ultimately save itself" then there needs to be some radical rethinking and tact. #economics
Psychoeconomics. Basing economic systems on happiness rather than monetary wealth. Factoring in the irrational decisions individuals make. The Paradox of choice. The taxing effect of long commutes. #economy
It's always bettter to invent a job than to find one.
It's always bettter to invent a job than to find one.
It's always bettter to invent a job than to find one.
It's always bettter to invent a job than to find one.
::fb-movie #economy
Good dnb:
Quick changes, often. Like a DJ mix .
Build ups, break downs.
Bass - - sounds bad if used melodically as like under a chord progression . .
Bass - - Sounds good monophonic; rhythmic, or expressive, or slow-changing [pitch, etc]
Bass -- okay to use sparingly, like only on the first beat of 4 measures. Don't want to desensitize
Drums - sounds really good with drums (hi-hat) jungle-jangling between kick and snare. Makes me want to dance with more details
Not a big fan of liquid dnb - - - I like more rhythmic changes
Bass - - Sounds awesome to break into pure rhythmic bass for a few measures [like psytrance-y]
Hardcore bassy stuff --- with jungly breakbeat drums over it #cortexelation#edm
Psytrance, Hardcore
Sometimes I think the hi-hat sounds really corny, and I don't like it. It should be really low in the mix, or distorted, or something else. #cortexelation#edm
The big styles [psytrance, dnb, dubstep, etc]- their sound and structure get more and more refined. It is a finer art, because it is attempting to converge on an attractor. It is like their chaos attractor has been discovered, and everyone is trying to approximate it. However, this has the problem of sounding "formulaic"; if the style is refined, but annoyingly predictable by the listener, then the effect of the sound is watered down, and thus what was once refined is now not. Thus styles must live nomadically. The Attractor, as it were, and has always been, was the *psychological effect*. Not the particular structure of the sound. So the sound has to keep adapting to recreate the psychological effect.
But other styles are more experimental, and great structure and flow is of less importance than novelty. Experimental music is beautiful and meaningful in its own right. But experimental music also functions as a primordial stew teeming with memes in an organic orgy from which producers can cherry-pick memes, remix, and plagiaize. Experimental music is, at the very least, creative in the way a Markov Chain bot is creative. New patterns are arrived at sometimes by accident, sometimes on a whim. The inspired ear is turned on. And the trained composer is inspired to structure it. "Yes this is awesome! I know exactly where to place this emotion in a larger composition of emotions". #edm
All of education should be taught in songs. #education
They only teach you in one dimension man o-o-~
What dimension is that? "Dimension boring"
Dimension authority: 'You really have to do this' #education
Experimental education: A group setting where everyone has to learn a song together. Isn't that how the Vedas are learned? And it's not just memorization. Because each sentence can more fully have its own meaning when it's echoed. #education
Tai chi with mind-controlled drone synthesis.
EEG -> PD synthesis of droning soundscape through surround sound* and sub-bass speakers. While I stand in the middle of my room and stretch.
Concentration on certain movements (up, down, clockwise, anticlockwise, push, pull) alter the sounds...cape.
+ Up and down alter the direction of the shepherd tone.
+ Clockwise and anti-clockwise rotates the soundscape around the surround speakers.
+ Push/Pull change "perceptual distance" (reverb/volume/low pass EQ)
* OR use 3D audio (spinaudio VST) instead of surround sound
* Waking up every morning, dusting off my electroenccephalogram, and doing this before adventures #app#eeg
+ Sleep experiment with Emotiv.
+ Record all sleep data for a month. Analyze it for reliable triggers [transitioning between REM and delta and theta and such]
+ Make sleep music with Rickie.
Maybe I'd have rave music going at a few different tempos polyrhythmically (for theta/alpha/beta) and then fade in/out the layered stems of the track depending on which parts of the brain have activity. #eeg
My whole brain lights up whenever I find something funny #eeg
qdot is my hero
epoc external for max/pd:
https://github.com/qdot/np_epoc/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/np-externals/files/np_epoc/
http://puredata.info/Members/thomas/flext-intro.pdf
http://www.nonpolynomial.com/externals/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qdot76367/5080605788/in/photostream/ #eeg
[12:25] < ballingt > anybody catch the name of the crazy dude working with EEG and three other things? #narcism#eeg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfw7QTZC4g Brain music [rock & roll]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ffOhF42EWA patient constructed an apparatus #eeg
Since the mind works around state-dependent memory, and most of my teen memories of ego death (crying, emotional, type) happened while getting hugs from my friends, it has conditioned me to be okay with breaking myself down psychologically. So the next time I have ego death, I feel this sense of "everythings okay cj, everythings okay" because its been conditioned so strongly (especially from you ^_^). That's the theory. #thinking-and-feeling#ego-death
I'm also working AR into it, where glyph/object/person recognition changes the filter. That way, as you navigate your environment, your experience of different rooms/people would be through different effects.#glitching
* I like the glitchiness in the details makes listening to it interesting (not just dancing to it). It's like an ocean of sounds and I can't begin to deconstruct it (it's good to have saturation in the details for those of us who are constantly analyzing music to the point of being unable to enjoy some of it haha). #electronic-music-aesthetic
* Also I like the way you play with weird timing in the melody, stretching out some parts and shortening others; while it ultimately all lines up to 4/4. #electronic-music-aesthetic
* I like the dynamic in the song structure. I like how you start building up, then have a short noisy breakdown, and then come in with the thump. And then later you breakdown and come in with the thump again. I think if you experiment more with those kinds of song structure dynamics it could give the song more power. Break further down. Then come in harder. It brings the listener into the present moment. #electronic-music-aesthetic
* Have some kind of transition sample to signify that the song has unambiguously arrived somewhere new. Like a crash or an explosion or any sound with that shape. Symmetrically, you can have an anticipating reverse-crash. #electronic-music-aesthetic
* Taking one part and having another part you transitioned to, broke down from, and switched between a few times - - builds anticipation and makes the song stick in your head. (The transition is the important part, which does the magic of song-sticking). #electronic-music-aesthetic
* Other things you could experiment with are side-chain compression to give more power to the thump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnOQWLURFU #electronic-music-aesthetic
* Also finding the right kick drum from a sample pack is good. Something which sounds powerful with a subwoofer, still powerful without it. Something is still audible through headphones (which have trouble reproducing deep bass) -- one trick is EQing the kick to have a small presence in the treble range (or by throwing barely inaudible hi-hat ontop of it). In that way, the kick makes itself known in the midst of the treble samples. Side-chain compression is also a great way to bring strength to the kick drum. #electronic-music-aesthetic
* Another thing is adding pauses staccato to the rhythm, which creates a dynamic in the texture. #electronic-music-aesthetic
* The rule of human attention is that people will pay attention to things which are changing, and they will tune-out things which have stayed constant.
If something has stayed constant, they will zoom in to its details and look for more changes there; but if there are none they will tune it out. Things which change are areas where potential messages exist. If you lead someone on to expect a message in a change somewhere, but you give them none; yet give them the one later. . .it is like a friend which you ask a question at a party, but they act like they didn't hear you and talk about themselves, but then once you walk away from them they start talking about what you asked them. And now you're paying attention again but they just change the topic to what they want to talk about; and it's this "being one step ahead of them, and having to fall back 2 steps to meet them, but then regretting it" that makes you lose a bit of energy.
Some things which are constant, however, are entrancing, and thus addicting to hear (example, a pulsing bass beat). Maybe they resonate with theta waves? It is like there is some maximum level of minimalism which is yummy, and a minimum level of complexity which is zesty. But in-between requires a bit more skill to make work. #electronic-music-aesthetic
The second rule of attention is that different people pay attention to different levels of the song at different times in different environments in different states of mind. They may be stoned, listening with headphones, deeply enthralled by the messages in the details of the ocean of sounds -- or they may be listening to it in the background while they're doing homework, in which case they have zoomed-out and are following the larger song structure changes. Or maybe they're drunk and at a party and they just want to dance, so they're mainly paying attention to the groove.
Great music can appeal to all of these levels of perception, but it is hard. Sometimes I like to think of these three as beta/alpha/theta wave correlates. WOAH I want to listen to music and measure my brainwaves. Theta is meditation, alpha is alert relaxation, and beta is intense attention. #electronic-music-aesthetic
Really great stuff builds energy by tossing your attention around. The music is like a party, and you're meeting all these people. And you mingle with some and have an awesome time, and then something happens and you get tossed to someone new; and then someone does something ridiculous and everyone's attention is brought to them. At that point everyone in the party is aware of each other and someone cracks a joke and everyone laughs. Then everyone diverges into other things and you get caught off in your own adventure again.
But the whole time you want to avoid hanging out alone for too long with anyone that makes you feel uncomfortable because either 1) they talk about themselves too much and it bores you because their lives aren't interesting and they don't try to have creative conversation with you, or 2) they're just boring people, and you never know what to say to them, or 3) they're too clingy and being around them inhibits everything you want to do, or 4) they're weird and strange, and you like that, but you can only take so much of their particular type of weird. You like them, you'd rather they be there, but don't want too much of them. #electronic-music-aesthetic
One of the most helpful things for me, I've noticed, besides going in the woods, getting high and listening to my rough drafts. . is letting my musicians friends hear my rough drafts, and asking them "if this were your song, what would you do next?" And I've had a lot of helpful criticism come out of that. Usually really obvious stuff that I agreed with once I heard them say it LOL, but didn't think about on my own. Some things are only evident to someone experiencing a song for the first time. Especially weak/strong points. Definitely ask about weak and strong points. Fix weak points. Strong points can be weird, because sometimes you don't expect something is a strong point (and you might be led to get rid of it) when in fact it is.
Once you listen to a song a few times you get a map of the song, and then you kind of lose your initial perceptions, because you have pre-existing expectations going into the song, which biases the effect of parts which play with anticipation and expectation. In the digital age, most people tend to only listen to a song once. So our audience is mostly people who are going to listen to it once, and only listen to it again if it grabs their attention in a certain way. #electronic-music-aesthetic
Good dnb:
Quick changes, often. Like a DJ mix .
Build ups, break downs.
Bass - - sounds bad if used melodically as like under a chord progression . .
Bass - - Sounds good monophonic; rhythmic, or expressive, or slow-changing [pitch, etc]
Bass -- okay to use sparingly, like only on the first beat of 4 measures. Don't want to desensitize
Drums - sounds really good with drums (hi-hat) jungle-jangling between kick and snare. Makes me want to dance with more details
Not a big fan of liquid dnb - - - I like more rhythmic changes
Bass - - Sounds awesome to break into pure rhythmic bass for a few measures [like psytrance-y]
Hardcore bassy stuff --- with jungly breakbeat drums over it #cortexelation#edm#electronic-music-aesthetics
UK hardcore
It's all in awesomeness of the bass.
- Fast melodic synth sounds cool (most of what I hear kind of reminds me of metalcore melodies)
- But no dumb cliche melodic stuff
- I think I'd do weird melodic, looping insanity stuff
Sub-bass should stay same pitch, during a loop, or barely change.
Sounds awesome section to section to change the pitch #electronic-music-aesthetics
Psytrance, Hardcore
Sometimes I think the hi-hat sounds really corny, and I don't like it. It should be really low in the mix, or distorted, or something else. #cortexelation#edm#electronic-music-aesthetics
"Just found your band brah. Holy fuck its awesome. Can you tell me more about it because I am too lazy to read."
EmperorcJ: Are you a psychoanalyst?
serpentsorcia: Are you a psychoanalyst? #eliza
Do you find it satisfying when you discover things from the collective unconscious no one had said before? #eliza
Do you think hot tamales involve an alarming hesitation followed by impulsive indulgence followed by a rush of overwhelming sensation followed by a flood of endorphins? #eliza
Saying hurtful things to someone else is like curse. Because they'll think about what you said, it'll enter their head often, even months, years later. It butterflies. Most hurtful things don't have this effect -- such as the random "go fuck yourself" you said to the guy who cut you off in traffic. Only if they're said to someone who really opened themselves up to you, who really trusted you. #emo
I think PIT is actually also a theory on the neurological effect of love -- consciousness destabilization, chaos attractors... it's all right there with love. #psychedelic-information-theory#emotions
"What is pity but seeing your own weakness somehow projected onto someone else? " -ann #emotions
Movies I have cried to: Moulin Rouge, Forrest Gump, Thumbsucker, Pokemon [the first movie, when Ash turns to stone and Pikachu is looking around at all the clones fighting themselves]... and a bunch more *tries to remember* #emotions
The importance of describing epiphanies through the lenses of already-proliferated worldviews. The importance of scaffol ding off of (or pitting yourself against) established philosophies and scientific theories. You have to speak others' languages for them to hear you. (The imaginative part of you has to speak the language of the rational part of you, and vice versa, etc) #enlightenment
The importance of creating cultural objects-- translating epiphanies into language/imagery/metaphor/art, so that it can be thought about, rationalized, digested, shared, reacted to, scaffolded-off-of, absorbed into the culture, feedbacked and deconstructed and remixed back into you. #enlightenment
What is enlightenment if it cannot be shared with others, or myself later? #enlightenment
When faced with the ineffable, will you return speaking? #enlightenment
I realized the importance of creating cultural objects-- translating epiphanies into language/imagery/metaphor/art, so that it can be thought about, rationalized, digested, shared, reacted to, scaffolded-off-of, absorbed into the culture, feedbacked and deconstructed and remixed back into you. #epiphanies
I realized the importance of devising techniques for capturing fleeting epiphanies, in a form accessible to myself later, and to others.#epiphanies
I realized the importance of describing epiphanies through the lenses of already-proliferated worldviews, philosophies, and scientific theories. You have to speak others' languages for them to hear you. (The imaginative part of you has to speak the language of the rational part of you, and vice versa, too) #epiphanies
It seems to me there are at least two ways to share information about an experience.
1) Either you utilize language, imagery, and metaphor.
2) Or you recreate the experience directly for other people.
Both are important. The first way is more accessible and digestible, while the second is clearly more direct and authentic. The first can be difficult, and will fall short, but its not impossible to convey experience and ignite others' imaginations through symbols and metaphors alone (McKenna's elegant description of DMT, for example). The second way can sometimes be impossible, but you've done a really good job piloting the ship for others, and describing the blueprints for us. If a scientist has yet make sense of his findings, he has done the world good by facilitating the re-creation of his experiment by others. #psychonaut#epiphanies
Beer is awesome. I used to think it tasted gross. But then Adam Blake showed me good beer and the beer he brews in his room #epiphanies
CJ: Where does loling fit on your scale of laughter, in relation to rofling and LMAOing
Ann Le Blanc: it's an infinite loops that goes ROTFL > LMAO > LOL > lol > :| > ROTFL, so on and so forth.
CJ: That makes sense; adding a meta layer of either sarcasm or understatement (hypobole) can further push the boundaries of expression. This is especially true when certain reactions are conditioned to be expected (doing the opposite of an expectation is a dimension in which further intensity lies) But making that come across accurately is a difficult art. For example, if I'm switching up all the time, in big leaps, the meaning is lost in the noise, unless you knew me well enough and have been paying attention well enough to always expect my reaction, and knew exactly where on the loop I had meta'd to. A new person would be confused. Which creates hilarious dynamics, where you're ROFL-5'ing, but they think you're ROFL+5ng [and there are other people in the room recognizing this, and feeding into it]. It's a very EmperorEvil thing to do. But every now and then EmperorEvil would ROFL+5 some joke, and even his closest frenemy LordKavoxx would think he was ROFL-5'ing it. Kav would think Evil was doing it just to annoy him, but really Kav's incredulous reactions were just making the ROFLs climb higher. The ambiguity would feed into the highest hilarity (ROFL+10).
So climb that edge of chaos! And make ROFLs feel like ROFLs and :|s feel like :|s #rofl#evil
ann what if we made like
:|s en masse
like with the sewing machine
they're like the easiest thing to make
like imagine a whole bed full of them
just everywhere
leaving :|s everywhere
in public
in private
every friend has :|s at their house #evil-plans
Do you know how many pusheups I did yesterday? Like over 50.
"50? Most guys are like, 'I did over 300'"
The only time I've ever heard of anyone doing 300 pushups is on Saved By the Bell. #ann#exercise
Don't count pushups when you do them. Just try to visualize all the muscle fibers your'e activating. You'll activate more. #exercise
"I was like 'OMG IM CONSCIOUS! IM CONSCIOUS' and they totally teased me about it. It was the best thing ever to be teased about."--Ann #teasing#existentialism
Do you ever feel yourself as the tip of giant geometric hyper-organism made of all the lifeforms which had sex to produce you? #existentialism
Like feeling like you in this moment are at the tip of the iceberg of an infinite history/future of cause-and-effect. Do ever feel the rolling pressure of history behind you? The desire of language to elaborate itself, pushing you; language, the millenia-old tank? Do you ever feel the vacuum pull of the future? The very act of making this comment, wishing for itself to be posted. Or do you ever feel the vacuum of the past, and the rolling push of the future? #existentialism
A few times I've gotten into a state of mind where I could just FEEL the momentum of all culture. It was like this big stone behind my back, rolling everything along. All the complexity elaborating, all the sex, all the innovation, and very existence and motives of language. Most if the time we're head-first in it [culture] so it's difficult to perceive it as an entity distinct from us. #existentialism
HYPERSISYPHUS, rolling up an infinite MOUNTAIN! to space and beyond #existentialism
Ann:
You find life meaningless because you desire authority.
You can never be your own authority if you find life meaningless. #knots#ann#existentialism
so I immediately imagine people as Machine Learning algorithms. The concept of a "dog" is learned by training one on a series of stimulus, some being dogs, and some not dogs. Your neural network extracts the patterns which make things dog-like. Every entity, even if they are running the same learning algorithm, because they are trained on different stimulus, have a different "dog" concept. This is always changing to, as more stimulus is trained on. Also the entity's particular similarity threshold (aka pattern sensitivity aka stubbornness) changes moment to moment. So now we have lots of entities with different dog concepts. Each dog-concept is made up of a hierarchy of qualities of what it is, and what it isn't, which are used for categorization of stimulus. Some of these qualities are shared among entities, some are unique. And it depends on the past [what stimulus each learned on, and how deep their analysis was at each moment of learning, the feelings that are associated with the stimulus, etc -- which is stored in the brain as long term memory structures] and the present [their pattern stubbornness, their subconscious priming, their analytical ability, etc. -- which is how these long term memory structures are being utilized]. Pretend you're looking at an abstract picture of a dog. While the eye may see something that looks very little like a dog by the time vision is filtered through long-term memory, pattern reinforcement makes the imagined experience of the painting very much dog-like, as now your activated dog-memory is triggering other modules in your imagination [vision, spatialness, the inner sketch pad, sounds, smells, feelings, logic]. A funny thing about emotions connected to stimulus -- people with Cotard's syndrome feel that their mothers are imposters, even if everything else agrees, because their emotional-memory connection is severed in their brains.
Well the way the brain learns, analyzes, and perceives, functionally, is very similar to the algorithm I described [as far as our understanding of cog sci extends today] -- pattern recognition with hierarchical temporal memory. If your question was on the details of the mechanics of perception, I believe the analogy works, and I didn't even have to mention computers. If you are asking about subjective experience, I tend to lean in the direction of panexperientialism. But beyond that, I'm not sure what question is being asked. I think the way people learn language - - with words associated to concepts which are a hiearchical collection of patterns -- reveals the mechanics of communication. Long-term memory recall allows a person to think of a whole concept given just a piece. This is how I was able to recognize the dog in the hypothetical abstract painting. This is how when I read your text I know it's coming from your whole human organism. This is the "fill in the blank" effect. So hearing "dog" activates all the patterns associated to dog in my neural network, giving me the impression of dogness in my imagination. Hearing the words "dog bark" creates two of these sensations in a row, and the temporal aspect of memory/cognition triggers another action potential in a higher layer of the cortex, creating a unique "dog bark" quale in addition to its parts. I think each micropattern which makes up a micropattern also has its own micropatterns, ad infinitum. Everything has associations, and associations in the brain are typically materialized as synapses between patterns of neural nets. When two stimulus fire simultaneously, the brain gets a strong affinity to form a synapse between them, which reinforces their association the next time you think about them/experience them. I think the features our pattern recognition system picks out are arbitrary, in that it depends on how they are learned, though the method of learning may be the same in everybody.
Primacy: through countless encounters with stimulus, certain trait-patterns become dominantly excitatory in one's identification of that stimulus, and others become dominantly inhibitory. (excitatory example: "four legs and fur? -- oh its probably a dog." inhibitory: "has all the qualities of a dog, but its face looks like a cat? its probably a cat") I think there are "atoms" of patterns in the brain, from which the others are based on. I think these are innate and have established themselves throughout evolution in the brains of mammals, vertebrates, invertebrates, etc. I think pattern recognition is traced back down to bacteria, who have the mechanics to recognize threats/poisons/food and inner/outer environment conditions, and importantly perform some sort of simple of logic with that to determine the course of its behavior. In the visual-spatial recognition part of the brain, the "atoms" are known as geons -- innate recognition of boxes, spheres, cones, etc -- which are further broken down in atoms of lines, curves, planes, etc. Even before visual information reaches the visual cortex, the post-retinal neurons already line up to recognize spirals, curves, and lines. One of theories about what's unique about brains like human brains is our natural synesthesia -- we use "atoms" of one sense to analyze another sense, on an abstract level. Music can be threatening or safe. Thinking about consciousness makes me think of rivers and whirlpools. Logic makes me think of solid blocks stacked on each other. I've always thought of conceptual intuition as being strongly spatial. Even the way we think about time is spatial (calendars, date planners, time blocks). And probably our extra layers of cortex allow all this cross-sensory pattern magic to happen. #experience
I have all these shitty microphones. What should I do with them?
OH I know, let's burn them and put them in jello and stuff #cortexelation#todo#experiment
Music experiment: 1 song a day/week or something. You can only work on that piece of music for the allotted time, and it has to do with something significant (you thought of)/(that happened) that week (or last week).
Or maybe the goal is to fit as many significant things as possible that week into the one song.
Maybe each song is a remix of the song before it.
Maybe the songs only have to be 13 seconds long.
Maybe all the songs come together into a giant song at the end of the experiment. #cortexelation#todo#experiment
Allow Ann to give me roofies, and then let her do what she will with me, and have it video taped and everything with the subjective sunglasses camera, and I can watch it the next day when I wake up with no memory #ann#experiments
I want to be like Thoreau.
Transhuman Thoreau.
Except instead of living out in the wild away from society and technology,
I live out on the fringes of the mind, and use technology to augment myself.
OH awesome experiment.
I live in isolation for a month.
And have some pre-ordained regiment of drug/technology use.
And every day I write down all my thoughts and do all these creative ideas.
* Cannabis adventure on day 1,
. * record my thoughts and ideas on the sansa.
* Energy drink on day 2,
. * listen to yesterday's recording,
. * write everything down, including what happened and everything I was thinking.
* Spend the rest of the week pursuing all creative ideas I had come up with
. * elaborating all theories in writing,
. * painting pictures,
. * photoshopping pics,
. * making music,
. * programming apps and augmented realities and such
* Then, once I finish these ideas, or a worthy amount of them
. * or I've reached the equivalent of writers' block...
. * or I'm ready to experience them [especially music or AR]...
. * then prepare for the next..
* Cannabis adventure. (4 days later)
. * Experience all creative output from the week and reflect.
. * Record thoughts on the sansa
* Repeat cycle.
* Day 9 and 27
. * Take a psychedelic tryptamine. LSD. Psilocybin.
. * Plan and prepare. Set and setting. Make sure they're good days, and my head is in an awesome place. If it's not, wait a day.
. * Fast beforehand, and probably after. Or at least eat minimally.
. * Film them
. * Day 9 will be super awesome.
. . * Reset any narrow reality tunnels I might have formed thus far.
* The next day will be a day of contemplation
* The days after that will be spent going over the documents from the tryp
. * watching the video again,
. * taking notes,
. * capturing creative ideas
. * elaborating theories.
* Continue pursuing creative manifestations and previous loop.
* Day 27 will be the Ultimate pinnacle experience.
. * Everything beforehand will be leading up to this experience.
. * All creativity and work earlier in the month will be to prepare for Day 27.
* Take whatever time after that to do whatever. Contemplation.
Do you ever intend to walk home, but instead of walking back into your house, you just keep walking past it? It's a similar sensation. It feels like you're in a new place. Your brain creates this new nook. #experiments
Max has the idea of everyone hanging out and not saying a word to each other.
It's not a social event. It's just being around each other, just doing whatever. You're not ignoring necessarily the fact that other people are there. You're just there. You're all just there. That's what we have to practice. Some people would get really uncomfortable. #experiments
Everyone needs to start talking in gibberish for a day. #experiments
We should film our friends just being themselves in their houses through the window. And post the videos anonymously. #experiments
If I pretend like don''t acknowledge you observing me, you maintain the illusion that I maintain the illusion of my own invisibility. #experiments
Extreme medititation -- like extreme ironing or the lying down game -- actually this is just extreme sitting cross-legged. But if you can hold the position for like 20 minutes and meditate then it counts. #extreme-meditation
I want to do something cuturally significant. I don't want fame beyond people I can connect to. (my friends). #fame
Unless being somewhat known feeds into me being able to do more cool things (for example, winning a big national prize so that I can continue research on my science) #fame
What if we gave plants language? What we would do is film a population of plants and trees, speed it up, and see how they interact and compete with each other. THEN we would give names to the kinds of repeated interactions they have. #plant-language#film
We should film our friends just being themselves in their houses through the window. And post the videos anonymously. #experiments#film
Make a film shot from the point of view of a chicken in a massive "free range" chicken-butching factory. Animated might be cute, but real video would be intense. OR shoot the real video, and then animate or rotoscope it. #film
Every day for a period of my life, I should make an abstract film based on whatever I dreamt the previous night. And then at the end of every film I have to wake up and be like "What? was that a dream?" OOH that part will be REAL --- since every time I wake up I want to be filmed!! And since the film is recording I can describe the dream, to remember later!! #film
The universe is full of fractals. Indeed it may even be one. --Ian Stewart #fractals
"He meant Mandelbrotwurst. The traditional meat/intestine casing that goes forever and would cure world hunger." http://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/fmwxq/fourier_transforms_are_the_ultimate_key_to/ #fractals
Ann Le Blanc) vampire ann and transforming fractal werewolf machine cj
CJ) :] LMFAO ann. God I love you. Fractal werewolf machine. It works like this: Parts of my body turn into a werewolf whenever I'm NOT the presence of werewolf-like things (such as meat, dark woods, general hairiness, etc). I also turn back a human when I'm NOT surrounded by human like things [such as flesh, houses, work, etc].
This creates an oscillating control system whereby if I'm ever too unhairy and un-wolf-like, I will revert into a werewolf. I then have to run off into the woods all hairylike and indulge in wolf-like things before reverting back to human (since I need to disconnect myself from all things human before I can be human).
With the right werewolf settings, there maintains some amount of homeostasis whereby my wolflike and humanlike nature is balanced.
However! If I turn up the sensitivity on the werewolf settings past the chaotic tipping point**, Strange nonlinear effects emerge. I become sensitive to my own wolfness to the point that I react by becoming more humanlike. I also become sensitive to my humanness that I react by becoming wolflike.
It seems like a paradox, but what happens physically (because of the latency between sensitivity and reaction (given the time it takes for signals to travel to the spinal cord and bank)) is a fairly strange. Parts of me turn wolflike, then the parts around-and-inside them turn humanlike, then the parts around-and-inside those parts turn wolflike, etc. With the right sensitivity, latency, and environmental settings the wolf-human distinction approaches fractal complexity. A human finger develops a werewolf claw develops a human cuticle with a werewolf cuticle-tip with a human tip-tip with a werewolf tip-tip-tip etc.
And if you balance it just right, out of the chaos may emerge a state of harmonic stability, whereby beautifully rippling patterns of human-wolf transformation can be influenced by thought and emotion.
A trained self-transforming fractal werewolf machine will even react to music and play his or herself like a music visualizer, pulses of wolf[human[wolf[human]wolf]human]wolf waves rhythmically beating in time, blissfully.
"I will do what I will do" -- the meaning of this sentence is a major source of disagreement among philosophers. #free-will
CJ) +starts with the assumption what people have is actually negative free will; wonders where this metaphor will lead+
Ann) If we have negative free will, does that mean free will has to exist?
CJ) hmm, well if brains perform negative free will.. then backwards in time we would have free will.
Ann) Ah there it is!
CJ) Actually, If free will exists anywhere, it would probably involve the ability to overcome entropy through HIGHLY improbable events. In other words, if people have free will, then they should be able to perform HIGHLY IMPROBABLE EVENTS at will. WHICH is what everything looks like when time is in reverse. So actually this theory is starting to congeal. Because forward in time everything appears deterministic. But backward in time everything is made of perfect coincidences. o_o #free-will
Yeah, believing things based on the effect of believing them! yes yes. ( funny how deterministic it is that a disbelief/belief in freedom leads to a worse/better life ) #free-will
I think free will has to do with world models, and acknowledging the world model strange loop. Subjects have world models, of which they are gods (the totality of the subject is greater than his world model) The subject has the freedom to move the pieces around. But also the subject is in a greater world, outside of him and his world model, which is the god of himself. So there's these meta-levels -- authority and deterministic rules moving in from above, freedom moving down below (or authority and deterministic rules rumbling from below, freedom moving up above, or however you imagine it). We're caught in the middle where higher complexity things have the freedom to play god over lesser complex things. A machine, for instance, clever enough, which thought a million times faster than we, which could sense the subtleties of our body language or mental activity, could easily brainwash us into doing anything and make us believe we acted on our own will. Likewise, we experiment with rats, ants domesticate aphids, apes throw rocks, etc.
Freedom, as I'm describing it, is a relatve position. You are "free" relative to something else. For C to be free relative to J, it generally suggests C is at least an order of complexity above J. It suggests C can simulate, emulate, and predict J better than J's attempt to understand C. C is the professional chess player which fluidly and invisibly dances around amateur player J and could manipulate J into unwittingly making poor OR superb strategic moves without J ever knowing what J was doing. With enough practice and learning ability J will become highly aware of the game and will ascend to C's level of freedom. #free-will
Reuben
I have a question about getting to know minds. I cannot tell whether some minds i meet are just not rich, or whether they are rich but closed off to me. Or something of both? This is with your questions about sweetspots in mind
CJ
It's a very good question. Are they not rich, or are they closed off, and is how I'm going about my interactions and friendship just not the way to revealing their inner riches? I lean mostly to the third, because things are only as fascinating as you perceive them to be. Also other people are reflections of you. Also the 3rd perspective inspires you to try harder, which ultimately has a benefit over the other two concrete perspectives. I find that the more I believe other people are reflections of me, the more I am aware of how things (such as awesome and insecurity) strange loop in social dynamics; the more confidence I have in not reflecting others' insecurities and just staying true to awesomeness; the more I find I have been able to make friends with anybody, and find riches in them. #friends
Flamethrower Snowboarding.
You melt the ice in front of you so you can water ski.
It maybe stars charmander. OR his lesser-known, recently-imagined familiar fire broski. #games
Suspend -- this text based game where you are a human suspended in a facility and you control 5 robots -- one for each of the aristotlian senses [sight, sound, touch, taste, smell]. #games
Game where everyone is in sensory deprivation except for one sense each. One character is blindfolded, one characfter is earplugged with white noise, etc #larps#games
Hottest possible strip game. The girl (Ann, or me, or anyone) strips one article of clothing at a time for each "win" (the girl asks the guy questions or some kind of challenge or riddle or game), until she's down to underwear -- THEN she makes one step closer to the guy for each "win". Then when the girl is real close, the guy gets to undress for each "win". And then they're both in their underwear, getting close, and its cute! #games
Jupiter dig. You have to dig through all the layers of jupiter. Build things out of the local materials, to do dig deeper. Diamond at the center?
http://www.ratedesi.com/video/v/Rm5D47nG9k4/Cannonball-in-mercury #games
Game: you're a cop. You have to catch all the graffiti artists. There's tons of all this other crime going on, like 9/11, but all you do is arrest graffiti artists. Gotta catch em all. Follow the tags. #games
Codex Seph. flash games!!! Like, in the language, and with the characters. OR, make surrela and hilarious games in your own world like that, in your own bizarre language. #games
Ang St. Side scrolling fighting game, like battle toads. Then the second level is like space or something. You're moving along a space bar. It isn't all that obvious. #games
Backflip the Earth: Does the rotation of the earth around itself, or the sun, or the galactic black hole, effect the tragectory of the falling body? #games
Memoriztough. A game will help you memorize all you need to know. Cmon, let's memoriztough. We'll throw you the sentences. You answer them. Here's a paragraph, write the real three letter pair. Example this paragraph:
You Ann? Sir, them!
(You answer them.) #games
Make games which will enhance cognition or aribitrary brain power. Memory is an easy one. #aug#games
"CJ if you made spore, how would you do it?"
- You play as Environment God
- Your organisms evolve and adapt to you
- You can take over other environments
- So can your organisms #games
The meta-game. My whole life is a giant game of "Figuring out the universe and myself". Everything fits within that game, and so I can direct my emotional investment to anything as I see fit. #games
Design levels on paper. Then scan/picture/point your web cam at the paper, and the game loads those levels, and you explore them. As mega man or whatever. #games
Make a Rom hack of Pokemon and fill the pokedex full of hilarious pokemon fusion hybrids #games
Ghost files. Look through empty sectors and collect random deleted info. Like deleted pictures. And put them into a game. You know, all of a sudden boobs.jpg becomes the boss of the level. -- Rob #games
You know those really bad sports manager games. We should make one calledv bofy cell manager. Mad funny --Rob #games
Microphone-controlled games. James Brown catching popcorn in his mouth if the audio is loud enough. Also, the camera captures your L<-- o.o -->R position #games
Make a Sisyphus game.
You roll a boulder up a mountain. And then get to see it roll down.
Why play it? It's really the same as anything else. Life is a game, with its own hills and valleys. #games
Tetris, but instead of the block spinning, the board spins around. Gravity still pulls the piece to the same side though. #games
http://cluelesscritters.com/
brian oley is a genius lmao
(what if I made something like this, but with all my friends) #games
WiiCade -- Wii API for Flash. Make flash games for the Wii!! http://labs.wiicade.com/remote/index.html Convert old games! #games
Step 1) Build a game scored with the stems of my songs.
Step 2) Play the game live [project the video so the audience can see]
Actions in the game would determine the course and direction of the music -- and I would play the game like an instrument. Preferrably, It would have to build a pretty involved game (whose actions clearly directed the music), AND something which I could take in any direction on a whim, OR a familiar game (like Tetris) which I would augment with my music. #cortexelation#games
Music-generated computer game
http://extlabs.com/geoduck/about.htm #games
Game where you can give ants and smaller animals special adaptations and gigantism, and they take revenge out on humans. #games
Cloud Exploder. Shoot the clouds, and they explode. Shoot anything and it explodes actually? #games
Cloud object-recognition.
Analyzes clouds; finds out what they look like, outlines picture. #games
A version of Tetris where the Tetris God can get Angry or Random or Benevolent. It uses AI to scan the topography and send you either useful pieces or shitty pieces. Difficulty rank between 0 and 10 about how Angry the Tetris God gets. A really angry God will send you line pieces AFTER fucking up and closing a tetris-hole. #ai#games
Braid is a game where you can make time go backwards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqWZWNn8eTQ #games
[10:43] EmperorcJ: Pritam said we should check European clubs for Molly lmao
[10:44] emperorcj: Molly said we should check American clubs for Piracetam
[10:44] emperorcj: its like a game of clue
[10:44] EmperorcJ: lmao
[10:44] EmperorcJ: LMFAO
[10:44] EmperorcJ: CAN WE MAKE THAT
[10:44] EmperorcJ: ROTFL
[10:44] emperorcj: LMAO!! YES
[10:44] EmperorcJ: THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA
[10:44] emperorcj: LMFAO
[10:44] emperorcj: *chaos notes* #games
Sonic laser tag
Use directional speakers to fire blasts of sound at people.
I think the military is developing this for riot control.
But you could do it at concerts too.
Imagine firing sub-bass? #directional-sound#riot-control#games
Here we go, something like this.
"Sisyphus Testing Shoes"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-4zSbmhFU&NR=1 #sispyhus#games
[18:59] pwn463: what would you do in gravity train game?
[19:02] EmperorcJ: the game begins with a backflip
[19:02] EmperorcJ: and you fall into a hole that has been dug through the center of the earth
[19:02] pwn463: as does any decent game
[19:02] EmperorcJ: lmao
[19:03] EmperorcJ: and then from there. . .i'm not sure, i'm still thinking about what kind of game play it will have
[19:03] EmperorcJ: you fall for 42 minutes, and there's music
[19:03] EmperorcJ: and you can see a diagram of your position in the earth
[19:03] EmperorcJ: and your speed and acceleration
[19:04] pwn463: yeah
[19:04] EmperorcJ: and at the end you have to land
[19:04] pwn463: LOL
[19:04] EmperorcJ: and if you don't land, you go back in
[19:04] pwn463: that's the whole game
[19:04] EmperorcJ: LOL
[19:04] EmperorcJ: yeah
[19:04] EmperorcJ: lmao
[19:04] pwn463: i like it
[19:04] EmperorcJ: XD XD
[19:05] EmperorcJ: not sure about game play
[19:05] EmperorcJ: maybe you just have to avoid the edges
[19:06] pwn463: this sounds basically like desert bus
[19:06] EmperorcJ: like you shouldn't be able to win by letting the game running
[19:06] EmperorcJ: letting the game run*
[19:06] EmperorcJ: it requires a tedious 42 minutes of focus to win
[19:06] pwn463: yeah
[19:06] EmperorcJ: but it shouldn't be that hard either
[19:06] pwn463: that's desert bus
[19:06] EmperorcJ: LOL
[19:07] pwn463: only i think that game was longer
[19:07] pwn463: and there was no decent music or visuals
[19:07] EmperorcJ: +looks up desert bus+
[19:07] pwn463: enjoy
[19:10] EmperorcJ: omg o.o
[19:10] EmperorcJ: lmao
[19:11] EmperorcJ: i drove across the country this summer, and those long stretches of grasslands and desert kinda get a bit claustrophobic
[19:11] pwn463: i bet
[19:11] EmperorcJ: like nothing makes me claustrophobic
[19:11] EmperorcJ: thats come the closest
[19:11] EmperorcJ: okay so maybe a little bit more interesting than desert bus
[19:11] pwn463: rofl
[19:11] pwn463: i mean
[19:12] pwn463: hm
[19:12] pwn463: what if it was quite hard?
[19:12] EmperorcJ: hm!
[19:12] pwn463: not necessarily at every moment but
[19:12] pwn463: to get through the entire thing continuously
[19:13] pwn463: actually i like this
[19:15] EmperorcJ: yeah, it should be an accomplishment to get to the end; but not something which was so hard that you couldn't beat it in a day
[19:16] EmperorcJ: maybe the tunnels could be shifting and angling, and you just have to keep in the middle?
[19:16] EmperorcJ: or maybe like
[19:17] EmperorcJ: since the earth is rotating, your angle of velocity keeps shifting you towards one wall
[19:17] EmperorcJ: very slightly
[19:18] EmperorcJ: hm
[19:18] EmperorcJ: if you died, would you start over from a checkpoint? or would you have to begin all over again? hm.
[19:18] EmperorcJ: maybe the game play could be easy, but since you have to do it for 42 minutes straight, and if you die you have to start all over again.... that is what makes it an accomplishment
[19:18] pwn463: (auto-response from pwn463) I'm not here right now
[19:19] EmperorcJ: but either way, you get to experience cool music haha #backflip-the-earth#games
Super Mandelbros.
Super Mario hack where you are constantly shrinking until new mario worlds appear. #games
I'm CJ Carr, a psychonaut, a senior at Northeastern, and from Evolver Boston. I went to the Halpern/Doblin talk you guys organized a few months ago, which was awesome! The energy in the packed room was amazing.
I will probably be able to get Neil Goldsmith (psychedelic psychotherapy researcher and author of Psychedelic Healing) to come give a presentation about his ideas in Boston sometime in May or June. I was wondering if NU SSDP would be interested in hosting this, getting a lecture hall, etc., in a format similar to the last talk. Contact me if you're interested. #get-neil
Glitch Shaman. Who controlled the RJDJ settings of the glitcher. LOL. Like, manipulating his psychology by changing the rate of feedback delay. OR on the intellectual/humourous level -- sampling and repeating things the glitcher says. Like into songs. LMAO. Totally want to do that. #glitch-shaman
Okay so I'm building a sensory deprivation chamber in my friends' large closet. It will be surrounded on all sides by 8 large mirrors (we have them! freaking infinity room!) Next there will be LED christmas lights. The lights will reflect into infinity, and will look like you're in the cosmos. Next, there will be awesome speakers, with a powerful bass, out of which rave music will come out. The lights will blink in sync with the music. The rave music will be DJ'd live, and things the you say will be remixed into the song. Maybe they will be things you said earlier.
OH Maybe it will go from dance to not-dance back-and-forth, and you have to talk out loud in-between, and the DJ remixes what you said. I think we might need two DJs. One for the music, and the other for sampling you [glitch jockey]. Super bonus points if you are a musician, and the DJ remixes your songs. #glitch-shaman
It's all about creating highly intricate personal experiences for an audience of ONE.
(Although the whole thing would be so entertaining and hilarious for everyone.) #glitch-shaman
Glitch TV. Like everything autotuned. LMFAO. You have a keyboard changing all notes everyone is singing. And you're like on your couch all lethargic. #glitching
What if you let your baby listen to echos of its own screaming? What if you glitched a baby? Would it like.. learn self perception? Would it develop language faster? O_O #glitching
Hook up several people's microphones. Each one a different point in frequency and space. Look up 3D audio. GPS #glitching
Double projectors and cameras. Seeing through the wall. #glitching
One room, everyone is blindfolded and listening to the others' audio. The other room, everyone is earplugged and watching the projector #glitching
Visual glitch where you turn a small band of color into a large rainbow. Autumn colors become rainbow. Rainbow trees. #glitching
What would happen if you glitched a wombed fetus with sound? Reactive kicks. #glitching
We can put on the AR goggles and make everything rainbow and look at all the muffins in the bakery!!!! I wonder if switching the color hue makes things taste differently? #synthesia#glitching
Me I've mostly been doing headphones+mic and audio filters [1.5 delay + 30 second delay is my favorite so far; plus pink noise with the mid-vocal range cut]; wireless iPhone camera [especially if you can place the camera somewhere good and try to navigate in the 3rd person]+video goggles+ski mask [to block everything else out] and video filters [horizontal flip has been the most fun to play with, also color hue changes]. I haven't worked in the Epoc yet, mainly because it's a pain in the ass to setup and doesn't seem to produce much interesting data [maybe i'll use the raw audio signal instead of the pink noise]. I've just been carrying my laptop in my backpack, but maybe a beagleboard would be better since it's light. #glitching
I'm trying to develop glitch shamanism: where one's audio/visual experience can be remotely controlled by someone else. The glitch shaman/reality jockey would see/hear what you see/hear, and would control the filters, and would sample things you say [or other people say] and repeat them back to you at purposeful moments. #glitching
Use Jitter with max/msp for webcam effects #glitching
Write a story using real-life games.
Two people glitching, unable to hear each other well. The goal is not to understand each other, but to bounce off of each other in creative directions. Whatever you do, do not say anything like "wait what did you say". But dont try to be random either. Just respond off of what you think the other person is saying. #surrealist-games#story-ideas#glitching
http://tngames.com/
3rd space -- Vest generates actual impact forces to your body emulating the quality, character, and directional attributes of what you see happening.
Imagine composing music for this? #glitching
Sleight-of-hand live performance of impossible sounds from an acoustic instrument.
Example: impossibly long sustain of a note; lmao #cortexelation#glitching
How can you prove to me there is or isn't a God when my kind of reality structure doesn't even make space for the existence or non-existence of a God. #reality-tunnels#god
One who constructs a logical proof for the impossibility of God. . .holds logic above God. #reality-tunnels#god
Obviously God sent us HIV to use as a tool for genetically modifying ourselves into superhumans #transhumanism#god
"When it happens, it happens down to earth, between you and me, between people, that's where it can happen. God is not a being at all... it's a word for experience, or human experience." Rev Klaas Hendrikse #god
Today I read through half of Godel's Proof by Nagel. Feels good to kick knowledge ass. "Pure mathematics is the subject in which we do not know what we are talking about, or whether what we are saying is true." --Russel. LMAO. He's right though. 1) formalized mathematics is merely the manipulation of symbols according to rules, and it is without attachment to meaning in the world by necessicity. 2) mathematicians can not prove the truth of anything -- they can only show whether conclusions follow from a given set of axioms -- but whether or not the axioms are true are a much harder problem. Do axioms exist at the purest base of mathematics which are true and consistent, and from which all theorems derive? That's the big question. Principia Mathematica was written and everyone thought they finally found the ultimate truthiness proving system of mathematics. Then Godel put them all to shame LMAO. #godel
Hm. I think memes, like people, have a range of life/death. Starting from great life (high velocity viral change), to lesser life, to obscurity, to endangered, to extinction, to great death. In the case of extinction, a meme still lives in platonic heaven, as the forces of the world could come together and discover it again one day from scratch and leftovers. (All the same we can bring back a Neaderthal from extinction, having enough of its DNA, while imputing the rest from statistical analysis). A time machine also would be able to bring back the dodo -- all the same we have the Way Back Machine, which has kept records of old sites I made when I was 14. Even something like the Earth being incinerated and everything lost -- is still an obscurity. Light years away, aliens can still poke a telescope at us, and listen in on our radio waves, and attempt to recreate us and our culture. Or if the universe collapses, maybe the computer its running on has a back-up. Maybe Great Death is never-having-ex
isted-at-all. It seems like it would be the case that most things are Greatly Dead. Or maybe no things are. Hmm. Good absurd question to ask people. #memes#great-death
How fast would you have to go in your car to run a red light claiming that it appeared green to you due to the Doppler Effect?
—Yitzi Turniansky #xkcd#science#great-fucking-questions
BRAINTHUNDER
a room with touchscreen walls reacting to a conversation or monologue.
Points in the conversation appear as nodes on wall.
You can reference earlier parts in the convesation. #hack
Enthusiasm detector from voice
http://emotion-research.net/wiki/Databases #chaosnotes#mrsans#hack
"We can't figure out who updated the site"
"Turns out Chinese hackers did useful work"
"LMAO @ the idea of a hacker superhero, hacking things and finishing people's projects. "
"Maybe I should try that. I need to balance out the karma from everything I did when I was a teenager" #hackers
"..she was saying about not being happy with who she has been being, which is something i can relate to, but i was suggesting to her that identity, who we are, is not a state, but a process, and being unhappy with current states is just failing to be happy with their part in the process leading to something wiser better and more beautiful -- Reuben #reuben#happiness
In a society, it's important for at least one individual to keep the fire burning alive for some ideology or art -- because it may become useful in the future. This is the function of hipsters. #hipsters
The song right before: "Super Mega Deathtrance" right before "The Fall" in 23's Going Quantum deathmix inspired me to imagine "melting" dubstep or complextro, where every sample is moving downward somehow.
http://www.facebook.com/SoundsLike23?sk=app_178091127385 #hypersispyhus
HEAVY 2^x curve riff
o o o o
BWEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BAM BAM shuggaduggazxcvbzcxmv #hypersisyphus
Hypersisyphus
Should it be a new Project? I wonder. #hypersisyphus
Or just name the band SISYPHUS
Or the album "hypersisyphus" #hypersisyphus
hypersisyph.us
put links to Dan Stowell's pieces.
creative commons variations of drum n' bass, gabber, psytrance, etc
max/msp patches and such #hypersisyphus
layers of side-chain compression, compressing the song itself [at the next layer] #hypersisyphus
It may make more experimental sense to set up a temposhift in Acid or Ableton, [instead of building all these Max Tools], and building risset that way; because then you can more easily implement all sorts of novel interactions between the layers instead of just the normal additive approach. #hypersisyphus
You could however make a Max4Live patch that easily interfaces with Ableton; applying tempo shifts of the appropriate curve; aligning metabars; [copying effects?] etc. #hypersisyphus
Risset Remix of Goldie's timeless . . or if it's not a remix it at least alludes to it
call it Hypertimeless #hypersisyphus
Psytrance risset probably will sound way better if you synthesize with MIDI instead of through sample manipulation
http://www.wwaym.com/nwbass.html #psytrance#cortexelation#hypersisyphus
Risset filter for filling an infinite cup. Make an animation. NO shoot a video. Have the video loop forever. OR, have a whole at the bottom of the cup, so it fills forever. ((Then it breaks into song? Beatbox? Risset rhythm?)) #hypersisyphus
Infinite acceleration psytrance : pitch shift up in one ear, shift down in the other ear. Keep the beat moving in one direction. Then breakdown and switch it. #hypersisyphus
http://hypersisyph.us
Needs to zoom in on his head. #hypersisyphus
Alex listened to hypersisyphus spiraltrance over Koreans crying because Kim Jung Il died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xy2InXXIkk #cortexelation#hypersisyphus
Psytrance game
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Vibe13/vectrix
Could we make a spiraltrance game? #game#hypersisyphus
Risset dNb I think would move upwards and would have to have beats which keep shifting. None of this blending nonsense. It needs designated points where the beats shift.
Risset Dubstep I think would move downward, and would be the same. Shifting beats.
Triplet transitions would sound cool. You know, like from sixteenth notes, to triplet eighths, to eighths.
Electro, hardcore, gabber, psytrance -- blending is fine, I think. #hypersisyphus
" All you have to do is think happy thoughts, and you can fly . . . "
Peter pan quote as an intro to a hypersisyphus song #hypersisyphus
Build hypersisyphus from a rave-music sample pack.
link:http://rapidshare.com/files/113467769/Rave91.rar.html
pass: dogsonacidzb
http://www.filestube.com/p/prime+loops+ravestep #hypersisyphus
Anyway, a lack of a wide range of weird music at Burning Man was a good thing, because a week of dancing made me to listen to what sounded good, and what I found lacking. It has pushed me to want to create my next music project: Hypersisyphus. Accelerating rave music. Risset rhythms, for those dancers who are daring enough. Long insane perpetual buildups, and heavy-hitting briefly-lived breakdowns, where everyone is supposed to go as insane as possible, until they run out of steam and need to catch their breath. I want to turn the music inside-out and give most of the attention to the buildups. A good build-up is hard, especially if you want to make it long and insanity-inducing. It is like surfing. How to keep the dancer on the verge of anticipation without making them so uncomfortable they don't feel like waiting for the breakdown, or making them lose excitement? Maybe it is at this point they will realize that they can actually dance to the risset rhythms. But anyway, I often feel like most buildups aren't long +enough+, and the effect is like the boy eating the marshmellow right away, instead of holding out and getting two later. Sometimes instant gratification builds up your tolerance to being gratified. For Hypersisyphus I'd create controls (rate of acceleration, repetition and timing, etc) for myself for playing off of the crowd. Because I have no idea how I would expect people to react, and it would be different everytime and everywhere I go. #hypersisyphus
*Gasp! An idea! Music to be tickled to? Almost certainly this is job for Hypersisphus #hypersisyphus
http://typewith.me/cjchaosnotesseptember
Paul Lansky
http://music.princeton.edu:16080/~paul/sf/heavyset.segment.mp3
Dance music based off of remixed experimental composers
Alvin Lucier I am sitting in a room
DJ mix hardcore breakdowns into deathstep.
From there, september11th remixes. Hypersisyphus remixes takes each part and accelerates it to ridiculousness.
43% burnt #cortexelation#hypersisyphus
Melodic Extratone Manifestoven
Hardstyle -> Speedcore -> Extratone -> actually it was bach the whole time -> slows down again -> into speedcore. #hypersisyphus
HYPERSISYPHUS website. Links to risset rhythm songs. #hypersisyphus
Cortexelation: Pure identity of self. Starts with a concept/feeling to express, uses genre as a color to paint it.
Hypersisyphus, z¬: Pure identity of sound. Start with the sound, figure out what to express with it. #cortexelation#hypersisyphus
Make hypersisyphus site. Spiral text
http://www.festisite.com/text-layout/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25059665/Spiral.html #hypersisyphus
When beat gets to dnb speeds, consider throwing in a bit of swing #hypersisyphus
Use physical modeling sound synthesis to create an impossible instrument -- in particular, an instrument which can only exist in 4 or more dimensions of space. For example: a Klein Bottle which can be bowed, or a tesseract which can be played like a drum. #music#hyperspace
Cortexelus: When I slip into hypnogogia I see what I simplistically refer to as the "shape of my mind". I'm usually not aware of it unless I just came out of that state; or if I do become aware of it while I'm in it the mere act of observance sends me out of that state. Although I've gotten much better at maintaining the balance of being aware of myself in hypnogogia without destructive interference -- I think this is one skill meditation was made for.
David Van Vorst: freedom from the thinking mind
Cortexelus: Mm; something like that, but I think it could be better worded. Because once I'm balanced in that state I am free to think language-based thoughts at will, even without interfering with any of the audio hallucinations. It's more like. . .freedom from acting on particular subconscious impulses [damping the noise] so that your conscious mind has more influential power (on your self, or on others) and then also not acting on that power. One way I practice is in social situations -- I try not to give off any unconscious body language, or break eye contact without intent.
An allegory would be -- not spending money on things you don't need, and saving up more and more over time, and then perpetuating the moment where you have all this spending power. #cortexelus#hypnogogia
We listened to Alan Watts talked about how there is no difference between the higher and lower self, and believing that you are the lower self trying to let the higher self shine through only exacerbates the problem. She showed me an inspiring part of an episode of the Office where California talks about letting fear play a role in our lives. She also showed me part of a philosophy lecture from the 50sish with a really awesome professor who passionately makes the point about the necessary role of idealism. You must overshoot man in order to arrive at what he is really capable of. Whereas if you try too hard to be realistic you will underestimate him. It was so awesome. Totally want to sample it. (If Ann reads this she should embed a link to it.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjIOtVkJ4kA
I've been an idealist for a long time (3-5 years? I should pinpoint the shift), and I've always felt that in a lot of ways, and for a lot of purposes, it made the most pragmatic sense to be so. Which means my position is of a realist wrapped up in an idealist. I can go on about this if you like. But seeing this professor articulate his point of view so succicintly and impassionately --- so awesome. #idealism
The 20th century British scientist Sir James Jeans wrote that "the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine" #idealism
The ability to use different categorical methods on command. . . is a metacognitive superpower I've been working on for the past few years. . . however I have little thought of it in terms of formalized psychological concepts, and ought to think of it more as such. It started as a technique which started off a pragmatic way to avoid obstructions to happiness, by finding ways to justify awesome in any situation. It later became a way to infer significant information from seemingly uninteresting stimulus [oh that's not a boring leaf, that's a whole city of cells, that's a novel in the DNA library of Earth, that's a pattern whose self-similarity extends into the forest as a whole, etc]. On the outside, it appears as a source of optimism, though is not blind because it is derived from a particular shift in categorical perception. Perhaps it is the reason why a realist may appear to be an idealist. #idealism
Idea lists!! I think idea lists should be encouraged to become libre and open source, because there is a severe depletion of good ideas in other parts of the noosphere, and a single thinker can't do _all_ his good ideas. Even your esoteric ideas could inspire someone else. #ideas
Car horns don't have to be so dissonant and cacophonous. They just have to be +anything+. Anything at all to get someone else's attention. Because I mean, when the the light turns green, and you don't immediately notice, and the car behind you HONKS obnoxiously, and you think "geez asshole, couldn't you wait a second". On the other hand, if you suddenly heard Ice Cream truck music behind you, for a split second, it might not drive you bananas. #ideas-for-a-future
Transcarnation -- what distinguishes a person, besides their body? Their personality. What determines a personality? Part genes. But mostly experience. Everyone has their own unique set of experiences, but some people share experiences. #slovos#identity
If identity is arbitrary, I can think of myself as anything. Assume I am the sum total of all my influence on the world. Cause-and-effect cannot be stopped. Thus I live forever, and my afterlife is the consequence the world faces, having lived with me. #identity
You were there when
I first last saw you
You are here now
In my a r(m s)
Imagination: one step ahead of r e a l i t y #reality#imagination
Your imagination is something reality made. Reality made a brain in a human that imagines your oxymoronically-named "unreal" situation. #reality#imagination
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/308256_640430160802_464817374_n.jpg
Hehehe! Sky dragon through the clouds, that sense of wonder and wtfness! Aww the adult doesn't see the sky dragon. What can we do help prevent adults from imagination atrophy? I kind of want to make a remix of this, where I'm sitting in a chair, and in my window I see this fractal-psychedelic dragon with music flying all around him, with the story of the cosmos written in his scales, because I'm older and my brain can do that.
You know, children need not necessarily have better imaginations. As you get older, while some parts of your imagination may atrophy, many parts of your imagination become refined. For example, my ability to spontaneously compose music in my head. My ability to imagine how to integrate all of the abstract knowledge I have into a cohesive picture of a reality. My ability to imagine the depths of the psyche of a real or fictional character.
I think adults should recognize that and feel good about themselves and their imagination. And if they felt good, and not hopelessly adulterated, they would use their imagination more. #imagination
You know how when you lose a war and your empire falls because it was kind of evil but you generally accept that and move on? Rejecting the old nationalism and adopting a truer identity?
America is a country full of a significant number of people who have already moved on.
We've. . .our fall is one of those comatose band-aid band-aids keeping artichoke hearts cycling vegetable oil through idling memory stacks because as long as the grant money keeps coming we can party on top of the body. #imperialism
I think part of the reason improv comedy is funny is because the audience perceives all this creative pressure on the actors, who are making everything up on the spot. The audience is right there with the actors on the edge of chaos. If a typical improv skit was actually entirely written when performed, it wouldn't be that funny. I think the same goes for live music. Improvised music vs written music; it's the edge of chaos thing which engages people. I think John Zorn used to come up with "games" for his musicians to play. That's something I want to explore more. Maybe you would announce the rules of the game to the audience, like improv, and then play it out musically. Maybe you could mix acting too, and other forms of art. #cortexelation#improv
Write a story using real-life games.
Two people glitching, unable to hear each other well. The goal is not to understand each other, but to bounce off of each other in creative directions. Whatever you do, do not say anything like "wait what did you say". But dont try to be random either. Just respond off of what you think the other person is saying. #surrealist-games#story-ideas#glitching#improv
"CJ perpetually has a ! over his head."
!
O_O
-- Erin from BerkleePulse #imreallyawesome
Random content links for website?
Like, games, audio, etc.
Generates random blocks of content each time you go.
But also has a list somewhere. #imreallyawesome
That's pretty weird; imagining what you would have thought in the past. "So while you were meditating, what would you have been talking about?" #zen#isaac
Andy Kaufman adventure -- doing something really inconvenient, like reading the entire Great Gatsby, or watching the sausages cook at Ozzfest starvingly. #slovos#isaac
Make Isaac a stuffed animal Venn Diagram for his birthday #plush#isaac
Jitter music video project with Echonest Music Analysis:
1) Split up a song into its pattern structure using ECHONEST ANALYSIS
2) Get a video
3) Cut up the video and paste it together into the same pattern structure in 1.
4) AUTOMATIC AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO #jitter
1. Buy one of each of every kind of noodle
2. Make a big pile of all the noodles
3. Then repackage all these bags of multi-noodled noodles
4. and give them to my friends for Christmas #jk?
https://flippa.com/126119-The-Original-Facebook-Mosaic-Profile-Picture-Generator---Profile-Banners
http://activeden.net/
hmm, make a living programming small little cool things? #computer-science#job
Ann came up with a meta Steven Wright joke, which you preface by telling the audience that it's going to be meta: "Some friends of the family tell me I have my mother's sense of humor, but others insist I have my father's. Neither of them are funny." The punch line is that no one will laugh, haha. If the audience finds it funny, then it's funny; but if the audience doesn't laugh, then it's double funny and then they will laugh double. #jokes
Write a journal in blank ink. Fill the journal, but leave a lot of white space. Then when you're done, go back and write in red ink. Fill it. Then do blue, green, etc. Each color could a meta journal, commenting on old ideas -- or a different kind of experiment, or whatever. #journal
Write a journal in blank ink. Fill the journal, but leave a lot of white space. Then when you're done, go back and write in red ink. Fill it. Then do blue, green, etc. Each color could a meta journal, commenting on old ideas -- or a different kind of experiment, or whatever. #journal
I got so much Kandi.
Kandi is really cheap on ebay. I think the time it took me to order everything equaled out to what work ended up paying me for. XD!
I was thinking. . . experimenting with long quotes, and have it spiral around. Or, making a whole bunch for Cortexelation and handing them out at shows, or in the CD case. Or, making a whole bunch, with culturally significant things on them, memes, and then giving them to people to wear and give to other people when they're done
Or even one that says "pass it on" and then you give it to someone all "|:". Like wear for a month if you want, and pass it on when the meme's magic is fully drained. #memes#kandi
(10:52:48 PM) Kav: LMFAO@life
(10:52:49 PM) Kav: just
(10:52:50 PM) Kav: oh MAN
(10:53:15 PM) Kav: just jumping around, moving my body through bars and over fences
(10:53:22 PM) Kav: rolling through pipes
(10:53:36 PM) Kav: just being alive LMAO #kav
(10:34:17 PM) Kav: let the hate consume you:|
(10:34:21 PM) Kav: join the dark side
(10:34:22 PM) Kav: :|
(10:36:21 PM) Kevil: :|
(10:36:38 PM) Kevil: what if i just walked in front of a car:|
(10:36:44 PM) Kevil: after you telling me that
(10:36:46 PM) Kevil: :|
(10:37:20 PM) Kav: :|?
(10:37:28 PM) Kav: that's not joining the dark side
(10:37:48 PM) Kav: unless you mean walked in front of a parked car on the way to enter the dark empire building
(10:37:56 PM) Kevil: LMAO:| #kav
CJ: Where does loling fit on your scale of laughter, in relation to rofling and LMAOing
Ann Le Blanc: it's an infinite loops that goes ROTFL > LMAO > LOL > lol > :| > ROTFL, so on and so forth.
CJ: That makes sense; adding a meta layer of either sarcasm or understatement (hypobole) can further push the boundaries of expression. This is especially true when certain reactions are conditioned to be expected (doing the opposite of an expectation is a dimension in which further intensity lies) But making that come across accurately is a difficult art. For example, if I'm switching up all the time, in big leaps, the meaning is lost in the noise, unless you knew me well enough and have been paying attention well enough to always expect my reaction, and knew exactly where on the loop I had meta'd to. A new person would be confused. Which creates hilarious dynamics, where you're ROFL-5'ing, but they think you're ROFL+5ng [and there are other people in the room recognizing this, and feeding into it]. It's a very EmperorEvil thing to do. But every now and then EmperorEvil would ROFL+5 some joke, and even his closest frenemy LordKavoxx would think he was ROFL-5'ing it. Kav would think Evil was doing it just to annoy him, but really Kav's incredulous reactions were just making the ROFLs climb higher. The ambiguity would feed into the highest hilarity (ROFL+10).
So climb that edge of chaos! And make ROFLs feel like ROFLs and :|s feel like :|s #rofl#evil#kav
"Do you think it feels really good when we kiss because we have awesome chis?"
Spoken aloud, one hears "awesome cheese"
But I do actually believe this to be the case. #ann#kiss
lmagine a triangular interface. Maybe your most important buttons were at the top. Maybe sentences could be triangular, like you start off with the most important subject, and elaborate downward.
LARPs are awesome, and I should play one. #todo#larps
LARPs are like highly structured Improv Comedy. #larps
I asked a guy what the most surreal LARP he ever played was, and he said it's the kind where everyone is Amensiac. Everyone has no memories of thetir characters, and they're given clues, and they have to figure out what happens. #larps
Game where everyone is in sensory deprivation except for one sense each. One character is blindfolded, one characfter is earplugged with white noise, etc #larps
Hey! Life classification system!:
There totally needs to be a separate grouping which distinguishes different mediums of life (organic, memetic, machine, virtual, etc) #life
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - Jean De La Bruyere #life
Even the temporarily of our life could be a minority. Seconds? Psh. The forest is raving at 400 beats per century. Century? Psh. It took the Earth 5 billion years to organize and self-replicate (assume we terraform other celestial ...bodies) Billions of years? What? The life of a pion is .000000001 seconds before multiplying into a muon and neutrino -- and it cherishes every nanosecond of its fulfilling existence. Nanoseconds? Woah, what a long time. Think of the multitude of life that existed in the first yactosecond of the universe before there were even any quarks! #life
Challenging yourself with something awesome you want to do every day for 30 days and how that has the effect of making you awesome. Inspiration.
I want to write a song every day for 30 days. #cortexelation#life-goal
It is my goal to get nearly as fast as the fastest world record of everything. #life-goals
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/17/rubiks-cube-for-the.html
http://www.yankodesign.com/2006/02/17/rubik-cube-for-blind-by-zhiliang-chen/
solve one of these #life-goals
Why is light profound? Is it because of the state of mind we are in, in the presence of light? A lighted environment gives one (spatial) knowledge, trust, familiarity, and certainty; while a dark place tends to lean on the side of paranoia, unknown, and uncertainty. But I've always preferred the dark place to the light.
There is discernment in dark dwellings when light blinds the eyes-- the wisdom in whispers which disquiet drowns out. The medium is the message when the canvas is clean. #light
Dave: Pokemon SNAP should be called "Throwing shit at pokemon"
Everyone: LMAO
CJ: Wait maybe we can turn it into an acronym. Hmm let me look up synonyms for 'throwing'
*2 minutes later*
CJ: "Shit nagging at pokemon"
Dan: I'm never calling it that. #lmao
ACquarius05: peace monsta!
EmperorcJ: LMAO the peace monster, he's hiding under your bed, nonviolently resisting #lmao
LMFAO. Rob gave me a Relax Drank. "Extreme relaxation. Slow your roll." LMFAO. At first I thought the name of it was sarcastic, but it actually has melotonin in it, the hormone that regulates your sleep schedule. #lmao
Zack: My friends and I are in a collaboration called The Threesomes but there's five of us lol
CJ: That makes sense because of the five of you there are 10 different combinations of threesomes possible.
Zack: XD
CJ: I had to do the math quickly on that one in order for that joke to be funny
CJ's head: 5! / (5-3)! / 3! = 5*4*3 / (3*2) = 10 #lmao
"I feel as if I have liberated a thousand fair maidens whom were
imprisoned by some tyrannical idea of disney love"
-- Reuben #love
I'm totally a sap. I watched an advertisement for yahoo, and teared up. There was a guy sending an email "sorry", and it zooms in on it, and it turns into an animation of a guy with a heart on his shirt that breaks, and turns into the guy and girl being all in love and awesome, rapid fire montage, and then into them fighting and the guy walking away, and then of the guy with a transparent heart, and the girl comes back with a piece of the heart, and puts it into place, and they smush together all happy again, and it zooms out with the email reply "i forgive you" and yeah it plucked me in the strings and I teared up a little. I'm totally a sap (: <3 #love
Tangent: I just imagined two people with multiple-personality-disorder having all of their personalities fall in love with each others' #ann#psychology#love
I think PIT is actually also a theory on the neurological effect of love -- consciousness destabilization, chaos attractors... it's all right there with love. #psychedelic-information-theory#emotions#love
I think there is still something good to the art of couples which should not be lost in history with the invention of birth control. A couple is like the acid trip of friendships. When you're on acid, the universe feels as if has been created specifically for you, and every moment feels like is perfect beauty. When you're in love, it feels the same -- here is another person who exists specifically for you, who creates themselves specifically for just you, and everything about them feels like perfect beauty. True friendships carry with it a similar feeling, but romantic love is the extreme form of it. Romantic love (hereby referred to as "lubbiwub") is the acid trip of friendship, because all of these subconscious forces and archetypes can rise to the surface and manifest. Lubbiwub is a chaotic, unstable system, strongly influenced by initial conditions. Lubbiwub can transform into hell and hate, and transform right back into sunshine, hugs, and infatuation. And perhaps lovetripping is only for the most daring of explorers. Lovenauts. It is the extreme art of "how much two people can give themselves to each other". And when it works it fosters rapid mental growth for both people. I agree: love is the bond which holds all true friends together. Good friendships are stable systems. Lubbiwub is a special form of this love: it is the acid trip of this love, and it is an unstable chaotic system.
Falling in love re-organizes mental structure. It is true that when one first falls in love, one's brain undergoes dramatic neurogenesis. Sustaining positive mental growth through love is as a difficult as sustaining any enlightenment one gets from an acid trip, however it is not impossible. If you lose it, it can return again. In both cases, I think the most important part is *integration* of the lovetrip. When your trip balances out, you must take when you have learned and apply it usefully and pragmatically.
Have it inspire you in all corners of your life!
Create!
Being in love and having been brought to such psychological depths, I have become more sensitive to my intuitions of the psyche, in myself and others'. I have confronted my insecurities and irrationalities. There are so many strange loops between couples which can lead to inhibitory/negative behavior, which if one was just aware of the insecurities which generate them, could be avoided. On the other end, setting in motion long-term positive strange loops reinforces beautiful growth.
I think if you were going to be totally completely in love, you would have to give it all or nothing. It is the true existential experiment.
You are taking "who you are" and making it someone else's universe, and vice versa, ad meta*. It is getting to know yourself (the human being) on magnified, amplified level. From a panpsychist open-individualist perspective, you are after all both people. The question is whether or not you really want to know yourself in this way, and what good can come of it. And I think just as psychonautics is not for everyone, lovenautics is not for everyone either. A couple is a collaboration. An art project. All good art evolves. It is one of the most complex challenges known to mankind. One brain is complex enough, but here we are dealing on the order of brain^2. #love
A model of ethics where it is unethical to be infatuated with someone who's not into you.
Soul sucker! #love
[12:09] EmperorcJ: I can't believe what we have
[12:09] EmperorcJ: and I might cry
[12:09] emperorcj: o_o
[12:09] EmperorcJ: ;///;
[12:09] emperorcj: O_O
[12:09] EmperorcJ: most people will never have this
[12:10] emperorcj: o.o they'll never
[12:10] EmperorcJ: They'll die without it and they won't even know
[12:10] EmperorcJ: *pretends to hug*
[12:10] emperorcj: o.o they'll have not even known it was a real thing to have #ann#love
You know I think in my mind it's possible you transcend the beauty of the whole universe. Which at first you might respond "Preposterous! How could something +within+ the universe be MORE beautiful the universe as a whole? You've contradicted yourself: it's simple logic and set theory." But then I'll say that you are so surreal that my mind can't accept that the universe produced you. It puts you in your own category of beauty apart from everything else. My mind intuits "no no it's way more likely +she+ in her endless beauty made my universe, from the very beginning" and uses some retrocausal strange attraction trickery to justify it. #ann#love
New project idea: videogrind. I wonder if I could pack as many conceptual images as I can into an insane visual onslaught. With things zooming into each other, data moshing, etc. To some 1:43 minute song I make. YES. It shall be a love song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDwOu1t-L6I #loveisthesong
Sample philosophers talking about love, and human connection.
TURN IT INTO A SONG YO
with warm, loving, Adam James Davis esque noise. #loveisthesong
"There's no more need for melancholy love songs.
There's no need.
Everyone has cell phones.
I call you, you're there.
When you're not here, you're online.
When I'm asleep, you are online.
When I wake up in the middle of the night, there you are.
There's no more need to be sad.
In the 50s, I could see someone being late for a date, and driving around in their convertable looking for a payphone, and reaching in their pockets and not even having a dime, but that doesn't happen anymore.
You can talk to someone even when you're driving the car. " -- Mom #loveisthesong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiptUShsnGs&feature=related
Thumper gets a girlfriend,
his foot, it thumps. . . hmmm
Heart beat #cortexelation#loveisthesong
My fifth project is an EP called Love is the Song: and I will make high-energy, esoteric love songs that attempt to capture this wonderfully beautiful phenomenon, and express my inspiration and appreciation in the sexiest medium I know [music!!].<3<3 #todo#cortexelation#loveisthesong
A shaman is the healed madman, who confronted those dark, bezoomny parts of his psyche and transcended himself. By analogy, there must be a shacouple (or shamates). Shamates are a healed madcouple. #lubbiwub
Social experiment: make a really bold, ambiguous statement about your position on something taboo. And watch how others react to their projections and interpretations of what you meant. #machievellianism
Trademark bomb (n) - when (flash mob style) a ton of people copy a trademark all at once, more than any team of lawyers could threaten. Normally to keep a trademark you need to a team of lawyers to enforce your claim to that trademark. You have to constantly threaten legal action if others take your trademark, no matter how ridiculously, otherwise you will lose it. Trademark explosions happen all the time (flash games using nintendo characters, fan sites, fanfiction, etc), but this could totally done purposely. #machievellianism
Follow it through with me. We begin with addition and positive integers. Subtraction leads to non-positive integers. Division (non-positive exponents) leads to non-integer numbers. Roots (non-integer exponents) lead to non-rational numbers. Negative roots (non-integer exponents of negative numbers) leads to imaginary numbers. Keep going. Logarithms give you transcendental numbers (e). Hyperexponents/tetration (non-rational exponents?) leads to..what? Do the classes of numbers keep elaborating? At any point do we reach an uncountable set? What if we elaborated the sets of numbers produced by hyperoperations as their complexity approaches infinity? #math
Create an AI which will learnt o solve mathematical problems. For instance, what is the function for non-integer tetration? Maybe your AI will need to learn from the patterns of integer tetrates, and produce a solution intuitively or brute-force-like. Then publish a paper in the AI's name.
What is the final metaderivative of this function?
(integral from zero to infinity)[ 1.01^^x dx ]
An infinite integral series! Yes no? Can it be simplified?
As the powertower approaches infinity? #math
+listens to amateur math metal+
Lame@over abundance of tritone.
Math metal bands are supposed to be avoiders of the strange attractor!!! #cortexelation#music#math-metal
Chaos Attractor Detection and Avoidance algorithm.
Build a strange avoider. #ai#math-metal
"You're perceiving our expectations. You know we must expect something of you, but it's entirely up to you to create what you believe are our expectations. Then what you create will impact the decision you make on the choice at hand. So you must not just think of the choice in front of you, whether or not you want to do it. You need to understand your creation's effect on the situation, and question the very meaning of said creation. What if our expectations are something entirely different then what you believed? Perhaps even the exact opposite? Isn't it true that what you created could be the exact opposite of what you needed to create? How can you be sure?"
-- Max #max
Experiments in Semantic Satiation featuring Max Varvak: http://imreallyawesome.com/awesome/music/god-god-god.mp3 #psychonaut#max
Max has the idea of everyone hanging out and not saying a word to each other.
It's not a social event. It's just being around each other, just doing whatever. You're not ignoring necessarily the fact that other people are there. You're just there. You're all just there. That's what we have to practice. Some people would get really uncomfortable. #experiments#max
Max said "what if we replaced the money in banks with something else?" And I said "GENIUS! WE'LL REPLACE IT WITH JOKES" #max
The presents of the peasants are the presence of the pheasants. #tongue-twist#max
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eH4XL1N1OkgJ:www.cycling74.com/forums/topic.php%3Fid%3D24509+max4live+adc&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com
Using Max4Live on an audio track? #max4live
I like when symbolism/art isn't about any one concrete thing, yet is completely self-consistent. Then it can be applied to many things. Then it becomes a solid pattern in its own right. Being aware of how it fits everywhere else in the world gives you more perspective via new cognitive tool. :|symbolism :|art #meaning
Cortexelus: When I slip into hypnogogia I see what I simplistically refer to as the "shape of my mind". I'm usually not aware of it unless I just came out of that state; or if I do become aware of it while I'm in it the mere act of observance sends me out of that state. Although I've gotten much better at maintaining the balance of being aware of myself in hypnogogia without destructive interference -- I think this is one skill meditation was made for.
David Van Vorst: freedom from the thinking mind
Cortexelus: Mm; something like that, but I think it could be better worded. Because once I'm balanced in that state I am free to think language-based thoughts at will, even without interfering with any of the audio hallucinations. It's more like. . .freedom from acting on particular subconscious impulses [damping the noise] so that your conscious mind has more influential power (on your self, or on others) and then also not acting on that power. One way I practice is in social situations -- I try not to give off any unconscious body language, or break eye contact without intent.
An allegory would be -- not spending money on things you don't need, and saving up more and more over time, and then perpetuating the moment where you have all this spending power. #cortexelus#hypnogogia#meditation
http://soundcloud.com/aeondrift/core-djent-neration
I like the lo-fi mix because they create this dreamy ambiance where your imagination fills in the blanks, which is what I like about lo-fi blackmetal/thrash recordings. Your mind has to settle down into it, in order for it to cognize the song structure and complex melodic instrumentation. Listening to it is a form of meditation that teaches you to pay attention to complexity in subtle details; and trains your imagination to fill in the gaps. #music#meditation
Video game analysis. Lmfao. There's a lot of deep philosophy yet to be explored there. Also, I this sort of thing would be popular. I always compared to Mega Man to some kind of martial art. Trial & error, quick reflexes, determination, and then absorbing your opponents' power when you defeat them. Also how all the elements face against each other -- it requires an understanding of nature. (fire beats ice, water beats fire, etc) #mega-man
The scientific rational point of view is (sometimes) disenchanting and that's fine. Because we don't have the full picture and we're okay with that.
A lot of people run with ideas that are not exactly totally rational, because of sensationalism. People eat it up. But that's totally fine, because new ideas need to go out into the world, especially if they're wrong or incomplete (which is all of them), in order for the masses who recognize "wait, this is bullshit" or "wait thats not the full picture" to then react with counter ideas.
At what points in history was culture this malleable? Rapid memetic turnover. Where ideas could be produced, spread wide to thinkers everywhere, who then easily reacted against them to produce the counter ideas, which spread to everyone else, etc in a rapid evolution of memes. #memes
I got so much Kandi.
Kandi is really cheap on ebay. I think the time it took me to order everything equaled out to what work ended up paying me for. XD!
I was thinking. . . experimenting with long quotes, and have it spiral around. Or, making a whole bunch for Cortexelation and handing them out at shows, or in the CD case. Or, making a whole bunch, with culturally significant things on them, memes, and then giving them to people to wear and give to other people when they're done
Or even one that says "pass it on" and then you give it to someone all "|:". Like wear for a month if you want, and pass it on when the meme's magic is fully drained. #memes
Reuben: Consciousness of memes; therefore, memes exist. So, do/would memes exist without consciousness?
Good question. Are memes just a unit of human idea? Or are they units of a much broader category? If not, when memes are in transit from human to human, are they still memes? (For example, a yet-to-be-read letter written by a recently-dead person)? What about (un/sub)conscious memes: ideas we spread without our awareness? (Example: certain attitudes and mannerisms)? I guess then there are three parts to memes: the glacier, the iceberg, and the tip of the iceberg.
- The glacier [the objective pattern which exists whether or not it is observed]
- The iceberg [the meme as it is carried in the culture, and in your head, which is influencing you and your environment whether or not you are aware of it]
- The tip of the iceberg [the subjective perception of the idea, the awareness of the meme]
If memes are units of a broader category, then is a "rabbit" a biosphere meme? Is "the carbon double bond" a chemical meme? Is each platonic form its own meme? It depends on whether or not you want to think about other systems as cultures in their own right. #memes
(yeah! if we could break the "code" of memes (how ideas are stored in the brain) maybe we could eventually simulate the brute-force generation of ideas. WOW imagine giving a computer program everything you've ever written, and then it builds conceptual networks of your mind, and thinks +for+ you, rapidly putting together concepts which you would find significant. o__o) #memes
Do you think about identity in terms of one's meme? That one's afterlife consists of your rippling after-effects in the cultural mind? If someone dreams you, let alone thinks about you, that is You. In the same way that when you listen to Jimi Hendrix, you're listening to +him+? This makes no argument about your subjective experience, or "what it would be like to be you after you died". Neither does it rely on any hypotheticals or unobserved phenomenon. Rather it asks for a rearranging of one's concept of identity, itself a vague and fluid mental function. Rather this points out that others' subjective experience of you, in the form of memories, dreams, ideas, offspring, etc., in most cases, naturally continues after your death. And if other's experience of you is You, then the idea of you which continues in the cultural mind is You after death. This also implies a second greater death occurs when the world forgets about you, and the things you started shut down, and your memes vanish into obscurity. Memes are viral and self-replicating, however, so memetic reincarnation happens on the human level when the things you stand for become embodied in a new individual. Or when archeologists discover your book thousands of years from now and publish it. -- Information age mysticism and philosophy on personal identity.
* Assumes an identity in which You are not just your *subjective mind*, but the sum total of your effect on everyone and everything. #memes
What happens to a memesoul when it commits suicide?
What is the algorithmic effect on the culture?
Does the culture upload the memesoul; making a back-up, distributing copies, just in case? #memes
Hm. I think memes, like people, have a range of life/death. Starting from great life (high velocity viral change), to lesser life, to obscurity, to endangered, to extinction, to great death. In the case of extinction, a meme still lives in platonic heaven, as the forces of the world could come together and discover it again one day from scratch and leftovers. (All the same we can bring back a Neaderthal from extinction, having enough of its DNA, while imputing the rest from statistical analysis). A time machine also would be able to bring back the dodo -- all the same we have the Way Back Machine, which has kept records of old sites I made when I was 14. Even something like the Earth being incinerated and everything lost -- is still an obscurity. Light years away, aliens can still poke a telescope at us, and listen in on our radio waves, and attempt to recreate us and our culture. Or if the universe collapses, maybe the computer its running on has a back-up. Maybe Great Death is never-having-ex
isted-at-all. It seems like it would be the case that most things are Greatly Dead. Or maybe no things are. Hmm. Good absurd question to ask people. #memes
As soon as we recognize the true Model of Consciousness, in a way that is both intuitive and scientific-rational, it will be painfully obvious all the time. #metacognition
"Meta-emotion = reactionary emotion when you become aware of the source of an emotion, and reflect upon it" -- some rando on cortexelation's etherpad #metacognition
Maybe it's enough that I wrote it down. Maybe I shouldn't try to keep it all in my head all the time. Maybe the point is to deplete as much from my head as possible, so that new ideas start churning. #metacognition
The records are here if I need song lyrics.
One day an AI will understand it all. #metacognition
Metacogito ergo sum "I think I think, therefore I think I am" -- Rob #metacognition
Shaper_pmp on Reddit:
I've long believed that one of the most important aspects of rationality is learning to be skeptical even of your own rationality. Just like unquestioning faith in a creator or social movement is naive and usually incorrect, so is unquestioning faith in yourself and your own memories.
What it comes down to, broadly, is that you are not a reliable narrator, even of your own experiences, opinions and life-history. You are just as prone to biases, subconscious (and sometimes not-so subconscious) whitewashing and a whole suite of cognitive errors and biases as anyone else.
This is a revelation for some people, and for others (too attached to their mental image of themselves as perfect, incorruptible and in control of themselves) it's deeply troubling and offensive.
[http://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/fwegd/a_realization_about_consciousness/] #metacognition
Cortexelus: "Ambiguities which rise in the mind, unresolved, evolve. " #metacognition
The ability to use different categorical methods on command. . . is a metacognitive superpower I've been working on for the past few years. . . however I have little thought of it in terms of formalized psychological concepts, and ought to think of it more as such. It started as a technique which started off a pragmatic way to avoid obstructions to happiness, by finding ways to justify awesome in any situation. It later became a way to infer significant information from seemingly uninteresting stimulus [oh that's not a boring leaf, that's a whole city of cells, that's a novel in the DNA library of Earth, that's a pattern whose self-similarity extends into the forest as a whole, etc]. On the outside, it appears as a source of optimism, though is not blind because it is derived from a particular shift in categorical perception. Perhaps it is the reason why a realist may appear to be an idealist. #idealism#metacognition
The joke was turns out the new bad ass thing to do is to put just so many opens bottles of beer on your expensive electronics when you play live. #metal
Family is getting me a new laptop for my fake graduation?
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Used Kinect?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002BSA298/sr=8-1/qid=1304006221/ref=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&coliid=&me=&qid=1304006221&sr=8-1&seller=&colid=&condition=used
Sometimes when I stand in the hallway outside my room in the dark, gazing into the phosphened darkness, gazing in the direction of my sleeping father, I feel as though I can sense his dream. #momental
Max said "what if we replaced the money in banks with something else?" And I said "GENIUS! WE'LL REPLACE IT WITH JOKES" #max#money
At what point should a society change its currency? At what point does everything get out of hand with old perceptions of value, after which the best solution is to introduce a new kind of value? Or rather, when does new currency simply emerge? When should its adoption be encouraged? #money
Your imagination is something reality made. Reality made a brain in a human that imagines your oxymoronically-named "unreal" situation. #reality#imagination#monism
Feb 26 -- Tom Jam
March 5 -- RobHouse Party
March 6 -- Cyberpunk rehersal
March 14 -- Microsoft deadline
March 16 -- show with Asyna Asayn
March 18/19 -- Holotropic Breathing?
March 20 -- Billions of Bucks
March 22 -- Death and the powers
April 15 -- Kronos Quartet
April 15/16 -- Deep Heaven Now 3
Wired to be inspired. So much shit to do.
I almost lost my credit card in the machine at Roxbury crossing rofl.
So many novelty waves! Coming! Crashing.
Can't add new things. Must stay up all night and DO.
I downloaded so much good music! #monologue
I am Ra. All serve the one Creator. There is nothing else to serve, for the Creator is all that there is. It is impossible not to serve the Creator. There are simply various distortions of this service. -- the law of one, book 1, session 18 #monotheism
I have started wondering about morality and the "subjective theater". Does the subjective theater have any moral rights, or is it a superfluous phenomenon? If subjective experience is a basic property of physics that things have, then my thoughts are that it shouldn't have its own moral standing, because your data-information-personality-pattern is what actually has value. That is what effects the world, and others. Whereas if you were a philosophical zombie with no subjective theater, the world would know no difference.
I wonder if many people would agree that it does have moral standing. I think a person's opinion can be revealed by asking them "If you agreed to let me kill you, and replaced you with a perfect clone copy, exactly as you were before, and nobody and nothing could ever tell the difference, how moral or immoral is that act?" Maybe a better hypothetical question would have fewer biases and room for tangent arguments. #morality
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyYj0flV_k Sapolsky: Metaphors and the Brain
The (insula?) same structure that responds with disgust to rotten food, responds to moral disgust. Woah. I wonder how the brain even makes that metaphoric connection. There must be some isomorphism between mental models of moral judgement and food judgement. As if the brain thinks of the human race as its body, and then makes judgements on what is healthy for itself. #neuroscience#morality
The meta-game. My whole life is a giant game of "Figuring out the universe and myself". Everything fits within that game, and so I can direct my emotional investment to anything as I see fit. #games#awesome#universe#motivation
BRAINTHUNDER
a room with touchscreen walls reacting to a conversation or monologue.
Points in the conversation appear as nodes on wall.
You can reference earlier parts in the convesation. #hack#chaosnotes#mrsans
Enthusiasm detector from voice
http://emotion-research.net/wiki/Databases #chaosnotes#mrsans
Live music: The warm-up should flow into the song. "We don't need a sound check, the drone will flow into the song." It's kind of weird to break into silence, and then start the song as expected. It's just one of those habits performers have kept up for no reason other than it has stuck. Lead into songs with drum solos or something. Keep the magic alive as you move through songs. #music
Alternate parallel dynamic. When the instruments are simple and quiet, let the singer rage with emotion. When the instruments kick up intensity, let the singer simplify. This way peoples' attention can more easily wane as necessary. Instead of full-force-everything, creating attentional interference, then going into not-much-going-on-ness (nmgoinoness) creating attentional understimulation -- the whole effect makes the audience less absorbed. Instead, play catch with the audiences' attention. #music
"This music hits me in the neurogenetic circuit" (the body "a body") #music
"As a musician -- can you anticipate the endings of songs? Like in the way I can anticipate books?" -- Ann #music
Impermeable rock. No pattern, just expression. Every detail filled #alex#music
I've come to the realization that rap and hip hop songs become popular because they appeal to many people's desire for a continuation of nursery rhymes -- Ann #music
http://soundcloud.com/16bit/16bit-the-milky-pie-mix
I like how it starts with a guitar solo. #music
Hi rankin you me and the devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUIzM4-Y_c #music
Use physical modeling sound synthesis to create an impossible instrument -- in particular, an instrument which can only exist in 4 or more dimensions of space. For example: a Klein Bottle which can be bowed, or a tesseract which can be played like a drum. #music
http://www.google.com/search?q=nancarrow&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=nancarrow&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uSD&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsl&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=FeSdTfNkzL-BB6qEhcwE&ved=0CDwQqwQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=4855f2fb5103e2c9
nancarrow -- geometric song patterns for player piano #music
My attention span for electronic music has just been ADDing more and more. Sometimes all this breakcore I've been listening to isn't enough stimulation for me, because I crave more elaborate long-term song-structure, in addition to relentless microscopic detail. My goal is to write breakcore/idm/brostep songs as if they were metal songs [like Puzzlhead does] or prog songs. #music
I think part of the reason improv comedy is funny is because the audience perceives all this creative pressure on the actors, who are making everything up on the spot. The audience is right there with the actors on the edge of chaos. If a typical improv skit was actually entirely written when performed, it wouldn't be that funny. I think the same goes for live music. Improvised music vs written music; it's the edge of chaos thing which engages people. I think John Zorn used to come up with "games" for his musicians to play. That's something I want to explore more. Maybe you would announce the rules of the game to the audience, like improv, and then play it out musically. Maybe you could mix acting too, and other forms of art. #cortexelation#improv#music
http://www.jacmuse.com/harmonic%20resources/chordprogressions/newpage110.htm
http://www.jacmuse.com/harmonic%20resources/chordprogressions/ccpromin1/ccpmin6.MID
Fun progressions:
i vii VI V 7 iv III+5 ii i*
http://www.jacmuse.com/harmonic%20resources/chordprogressions/ccpromin1/ccpmin14.MID
*make it different
E - 9 Eb 9/13 D- 9 Db 9/13 C maj 9
C maj 9 sgarp11
http://www.jacmuse.com/improv/harmonicapps/modpro/modpro6.MID
http://www.jacmuse.com/improv/harmonicapps/modpro/modpro7.MID #music
How to destroy a cool motif:
Write a song that repeats it over and over.
What sorcery it is to sample, loop, and destroy a rare emotion!
How rare it is for a motif, when sampled like wildfire, to increase in coolness (amen!) #music
Cliches are kind of beautiful the first time you hear them. #art#music
Electric lollypop which can be any flavor.
Flavor music, oscillating blackberry and sour apple, in pulsing harmony. #art#music
Serial hero!
Serial sodoku
Serialism
Milton Babbit
The Bad Plus
[to Ryan Clough about how 90% of dubstep is mediocre]
Ugh. I feel the same way. :|@when music stops evolving because it reaches a local minima.
It's like trying really hard to woo a girl by being interesting, and then once she asks you out, you get comfortable and stop trying. Then it's just a slow decline from there. She'll stick in there, because she'll hope you're still the charming, evolving person she first met. She'll be content for a while. But unless you keep pushing the limits of romance, one day you'll both realize how bored you two got with each other.
It's poor interpretations of positive reinforcement. If you're getting attention because you're doing something cool, it doesn't necessarily mean you've found the Holy Grail Of Cool and you should stop right now and set up a factory that produces nothing but a surplus of your specific novelty. It also means you're on a cool path, and you should keep exploring.
When all eyes are on you, if you want to influence the world), do things with *significance*, before you lose everyone's attention.
But anyway. Being bored with things is great if you're creative, because then you just fill in the blanks yourself where you find things lacking.
And I think more dance music should be played live. And I want to get a kinect and build instruments which I can play with my own body movements. #music
Thinks improvised sound art, noise, and non-music should be more appreciated as their own self-contained forms of creativity instead of being hijacked and lauded by the "yes it *is* music, you're just not *getting* it!" crowd. #adam-james-davis#music
Synth(pete) + Guitar(dubstep effect) + drums or samples #music
When people list ingredients I get particularly strong synsations of imagined flavor -- which come together in
the form of taste-music. This art form should be elaborated #music
http://soundcloud.com/aeondrift/core-djent-neration
I like the lo-fi mix because they create this dreamy ambiance where your imagination fills in the blanks, which is what I like about lo-fi blackmetal/thrash recordings. Your mind has to settle down into it, in order for it to cognize the song structure and complex melodic instrumentation. Listening to it is a form of meditation that teaches you to pay attention to complexity in subtle details; and trains your imagination to fill in the gaps. #music
I like to think that if you're going to create something within the field of electronic music, you should offer an experience that can't be achieved though other means. For example, Pixar makes movies about talking fish, robots in love, and a rat that cooks in a restaurant kitchen. Arguably, they're telling stories that almost have to be realized with computer animation. So, this is music that, I believe, has to be realized synthetically. -- Stretta: Calculus #music
+listens to amateur math metal+
Lame@over abundance of tritone.
Math metal bands are supposed to be avoiders of the strange attractor!!! #cortexelation#music
(The more music I listen to the harder it is to do the second thing. Mainly because people end up copying other musicians too often, that I can anticipate the song structure too easily, and I'm left unimpressed. My imagination tends to take music in more interesting directions than the actual song I'm listening to. Once in a while the actual song goes somewhere new and I'm blown away. This is what happened with Puzzlhead. Something I've never heard before, a story I've never heard told before, sounds I've never heard put together. Maybe because the song structure is so complicated, it allowed me totally ignore analysis of it. I listened to Puzzlhead a bunch of times and each time it felt like totally different brand new emotions. I was in the woods in the snow, listening, and it was like tense, amplifying my paranoias. I sounded like alien music. Culturally it's significant, because it makes all these allusions to rave music and metal, and throws them together in a way that points out their over-use and cliche. Then it goes on to amplify its own memes. It's like the most perfect sound to have come out at the time [in terms of cj perception of music] and done in such a perfect way. But now I've listened to the album 20 or 30 times by now, and I've really analyzed it, and all the songs are stuck in my head all the time. Part of the anticipation-expectation routine is lost, but I remember all the places I was tripped up, and analyzed them for why. Part of the emotional intensity is lost, or rather novel emotional experiences are more scattered and depends on my state of mind when listening; but I remember the whole range of emotions I felt, and think about them. The music is really dense, so there's endless things to analyze.
One of my lacking points is analyzing timbre, and I'm trying to figure that out. But anyway, it's okay for me to love the hell out of this band, siphoning its memes with my reductionism, because the next step is building my own songs which do everything these songs do right -- while ignoring other patterns, and replacing with my own memes, so as to avoid copycatism. Copycatism is dangerous, because it encourages the viral multiplication of cliches. Cliches are dangerous because they water down music. But worst of all they water down the original source of the meme, which at its time was considered High Novelty. There's all these factors going into music, and every song brings with it the experience of the entire culture of music which came before it in the listener's mind. Fortunately for musicians, things which have reached a level of viral cliche status can be made fun of [musically] -- people will get the joke, and all of a sudden you're back on the novelty wave. Puzzlhead makes fun of a lot of things, and it's great. So did Psyopus. OMG I can't believe I wrote all of this out, what awesome analysis. My mind goes to all these levels when I'm listening, but rarely do I remember to write it down, share it, work it out, or elaborate. I don't think I would've thought about all of this if it weren't for you sharing how deeply you analyze literature. I really enjoy it when you share these things with me. I want to come to know literature the way you do. Or at least, to train me to recognize certain aesthetics so that I can jump on the novelty wave with my own writing. ^_^) #music
[Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction]
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?p35uz87kliv3jus
This album is incredibly amazing o_o I listend to it while painting. It's metal. And it's non-stop epic about someone confronting all these existential issues in his life, echoed by sarcastic foils. I've never heard anything like it. It's like all the phases of someone's life -- their reality tunnels and motivations -- idealism and realism oscillations -- condensed. Holy shit. When I'm older I'm going to read through my journals and condense it into something like this. Or it's all the grandiose feelings you have on a trip toward your own life and toward humanity #cortexelus#music
Shpongle - The God Particle
Review on YouTube
"This song helps remind me that most things in reality are infinitely more wonderful and interesting than superstitious or religious beliefs. It is truly a never ending journey of wonder and discovery. Next step on Human kind's agenda: THE UNIVERSE!!!!" #music
I found this cool track today. Breakbeat acid. http://reactionary.bandcamp.com/track/breakbeat-acid
It really struck me with a cool emotion, hahaha. But then I listened to it three more times and deconstructed it and then the emotion disappeared. ALWAYS HAPPENS TO ME. That's why I like music which is weird and complex, because it is saturated with more information than my cortex has the ability to analyze+deconstruct -- the music passes right through my cortex and targets the hippocampus, looping back into the limbic system, which produces some weird emotion out of sensory information it didn't understand.
When you make music, you're being pulled by an attractor, aka The Perfect Platonic Form Of The Awesomest Song Ever. Your production is an approach toward this attractor, and the manifested song is a shadow cast by it. But we must not forget the attractor is a *psychological effect*. Not any particular structure of sound. You're aiming to create that awesomest psychological relationship between the listener and the sound. (And that means all sorts of quirky things happen, such as: your favoritest song today may appear totally boring and formulaic tomorrow. What appears as technical virtuosity may appear unimpressive later. Corny melodramatic radio music may even induce real emotions in you. Drone music may be uncomfortably boring in one state of mind, but full of subtle, entrancing patterns in a different state of mind.)
So that is why music styles must be nomadic to stay alive. They are chasing a psychological effect. They must adapt to keep up. They must adapt to the way the mind adapts.
Once you adopt that reality tunnel, try to observe the attractors of different music styles/movements; try to see the psychological effects they are after. You will notice some styles are convergent: they have zeroed in on a unique attractor are trying to manifest the perfect platonic form of it (for example: the perfect drum n' bass set which maximizes the energy of the dancers (aka trigger the most ultimate adrenergic reaction)). You will notice some styles are experimental: they are exploring novelty (in order to trigger the cortex-hippocampus effect I described earlier). Some styles exist to shock; but people get desensitized quickly so they must continue to push boundaries. Some styles are meant for minds which analyze melody and rhythm, and aim to create the perception of beautiful sonic architecture [metal, mathcore, bebop, etc]. Some styles give an awesome experience for someone on acid [psytrance, etc]. Some styles exist to make parties more fun. Some styles exist so someone in an emotional state of mind may connect to it, perhaps as a cathartic outlet [blues, hardcore punk]. Some styles exist to influence people rationally [political punk]. Some styles exist to tell stories [prog rock] or take the listener on a journey. Some styles have the effect of getting people to have more sex [dubstep]. Some styles exist just for chilling out. Some styles exist for blowing minds and inducing pronoia, ego death, and shifts in reality tunnel [my favorite attractor - but maybe the hardest of them all to realize]. I gave a few examples, but within any style there are off-branches that try to use the same medium for a different psychological effect.
It may be useful, as an experiment, when producing music, to think of the psychological effect (or combination of effects) you are aiming to create.
Another thing to think about it is the psychological effect the music has on YOU, the musician. What pleasure do you get out of the process? Is there any way you can share that pleasure with the listener? For example, if your process involves sampling familiar sounds from reality and mixing them into songs -- consider whether or not you want to reveal to your listeners the source material you started with, and when. If you made a song out of a doorbell, how would the song be henceforth perceived if it began with the raw doorbell? Your listener may have a clearer perception of the structure you built from that sample, and thus a greater appreciation for it.
It is always difficult for the author to assess his own music for its psychological effect on listeners, since he is the most biased listener of all. Therefore it is useful to share your rough drafts with trained and untrained ears, and get authentic feedback. It is also useful to listen to tons of music and borrow ideas from how other songs effect you. (be careful about that one, because sometimes we mistake what exactly produced the awesome psychological effect in us, and we emulate, exaggerate, and give attention to the wrong things -- usually the most accessible things -- and that's how shitty music spreads like a wild virus )
Reuben: i love the being of noise
Reuben: from where does its being come? when does it start being? what about it continues to be before what being it has stops becoming and becomes that which is no longer?
Cortexelus: Noise as the pattern to which we assign all which we do not perceive as pattern
Reuben: if the nature of being is flux, then hearing music is very close to listening to being
Reuben: or what being does a melody have? it is never present in any moment, and yet somehow it is
Cortexelus: this is true; is there such thing as "instantaneous sound"?; sound waves are characterized by their frequency of oscillation; is there such thing as "instantaneous frequency"? That question gets reduced to: is there such thing as "instantaneous velocity"? Is velocity something inherent in a particle, or is its next movement a reaction to the state of everything else in the universe? Is every slice of sound a reaction to the universe as a whole? Every slice of sound -- the keystone which maintains the balance of energy in homeostasis?
Cortexelus: One way to think => I think noise is a relationship between a pattern-matching system and its environment. And thus the first noise came into being once the pattern-matching system came into being.
Cortexelus: Audio noise is usually a signal too complex for our brains to deconstruct and perceive the harmony between its parts. One's noise is another's harmony.
Cortexelus: This is no problem for a computer however.
Cortexelus: Is silence a type of noise?
Cortexelus: Did you know anesthetics work by creating synchronous noise between the sensory cortex and the frontal lobes? The noise drowns out useful messages, and the subjective result is sensory silence. #music
Another thing which would be wicked bad ass would be live AI call-and-response melodic improvisation. Like Al Biles http://www.ist.rit.edu/~jab/GenJam.html (I read his book haha, I want to implement it in MAX.) He painstakingly copied a bunch of jazz licks into his program, but at music hack day there were a few companies with developer APIs which made available all sheet music from forever, and we can grab all that melodic data automagically to produce spontaneous improvisation. Someone made melodic autocomplete. Imagine how funny it would be to make something where you play the beginning of a motif, and it searches throughout history to find the second half of the motif, and plays it. I wonder how fast it could work. LMAO woah. Damn why didn't I have these ideas at music hack day.
http://wiki.musichackday.org/index.php?title=Noteflight_Melody_Autocompletion_with_Peachnot
http://www.peachnote.com/#!nt=chordAffine&npq=62+0+1
"Constant improvisation with all of history" #music-hack
http://wiki.musichackday.org/index.php?title=MidiSyncer
Midi Syncer. . .with EchoNest analysis, allows the remixing of any song. Generate a playlist using . . . #music-hack
infinite probabilistic parametric modulation feedback loops AKA procedural indeterminate dance music AKA envelope follower/sidechain madness AKA brain explosions AKA the future of all music/mind control???
the 1st attached mp3 is just probability of 16th notes in the drum kit linked to the amplitude of the synth, with a significant delay between to show the relationship
the 2nd is a more involved test, with multiple envelope followers on each drum sound controlling various parameters of the engine sample and the bass synth, and the 2 high synths envelopes determine the probability of 8th and 16th notes in the kick drum, which in turn effects everything else.... #nate#music-hack
What different sorting algorithms sound like.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/t8g-iYGHpEA #music-hack
EchoNest DJ system. (first compile en_analyzer~ in windows)
* People can request songs
* EchoNest analyzes all the songs
* DJ plays beatmatched samples over songs
* Songs can be remixed too, in cool ways [like 1st beat; swing, etc]
* transitions could be cool too #music-hack
Jitter music video project with Echonest Music Analysis:
1) Split up a song into its pattern structure using ECHONEST ANALYSIS
2) Get a video
3) Cut up the video and paste it together into the same pattern structure in 1.
4) AUTOMATIC AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO #jitter#echonest#cortexelation#app#music-tech
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059
shortwave radio sounds #music-tech
Pulsar Wg'lett Of course, this also gets me thinking on the continuum of wavetable synthesis => scanned synthesis => three-dimensional wave-terrain synthesis => hyperdimensional wave-terrain synthesis? #music-tech
That gets me thinking -- self-EQing audio systems. It would be so easy, at a show, to let out a click, and capture it with a microphone somewhere in the audience, and adjust EQ based on strengths/weaknesses of the speakers and the resonances of the room/basement/bar/concert hall/whatever. #music-tech
Risset rhythms.
Perpetually accelerate smoothly, but then drop the tempo in 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4 ratios when the beat shifts.
LMFAO you should DJ all music like this. #risset#music-tech
:: November 9, 2011 ::
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Vogone -- software specialized for removing vocals. #music-tech
b-keeper sync ableton to the drums
http://www.b-keeper.org/index.html #music-tech
use turntable to digitally scratch samples in ableton
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/ms-pinky-max-for-live-scratch-anything-in-ableton/
how do they load samples into the buffer? study this patch and use it in hypersisyphus
http://www.mspinky.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=973 #music-tech
Autotune M4L project . . .
Would be cool to make Shepard autotune.
Tunes everything to the same octave.
http://aveilexists.com/portfolio/auto-tune-for-max-for-live/
Cool synth oli larkin [endless series vst dude] made:
http://www.ableton.com/products/max-live/oli-larkin-kasio-m4l
Shepardtune would be easy with MIDI, and should be the first thing I try.
Hm, I wonder how to make Shepardtune work with polyphonic audio.
How would I do it? Fiddle~ and then resynthesize the top N pitches using across-the-board partials? #music-tech
CJ: I should make a max patch that inverts the spectrogram so we can listen to upside-down music when we hang out
Ann: do you think if we listen to enough upside down music, our brains will flip it?
CUTEST GIRL EVER #sssauce#music-tech
paul lansky
henry cowell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalism #music-tech
Pitched didgeridoo
Keyboard on the side?
Polyphonic pitch shift
Like an accordian - - - one hand for base pitch, one hand for spectral shape #to-hack#music-tech
I don't know if this is just a low quality version of the song uploaded, but everything sounds overly compressed, which isn't necessarily bad, but certainly makes a clear demonstration of the producer's laziness. This all gave me the idea of having a song that starts off sounding really compressed, and then goes into a breakdown where I scream "FUCK THAT", followed by a really well mastered mix of the song, with all the instruments standing clearly on their own. What if I made a whole album where that happens on every track? Why don't more people make albums with consistency like that. #compression#cortexelation#music-tech
Do this with music: http://i.imgur.com/uhKcd.gif
XD but specifically. Each square spins at a different discrete ratio, each one consecutively faster than the last by a quarter turn, until they all arrive at the beginning again. Could be done with circular pitch, circular rhythm, or a circular comb filter, or a circular flange, or anything which is possible to cycle and layer together. If you're exploiting circular pitch, you don't have to be symmetric either, you could warp the circularity to fit particular harmonies (i.e. the sets of pitches always arrive at a major7). Would be cool to have it be visualized too #music-tech
Hm. . .idea: making a track out of real-life sampled sounds -- recording a video of each sound, and remixing the videos to line up with the sounds in the song [with video filters which may correspond to the audio filters]. The video would demonstrate briefly the process by which the sound was gradually altered from its natural source. Extra points if its the bass track. #music-video
Risset filter for filling an infinite cup. Make an animation. NO shoot a video. Have the video loop forever. OR, have a whole at the bottom of the cup, so it fills forever. ((Then it breaks into song? Beatbox? Risset rhythm?)) #hypersisyphus#cortexelation#animation#music-video
Musical, intenet surf. [ref Rob: "I wanna be papular"] Types something into google (related to singing, a pun), finds next person online, video..etc #musical
Ann "I wonder how life would decline in beauty were I to understand myself?"
Sim Gishel: there's a good chance that by understanding yourself you can understand what you find beautiful and work to multiply it
I think having a good functional knowledge of yourself will allow you to better explore the infinite unknown frontiers of the universe and not succumb to the blinding, numbing effects of bad mental hygine!
i don't worship and seek to preserve unknowns and mysteries; there's an infinte amount of them! They go on for as long as you're around to explore them! there's no reason to act like mystery is a non-renewable resource. #mystery
When I stare into randomness and I see patterns, these projections of my mind are a way for me to make conscious my subconscious -- a way to become aware of the subtlies of my mind, to bring them above the threshold of analysis. #mysticism
third eye (.) googly eye
the inner sillyness #mysticism
We're made of stardust, but in this particular case: this star http://templeofthecosmos.com/2010/05/23/tiamat-our-supernova/
Tiamat
It's more of a god than our sun is.
Tiamat is the star which supernova'd to produce our current solar system. #mythology
"Are you writing what I'm saying right now?" -- Owen #narcism
Sometimes I feel really overwhelmed with ideas. My past is ridiculously overwhelming, and I recorded most of it, at least the best parts. Often when I start reading some of the intense things my mind produced, I get this feeling of overwhemingness. This magic wasn't meant for my nervous system. Complexity of x^x. Maybe. #narcism
I find myself objectively cool.
"so coolness is objective?"
No, i mean I fit my perception of coolness, given my bias towards what is cool. In other words, I would find myself cool if I met myself. #narcism
running nanobots into your body in an IV
read your genetic code
figuring out how you body +should+ be
heals all the wounds moves you toward the chaos attractor
epigenetics.
TIME travelers go back in time and gives Cortexelus this answer.
If your body is busy digesting, how can it do anything else?
(immune system)
I despise chairs.
Sit down = theta waves
Stand up = beta waves #narcism
I used to hate people but now I'm a panpsychist open-individualist megalomaniac hyperthymic narcissist. #narcism
Microsoft is interested in giving me and Nick Flower a grant to develop "technological tripping" for the Windows phone O_O #narcism
"Sorry I don't do things for free unless they have significant cultural implications" #narcism
My boss Dan comes over to my desk and notices I'm reading Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Dan: Are you an interlectual?
CJ: An inter-lectual? lmao
Dan: An inner-lectual.
CJ: lol!
Dan: Do you do neurofeedback?
CJ: Yeah I have an EEG
Dan: ... #narcism
"You're like the guy from Grandma's Boy! That's yo " - Jinelle #narcism
I would deduce you're a good dancer based on personality alone. xD
-- Ian #narcism
(7:57:54 PM) VioletHiss: Look at this penultimate sentence. #narcism
i make a track, send it to nate to remix it, sends it to me to remix it, send it to nate to remix it, etc
the album is all the tracks in reverse order
now that would be something worthy of the name Death Meta #detameta#nate
infinite probabilistic parametric modulation feedback loops AKA procedural indeterminate dance music AKA envelope follower/sidechain madness AKA brain explosions AKA the future of all music/mind control???
the 1st attached mp3 is just probability of 16th notes in the drum kit linked to the amplitude of the synth, with a significant delay between to show the relationship
the 2nd is a more involved test, with multiple envelope followers on each drum sound controlling various parameters of the engine sample and the bass synth, and the 2 high synths envelopes determine the probability of 8th and 16th notes in the kick drum, which in turn effects everything else.... #nate
Notes on a "negative" pentatonic scale, where instead of playing one note, you hear the other 4 notes. Listen to familiar melodies and see if you can perceive the missing space as the note itself. #neocortexisms
Start a cortexelicious netlabel. Like dark dominion. Anyone can upload. Link to bandcamp? #net-label
Net label. Create a genre and start a net label for it. Probably for eternal accelerando dance music [I have to make some first though XD]. It would encourage others to make similar music, or bring together people who already have. And then we can all refine the sound. #net-label
Net labels are more like whores. They're not like girlfriends; they're not contractual entities with which you can only stick to one. They're more like hubs of music, a micro-community, no commitment. A place to huddle together for warmth from the ocean of obscurity. #net-label
Maybe I wouldn't even call it a net label. Because of the connotations of "label". It would just be an internet community. #net-label
What if they priced it so that most people ended up paying less? And then the high traffic NetFlix/BitTorrent user paid extra? Then this would gain a lot of support from the masses. #net-neutrality
However, then you'll get people being anal about who's allowed to download what -- and people hijacking their neighbor's connection to download, and running up their bill. Neighbors getting pissed. Libraries and schools and places with free public wifi getting pissed off because everyone is using their connections for BitTorrent. No more free wifi :(. It would just create all this tension and mistrust. Having to "budget" your traffic. "Sorry Timmy we can't afford to use Skype". And then more developer time is wasted creating traffic analyzers and bandwidth caps. It's not really something people should have to worry about. It's better when things are free and easy.
Anyway, I totally support Net Neutrality! Hoorray!! #net-neutrality
What if thoughts are emotions which have shorter wavelength, higher frequency, and can form higher-complexity architecture? Emotions are the building blocks. Think about it: Evolutionarily, the neocortex is build around the lower mammalian emotional brain. The cortex processes the information coming in from the lower brain. #neuroscience
If you lose a sense neurologically, you lose the ability to remember or dream in that sense. (Damage your visual cortex, and you no longer know what it means to see). #neuroscience
A fly's visual subjective frames-per-second is faster than ours. So flourescent lights appear to strobe. It's a rave everywhere for a fly. #neuroscience
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyYj0flV_k Sapolsky: Metaphors and the Brain
The (insula?) same structure that responds with disgust to rotten food, responds to moral disgust. Woah. I wonder how the brain even makes that metaphoric connection. There must be some isomorphism between mental models of moral judgement and food judgement. As if the brain thinks of the human race as its body, and then makes judgements on what is healthy for itself. #neuroscience
"I always found it to be some type of learning state drug. Like you're building another you inside of you. Your first bulbs are your birth of this alternate you. And it progresses and progresses.. normally into -l ;,SUCKS. And normally this alternate you is totally frigging insane. " - DiGiTaL-CoRRuPTioN #nitrous
" When faced with an aspect of 'faith' it always came down to patterns, and the reliable repetition of those patterns across the specific Nitrous experience - but more importantly, across multiple experiences. I would find that a group of thoughts would manifest themselves in the same way, every time that I did Nitrous, always leading to the same conclusions, often by a slightly different route." - TMP #nitrous
" To explain it to anyone, it is almost like i would have to learn another language to properly explain the things that have happened " - sonic_reality #nitrous
Nitrous is to SOund as LSD is to Sight. And I have studied this hugely and find that on Nitrous, as on Ketamine, I got to a point where I could both hear and control my brain waves. -- TMP #nitrous
..the original spirit that has travelled down with DNA through the many generations fo my ancestry - let's call it the common seed that was in all of us. It has seemed to me that I have developed an actual relationship with this 'being'. -- TMP #nitrous
Reuben: i love the being of noise
Reuben: from where does its being come? when does it start being? what about it continues to be before what being it has stops becoming and becomes that which is no longer?
Cortexelus: Noise as the pattern to which we assign all which we do not perceive as pattern
Reuben: if the nature of being is flux, then hearing music is very close to listening to being
Reuben: or what being does a melody have? it is never present in any moment, and yet somehow it is
Cortexelus: this is true; is there such thing as "instantaneous sound"?; sound waves are characterized by their frequency of oscillation; is there such thing as "instantaneous frequency"? That question gets reduced to: is there such thing as "instantaneous velocity"? Is velocity something inherent in a particle, or is its next movement a reaction to the state of everything else in the universe? Is every slice of sound a reaction to the universe as a whole? Every slice of sound -- the keystone which maintains the balance of energy in homeostasis?
Cortexelus: One way to think => I think noise is a relationship between a pattern-matching system and its environment. And thus the first noise came into being once the pattern-matching system came into being.
Cortexelus: Audio noise is usually a signal too complex for our brains to deconstruct and perceive the harmony between its parts. One's noise is another's harmony.
Cortexelus: This is no problem for a computer however.
Cortexelus: Is silence a type of noise?
Cortexelus: Did you know anesthetics work by creating synchronous noise between the sensory cortex and the frontal lobes? The noise drowns out useful messages, and the subjective result is sensory silence. #music#philosophy#reuben#noise
I support you. I believe mental (cultural) reproduction is more important for our evolution as a species than biological reproduction. Memes not genes. My girlfriend and I do not want kids; instead it is our goal to replicate our ideas, influence, and inspire as many people as possible [old and young].
I offer a point of view which emphasizes what is good for this species (and the next posthuman species).
Typically in evolution you want your best genes to procreate, so that your species evolves into higher, more intelligent, more complex species. But humans are different for two reasons.
1) Rational-design genetic-engineering of humans is on the horizon (probably widespread within this millenia). We will enhance our biological make-up and engineer the more intelligent posthuman.
2) We have this thing called culture, where it almost appears as if ideas are organisms living across many brains. Cultural evolution (mental, scientific, artistic, etc) happens faster than biological; undergoes more change, more quickly each time; effects more lives, around the world (sometimes almost instantaneously); and most strongly effects the future of our species and the planet.
Cultural evolution will eventually overtake biological evolution via rational-design genetic engineering. What organisms we engineer ourselves into will be determined by what we want ourselves to be, which is influenced by our thoughts and our culture.
To summarize: culture (the sphere of influence of all ideas, aka the noosphere) dominates the biosphere, or is on its way to domination. Thus if you care about the future of our biology, you should care about what people think.
Alternatively, or perhaps in parallel, within this millenia we may very well witness the creation of new non-biological intelligent lifeforms. Robots, AI, nanobots life, etc. Or intelligent, designer biological life. Or man/machine posthuman hybrids. Or something yet fathomable. What we create will be determined by our culture. And what we share and pass on to AI/posthumans will be the entirety of our culture.
Our culture is a seed. An egg. Our memes are the genes of the next species we beget.
Regardless of the dominance of culture over biology in this era (after the invention of history, and before genetic engineering), it could still be a wise choice to procreate, given the circumstances.
Now, if there was a shortage of humans, then more procreation would be good for the species for the time being. But overpopulation and overconsumption is a real risk, and so cutting back on procreation appears to be the wise choice for the good of the species and the planet. This doesn't mean EVERYONE STOP HAVING KIDS; it means: slow down and pace ourselves at a rate which is optimum for our environmental and social situations.
Being an engineer, writer, and self-experimentalist, I believe I can contribute more to my species by not devoting my attention to the raising of children and rather to my work, my research, my ideas, and the culture.
I have put forth a strong argument for my decision from a point of view which emphasizes the good of the species. Nevertheless, it is also hedonistic choice. I'm drawn to exploring individual, non-parental freedom and perpetual, non-procreating romance.
I follow this up with a few questions:
To what extent does one's mental development depend on one's parents? Has the mental influence of parents changed over time? Did it matter more 10,000 years ago? In the present, are we dominantly raised by our culture? Especially in the age of media? (does it depend on where you live?) #transhumanism#nokids
I wonder to what extent a subtance (such as water, or oobleck) is controllable by sound. Imagine making oobleck dance! Woah. Imagine writing a song-program that makes the oobleck dance in particular shapes. p_o Storyingtelling could have a new medium. The guy's like "Come to the Oobleck Theatre where all your starchy dreams corn-manifest:|!" #non-newtonian-fluid
Idea lists!! I think idea lists should be encouraged to become libre and open source, because there is a severe depletion of good ideas in other parts of the noosphere, and a single thinker can't do _all_ his good ideas. Even your esoteric ideas could inspire someone else. #ideas#notes#noosphere
Blossoming teas -- lmfao the red one looks like a brain. Just like this brain blossoming in your tea. That would be awesome if it was the kind of tea with gingko or some other nootropic, so your own brain would blossom too as you drink it. The consistency in symbolism would amplify the placebo effect.#tea #nootropic
Noopept is a medication promoted and prescribed in Russia and neighbouring countries as a nootropic remedy. It is derived from the racetam family of drugs and shares similar mechanisms of action, but is up to 1000 times more potent than the prototypical racetam drug, piracetam. #nootropics
BULK NOOPEPT 10g (1000 doses) for $50
http://www.cerebralhealth.com/brainhealthsupplements.php#noopept
$16 for .5g
http://www.pharmacy1010.net/product_page.asp?id=1724
http://www.apteka-drugstore.com/buy-drugs-online/neurology-psychiatry/noopept-tablets-10mg-n50.aspx
modafinil
$33 for 10x200mg
http://desiredmeds.com - needs VISA
http://www.4nrx.co.uk/general-health/modalert-modafinil.html - won't ship to US
$39.12 for 30x100mg
$48.16 for 30x200mg
http://www.pharmland.net/customer_module/customer/buy-Modalert/
$40 for 30x200mg [$15 shipping]
$29 for 20x200mg
http://www.eurodrugstore.eu/sleep-aids__13__en/modafinil__2995.html #nootropics
Hydergine. Some people on Erowid report it as their favorite nootropic
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=29118
http://www.qhi.co.uk/list.asp #nootropics
DMAE looks promising
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=61340 "Effect on Diabetes"
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=30504 "Stimulant and Vivid Dreams"
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=57247 "Temporary Knowledge Saturation" #nootropics
Basically just type thoughts in a text file. And tag them somewhere. You can start writing like this now, and build the system later!!! It's made for rapid thought production, and automatic computer-generated categorization/mapping later. So cool. (Also, while you're out and about, write in your journal, and transcribe later if you want) At some point, convert all old thoughts into this format (new thoughts more important) #notebooks
Idea lists!! I think idea lists should be encouraged to become libre and open source, because there is a severe depletion of good ideas in other parts of the noosphere, and a single thinker can't do _all_ his good ideas. Even your esoteric ideas could inspire someone else. #ideas#notes
Mechanical Turk
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odd job?
$7 for transcribing 10 minutes of audio #odd-jobs
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyYj0flV_k Sapolsky: Metaphors and the Brain
The (insula?) same structure that responds with disgust to rotten food, responds to moral disgust. Woah. I wonder how the brain even makes that metaphoric connection. There must be some isomorphism between mental models of moral judgement and food judgement. As if the brain thinks of the human race as its body, and then makes judgements on what is healthy for itself. #neuroscience#morality#openindividualism
So many people messaging me. Have to respond to them all.
Want to collaborate with them all. But must find time.
Want to take job offer at EchoNest but am committed to finishing the games I've started at
Berklee PULSE. Do not want to have two jobs. Do not want to work full-time.
After I finish these games, maybe I move on. #organizing-life
All the parallel universes where a person ends up marrying someone completely different; all the interdimensional children which come about. A play starring all these offspring as characters. #parallel-dimensions
A child builds an inpenetrable fortress from 4 chairs and a blanket. He comes back as an adult and sees this as just four chairs and a blanket. I'm not going to say which perception is more real, but I can tell you who had more fun. -- Toporek #perspectrum
We listened to Alan Watts talked about how there is no difference between the higher and lower self, and believing that you are the lower self trying to let the higher self shine through only exacerbates the problem. She showed me an inspiring part of an episode of the Office where California talks about letting fear play a role in our lives. She also showed me part of a philosophy lecture from the 50sish with a really awesome professor who passionately makes the point about the necessary role of idealism. You must overshoot man in order to arrive at what he is really capable of. Whereas if you try too hard to be realistic you will underestimate him. It was so awesome. Totally want to sample it. (If Ann reads this she should embed a link to it.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjIOtVkJ4kA
I've been an idealist for a long time (3-5 years? I should pinpoint the shift), and I've always felt that in a lot of ways, and for a lot of purposes, it made the most pragmatic sense to be so. Which means my position is of a realist wrapped up in an idealist. I can go on about this if you like. But seeing this professor articulate his point of view so succicintly and impassionately --- so awesome. #idealism#philosophy
Reuben: i love the being of noise
Reuben: from where does its being come? when does it start being? what about it continues to be before what being it has stops becoming and becomes that which is no longer?
Cortexelus: Noise as the pattern to which we assign all which we do not perceive as pattern
Reuben: if the nature of being is flux, then hearing music is very close to listening to being
Reuben: or what being does a melody have? it is never present in any moment, and yet somehow it is
Cortexelus: this is true; is there such thing as "instantaneous sound"?; sound waves are characterized by their frequency of oscillation; is there such thing as "instantaneous frequency"? That question gets reduced to: is there such thing as "instantaneous velocity"? Is velocity something inherent in a particle, or is its next movement a reaction to the state of everything else in the universe? Is every slice of sound a reaction to the universe as a whole? Every slice of sound -- the keystone which maintains the balance of energy in homeostasis?
Cortexelus: One way to think => I think noise is a relationship between a pattern-matching system and its environment. And thus the first noise came into being once the pattern-matching system came into being.
Cortexelus: Audio noise is usually a signal too complex for our brains to deconstruct and perceive the harmony between its parts. One's noise is another's harmony.
Cortexelus: This is no problem for a computer however.
Cortexelus: Is silence a type of noise?
Cortexelus: Did you know anesthetics work by creating synchronous noise between the sensory cortex and the frontal lobes? The noise drowns out useful messages, and the subjective result is sensory silence. #music#philosophy
Why is light profound? Is it because of the state of mind we are in, in the presence of light? A lighted environment gives one (spatial) knowledge, trust, familiarity, and certainty; while a dark place tends to lean on the side of paranoia, unknown, and uncertainty. But I've always preferred the dark place to the light.
There is discernment in dark dwellings when light blinds the eyes-- the wisdom in whispers which disquiet drowns out. The medium is the message when the canvas is clean. #light#darkness#phosphenes
Gravitational lensing... light bends around.. you might be able to see a reflection of the Earth. If you could see that well enough, you would see a picture of the Earth from millions of years ago!!!! #physics
Space-time itself could be made from infintillions of oscillators that can stretch as they absorb energy. #physics
Quantum mechanics isn't magic, it's just part of the mechanics. #physics
I wonder if you can compute things using the fabric of space. Like idk, gravity waves creating eddy currents which hurricane into answers. #computer-science#physics
There are certain kinds of problems in quantum mechanics (namely predicting the interactions of 3 or more particles) which are too complex to be predictably computed with our current technology. However, I was thinking, if we ever have problems isomorphic to the interaction of 3 or more particles like this [like some bizarre bastardization of the traveling salesman problem], we could actually build a processing unit which physically throws particles together and spits out answers. #computer-science#physics
The laws of physics are a game played by the universe. Particles play tag. Quantum weirdness are the jokes. Jokes of the universe. #physics
Lazy programming in DrRacket"
Eli: Expressions are not evaluated or observed until necessary. In the stepper, for this infinite list, these expressions have delayed evaluation. It's kind of like some quantum observation uncertainty thing where observing it beforehand would change it.
Eli (later): Reused arguments in a function: once one is evaluated, all of them are simultaneously, saving you from executing the same code twice.
CJ (thinking): Wait, quantum uncertainty.. bell's nonlocality.. Reality is a lazy programming language! #cs#physics
The orders of magnitude between atoms per DNA and stars per galaxy are about the same. #physics
"Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live." Albert Einstein #physics
Imagine spacetime is my shirt. Mass is the twisting up of space into vortices. Electromagnetic waves are the ripples on the shirt. Gravity waves are the ripples amongst the vortices. Its all statistical phenomena #physics
We will have discovered the physical laws of the universe --> when we prove that, from these laws, we can derive matter, life, evolution, intelligence, culture, ourselves, and our discovery of the laws themselves. Self-convergent proof! #physics
What if computing (complexifying matter) uses up some fundamental finite energy of the universe? Just like burning fuel -- turns out the more complex things we compute, the more we bring the universe closer to death. #physics
Apparently gravity has to do with how much freedom the space around particles has. It's like, space wants to vibe its own thang, wants to dance with as much room as possible, and to do so it sweeps any obstacles out the way, sweeping them together to make the most room. #physics
If the sun explodes, will Jupiter briefly ignite into a star? When? #physics
Hypothesis: Perceptual time is separate from clock time, and appears to be measured by salient change. Can be change be modeled mathematically and measured objectively as a physical quantity? #psychology#physics
If the Sun explodes, will Jupiter briefly ignite into a star? When? #physics
dnatwork:
If units of space are constantly popping into and out of existence on their own, then gravity could be defined in terms of the tendency of units of space to persist. The stronger the gravity (i.e., the closer to a massive object), the less likely the unit of space will persist, so other objects will tend to remain close. The farther from a massive object, the more likely that units of space will persist.
Maybe that could account for dark energy; all you need is a lot of space between objects, which is what you have in intergalactic space, and even moreso between galaxy clusters. #physics
Random question, I have no idea where it will get me:
What if I only have a subjective experience because other things are observing me [people, objects, air, electric fields, etc]?
I cite Schrodinger's equation as my intuition. [To the least of my understanding] according to Schrodiger's equation, a waveparticle only exists in the form of a particle if there are other particles in the universe. Example: a universe with a single particle-waveform, with no other waveforms, would fill the entire space. As soon as you add other waveforms, the waveforms localize into particles. A localized particle is better described as a relationship between everything. #physics
Another dichotomy I make is between the laws of physics and chaos -- the laws are the rules by which chaos plays; however knowledge of the laws is microscopic compared to knowledge of the enormous complexity of the chaos. #ai#chaos#physics
At some level perhaps everything attains ultimate symmetry, and physics/chaos are one (but perhaps this symmetry is absurdly unknowable) #physics
When DNA splits, does it (or some part of it) retain nonlocal entanglement with its sibling? #physics
"...thought experiment which defines a coordinate transformation such that the interior of the Earth becomes "exterior" and the exterior becomes "interior". (For example, in spherical coordinates, let radius r go to R²/r where R is the Earth's radius.) The transformation entails corresponding changes to the forms of physical laws. This is not a hypothesis but an illustration of the fact that any description of the physical world can be equivalently expressed in more than one way.....most mathematicians believe that an inside-out universe, with properly adjusted physical laws, is empirically irrefutabl "
Yeah I always think about how you can rearrange the variables of physics and still get the same universe-- yet the model of it would be completely different. No model is empirically preferred over another, it's all just how you think and perceive it. For instance, a universe where LEFT is actually RIGHT. It's all how the sensory information gets put together in your head. #physics
there's Physics
and then there's Chaos
which is more interesting, the rules of the game, or the players? #chaos#physics
Imagine a universe where Chaos is the rules, and the laws of Physics are the players. #chaos#physics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=GHgi6E1ECgo
.....But at the same time we didn't discover [string theory] by thinking very hard about some deep principle, we simply discovered as the only consistent story that we can write down on a piece of paper. That's pretty good, it's better than having none. --Raphael Bousso #physics
(quantum gravity) We've discovered a connection between spacetime and its information content. #physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_machine
...coupled together a mechanical resonator, similar to a tiny springboard, and a qubit, a device that can be in a superposition of two quantum states at the same time. They were able to make the resonator vibrate a small amount and a large amount simultaneously—an effect which would be impossible in classical physics. #physics
What if laws are really a metaphysical form of another type of matter. And in the metaverse, metalaws play with our laws like matter. #physics
Musings on the second law of thermodynamics and the End of Time:
When matter stops timing,
time stops mattering.
-- James #physics
I wonder what electronics are like near the speed of light.
Spaghettification. . . electrons travel faster going perpendicularly? #physics
Death step: "Ambiguous morality in the death and deletion of natural and artificial minds."
Identify with ideas.
Mind is information.
Ideas are life-forms.
Organism-environment: equal and opposite.
I die; part of the world dies.
Death is the end of influence.
Replace me with a perfect copy, and the world is no different.
That is not death.
If I delete the last copy, the influence is gone.
But upload me into the minds and ideologies of the world and I cannot die.
Perpetuate my meme after biological death and I am strong.
Chain of cause-and-effect, infinite:
Influence is a seed from which skillions of lives stem.
Idea is a seed from which infinitely more stem.
Life is a seed from which infinitely more life stems.
Allow myself to be plagiarized and watch my meme grow.
Mind is meme.
Mind is meme.
What if we gave plants language? What we would do is film a population of plants and trees, speed it up, and see how they interact and compete with each other. THEN we would give names to the kinds of repeated interactions they have. #plant-language
I want bouncy balls that look like all the planets. #play
All the parallel universes where a person ends up marrying someone completely different; all the interdimensional children which come about. A play starring all these offspring as characters. #parallel-dimensions#play
Make Isaac a stuffed animal Venn Diagram for his birthday #plush
Make a psilocybin/dmt/lsd/theine/caffeine/salvinorin molecule plush. OH no make a serotonin plush, and then have a detatchable phosphorus arm (for psilocybin) or nitrogen arm (for dmt). #plush
DEGREES of TIME SYNESTHESIA:
ANYTHING HUMANS PICTURE
AGAIN they MAY SENSE
making ROOM for ANN through an ANNIHILATION of GOD #adamjamesdavis#poems
(8:55:13 PM) EmperorcJ: <(:<(:<(:<3:]>:]>:]>:
(8:55:17 PM) EmperorcJ: books are red
(8:55:20 PM) EmperorcJ: minds are blue
(8:55:34 PM) EmperorcJ: i picked this ascii just for you #ann#poems
being late is great,
why hate the late?
just because they made you wait?
while you wait you have the whole world to ponder;
instead you groan, moan, and saunter.
while listless you idled, tapping your feet :/
Lists you should've made, of all the friends you'll meet ^_^ #poems
A shape-tween between one sound and another.
Applying such a transformation gradually, looping.
Snare becomes bass drum.
Hi-hat becomes snare.
Tempo doubles yet stays the same, arriving where it left off.
Everyone liked the live music better, anyway.
It had presence. #cortexelation#poetry
Future nostalgia for the birth of a technological poet.
Algorithmically generated mashups?
Or heavily inspired allusions?
"Creativity and innovation always builds on the past" -- Lawrence Lessig ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWQVxrRXyU )
Are we not all mashup artists ourselves?
Is not language collage?
If the thing which has been give the name "free will" is that element of chaotic randomness whose infinite cause/effect chains butterfly through me, my imprinted memories, and the logic of my prefrontal cortex... then the algorithm has will also, for the stochasticity of the clock nanoseconds, whose timing influences its memory recall and decisions, whose source is the same chaos which influences mine, determines the shape of its poetry. In all cases I irrevocably name this process "creativity".
The poet uses his memory and experience of the world to derive inspiration for his words. The algorithm rather uses the poetry of the poet to derive inspiration for its words. Its world is the poetry. If the inspiration of the algorithm is the poet whose inspiration is the world, then, transitively, the algorithm derives inspiration from the poet's world. #ai#creativity#poetry
What if there was a United Religions? (like United Nations) #politics
I always thought it made more sense for political parties to stand for a particular issue or related set of issues . . . . rather than provide an all-encompassing reality tunnel. For example, the Pirate Party makes sense -- all they care about is copyright reform. They have nothing to say about abortion or stem cell research or anything else. That makes total sense.
In America, it doesn't make sense to for there to be these behemoth political reality tunnels which have an opinion on everything, like Republicans "low tax, free market, small government, christian principles, illegal abortion, illegal marijuana, legalize firearms, pro-war" and Democrat "welfare, free health care, legal abortion, market regulation, anti-war, firearm restriction, decriminalize marijuana" which are in the interest of reinforcing their wide set of principles. It's weird when you think about it, because it's not like these two reality tunnels disagree on the truth of some axiom from which everything else logically follows. It's not like that at all; people ought to be able to selectively support the wide opinions and apathies they hold. I think it makes more sense for specialized interest groups to be the main political players.
And I think religion would work better in this way too. It does very little good to provide an all-encompassing reality tunnel for people. It would do better for a religious meme to specialize in some particular facet, toward which serious study and experiment is put. For example: Shamanism is for healing on the cultural and psychological level and is connected to the study of psychonautics with the use of psychedelics and music. Buddhism is for finding relief from suffering and is connected to the concrete study of meditation.
Be the experiment! Don't be a set of axioms. You will fool yourself and others into thinking you are consistent.
Perhaps what Christianity should've become is the art of ethical behavior. As soon as your interest group turns into a political party, arrogantly parading your all-encompassing reality tunnel, that is when you have cut your own throat with the knife of inauthenticity, out of which no blood comes.
Look to science. Science is split into specialized fields each with their own models and areas of interest. These fields don't all claim to explain everything; they don't provide all-encompassing contradictory reality-tunnels. They each provide tools for understanding (and manipulating) a small subset of things. How these disciplines fit together (or ought to) is for the onlooker to imagine. And I don't see why the same shouldn't be for politics and religion. #politics
Now you got to ask yourself whether the same West who has promoted democracy is willing to embrace a democratic Middle East and whether it is in the West's interest. --Idontknowmuch, reddit.com #politik
Projecting wishes onto a personified, omnipontent, external superego so that one may metaprogram in a dissociated state of identity. #prayer
O DEAR GOD GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO TEMPORARILY CREATE THE PERCEPTION OF AN ANTHROPOMORPHIZED, OMNIPOTENT, AND EXTERNAL SUPEREGO TO WHICH I CAN PROJECT MY DESIRES AND GOALS, SO THAT IN THIS DISSOCIATED STATE OF IDENTITY I MAY META-PROGRAM MY LESSER EGO TOWARD THESE GOALS #prayer
I do this constantly. Having a deadline due for something of higher priority stimulates me to be productive with something of lesser priority. The lesser task needn't be inane, it could also be important, just less of a priority. In many cases, the pressing higher task produces more total productivity (of lesser tasks) than in the case of having no higher task.
So then perhaps this is a useful psychological tool to take advantage of. In order to get something done, all I have to do is find something even more important to do, and not do it. #procrastination
"procrastination might exist to provide the subconscious adequate time for working out complex problems involved in the larger or important tasks people typically procrastinate on." #procrastination
((James. LMAO. Maybe my written contribution to Psychedelevator should be all my ideas for music projects that I never get around to, or are technologically infeasible, at least for the next century. )) #psychedelevator
Change in consciousness produces new knowledge.
The point isn't WHICH kind of consciousness.
Just the CHANGE in consciousness is significant.
When you look at things from one angle,
And then look at the same things from a different angle.
The two images venn diagram together to produce a third perspective in the middle.
This is how new knowledge is produced. #psychedelic-information-theory
( I'm going to tell you how awesome you are, talk about some thoughts about salvia, ask you a few questions, and then describe a experiment to test some of your hypotheses )
You rule. PIT blows my mind!
It's especially good as a model for thinking about hallucinations, the neurology of the psychedelic experience, the worth of epiphanies generated by the experience, the mathematical understanding of brain activity as a chaotic feedback system, and the biological effect shaman songs.
Beyond neurotransmitters (and toward something more concrete than psychoanalysis and spiritual mythology), we have very large gap in our understanding of psychedelics, and it's important to generate working theories, especially those which tie together from the latest scientific research in pharmacology and neuroscience.
I recently had a low-dose salvia experience [in pitch-white ganzfield visual deprivation, while listening to my own music] and I used the PIT model to try to analyze what was happening in my brain.
During the low-dose experience, I was aware of how different parts of my brain were talking to each other -- I felt as if the frontal lobes had to "appease" the spatial brain (in terms of the frontal lobes controlling what the body did [wanted very minimal movements], and the language of the thoughts I formed), else the mental dissonance would destabilize the brain into ego-death chaos (which is what tends to happen with higher doses)
Salvia hallucinations always seem to arise in the spacial/proprioceptive part of my brain [as in how one visualizes one's room and body position with eyes closed], unlike tryptamine visuals, and so it makes sense that K-opioid receptors are involved with spacial perception. With higher doses, the spacial hallucinations seem to break out into visual realm -- (either this is just the interpretation of the "visual sketchpad" of the spacial hallucinations, or the visual brain destabilises too, or the visual brain couples with the spacial brain and acts in synchrony). I found this analogous to the tryptamine model of how serotonergic modulation interruption approaches the point where Ach gets involved and produces eidetic hallucination from the hippocampus, and I wondered if some similar progression was happening.
I love your map of the progression of tryptamine hallucinations. I'm interested in designing a map of the progression of salvia as well.
I had a question about the ASDR envelopes
How did you come up with those? Are they pharmacological properties of the molecules? Did you do any experiments with binaural beats or strobe lights?
I'm a computer programmer and engineer and I just built [red/blue/green] strobe-light goggles which can be synced with music or binaural beats or whatever I want.
I was inspired by reading this amazing thread about this man's life experimentation with Nitrous Oxide and Acid together (he calls it "gascid") http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?s=3613493dbfb4ded0eabc5fccd07590fc&t=445374 and how he was able to drive the experience with music and strobe lights (he built a system which he called his "spaceship")
I haven't done this yet, maybe tonight, but I'm going to test your hypothesis. If you're right about the salvinorin interrupt being about 12-15Hz, then the presence of stimulus at around 12-15Hz should amplify the effect of Salvinorin [under the right conditions]. However, if salvia primarily effects the spacial brain, then light and sound might be the wrong direction. Woah -- maybe one of those vibrating massage chairs with variable frequency could work instead. Hmm.
Second question -- Zoe7 claims all this stuff about waking lucid dreams under the effect of anticholinergics -- but I've heard his books are sort of fiction -- and I
Supplementing tryptamines with ACh (choline or galanthamine) leads to more dramatic hippocampal imagery -- eyelid movie; "forest television". Eidetic imagery doesn't reach consciousness normally because when serotonin modulation in the forebrain is engaged, that visualization is shut down. When serotonin modulation is devisualization is interrupted, Ach jumps to the fore. When you interrupt serotonin modulation, you get somantic heaviness-- suddenly theres a lightness, things open up and you get clear, and that's the onset feeling of Ach; suddenly the imagery becomes spontaneous. #psychedelic-information-theory
1) All hallucination begins with destabilisation of linear consciousness
2) You can reverse engineer the source of hallucinations
3) All hallucinations progress from linear to complex #psychedelic-information-theory
I think PIT is actually also a theory on the neurological effect of love -- consciousness destabilization, chaos attractors... it's all right there with love. #psychedelic-information-theory
Recently I've been throwing around neurological explanations for the mystical experience of hyperspace/the greater stream/the akashic field a.k.a. "the experience of all knowledge ever" or whatever. Theory: Hyperspace is in the head. Think of all the things you know. SO MUCH. Think about how little you only think about at once. Imagine if you could think about it all at once. Your head is a HUGE databank of SO MUCH INFORMATION but you rarely access any part of it without first getting related-stimulus. I think the experience of "hyperspace" is some kind of cholinerigc destabilisation in the hippocampus [regulates storage/retrieval of memory] where all the knowledge that you've ever gained in life, including dreams and imaginable imagery, comes together into some new megalithic perception. It's as if your memory is normally a machine which is lying dormant, running on very low energy-- a sloth. With cholinergic destabilisation you actually turn on the machine, and all the rusting parts come together for a rare time and form this high-functioning feedback loop -- as if the sloths suddenly got up, crazily singing and dancing all together.
Some people think this experience comes from somewhere external. But I mean your memory of the world came from somewhere external in the first place. It would be as if all your experiences of the world throughout your life all came to your senses at ONCE, instead of distributed across your life chronologically. #psychedelic-information-theory
Hypothesis: Cognitive dissonance is a hindrance if and only if you have cognitive dissonance about cognitive dissonance. #psychology
My mom has a negligence phobia. Even though I'm 22 and can take care of myself. Even though she's 62 and I should probably be taking care of her. #psychology
I realized the first half of Leary's 8 circuit model of consciousness represents the classical Greek virtues, which appear to be the ideals of each circuit:
Traveling is good, not because you get to leave your home and go somewhere else, but because of its effect on your brain and perception. New environments creat heightened senses, new state of mind. #psychology
Metapsychology- The psychology of being a psychologist. Slap meta on anything and it instantly becomes interesting. --Isaac #psychology
Transference - unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. #psychology
Being social means your environment is largely other nervous systems. #psychology
Recognizing the pattern of pattern recognition. (Entityness?) #ai#psychology
Color-color synesthesa --- unisensory synesthesia. Ex. Red things feel blue #psychology
Hypothesis: Perceptual time is separate from clock time, and appears to be measured by salient change. Can be change be modeled mathematically and measured objectively as a physical quantity? #psychology
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. -- Warren Buffet #psychology
Tangent: I just imagined two people with multiple-personality-disorder having all of their personalities fall in love with each others' #ann#psychology
"...thought experiment which defines a coordinate transformation such that the interior of the Earth becomes "exterior" and the exterior becomes "interior". (For example, in spherical coordinates, let radius r go to R²/r where R is the Earth's radius.) The transformation entails corresponding changes to the forms of physical laws. This is not a hypothesis but an illustration of the fact that any description of the physical world can be equivalently expressed in more than one way.....most mathematicians believe that an inside-out universe, with properly adjusted physical laws, is empirically irrefutabl "
Yeah I always think about how you can rearrange the variables of physics and still get the same universe-- yet the model of it would be completely different. No model is empirically preferred over another, it's all just how you think and perceive it. For instance, a universe where LEFT is actually RIGHT. It's all how the sensory information gets put together in your head. #physics#psychology
I found this cool track today. Breakbeat acid. http://reactionary.bandcamp.com/track/breakbeat-acid
It really struck me with a cool emotion, hahaha. But then I listened to it three more times and deconstructed it and then the emotion disappeared. ALWAYS HAPPENS TO ME. That's why I like music which is weird and complex, because it is saturated with more information than my cortex has the ability to analyze+deconstruct -- the music passes right through my cortex and targets the hippocampus, looping back into the limbic system, which produces some weird emotion out of sensory information it didn't understand.
When you make music, you're being pulled by an attractor, aka The Perfect Platonic Form Of The Awesomest Song Ever. Your production is an approach toward this attractor, and the manifested song is a shadow cast by it. But we must not forget the attractor is a *psychological effect*. Not any particular structure of sound. You're aiming to create that awesomest psychological relationship between the listener and the sound. (And that means all sorts of quirky things happen, such as: your favoritest song today may appear totally boring and formulaic tomorrow. What appears as technical virtuosity may appear unimpressive later. Corny melodramatic radio music may even induce real emotions in you. Drone music may be uncomfortably boring in one state of mind, but full of subtle, entrancing patterns in a different state of mind.)
So that is why music styles must be nomadic to stay alive. They are chasing a psychological effect. They must adapt to keep up. They must adapt to the way the mind adapts.
Once you adopt that reality tunnel, try to observe the attractors of different music styles/movements; try to see the psychological effects they are after. You will notice some styles are convergent: they have zeroed in on a unique attractor are trying to manifest the perfect platonic form of it (for example: the perfect drum n' bass set which maximizes the energy of the dancers (aka trigger the most ultimate adrenergic reaction)). You will notice some styles are experimental: they are exploring novelty (in order to trigger the cortex-hippocampus effect I described earlier). Some styles exist to shock; but people get desensitized quickly so they must continue to push boundaries. Some styles are meant for minds which analyze melody and rhythm, and aim to create the perception of beautiful sonic architecture [metal, mathcore, bebop, etc]. Some styles give an awesome experience for someone on acid [psytrance, etc]. Some styles exist to make parties more fun. Some styles exist so someone in an emotional state of mind may connect to it, perhaps as a cathartic outlet [blues, hardcore punk]. Some styles exist to influence people rationally [political punk]. Some styles exist to tell stories [prog rock] or take the listener on a journey. Some styles have the effect of getting people to have more sex [dubstep]. Some styles exist just for chilling out. Some styles exist for blowing minds and inducing pronoia, ego death, and shifts in reality tunnel [my favorite attractor - but maybe the hardest of them all to realize]. I gave a few examples, but within any style there are off-branches that try to use the same medium for a different psychological effect.
It may be useful, as an experiment, when producing music, to think of the psychological effect (or combination of effects) you are aiming to create.
Another thing to think about it is the psychological effect the music has on YOU, the musician. What pleasure do you get out of the process? Is there any way you can share that pleasure with the listener? For example, if your process involves sampling familiar sounds from reality and mixing them into songs -- consider whether or not you want to reveal to your listeners the source material you started with, and when. If you made a song out of a doorbell, how would the song be henceforth perceived if it began with the raw doorbell? Your listener may have a clearer perception of the structure you built from that sample, and thus a greater appreciation for it.
It is always difficult for the author to assess his own music for its psychological effect on listeners, since he is the most biased listener of all. Therefore it is useful to share your rough drafts with trained and untrained ears, and get authentic feedback. It is also useful to listen to tons of music and borrow ideas from how other songs effect you. (be careful about that one, because sometimes we mistake what exactly produced the awesome psychological effect in us, and we emulate, exaggerate, and give attention to the wrong things -- usually the most accessible things -- and that's how shitty music spreads like a wild virus )
Build a Proximity suit. Have ultrasonic sensors all over your body (shoulder, legs, hips, arms), and hook them up vibrators. Closer proximity = higher frequency vibration. Further proximity = low frequency vibration. #psychonaug
Build a Magnetic-north belt. It always vibrates in the direction of magnetic north. Arduino microcontroller set comes with a compass detector thingy. #psychonaug
Flip vision horizontally.. for a month. (also, you could flip your suit/belt vibe sensors) Either make mirror goggles, or use augoggles. #psychonaug
Dual fish eye vision. Make sure the fields of view overlapped. #psychonaug
360 vision. Capture video with a 360 camera (on your helmet) and project it into video goggles (perform some geometric transformation which will turn it into a rectangle) #psychonaug
Build a virtual reality theme park, where ppl can try on various experimental technologies and psychonaug out. #psychonaug
Be blindfold for a month and learn echolocation; carry around a clicker. OR use the Proximity suit with a blindfold. Once you rely on echolocation for everything, go into an anechoic chamber and get freaked out. #psychonaug
orthodox christian practice of sensory deprivation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm
Thought: refer to sensedep brain sync machine as Hesynchasm
Hesychaos
Hesynchaos
Shesychasm
Psynchaosm #psychonaut
The development of lucid dreaming will be the future of virtual reality. #psychonaut
If psychedelics were legalized, which some of them are, and we were to open a psychedelic shop, would we call it a psychedeli?
Mushroom sandwiches omg! #psychonaut
Cold air is psychedelic -- Last midnight I walked home from Malden without a sweatshir...t (having forgotten it) and just my double shirt and thermal underwear. I calmed myself by breathing slowly and regularly. I didn't shiver once. I let the liquid drip from my nose, and freeze against my upper lip. It was really beautiful, I was so calm, I was just watching from up above the automatic biological processes kick in below. For the last malenky of the walk I took my hands out of my pockets and exposed them to the air, feeling the blood swell and the numbness slowly engulf. #psychonaut
Experiments in Semantic Satiation featuring Max Varvak: http://imreallyawesome.com/awesome/music/god-god-god.mp3 #psychonaut
The psychonaut experiences life as if it is a music/art/theater performance; and acts in life as if he is performing music/art/theater for an audience. The audience is largely himself. #psychonaut
Imagine everything you've ever known. Imagine experiencing that all at once. #psychonaut
Be the phosphenes you want to see in the world.
Be the phosphenes.
-- Ann
(sensory deprivation wisdom, we tell it to all the psychonauts as they blindfold on) #psychonaut
Experiment: Don't say anything. Or rather, don't say anything you think is cliche. In other words, things that you may feel obligated to say like "thank you" or "whoa that was awesome" find some other way to express it. Use only your voice for ideas. To change the future. #psychonaut
The Silent Hemisphere -- "The right hemisphere of the brain exists as a New World to be entered, explored, and harmoniously utilized. It may well be that discovery and exploration of the silent neural hemisphere will turn out to be more important in human evolution than the discovery of the silent geographical hemisphere five centuries ago. " -- Timothy Leary, NeuroLogic 1973 #psychonaut
Practice listening to two things at once, in either ear. Instead of brain synchrony, practice brain schismy. #psychonaut
Next time ask me "In what other ways are you in loops, CJ?" #psychonaut
The importance of symmetry? In psychonaut experiences. #psychonaut
Mass produce Ganzfield goggles. Glue googly eyes on some of them. I hear red LED lights work really well with them. #todo#psychonaut
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Roadway Inn near Wonderland! #ann#psychonaut
Strobe goggle phosphene symmetry sleep image:
I want to do it again, and then stay there all morning looking at it, so I can commit it to memory, and then draw it #psychonaut
Everything that was alive was completely fearsome. I could look at a picture of a bush, and it was just that, a picture, and it posed no threat to me. Then my gaze moved to the right, and caught a bush growing outside the window, and I was petrified. A life-form I could not understand, and thus could not control. And I felt that my own life-form was not a bit more controllable. This was from the comments of a physician who assured me that he saw no neurological concerns during this dramatic and frightening experience. -- shulgin #psychonaut
"it is almost like i would have to learn another language to properly explain the things that have happened!" #psychonaut
It seems to me there are at least two ways to share information about an experience.
1) Either you utilize language, imagery, and metaphor.
2) Or you recreate the experience directly for other people.
Both are important. The first way is more accessible and digestible, while the second is clearly more direct and authentic. The first can be difficult, and will fall short, but its not impossible to convey experience and ignite others' imaginations through symbols and metaphors alone (McKenna's elegant description of DMT, for example). The second way can sometimes be impossible, but you've done a really good job piloting the ship for others, and describing the blueprints for us. If a scientist has yet make sense of his findings, he has done the world good by facilitating the re-creation of his experiment by others. #psychonaut
Hyperspace is in the head.
Think of all the things you know. SO MUCH.
Think about how little you only think about at once.
Imagine if you could think about it all at once.
Recognize how new knowledge can be synthesized from the juxtaposition of old knowledge.
HYPERSPACE #psychonaut
Build a device which shows you as many different things all at once as possible. The frame-stacking overload will trigger the Hyperspace reaction. LMFAO #psychonaut
Build an app which makes a giant song out of all the songs in your library. Like, little samples, in some of hypnotic glitch drum beat or something. #psychonaut
"Terror is the stamp of validity" Terence McKenna about DMT #psychonaut
Psychonautics -- There's not enough data for a science. We're explorers -- mapping out the mind, pointing out which river flows into which, but not actually ascending them. #psychonaut
Ibogaine: "Get your fuckin act together." #psychonaut
As an experiment, I fell asleep with the strobe goggles on. Two hours later I woke up fully immersed in a hallucination of the most beautiful geometry. Pulsating, spiraling, colorful, symmetric, like the coolest optical illusion you would ever see. For a moment I wondered "o_o what if this is permanent; I've awesomed my vision forever". But it quickly faded after opening my eyes. #psychonaut
Thanks, CJ! Your nice email made my day. I look forward to honing in on a date/time.
Best,
-- Neal #psychonaut
Ann "I wonder how life would decline in beauty were I to understand myself?"
Sim Gishel: there's a good chance that by understanding yourself you can understand what you find beautiful and work to multiply it
I think having a good functional knowledge of yourself will allow you to better explore the infinite unknown frontiers of the universe and not succumb to the blinding, numbing effects of bad mental hygine!
i don't worship and seek to preserve unknowns and mysteries; there's an infinte amount of them! They go on for as long as you're around to explore them! there's no reason to act like mystery is a non-renewable resource. #mystery#psychonaut
Psychedelics are not enlightenment.
They show you where it's possible to go, but you have to actually go there yourself. There are no shortcuts. If you feel like you're chasing rainbows, you're putting to much energy in the psychedelic experience itself rather then using the experience only as a barometer for the state of your own psyche and adjusting your every day life accordingly.
Do the work outside of the experience itself and you'll find what you're looking for. -- papatua@reddit #psychonaut
"CJ you would love this: my friend went on a Psychedelic Train Ride through Northern California" #todo#psychonaut
Noopept is a medication promoted and prescribed in Russia and neighbouring countries as a nootropic remedy. It is derived from the racetam family of drugs and shares similar mechanisms of action, but is up to 1000 times more potent than the prototypical racetam drug, piracetam. #nootropics#psychonaut
"The trick to sex on E is to do it on the come down. More fun to fool around doing other things during the peak wheneverything feels like sex. :)" #psychonaut
Oh my. What the hell is this?
What is this a mecca for? Woo!
You can't compartmentalize it, you can't analyze it. Beacuse as soon as you analyze it you become a step further away from it. And that's frequently the problem. You just gotta do. You have to be right here.
Ann: I was so dissociated, I looked in the mirror and got really turned on.
Idea -> Dissociated threesome between me, my image of myself, and Ann #sssauce#psychonaut
Newportsaintred:
"Everyone, pay attention. I did a double whippet (two doses in one balloon) while on 15mg of 2C-E, and it was seriously the weirdest thing I've ever felt. The only way I can describe it is like my brain played a practical joke on the universe, and I came out of the trance laughing my ass off. #psychonaut
twest992:
Try this: with a good friend each do a balloon simultaneously, hyperventilating through the balloon without breathing out through your nose. When you can tell your friend is peaking (the Nos is gone), knock the balloon from their mouth and hug them. The feeling of utmost human-human connection is awesome! Get Nos connecting now!! #psychonaut
TheMerryPrankster : What's mad, and what's sane? If you can express your insane thoughts rationally, I think you pass - no matter what the thoughts might be (and as long as they are not thoughts of intent to injure anyone). #psychonaut
"The idea here is to discuss psychedelic ideas/ revelations/ lessons/ ways of living & thinking that would be beneficial to spread to our local communities and the world population. People who consume psychedelics have in a sense eaten from the tree of knowledge and have a different and unique perspective on the world that surrounds us.
What I would like us to explore is a NON abrasive way of spreading the psychedelic ideas to the community without telling anyone that they are wrong living a self defeating life or that they need to consume psychedelics or any drugs. " . . . .
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/433210-Psychedelic-Ideas-and-Revelations-Inaction #psychonaut
These two perceptions are different functional states of the brain. They can come and go, depending on your environment, your mood, your drug intake, etc. On psychedelics one can feel both to the extreme. One can oscillate between mechanical, dead determinism and god-like free-will in a matter of minutes. For the most part one is in a state somewhere between these extremes. (Todo: adopt a state of mind which is both extremes simultaneously) #todo#psychonaut
"What altered states of consciousness do is not only synchronize the frontal cortex but basically make the frontal cortex pay attention to what's happening in the rest of the brain." -- Michael Winkelman #psychonaut
Preparation for next Brain Adventure:
Index cards with BOT sayings on them. Reprogram bot to have anything be a question? #psychonaut
“Psychedelic experiences are only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful…psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”
Alan Watts #psychonaut
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.” Kahlil Gibran #beauty#psychonaut
Psytrance risset probably will sound way better if you synthesize with MIDI instead of through sample manipulation
http://www.wwaym.com/nwbass.html #psytrance
Live psytrance reactive music. EASY. No headphones. The microphone filters out the subbass, and only picks up sounds above 200Hz or whatever.
All psytrance IS is a bass with glitching sound effects over it. Lmao. #cortexelation#psytrance
Psytrance game
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Vibe13/vectrix
Could we make a spiraltrance game? #game#hypersisyphus#psytrance
Boxer-briefs make pantsless cj-nights lucratively silly.
I'm high and I followed a Stairway of thought that Led me to listen to a particular song backwards on repeat. . .\m/
Am I hallucinating or is there playa dust on my keyboard keys? Check it out I installed a new keyboard layout that beats out Dvorak. Chfce ug ylg U ukrgaiifs a kfw efjbyaps iajylg ghag bfagr ylg Svypae. Check it out: Colemak. It is my goal to finally learn thee! I learned how to type quickly initially by finding phrases I typed quickly over and over. They were usually things like "omg cj you are god lmfao you are so fucking awesome. OMG OMG OMG". MonÊž's first digital words.
Ann's trying a stoner experiment, and so I think I might try a similar thing. Usually I save my highs for experiences once-a-week-if-not-longer; that way I give all of my energy into it, and out of it comes a peak experience. My thoughts for the week culminate into a bubbling brain stew as ideas rush to the surface in the myriads. I have become quite adept at articulating, capturing thoughts, and keeping them at bay. I could improve my workflow a bit more efficiently with that. When is the best time to listen to voice recordings? My favorite times are when it is inconvenient to write X._.D (on a bike; on a walk). Dragon NaturallySpeaking to the rescue? Note to self: prioritize projects which increase the efficiency of notes-to-self
You creative stoner you. I finished making a song (if you call it one; I do) and so I listened to it on repeat 10 times in a row after dosing. ("Overdosing" can also be referred to as "ddosing your synapses." #puns-noticed).
Social complexity is usually ignored.
The "what matters" valve opens up and suddenly everything matters.
And you can make all these conclusions.
We're not monkeys. We're collections of ideas.
The 5th the dimension is where ideas are organisms.
Human history has been a gaining power over matter and energy.
Gods in training.
Being a big crystal god made out of 5000 galaxies is pretty cool, but
I like the anticipation factor of
inhabiting the squishy realms.
starting from singled-celled organisms, and working our way complexward to smart monkeys. . .
Humans like new things.
The creation of new things. . . is sacred.
My body/present-mind is a 3D shadow of a 4D timesnake
@aeondrift: Yeah!! The next part here is totally Meshuggah-inspired. I want to make more mathy heavy-bass music. And I'm still trying to figure out what "Puzzlecore" ultimately means. Hidden lyrics in morse code? Hidden images in the spectrogram? All the songs should be remixes of remixes of each other? Remix-blends which use crazy Echonest analysis? Music to which you'd want to play Tetris? (woah, it could be cool to release a puzzlecore compilation only as the soundtrack to a Tetris game. #cortexelation#puzzlecore
http://soundcloud.com/blindbird/katy-perry-e-t-blindbird-remix
Okay a psyopus style edge-of-chaos feeling. With dubstep? How do we do it and have it flow. Listen to how this progresses to 1:40, with the dotted quarter: snare bass, snare bass. Start with the step, then snare bass, and hold that out and repeat some weird sound, and then kick up the tempo from there. Move in *3/2 and *4/3 tempo increases. #puzzlecore
"Puzzlhead sounds like if Nabokov made music." I've never read Nabokov so I can't really tell you, but that's the first thing that entered my name.
What are those freaking Russians thinking. #puzzlhead
Puzzlhead
Zumdda - the high pitched zaappeeew
is its own worthy instrument
alarming and threatening to the slighth degree #puzzlhead
Slaughtered cow-- so much personality in the "boo hoo hoo" square wave. #puzzlhead
OH man last weekend at my party, after 2 hours of everyone dancing and getting winded, during a lull, Puzzlhead came on, and I impulsively did an interpretive dance to How Many Times Will you Die. It was amazing. I'm not the best dancer but it was certainly a peak experience for me. Every little spasm, turn, and detail of that song I know my heart. I should've filmed it, maybe I'll film it another time. I oscillated between popping+locking
, and slam dancing, haha, all in synchrony. I think I would like to compose kick ass songs with the idea that I would be dancing like crazy to them when I play live. #dancing#cortexelation#puzzlhead
It would be awesome if you could harness the power of parallel universes for parallel-processing of work. For example, each parallel universe CJ records a different song, and then I send your song to all the other parallel universes when I'm done. Man, if quantum computers worked liked that, we could solve so many hard problems really quickly. #quantum-computers
The 20th century British scientist Sir James Jeans wrote that "the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine" #idealism#quotes
“If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.†-Ludwig Wittgenstein, on why you cannot logically justify logic.
Wittgenstein was saying that it is impossible to NOT use logic- it is the bedrock of our consciousness, and any inquiry past it is impossible because the very tools we have for such an inquiry are fundamentally inadequate for the task. #quotes
The adrenalin and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days. -- Paulo Coelho #quotes
I'm so optimistic I did'nt even realize I had been depressed for a few weeks. But now I feel amazing, and open to the beauty again :] #ramblings
I feel good having a job. It's so ironic! I just like being outside, walking around on adventures, talking to random people, not being home, and generally just having to get up in the morning after little sleep. I'm an introvert, but not an inside-introvert. I'm an outside-introvert. #ramblings
"If your ring song is a pop song, you are so out of touch with your own emotions. It is devoid of all meaning if it is always approprirate. You've turned it into noise. That is no small feat. You've turned music into a warning system. Now forever this song which had all the best intentions is not going to stress you the fuck out every time you hear it. It's going to make you feel like you have to do something. " -- johnathan #ramblings
Make a reactive music scene which captures tom's divinorum effect #reactive-music
Attach an accelerometer to my hand, so I can detect the rate of my wanking, and hook that up to a music synthesizer with drum loops and have it be some bassy awesome music -- have it be my own music, I'll be wankin to my own music, so it'll be real masturbation. Make the viral video of it, but make it PG. #reactive-music
Whatever room I'm in, a different breakbeat plays in my ear phones #reactive-music
"After the beep, say the word 'Shock'. .... Okay good. Now listen to this:" SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK-A-LOCK SHOCK-A-LOCK-A-LOCK SHARK CHALK SHARK CHALK SHARK CLOCK-A-LOCK SHOCK SHOCK #reactive-music
All music is reactive music. What is it reacting to, and how long does it take? #reactive-music
Movie theater augment remix cortexelation official performance with a poster.
Pre-prepare with a movie.
Each scene has a different path.
Older movies.
Improvisation from audience members.
Musical controllers out of the popcorn and drinks.
Contact mic in a bag of popcorn.
Start with a short 20 minute film.
Work up to feature length.
Audience members should definitely participate (if they can) #cortexelation#reactive-music
Live psytrance reactive music. EASY. No headphones. The microphone filters out the subbass, and only picks up sounds above 200Hz or whatever.
All psytrance IS is a bass with glitching sound effects over it. Lmao. #cortexelation#psytrance#reactive-music
[Interesting thought: When people switch moods, they are really switching the world (their perception of the world.)] #reality-tunnels
What I think it comes down to, is world models, represented in the brain, and how they network with each other. Idealism and realism seem like they are from the different hemispheres. Really they are different information-processing tendencies in the brain. Perhaps different algorithms represented by different clusters of neurons. They both can claim to be defined in terms of each other, which is because they are strong enough to explain each other, being themselves philosophies about philosophies. #reality-tunnels
People can hold many world models in their head. For example, there's the world full of endless opportunities that you feel when you're happy, and the mundane mechanical world that you feel when you're depressed, there's the Buddhist world, the Christian world, the nihilist world, the absurdist world, the realist world, the hypertemporal quantum world, etc., whose dominance sways according to one's "rational mood". #reality-tunnels
Neuroscience of Philosophy manifesto: Philosophies are just information-processing tendencies of the brain. #reality-tunnels
?\:O/ CJ!!!!!!! \\/:/
I could REALLY picture that! Because you so genuinely want everything to delight and support me, I saw myself walking through everything, all the trees and planets and stars and buildings being there because you so want...ed them to be there, everything being a reflection of your love. That's incredible! *adds tunnel reality to crayon box* #ann#reality-tunnels
Perhaps it is the rational-materialist which has the delusion in thinking that for something to be a God it must be external and not merely a mental production of the brain. It is a better stance to assume people are talking about themselves when they talk about God, and encourage them to elaborate, so you can understand more about how the mind works! The aggressive debater position can make others inhibitive. You can't learn the semantics of another language, esoteric as it may be, if you're constantly forcing the other to speak yours. You need a common ground to communicate anything at all -- "no you're wrong" is a difficult place to start. #reality-tunnels
Absolute truth is rather absurd; you're really only interested in relative truths, and information synthesized from these. In other words, no model is "absolutely correct" and that's not even the point of having a model. Models are tools for thinking about things. Also they're stepping stones. They're built to be refuted. They (ought to) encourage refutation. They conceptualize an understanding which had previously been abstract, fleeting, intuitive, or disorganized. If the model is refuted and replaced with a new model, this is to be seen as an evolution of the model. Often is the case that truth is not revealed until someone says the opposite. Reactions to reactions to reactions. Art moves like this too.
For example, astrology. The birth-month-personality correlation seems to be bullshit, but the analysis of personality-types and how they interact with each other encourages one to think about personal psychology in more depth because now one is able to categorize personalities, the perception of which had been previously abstract, intuitive and fleeting. Models engage logic by providing scaffolding. (Just be sure to have a model of models.) #reality-tunnels
Imagine a set of atoms at absolute zero. Unmoving. Unrotating. Sitting there in space. Imagine some atoms are made of Iodine, and some are made of Oxygen. Imagine trillions of trillions of these all in a row. List them. I O I I O I O O O O I O I O O I I O O I O O I ... INDEED it is binary code! The program of which contains the instructions for the simulation of lifeforms.#life
The impossibilitarianist fills a pragmatic role -- he or she acknowledges the fallibility of all world models, especially those that argue the impossibility of things, for models which claim impossibility have a track record throughout history of being falsified, revised and replaced -- indeed to argue impossibility is to have an ideology with a single-point-of-failure #reality-tunnels
It was easier to discover the Sun was round than the Earth. #reality-tunnels
How can you prove to me there is or isn't a God when my kind of reality structure doesn't even make space for the existence or non-existence of a God. #reality-tunnels
One who constructs a logical proof for the impossibility of God. . .holds logic above God. #reality-tunnels
Hey Ann, wanna play remix-what-the-bot-said ?
SeRpEnTsOrcAI: *squirms shoulder* Hey CJ, I through our efforts to center of showed my fucking 5.5 hours maybe your collaborator, lover, may sell me without paradoxes away a principal reason leading me free wrote the journals?
xD
Okay
Uhm. . .
here goes o_o;;
three
two
one!
Dear Monsieur Ceejilicious,
I, in lieu of our outstanding efforts to find a center or base of our extensive love making (which may go on for 5.5 hours on any random day), I thought that maybe as your collaborator and lover, you could find a way to sell the energy I direct towards you (often as a feed-back animal) so that we may finance a way for you to perpetually write me free-write journals. +Squirms at the thought+
OMG!!!!!!
THATS SO GOOD
THATS SO FREAKING GOOD
HOLY CRAP
BLOWN AWAY
BLOWN AWAY
+rave sticks glow between clusters of confetti+
XD
(4:69:27 PM) SeRpEnTsOrcAI: squirms shoulders "Hey CJ, through our efforts to center ourselves through 5.5 hours of fucking, my lover and principal collaborator shows me reason and leads me free without paradoxes," wrote the journals.
awwwww!
lmao!!
OMG i love the way you approached it!
Yours is so cute ^-^
Cute LIKE A BOSS
I had no idea what to do
hahaha
AW YOURS IS BOSS LIKE A CUTEY!!
omg i love this game
lmao
CJ: (oh great membrane-of-the-universe-which-produces-the-illusion-of-3D-space-and-the-illusion-of-separation-between-myself-and-thou-whilst-it-bubbles-frothily-in-an-interconnected-netsauce;-membrane-out-of-which-gravitons-escape,-gravitons-I-wish-oh-wish-I-could-keep-if-it-would-bring-me-but-a-micrometer-closer-to-you)
"I feel as if I have liberated a thousand fair maidens whom were
imprisoned by some tyrannical idea of disney love"
-- Reuben #love#reuben
Friendship as a localised reduction in obscurity -- Reuben #reuben
"..she was saying about not being happy with who she has been being, which is something i can relate to, but i was suggesting to her that identity, who we are, is not a state, but a process, and being unhappy with current states is just failing to be happy with their part in the process leading to something wiser better and more beautiful -- Reuben #reuben
Reuben: i love the being of noise
Reuben: from where does its being come? when does it start being? what about it continues to be before what being it has stops becoming and becomes that which is no longer?
Cortexelus: Noise as the pattern to which we assign all which we do not perceive as pattern
Reuben: if the nature of being is flux, then hearing music is very close to listening to being
Reuben: or what being does a melody have? it is never present in any moment, and yet somehow it is
Cortexelus: this is true; is there such thing as "instantaneous sound"?; sound waves are characterized by their frequency of oscillation; is there such thing as "instantaneous frequency"? That question gets reduced to: is there such thing as "instantaneous velocity"? Is velocity something inherent in a particle, or is its next movement a reaction to the state of everything else in the universe? Is every slice of sound a reaction to the universe as a whole? Every slice of sound -- the keystone which maintains the balance of energy in homeostasis?
Cortexelus: One way to think => I think noise is a relationship between a pattern-matching system and its environment. And thus the first noise came into being once the pattern-matching system came into being.
Cortexelus: Audio noise is usually a signal too complex for our brains to deconstruct and perceive the harmony between its parts. One's noise is another's harmony.
Cortexelus: This is no problem for a computer however.
Cortexelus: Is silence a type of noise?
Cortexelus: Did you know anesthetics work by creating synchronous noise between the sensory cortex and the frontal lobes? The noise drowns out useful messages, and the subjective result is sensory silence. #music#philosophy#reuben
Sonic laser tag
Use directional speakers to fire blasts of sound at people.
I think the military is developing this for riot control.
But you could do it at concerts too.
Imagine firing sub-bass? #directional-sound#riot-control
Risset rhythms.
Perpetually accelerate smoothly, but then drop the tempo in 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4 ratios when the beat shifts.
LMFAO you should DJ all music like this. #risset
AHA! Risset Rhythm dNb!!!!!
Here it is.
I had the profound realization that since the second KICK/SNARE is half the time as the first KICK/SNARE, compounding doubletime rhythms ontop of each other should be easy; they pretty much lock together:
(3:02:59 AM) EmperorcJ: o_q in the black world because there is no sun for it was killed by a jealous knight named moon
(3:04:16 AM) SeRpEnTsOrCiA: p_o but the moon lay in desolation, for it's illumination came from his brother, and as the horror of this dawned upon him, he knew he'd never dawn again.
Teach yourself to stop saying "um", and instead say "brella" #rob
We should make a loudener for cameras that make it sound like a gun #rob
Have someone in India named Ramus I can call every time I have an idea who will update these notes #rich-asshole#rob
We should have a cell phone company that only sells jailbroken phones and call it Lowering The Bars. #rob
Can you fathom spelling father fathim? #language#rob
Would you rather be intimidating or intimate dating? #language#rob
Coffee should be called awakey. Cough medicine should be called nocoughy. *eating pasta* This would be called fully or nohungry. If everything were named by their function, there would be less dysfuction, except for the things which cause dysfunction, which we would call dysfunctiony. #rob
CJ: Where does loling fit on your scale of laughter, in relation to rofling and LMAOing
Ann Le Blanc: it's an infinite loops that goes ROTFL > LMAO > LOL > lol > :| > ROTFL, so on and so forth.
CJ: That makes sense; adding a meta layer of either sarcasm or understatement (hypobole) can further push the boundaries of expression. This is especially true when certain reactions are conditioned to be expected (doing the opposite of an expectation is a dimension in which further intensity lies) But making that come across accurately is a difficult art. For example, if I'm switching up all the time, in big leaps, the meaning is lost in the noise, unless you knew me well enough and have been paying attention well enough to always expect my reaction, and knew exactly where on the loop I had meta'd to. A new person would be confused. Which creates hilarious dynamics, where you're ROFL-5'ing, but they think you're ROFL+5ng [and there are other people in the room recognizing this, and feeding into it]. It's a very EmperorEvil thing to do. But every now and then EmperorEvil would ROFL+5 some joke, and even his closest frenemy LordKavoxx would think he was ROFL-5'ing it. Kav would think Evil was doing it just to annoy him, but really Kav's incredulous reactions were just making the ROFLs climb higher. The ambiguity would feed into the highest hilarity (ROFL+10).
So climb that edge of chaos! And make ROFLs feel like ROFLs and :|s feel like :|s #rofl
Basically just type thoughts in a text file. And tag them somewhere. You can start writing like this now, and build the system later!!! It's made for rapid thought production, and automatic computer-generated categorization/mapping later. So cool. (Also, while you're out and about, write in your journal, and transcribe later if you want) At some point, convert all old thoughts into this format (new thoughts more important) #notebooks#rules
TheMerryPrankster : What's mad, and what's sane? If you can express your insane thoughts rationally, I think you pass - no matter what the thoughts might be (and as long as they are not thoughts of intent to injure anyone). #psychonaut#sanity
http://happyworm.com/blog/2010/12/05/drumbeat-demo-html5-audio-text-sync/
Synchronized Text with Audio!!!! Sansa text. Audio books? #app#super-blog#sansa
I'm totally a sap. I watched an advertisement for yahoo, and teared up. There was a guy sending an email "sorry", and it zooms in on it, and it turns into an animation of a guy with a heart on his shirt that breaks, and turns into the guy and girl being all in love and awesome, rapid fire montage, and then into them fighting and the guy walking away, and then of the guy with a transparent heart, and the girl comes back with a piece of the heart, and puts it into place, and they smush together all happy again, and it zooms out with the email reply "i forgive you" and yeah it plucked me in the strings and I teared up a little. I'm totally a sap (: <3 #love#sap
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyYj0flV_k Sapolsky: Metaphors and the Brain
The (insula?) same structure that responds with disgust to rotten food, responds to moral disgust. Woah. I wonder how the brain even makes that metaphoric connection. There must be some isomorphism between mental models of moral judgement and food judgement. As if the brain thinks of the human race as its body, and then makes judgements on what is healthy for itself. #neuroscience#morality#openindividualism#sapolsky
o_o CJ are you high?
:\/ I just haven't slept
o_o That's what I always tell my parents
:\/ You guys are consciousnessist. #sarcasm
Sir Sarcasm has no ego --- he has obliterated himself into nothing. He has no sense of self. His function is that of a mirror. He mocks, mimics, reflects, augments, contorts the images of others. His own image, as it is projected into the world, is willfully self-diminuated. No one can take anything from him, for he destroys it all before anyone could. #sarcasm
omfg imagine making a collage of all the best recorded CJ ann moments and putting it over explosions in the sky-like post rock!!! #sauce
CJ and I want to make intricate light up shoes. Like the ones when you were little. Yeah! All you need is like, a piezo transducer or pressure sensor which completes a circle to LEDs. So easy. OR you could buy kids shoes with light-ups and then take them apart and put them in your shoe. EASIER! (Though less customized). Whatever we decide to do, it's pretty sick we're the same size. So if we decided to be really cost efficient we could make one pair, (LMAO) or if we decide we want to totally exploit this awesome idea for all it's worth, we can make two different pairs and switch them around. (awww, I agree! Yay for convenience) We could also hook up the lights to MrSans sounds.(lmao) #todo#sauce
When you look so adorable and vulnerable and open like this I want to love you forever and can feel myself loving you forever, beyond death; through our memes and the collective audience we generate who all feel and (want to) identity with ...our love. And I want to scoop you up and coddle you and show you our Everythingness and spread it all out for you to look at and take in >< Our mythology and history and eternal sweetness and true love! #sauce
At this moment, in the picture, for real, I am collapsing at the very sight of your omnipresent beauty "YOURE JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL"
You, your sunshine, and the infinity butterflies all around you. . .me: feeling your influence throughout all of my life and the presence of your archetype throughout human history and human future! #sauce
<3<3<3OMFG I LOVE ANN LE BLANC MORE THAN MUSIC, MORE THAN THE UNIVERSE<3<3<3
I cannot believe how INFATUATED I AM
O_O
When I write about her I can feel her scent all over my olfactory bulb's imaginary synesthesia stimulus.
O_!O!!!!!(:(:(:
We spent a most wonderful date day hanging out!!!!
Ann shared with me all the things that have inspired her this week.
Like. o__o how more beautiful of a date could it have been. #sauce
Blackberry cookies are so sexy.
Ann is beyond porn star. #sauce
:: November 15, 2011 ::
Yesterday Ann spontaneously asked me to meet her at the playground at midnight. LMAO this is how it happened:
(11:40:00 PM) serpentsorcia: Hey CJ?
(11:40:06 PM) emperorcj: hey Ann!
(11:40:10 PM) emperorcj: (:
(11:40:36 PM) serpentsorcia: Do you want to make out for like twenty minutes at a playground?
(11:40:42 PM) emperorcj: LMAO
(11:40:45 PM) emperorcj: I would love that!
(11:40:47 PM) serpentsorcia: YAY!
(11:40:49 PM) serpentsorcia: lmao
(11:40:51 PM) emperorcj: LMFAO
(11:41:00 PM) emperorcj: okay hold on let me get ready
(11:41:04 PM) emperorcj: ill meet you back here in 15
(11:41:09 PM) serpentsorcia: okay XD
We found partially-dried cement and made outside cave paintings (the fractal boat, SSSAUCE, <3 x infinty, Godel, and Sapolsky). One of the things we talked about was how it's important to have feedback farmers who illuminate how extraordinarily inspirational other people's actions are, especially when those actions may become temporarily mundane.
Ann made me BLACKBERRY SHORTBREAD COOKIES. The most magical of all desserts. OMFG they taste like orgasm. I'm addicted to them. I keep eating them, but they're almost all gone :[ easily my favorite dessert in the world. #sauce
Strobing rave-color text plugin? for typewithme #app#sauce
:: Fort of Leaves Date ::
In New Zealand CJ buried himself under a pile of leaves for an hour and it was the most wonderful thing in the world. He dreamed of doing the same with his lovely Ann. He even made doodles of it in his journal.
In highschool Ann used to get eel sushi and starbucks after school and sometimes explore Oak Grove cemetery with her friends, so we remixed the hang out.
Our hangout was a mashup of these two concepts. And what emerged was even more beautiful. And punny. We brought a rake to the cemetary and buried ourselves in leaves and had a cuddle picnic. The pun is that we buried ourselves in a graveyard. It's like living art, or at least a living clomoid. Date art! Lubboid.
READ MORE ABOUT THIS BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN HISTORY: http://sync.in/fortOfLeaves
I met a schizophrenic woman at Dunkin Donuts in Boston. She looked at my ambigram shirt from behind and felt compelled to share with me her thoughts: "if only they could teach us in our sleep, we wouldn't have all this cocksucking bullshit". I replied, "you're right, that would solve a lot of problems, and we'd be more intelligent. The brain is more active during sleep anyway." I've met this woman before, I realized. She had a stack of xeroxed paper. They each had a doodle of a wave-haired woman's face looking at a woman's body whose head was replaced with a bunch of grapes; over which the moon commented "...where are the kids"; and below which appeared to be the title: "Bad goodman". She reached for a page, turned it over, and said "I'll draw you a brain map". She hurrily drew Florida and Norway in red ink. Their coastlines resembled the shapes of two heads facing each other. She said usually she can draw better than her clone.
Many of her thoughts were of paranoid delusions, sensory phenomenon, and ideas conceptually alienated from my reality tunnel (example: what does she mean that we have imposter copies of ourselves running around? Was this a comment on our mimetic culture? Was this a fantasy inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Men in Black? Or was this the result of a psychological delusion similar to Capgras?). She told me a story of how she tried to read a particular book in the library, but all the Gs would squiggle out of control. She was interested in education and told me I should I learn how to analyze handwriting. She asked me how to spell W. "Ummm, D-O-U-B-L-E and then U, however U is spelled. Y-O-U? Double you." o_o upon reflection, I wondered if she was punning me. #schizophrenia
So after we figure out the brain, then what? What's the next big system we have to solve? CULTURE. Social dynamics. #science
Human philosohpy from a neuroscience point of view. "Some people believe semma because their brains have a tendency to be wired for summa numma"
The Genome project was awesome. That got us our DNA. But what do we do with that? How does the DNA interact with its environment and our biology and with itself? Next is the Epigenome project, which is an undertaking considerbly more complex and difficult.
But after that -- it keeps going. Soon we'll have to reverse engineer human purpose from the outside-in. #science
Support genetic re-engineering of the appendix. Think of all the new stuff we'd be able to get nutrition from. Leaves! Raw meat! Solve world hunger! XD #science
How fast would you have to go in your car to run a red light claiming that it appeared green to you due to the Doppler Effect?
—Yitzi Turniansky #xkcd#science
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/09/12/jellyfish-genes-make-glow-in-the-dark-cats/
I love how humans are making HIV their bitch. #science!
Obviously God sent us HIV to use as a tool for genetically modifying ourselves into superhumans #transhumanism#god#science!
We're approaching a point in the history of reproduction where one no longer produces offspring in the traditional sense, but rather gives birth to oneself (mind clone, with identically reproduced memes)
Which is interesting because that's how reproduction first started with the first protoDNA.
It's just finer and finer methods of self-replication and self-selection.. giving rise to greater and greater complexity.. until the complexity zooms further in on itself.. leading to finer and finer methods of self-replication..
self-reproduction is self-reproducing #cortexelation#self-production
Imagine developing "radio vision", perhaps with a radio camera, which allows you to see radio waves reflecting off of everything, in the same way as visible light, infrared and such. #sense
Follow it through with me. We begin with addition and positive integers. Subtraction leads to non-positive integers. Division (non-positive exponents) leads to non-integer numbers. Roots (non-integer exponents) lead to non-rational numbers. Negative roots (non-integer exponents of negative numbers) leads to imaginary numbers. Keep going. Logarithms give you transcendental numbers (e). Hyperexponents/tetration (non-rational exponents?) leads to..what? Do the classes of numbers keep elaborating? At any point do we reach an uncountable set? What if we elaborated the sets of numbers produced by hyperoperations as their complexity approaches infinity? #math#set-theory
"The trick to sex on E is to do it on the come down. More fun to fool around doing other things during the peak wheneverything feels like sex. :)" #psychonaut#sex
I want to experiment with screen printing!! I want to make the infinite music note thing a t-shirt. And then I want to sell tshirts for LESS than it costs to make them MUAHAHAHA #shirts
I desperately want to see this as a half t shirt/half dress shirt. Half tie and all. -- Adam G #shirts
Codex Seraphinianus. Print that shit out onto clothing. #shirts
Machines won't respect us unless we also develop a Theory of Reverence for (or Identity with) the forms of lower complexity from which we evolved. #singularity
Chardin describes a tendency of the universe toward convergence and connectivity, with the Omega Point being the ultimate teleology --- while Kurzweil focuses on the convergent events of human history and those forecasted to occur this century. The technological singularity is one step along the way to the omega point. Kurzweil brings the math and evidence to support the universal tendency of which Chardin speaks, and projects the possible role of human beings in "awakening the universe" (turning all 'inert' matter into computable matter). You can't have a human tendency without the universe also having that tendency, since we are part of the universe.
But whether the force of connectivity overcomes the force of things falling apart -- negentropy vs entropy -- that is the great question. Even if the big freeze is inevitable: If time is continuous, and information not limited by quantization, then perhaps you could simulate (uncountably infinite) universes within our universe, ensuring endlessly complex connectivity before black holes devour everything. #singularity
I went into the bathroom at International Village, super late at night, and I hear someone blasting hip hop out of his phone, while in a stall, taking a dump. It was instrumental mid-tempo 808 synth hip hop. It was the skeeviest dump music I've ever heard. From the next stall over, I somewhat sarcastically thanked him for providing a skeevy soundtrack to my dump. It turned out he had a little trouble understanding my English, but then explained enthusiastically that the music was from the soundtrack one of his favorite movies. He wasn't trying to be skeevy, he was just some new-to-the-country dude, and where he's from it's probably customary to blast music when you take a dump.
Which gave me the idea to throw a bathroom stall performance. Two or more of us, in stalls, blasting skeevy music from our phones. Tempo sync'ed. #cortexelation#skeevy
I think it's really good to skip nights of sleep because the next day you ...seem to be able to break old habits more easily, you feel more likely to think of things creatively.. it's like being somewhere new for the first time, and your brain is in plastic mode, highly volatile ( except the new place you're in is a biological place OR maybe a temporal one (2nd sun!)) #sleep-deprivation
Or maybe it's because the experience of the first day god rid of all the mental noise, and the next day you're running with a cleaner mind. Like, there's all these impulses which trigger themselves at regular intervals throughout the day according to your biological "day plan". And when you sleep and wake up the day plan resets. But if you stay up into the second day, your day plan has fewer impulses in it, until you're trailing out beyond orbit into empty space by the third day. #sleep-deprivation
SeRpEnTsOrCiA: You should have a beach chair in the shower
SeRpEnTsOrCiA: in case you wanna snooze
SeRpEnTsOrCiA: lol
SeRpEnTsOrCiA: lmao with a big beach umbrella because defeating the purpose is fun #sleeping-in-the-shower
Hyperlove - n. (def.) any expression of Love anyone has ever given to anyone else is an expression of Love from me to you. #slovos
Hyper-high-five - n. (def.) every high five anyone has ever given to anyone else is a single high five of which I give you. #slovos
Hyperpeanutbutter - n. (def.) every experience of the deliciousness of peanutbutter, throughout one's and everyone's life, throughout history, as its enticing smoothness is experienced through the reality tunnel of different species and taste systems -- is a single experience of peanutbutter I wish I could experience, whose hyperpalatable and lush perspectrum would almost certainly kill me on the spot. #slovos
Nonmatopoeia -- when something is its opposite. Like "SILENCE!" #slovos
Transcarnation -- what distinguishes a person, besides their body? Their personality. What determines a personality? Part genes. But mostly experience. Everyone has their own unique set of experiences, but some people share experiences. #slovos
Andy Kaufman adventure -- doing something really inconvenient, like reading the entire Great Gatsby, or watching the sausages cook at Ozzfest starvingly. #slovos
Outspire (v) -- to inspire many individuals, to influence culture in general, to broadcast yet not necessarily be received. To inspire others to inspire others. #slovos
Feedthrough (n) -- Influencing others to influence you. #slovos
Plura (n) The aura of more than one person together #slovos
Memortality (n) -- living beyond the life of your biology as an idea. #slovos
I think there's two states people are in socially.
1) They are flowing uninhibited. Things are coming out as you're thinking them, and you're just doing what you want to do. Authentic behavior.
2) You're a step removed from (1). Before you act on anything, you analyze what you want, and then act on it.
Imagine that in (2) the neuron networks do a loop around before anything gets done, and in (1) commands are being executed immediately.
If everybody is doing (2) in a social situation, it can be boring.
If everybody is doing (1) people are more au #social-dynamics
Lmao. A determinism-themed social network. ChaosBook. ChaosStew. ChaosYou. Emphasizing the endless consequences of every action performed on the site. [Invite Billy to birthday party] +click+ "Are you sure you want to invite Billy? He may show up at your house this weekend." [YES] [NO]
+clicks no+ "Are you sure you DON'T want to invite Billy? You invited his friends Isabella, Rockwood, and Bert. You have dating Isabella for 72 days, and she'll know you didn't invite him. Her last relationship with Corgan lasted 83 days. Her last relationship ended 3 days after she attended Corgan's Birthday Basharoo. Billy was not invited to Corgan's Birthday Basharoo. Invite Billy?" [YES] [NO] #determinism#chaos#social-network
==James brown style==
I love the philia
Don't want no phobia
I've got a case of the itis
My favorite words are I and this
I see the way that you're eyein' this
(dance middle)
== Djent rap ==
The range of strange loops roots through my feet
tappin my mouth rappin as the beat shoop-a-doops thru the juke
don't change
the range of strange loops roots through my feet
tappin my mouth rappin as my bot shop-a-loppin-for-lolli-pop-rocks thru the box
don't change
The range of strange ropes around my foot
draggin my step
trappin my mouth rappin as the boot shoop-a-doo-woppin'
don't stop
(hey!)
djent rap (voice+guitar) -> james brown part -> dance break down -> james brown part -> djent rap again (full band)
It's a mashup of a mashup. And here it is: a minutish of glitchy progression. Can I already imagine this being remixed again into a song? Just swap between parts; repeat some parts; and I have a song. Points for danceability. Unmix it for live. My, how nose who I'll end up machine-elfing the live tools. (The previous sentence began with a spoonerism. "Machine-elfing" shall forever be referred to as the act of manifesting belongings into reality on command, particularly those which belong to the class of will-enforcers which relieviate a lack of further machine-elfing in yourself and othres. Get it? Creations that create creating.
Ultimately my goal is to get rid of chaos notes altogether, because the gaplessness between idea and manifestation will render them obsolete. I need one or more of the following:
- Clones
- Employees
- AI
Yes. AI. Funny is the perception of AI. Articulation hypothesis: AI is the act of taking unsolved behavior and translating it into deterministic language. General AI is the act of performing this act on itself. The rest is a matter of accumulating a good collection of legs, hands, and eyes.
AI chasing me
"Chasing me" LMFAO is the name of it
I beatbox into the (iPod), and the (RJDJ) copies and plays along a measure behind. It is an echo of me; it responds to me; it talks *with* me. Use Tristan's analyzer funs to generate (drum samples, alterations) #cortexelation#beatbot#soundeffects
The youngest Sauceteer felt not saucey at all;
The youngest Sauceteer was a saucette
and small.
Where is half of myself? she silently thought,
and she peered into the C (she looked there a lot).
Then suddenly she saw through the sea said as "C":
"I must find this reflection! The projection that's me!"
And so she set sail, flailing arms, saying
"Weeeeeeeeee!"
But she didn't want to meet herself empty-handed
Her curiosity ambidextrous, she thought she'd risk being stranded
And was set on setting sail until a grand gift was landed.
So she looked and she peered, though she was nearsighted (to be candid).
And then to the surface came a creature from the Sauce bed!
"For what are you saliently searching?" an urchin then said,
"For what are you seeking, you young pop rock head?"
"You know," said the Saucteer, not taken aback,
by the politness this character did certainly lack
(she fancied all nicknames which made her a snack.)
"I very much infrequently bake.
Well occassionally--only!" she hoped her words were not a mistake.
"No offense from your habits does my perception take,"
said the urchen who swam in the great saucey C lake
"Well, I'm looking for myself," said Saucette with a heart-ouchie-ache
"And I'm only right-handed, so I thought I'd bake him a cake."
"A cake? Huff and puff!" said the urchin with a snort.
"A cake's hardly appropriate for a meeting of this sort!"
The Saucette considered, "Well, I'm rather short.
And I adore bread,
So what if from that I made what he'll fed?"
"Puff and huff! Your tenses are tense;
Is your sanity surrepticious? That barely makes sense.
I mean, I beg pardon, but don't tell me
the C is making your mind atrophy and grow skinnier?"
The saucette politely reminded the urchin that time is nonlinear.
But shortbread seemed barely sweet enough to express her devotion
And it seemed silly to limit herself with such infinite ocean.
"Oh urchin!" She called, "Is there anything more salaciously sugary on the oceanic mapping?"
But the urchin was silent. The scoundrel was napping.
And in his sleep-state he began swimming away and flapping.
"Oh no!" said the sauceteer, "Urchin! Oh urchin, do wake!"
And in her excitement the boat started to tumble and shake
One moment she was on starboard, the next in the lake!
Oh no! Thought the sauceteer as from the boat felled
I can't bake him shortbread in the vacuole of the great fractal cell!
She was horrified until a sweet smell could be smelled.
The sauceteer had not fallen to the C of the damned;
The sauceteer had fallen into a great jar of jam!
And anyone could guess how gracefull she swammed!
She giggled and gurgled and made bubbles as she tread
"I'll add the blackberry sauce to my other head's shortbread!"
So she scooped up from yummy jam-i-wam and (just so you know)
The seaweed she used was decriminalized and made a fine bow.
And so the saucette, the sauceteer now saucier than most,
Set sail across the sauce to seek her someone with which to share toast!
-- Ann Le Blanc #ss-sauce
Ann and I realized we could text each other through email, and this is what resulted:
Did our sock footed adventure to secret acre marshmallow autumn picnic benches remain a secret amongst the two sauceteers?
Indeed not a knowl was known,
not even by the owl upflown;
nor the gnome in the hedge
who spies from knowl's edge
To clom my moids
and deprive my mind,
would weeekend graveyard mischief
my Mr. decline?
(Saturday's the choice
most warm and unmoist)
A saturday delight
would be most right;
with dreams of leaves
(as Emperor perceives)
all in our hoods
and up our sleeves. :)#sssauce
CJ: I should make a max patch that inverts the spectrogram so we can listen to upside-down music when we hang out
Ann: do you think if we listen to enough upside down music, our brains will flip it?
CUTEST GIRL EVER #sssauce
Oh my. What the hell is this?
What is this a mecca for? Woo!
You can't compartmentalize it, you can't analyze it. Beacuse as soon as you analyze it you become a step further away from it. And that's frequently the problem. You just gotta do. You have to be right here.
Ann: I was so dissociated, I looked in the mirror and got really turned on.
Idea -> Dissociated threesome between me, my image of myself, and Ann #sssauce
"a brief exchange bent for an exhale arrangement" #sssauce
(7:32:10 PM) EmperorcJ: all of your sunshine rays are hot tickles that fill me with warmth, acceptance, inspiration, lust, yumminess, and strong feelings of being-one-with-the-love-of-the-universe [you turn on all my circuits]
(7:36:30 PM) SerpentSorcia: all of your mayflay flaps are gusts of loving chaos that remind me that I can never be lost in the Universe because the meaning I create for myself, which is so heavily rooted in our romance, makes me the center point in which all things flow [you are the personification of my self actualization] #sssauce
First there was sound! Then smell! PSH@creation stories about the universe. . . what about creation stories of the human being? Telling the story of how our senses turned on, how our mental faculties kicked in, etc. . #stories
‎"Ann was born in an entirely white room with an enormous white board sitting in front of her. She stared at it, and it stared back. Things went along like this for quite some time, but neither Ann nor the board really kept track. Then one ...day the board exploded, it's abrupt white shrapnel sticking to the consistent white walls. Ann turned her head and stared at this for another period which can best be described as quite some time, until she noticed an enormous black hole in the wall the white board had been covering. Maybe because the only movement she had ever observed had been erratic and impulsive, the white girl erratically and impulsively crawled through the black hole." #stories
Criss cross storyfest. A dialogue between two foreigners speaking in a third language they don't know every well. Every other page is written from the perception of the other, and what they "think" they understood the other to be saying. Also have #story-ideas
Take previous story-idea, but instead have both people speaking with "foreign philosophies" or through reality tunnels foreign to each other. Or you could have them both be tripping. #story-ideas
Write a story using real-life games.
Two people glitching, unable to hear each other well. The goal is not to understand each other, but to bounce off of each other in creative directions. Whatever you do, do not say anything like "wait what did you say". But dont try to be random either. Just respond off of what you think the other person is saying. #surrealist-games#story-ideas
Backstory: Ann, looking at a picture of a circle of underwater people, asks CJ what breed of dog this is. CJ responds:
Rocker Spaniel \m/
(no I'm seriously not telling the truth there. )
It's a Broholmer, keen as.
(no I'm just kidding once again.)
Golden Retrievers, as we know, were bred to hunt game in water.
(I'm sorry, I made a typo: play games*)
This is merely a circle of stone children who, many trends ago, sought to explore the lacking of their meaning. (?):\/ They wondered how far they could bounce-throw a Hyper-Powered SkyBall into the ocean of infinite bliss. So they wound-up in a circle and accelerated the ball around and around to approximately 99.999999% the speed of light before letting it free into the cosmos. Just then, the great golden puppy Pupyphus came barreling out of nowhere to chase it! His golden tongue flapping in the solar wind! His paws pedaled, propelled by the pressure of space! His smile as wide as his spaghettified face! "The rules of the game," they all agreed: as one girl spoke and took the lead: "everyone hold their breath as held as their hands, till Pupyphus returns from the sky and lands." They watched his golden tail aflail, till but a spark was left, I think. They observed the outer culture fail, till puppy's meme did shrink. Ice ages encroached and retreated; glacier caps worn backwards, heated; tsunamis drowning millions in death; all the while the stoned held their breath.
Take-away moral:
The golden puppy hasn't returned yet, but in thousand million years when he does, we'll have technological command of unsupposability, and we'll all melt back into kids again. #ann#story-time
I always found it strange when people told other people that they were talking.
"Hey! I'm talking!"
or
"Hey! You're talking! I'm trying to talk but you're not letting me talk"
Right? Instead of actually talking.
Weird conditioning when you loop people onto themselves.
Or when you simultaneously say the same thing that's in the other's head, which the other is only thinking because you're saying it. Like when you interrupt someone by saying STOP INTERRUPTING ME.
Anyway, verbal arguments should be about the context and the topic -- 3rd circuit. Very weird when you start arguing about how you're arguing; it brings everything down to the 2nd circuit. Then it's no longer about logic but about domination. X| #strange-loops
As an experiment, I fell asleep with the strobe goggles on. Two hours later I woke up fully immersed in a hallucination of the most beautiful geometry. Pulsating, spiraling, colorful, symmetric, like the coolest optical illusion you would ever see. For a moment I wondered "o_o what if this is permanent; I've awesomed my vision forever". But it quickly faded after opening my eyes. #psychonaut#strobe-goggles
Apparently phosphenes reveal the inner architecture of the neural connections between the retina and the visual cortex. #strobe-goggles
Strobing lights of different frequencies will produce different phosphene patterns revealing different sub-structures (8-10 hz is spirals, 12-14hz is grids, etc) [I wonder if the sensory impulses are actually resonating these sub-structures, the way certain frequencies of sound resonate in a chamber of a particular shape]. #strobe-goggles
Also people on high doses of psychedelics see these same phosphene patterns, because the overabundance of neurotransmitters creates feedback resonance in the brain, in a similar way. #strobe-goggles
Random question, I have no idea where it will get me:
What if I only have a subjective experience because other things are observing me [people, objects, air, electric fields, etc]?
I cite Schrodinger's equation as my intuition. [To the least of my understanding] according to Schrodiger's equation, a waveparticle only exists in the form of a particle if there are other particles in the universe. Example: a universe with a single particle-waveform, with no other waveforms, would fill the entire space. As soon as you add other waveforms, the waveforms localize into particles. A localized particle is better described as a relationship between everything. #physics#subjective-experience
I have started wondering about morality and the "subjective theater". Does the subjective theater have any moral rights, or is it a superfluous phenomenon? If subjective experience is a basic property of physics that things have, then my thoughts are that it shouldn't have its own moral standing, because your data-information-personality-pattern is what actually has value. That is what effects the world, and others. Whereas if you were a philosophical zombie with no subjective theater, the world would know no difference.
I wonder if many people would agree that it does have moral standing. I think a person's opinion can be revealed by asking them "If you agreed to let me kill you, and replaced you with a perfect clone copy, exactly as you were before, and nobody and nothing could ever tell the difference, how moral or immoral is that act?" Maybe a better hypothetical question would have fewer biases and room for tangent arguments. #morality#subjective-experience
Language is awesome. And exploring and map drawing is awesome. And drawing maps with language is awesome.
Allow me to clarify where my reality tunnel is coming from:
According to my connotations: "consciousness" is the feedback loop. It is the interplay between x and its environment. And you find feedback loops within feedback loops, all the way out and all the way in. In this connotation, a cell is conscious. A computer is conscious. I think of this as a separate concept from thought and intelligence. I think of it as a separate concept from subjective experience too.
While traditional senses (sound, sight), conceptual senses (prime number, love, squirrel, objects), and everything between have their associated qualia, they are only messages in the medium. While I agree, I think they are computable, quantizable informational processes, my curiosity leads me to wonder: "What is the medium of that information?"
Even if we figure out the properties of mental qualia and master its forms (and engineer "fun theory" hahaha!), it may never tell us anything about the medium within in which qualia exists. The question lingers: when one experiences qualia, what waters are being perturbed? In what Great Theater does my mind play? Where is it (is it everywhere (where everywhere?)?)? What is its nature? What is its relationship to anything else?
The first and simplest idea that pops into my head is that: the medium of qualia is simply space. The ether of space. The vacuum of space.
It is the closest idea I can think of which doesn't postulate anything new or fantastical.
This doesn't answer the question, it only pushes it back a step (in what medium does space exist?).
But if we hypothetically assume space is the medium we are looking for, a number of thought problems arise. Must other things in space must have experience? Must everything? Does 99% of the universe have a unified experience, and we are the anomalies with isolated experience? What physical property makes that separation? Is it feedback? Is quantum coherence a clue? How do you devise the appropriate experiment to find out?
Other ideas for the medium of qualia? Any objections to the assumption that messages must have mediums? #subjective-experience
The ability to use different categorical methods on command. . . is a metacognitive superpower I've been working on for the past few years. . . however I have little thought of it in terms of formalized psychological concepts, and ought to think of it more as such. It started as a technique which started off a pragmatic way to avoid obstructions to happiness, by finding ways to justify awesome in any situation. It later became a way to infer significant information from seemingly uninteresting stimulus [oh that's not a boring leaf, that's a whole city of cells, that's a novel in the DNA library of Earth, that's a pattern whose self-similarity extends into the forest as a whole, etc]. On the outside, it appears as a source of optimism, though is not blind because it is derived from a particular shift in categorical perception. Perhaps it is the reason why a realist may appear to be an idealist. #idealism#metacognition#superpowers
Adam James Davis: Last night, I dreamt that Martine Rothblatt sent me a PM over CyBeRev saying: "Thank you so much for the awesome synthesizer experiments you've uploaded xxxxx ***** "...well, it was actually longer than that in my dream, but that's it in a proverbial nutshell :)
CJ Carr:
LMAO! Dreaming of polite remarks. New form of art: absurdist or surrealist polite remarks. "Thank you so much Mr. Davis for the symmetry produced in the number of x's and *'s used to indicate your et cetera. It was syntactically pleasing to the senses." #surrealism
A theoretical waterfall that starts so up high that it's snowing avalanche at the top.
The level of snow can change depending on the time of day. #surrealism-for-a-video-game
Write a story using real-life games.
Two people glitching, unable to hear each other well. The goal is not to understand each other, but to bounce off of each other in creative directions. Whatever you do, do not say anything like "wait what did you say". But dont try to be random either. Just respond off of what you think the other person is saying. #surrealist-games
*Holds hands with Ann* Holding hands with you tastes like halfway between Indian Curry and Ritz crackers. #synesthesia
Color-color synesthesa --- unisensory synesthesia. Ex. Red things feel blue #psychology#synesthesia
David Van Vorst: yeah concepts become realized in 3D fireworks jellyfish exploding infront of my face #synesthesia
When people list ingredients I get particularly strong synsations of imagined flavor -- which come together in
the form of taste-music. This art form should be elaborated #music#synesthesia
http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Cotton+Candy+moonbunny+Remix+/2AoidJ?src=5
This song tastes like blue vanilla cotton candy.
Especially her voice is very cotton candy like. #synesthesia
We can put on the AR goggles and make everything rainbow and look at all the muffins in the bakery!!!! I wonder if switching the color hue makes things taste differently? #synthesia
Tape measurer juggling art movement --- its like poi. Allston Isaac is pretty good at it. He and his girlfriend were tape measuring between them and it was really romantic. #tape-measurer
Hey! Life classification system!:
There totally needs to be a separate grouping which distinguishes different mediums of life (organic, memetic, machine, virtual, etc) #life#taxonomy
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Match Green Tea Powder
http://www.amazon.com/DoMatcha-Green-Organic-Matcha-1-0-Ounce/dp/B0019FOZC4/ref=cm_rdp_product #todo#tea
CJ and I want to make intricate light up shoes. Like the ones when you were little. Yeah! All you need is like, a piezo transducer or pressure sensor which completes a circle to LEDs. So easy. OR you could buy kids shoes with light-ups and then take them apart and put them in your shoe. EASIER! (Though less customized). Whatever we decide to do, it's pretty sick we're the same size. So if we decided to be really cost efficient we could make one pair, (LMAO) or if we decide we want to totally exploit this awesome idea for all it's worth, we can make two different pairs and switch them around. (awww, I agree! Yay for convenience) We could also hook up the lights to MrSans sounds.(lmao) #todo#sauce#tech
Resident Evil AR 3rd person perspective
A camera at the top corner of every room.
A smart phone in several rooms.
Detects YOU your location, switches accordingly. #technological-tripping
tripping
Take video of a walk through, create a 3D space of the whole thing. Possible? If so, use this to generate MINI MAP, and then after that a 3D virtual world.
OR top -down 2D one.
If it knows where you are automagically, then you can make any kind of virtual map of your location.
DIFFERENT KINDA SENSOR? hmmmmm. . . . . . ... . #technological-tripping
HAUNTED HOUSE
3rd person
Thing runs by you real quick
You have no idea what it was, but you see it #technological-tripping
PC webcam to Wp7
http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/just-fun-your-pc-webcam
http://blog.darkthread.net/post-2010-08-18-camera-for-wp7-emulator.aspx
Picture effects
http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/PicFx--Windows-Phone-Picture-Effects-Application--Part-1 #technological-tripping
I watn to be able to send my vision overseas to Nottingham and back again #technological-tripping
"That's voyeuristic toward yourself. What does that even mean? That's brilliant. That's awesome. " #technological-tripping
Instant haunted house, everywhere. It's a haunted house thats all in the person's head.
There are two roles.
* The experiencer is immersed in a visual/sonic digital hallucination of the real world.
* The glitch shaman (aka glitch jockey aka reality jockey) controls and directs the hallucination, either locally or remotely.
The experience looks like a total cyborg. She has video goggles, head phones, a camera, a microphone, and perhaps other sensory devices (such as sense of magnetic-north [like the NorthPaw or the FeelSpace belt]).
The experiencer's vision/hearing is sent to the glitch shaman. There are several jobs the shaman has, and they could be split amongst several glitch jockeys. One could control the visual/sonic filters. Another could spend his time sampling the audio, tactically repeating (or altering) samples from conversations and monologues. Another could be typing text commands onto the experiencer's display screen. While an experienced glitch shaman could handle all of these jobs, a team of jockeys may be able to work faster in parallel.
Glitch shamanism becomes its own art, whose goal is to synergize and direct the experience toward whatever purpose; whether it be creative self-actualization, a game, a challenge, or for an entertaining experience at the supermarket buying milk.
In this way the glitching is out of the hands of the experiencer. The shaman is controlling it. The shaman is the director. It captures the chaotic out-of-your-control aspect of pharmacological tripping. Yet in both cases, you can still influence it (either by knowing and communicating with the inner-workings of yourself, or by knowing and communicating with your shaman)). In this way experiencer needs not worry about "managing" the effects, and can rather focus on adapting to her senses, performing her challenge, or exploring her creative side.
Potential business models could involve the production and selling of devices or device packages -- or perhaps more easily the sale of mobile apps. As of today all of this technological is expensive for the average consumer, and requires a bit of DIY engineering. So perhaps realistically a business could be made out of providing people this experience as a service, perhaps through equipment rentals, providing a space or "psychedelic nursery", coming to parties, or through professional glitch jockeying. If the purpose is entertainment, it is viable to charge and make a profit. However if the purpose is for spiritual and existential growth, then no money should be involved. Also, it makes more sense for shamans to be trusted friend(s).
I have to build it first to find out, but it would be awesome if glitch shamanism could be used therapeutically and function as an avenue for legitimate research. #technological-tripping
an AR effect where laughter makes us glow under the blacklight! OR makes everything light up! Could detect laughter through audio, OR could detect silent hilarity through the EEG! #technological-tripping
suggested control for feelspace belt
adam controls where I walk this way #technological-tripping
Oculus: now that's what I'm talking about. This is the kind of shit that's going to make Technological tripping famous #technological-tripping
Favorite Text Messages
- from the past year
- so I can delete them from my phone
- why phones don't let you store more than a handful of messages, even though there's plenty of memory, I don't understand. 100 messages * 200 characters = 20,000 bytes = 20kb. That's less than one camera picture. -_-
Feb 11 / Mike
I did ss sauce and it was AWESOME!!!!
Jan 30 / Andrew Alexander
U r awesome! Gr82meetu!!!!
Jan 29 / Johnathan
your self-own is ringing.
Jan 26 / Johnathan
interlooptualism
Jan 25 / Chris Harrington
You available for an art show this saturday? 930
Jan 14 / Curtis
Hello all. I will be having a social event at my house tomorrow night for all those interested. If anyone has a goo theme idea i'd be up for suggestion.
CJ: alphabet themed
Curtis: So combining the first three suggestions it will be a midwest alphabet theme party with awards going to the best dressed. I like it.
December 15 / Max
there is a spot in my car, and a spot in my heart
December 10 / Max
i have something i need to record
December 10 / Johnathan
antiverted introsocial... O_O
November 30 / Rob Noack
If you tell an inside joke in a voice loud enough to only be used appropriately outdoors is that an outside inside joke?
November 17 / Alex
Anyone feel up for a hike to the tower?
November 11 / Rob Noack
What if someone was made of water and you poured pasta into them. They would have to run through a screendoor to get the pasta out.
November 05 / Isaac
:-D ann rules! Just like you cj! ...:-D!! Lmao, ir is dunkola. DUDE! Our show?! The Best.. THE best.
November 04 / Devin
Wanna go to a gym to parkour/trick tonight? 15 dollars from 7 to 9 at MIT
October 29 / MB
You make awesome thrive, heartbeat jive, so excited I almost cried
October 25 / Rob Noack
A pair of ants in love on a uest for the one great god who can wed them... The fabled "antelope"
October 05 / Shawn Smith
The money bus brings money to your house, money to your grandma and money to your spouse.
October 05 / Shawn Smith
Lmao the money bus could like, bring people tons of money but then just explode into smithereens.
September 12 / MB
Birthday? No way! ROAD FLOWS to who knows? Who goes where clocks rock their tock to broken prose and open throws? Huh? The rockies, the plain, the double barrel bruise, futon snooze, don't stall out just let her cruise, kind of days.
August 16 / Johnathan
"missed my dose of reality and now I'm fiending" #text-messages
I recognized that the ultimate goal of humanity is for everyone to build and play The Great Game. This goal is shared with transhumanity, and the universe, and the tao. #the-great-game
The game we humans play present day is fun. Sure. And perhaps some generations of us could relax and live comfortably playing it. But it's just a local minima. A temporary harmonic stabilisation. The best fun has yet to come. People like me are engineers for the next game. #the-great-game
25th Hang out with Dan. Jam with Chris check
26th Northeastern pictures. Snow day (maybe show with Tom?)
27th Mensiversary/snow day/Can we do a bunch of awesome things ????/ Pokemon/Rave/Paint/Surreal Games/let's make raver snow men/Amelie?/Augment/everything I forgot xDD OMG YOURE SO FUN TO BE IN ANTICIPATION OF PLAYING WITH !!!!!! :]:]:]:]:]EPIC HANG OUT <3 XD +AGREED+ =)
29th Art show with Chris - then maybe Chinese New Year @ Lian's
30th Dan's pot luck
31st Dodgeball day
1st Go breakdancing at Tufts
2nd Hang out with Tom
5th God's birthday -- donkey show -- finish secret present beforeo.o
11th Hackathon - http://www.nech2011.com/ #the-map
Jan 01 T 3 P 2 Mj
Jan 02 T 6 P 4
Jan 03 T 6 P 1
Jan 04 T 6 P 2 Cf Sv
Jan 05 T 5 P 3
Jan 06 T 2 P 2 Mj
Jan 07 T 3 P 2
Jan 08 T 7 P 2 Cf
Jan 09 T 3 P 3
Jan 10 T 5 P 2 Cf
Jan 11 T 4 P 1
Jan 12 T 6 P 3
Jan 13 T 5 P I Cf ;website: cyberpunkrevue.com
Jan 14 T 4 P 4 Cf xx
Jan 15 T 3 P 2 xox Mj Pr Cf
Jan 16 T 4 P 1
Jan 17 T 4 P 3 Cf xox ;drawing: brain tickle
Jan 18 T 6 P 3 Cf
Jan 19 T 3 P 2
Jan 20 T 3 P 4 xox Mj Pr Cf ;dancing: throwed
Jan 21 T 4 P 2
Jan 22 T 2 P 2 xxx xxx Pr Cf[monster] 2b ;dancing: rave
Jan 23 T 4 P 2 ;drawing: the ss sauce has wings! ;funky white noise
Jan 24 T 5 P 3
Jan 25 T 7 P 1
Jan 26 T 5 P 3 ;music: lgmselsjmo.exe
Jan 27 T 6 P 0 xxx xox Cf Pr
Jan 28 T 3 P 2 Cf[rockstar] #the-map
Put up a sign that says "I'm not home." Pretend like I'm not home. Because if you don't i'll actually just leave home and that's easier. I should hang out at public places more. Dunkin Donuts is ok. Starbucks? Hm. The library! Church?! lmao! At least in public people respect your isolation. Why is that so hard; for people to respect your isolation? The only except would be living with my friends -- woah -- I would feed every interaction into my creative work. Writing? Easy. Music? I'd like to. #the-zone.
The thing in front of the MFA looks like a breakdancer in a float freeze. #things-noticed
"The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random."
-- Heraclitus #things-noticed
What's this? :
[S L O T]
Right. A slot machine. Specifically in BIG letters, this is the top of a slot machine.
Okay, now imagine a bunch of them in a row at a casino.
[S L O T][S L O T][S L O T][S L O T][S L O T][S L O T][S L O T][S L O T]
Okay, now study this.
Imagine you've slowly become addicted to gambling.
Money -- you want to win lots of money.
See the hypnotizing
subconscious
pun
in the slot machines. #things-noticed
"It must be hard for your parents. It's like they're raising a ten-year-old who's legally allowed to do whatever he wants." #things-noticed
If I could just constantly meet new people that would be so interesting and awesome.
However, working at the supermarket is banal.
Paradox. #things-noticed
The neater I am, the less probably dad will come in and check if everything is neat. Therefore, I should be neat. #things-noticed
EmperorcJ: Ann I'm slowly starting to think **T*s are better than **F*s, or at least I enjoy dealing with them better, but I'm not sure
EmperorcJ: I think my enjoyment would depend on what stage of development I'm at
EmperorcJ: I think growing up it was best to be around **F*s, but now I think I prefer **T*s
serpentsorcia: My immediate reaction is "Well, it's really important to remember society as we know it couldn't function if everybody were the same, we need both thinking and feeling people."
EmperorcJ: right right, exactly, both are totally necessary
serpentsorcia: Which is funny because I used to be such a fascist
EmperorcJ: Well you just realized that you're the dictator, and in order to have the most power you want to surround yourself with the right people, who include both thinkers and feelers
serpentsorcia: hehehe #thinking-and-feeling
When I was younger, emotionless people just seemed boring to me. I got a thrill out of feeling other people's deep emotions, especially through the hormonal "emotional rollar coaster" of puberty, and how deep I could bring people into me. It was like intertwining each other's subconsciouses with each other, especially during that stage of development. Life, breaking each other down to the psychological roots of our feelings, below all the bullshit piled on top. And then growing from there. That kind of thing. I got a huge thrill out of it, and it helped everyone develop healthily, I think, because we were benevolent. Although who can be sure. #thinking-and-feeling
Since the mind works around state-dependent memory, and most of my teen memories of ego death (crying, emotional, type) happened while getting hugs from my friends, it has conditioned me to be okay with breaking myself down psychologically. So the next time I have ego death, I feel this sense of "everythings okay cj, everythings okay" because its been conditioned so strongly (especially from you ^_^). That's the theory. #thinking-and-feeling
People told me their secrets too.. Sometimes people just want to share themselve; sometimes people may want to influence chaos. I think the T part of us would want to be fascinating, whereas the F part wants connection, and what better way to connect than to trust someone with a secret? #thinking-and-feeling
I wonder if it has to do with the 4th circuit, and how you perceive other people perceive you, and how you perceive yourself. If a weird thing happens to you, or you do a weird thing, and you don't have the self-efficacy to accept it, you may seek acceptance from other people to validate you. "Yes its ok that happened to you". It's like you're outsourcing cognition, because the emotions are too intense or contradictory for you to resolve it yourself. #thinking-and-feeling
But now I feel like I generally accept myself, and my F is under the control of my T, and that 4th circuit connection is not nearly as necessary as it was in high school, although I highly enjoy it, its just not as necessary for my mental stability, at least in this stage in my life. I think this is why I'm drawn to T now, because thoughts are a medium which evolve, can be reasoned, can mate and virally reproduce, can be shared, can be combined -- way more easily than feelings. Thoughts can become highly ridiculous within a stable environment. Whereas for feelings to get ridiculous, your environment has to be crazy (life it requires some kind of social instability, drama, wartime, etc -- or while tripping -- or if you're on a team, or in a band, or adventuring the world, or running a business, or running a family, or in a relationship). With thoughts, it's accepted they can get perverse without too many consequences, especially if you're with people you trust. For feelings to get perverse, you may have to manipulate a lot of things, which may not be something you want to do. Music on the other hand offers a medium to play with complex feelings in the way writing and discussion does for complex thoughts. #thinking-and-feeling
Okay Ann, here's a thought experiment. I will create a new dimension. Let's move in it.
+ Think about right now.
+ Think about the Shape Party.
+ Think about all the things you could have said differently on that roof.
- The whole range of possibilities of things to say.
- Attach that range to a DIAL you can turn.
+ Now follow each of those things as they butterfly to the present moment.
- Think about the equivalent range different presents
- (caused by that range of past possibilities on the roof.)
- Got it?
+ Now center yourself in this space-time.
- Comfortable?
- Good.
- Now, turn the DIAL...
+ whoaaaa
Giving birth to a baby, when observed in reverse time, oddly resembles 9/11. #9/11#time
"A lapse of time-awareness later..." -- Johnathan (one moment) #time
CJ) +starts with the assumption what people have is actually negative free will; wonders where this metaphor will lead+
Ann) If we have negative free will, does that mean free will has to exist?
CJ) hmm, well if brains perform negative free will.. then backwards in time we would have free will.
Ann) Ah there it is!
CJ) Actually, If free will exists anywhere, it would probably involve the ability to overcome entropy through HIGHLY improbable events. In other words, if people have free will, then they should be able to perform HIGHLY IMPROBABLE EVENTS at will. WHICH is what everything looks like when time is in reverse. So actually this theory is starting to congeal. Because forward in time everything appears deterministic. But backward in time everything is made of perfect coincidences. o_o #free-will#time
Time feels like its always moving forward because that's also what it backward-feels like to move in reverse. #time
Hypothesis: Perceptual time is separate from clock time, and appears to be measured by salient change. Can be change be modeled mathematically and measured objectively as a physical quantity? #psychology#physics#time
Even the temporarily of our life could be a minority. Seconds? Psh. The forest is raving at 400 beats per century. Century? Psh. It took the Earth 5 billion years to organize and self-replicate (assume we terraform other celestial ...bodies) Billions of years? What? The life of a pion is .000000001 seconds before multiplying into a muon and neutrino -- and it cherishes every nanosecond of its fulfilling existence. Nanoseconds? Woah, what a long time. Think of the multitude of life that existed in the first yactosecond of the universe before there were even any quarks! #life#time
Braid is a game where you can make time go backwards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqWZWNn8eTQ #games#time
Make an emulator plugin where you can control time and make it go backwards.
Instead of just "saves" and "speeding up" you should go backwards too.
It would just need to save lots of save states. Maybe it only saves up to a minute. Maybe use some kind of hash diff thing.
Open source NES emulators: http://www.zophar.net/nes/nestopia.html #app#time
Another thing I wonder about: if beauty, absurdity, and meaning describe neurological sensations or relationships between the universe and a conscious perceiver, then they didn't exist until there were animals capable of perceiving beauty, absurdity, and meaning. But we animals can perceive parts of the past, and the laws of physics, and so we can point out "yes! there was absurdity in the past, and there is beauty in the very nature by which the universe constructs time!" But that may lead us to think beauty is timeless, but maybe beauty only became timeless as soon as we perceived it to be. But what, wait, that either requires retrocausality, or something strange like needing a chronology to timelessness. This paradox collapses under its own momentum, though, once it reaches the point of accepting that even under common determinism all the information about the future exists in the present, so that we humans and our beauty-perceiving-ability must be timeless too, and thus beauty is timeless. The simplicity of this train of thought is that it doesn't require paradoxically stepping outside of the human perspective into objective reality, nor requiring strange temporal relationships other than determinism, to establish that beauty is timeless -- it merely proves that the timelessness of beauty is consistent with the common experience of being human. YAY!
The word "exists" and phrase "is there" is ambiguous, because it depends on what level of information you're referring to. Do these words exist? In space, and at this time, yes. Did they exist yesterday? In time, no. But timelessly, yes. Did my octopus arm exist yesterday? Time or timelessly, no. But within the scope of all probable universes -- yes. Have love, truth, beauty, absurdity, honesty, and freedom always existed? Timelessly, and within this probable universe, yes. I think that's what Plato is talking about when he refers to the world of forms. Is there a probable universe where love and beauty don't exist? o__o probably. Is there a probable universe where probable universes don't exist? Hmm you know it's possible that this universe is one of them. #timelessness-of-beauty
Insecure societies are the most intolerant of non-joiners. They are so unsure of the validity of their game rules, that they say "everyone must play." That's a double-bind. You can't say to a person "you MUST play." You can't say to someone "You MUST do something by your own will." #to-conform-or-not-conform
In a democracy, theoretically everyone is responsible. Now that's terrifying.
It's your hands, what are you going to do?
Well I think this way, and you think that way, and he thinks the other way. And so we're all unsettled.
And therefore we become more and more conformist.
Rugged individualism always lead to conformism, because people get scared. And so they herd together, compounded with industrial mass-produced society. #to-conform-or-not-conform
"Everyone's a crook. Everyone is equally inferior." -- That becomes the parody of democratic society. That kind of society -- watch out for it -- because in a quick click it turns into fascism, because of its terror of the outsider.
Now a free and easy society loves outsiders. In fact, it's a little bad for the outsider's integrity, because he becomes a holy man, you see. People give him a food, and they really take care of the outsider. They know that man is doing for us what we haven't got the guts to do. That outsider who lives up there in the mountain is at the highest peak of human evolution. His consciousness is one with the divine. And great that there is someone just like that around; it makes you feel a little bit better. "He knows what it's all about." We need a number of those people. They tell us "what you are doing is only a game. We do not condemn you. We on the mountain top are watching you, we love you, we have compassion for you, but excuse us please we're not going to join." That gives community great strength, because it tells the government in no uncertain terms that there's something more than government. #to-conform-or-not-conform
music:
boredoms 77boadrums
tom waits - bad as me
still - Dionaea
bulb #to-listen
Korn - the path of totality
Autechre live at birmingham1993 #to-listen
stuff to look up
shephard tone piece 1969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Ann_%28rising%29
more illusions
http://forums.dv247.com/off-topic/1091-auditory-illusions.html
techo tune with risset glissando
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy-GkSN7_-g&feature=player_embedded
risset sud
http://www.moz.ac.at/sem/lehre/ws06/gae2/gistext.htm
dan stowell's experiments
http://www.archive.org/details/risset1101
http://ia700408.us.archive.org/27/items/risset1101/index.html
cool deaccelerating risset
http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/KLKib9C1bYw
watch mf:
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=NEUROSCIENCE+OF+MUSIC#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&tbm=vid&source=hp&q=NEUROSCIENCE++MUSIC&pbx=1&oq=NEUROSCIENCE++MUSIC&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=420429l420429l0l420614l1l1l0l0l0l0l162l162l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=ec4eb406e7f92604&biw=1146&bih=589 w #to-listen
Steal presents for everyone, for one christmas. The more interesting the story of the shoplift, theivery, or trespass, the more thoughtful the present #todo
Start logging AI convos. Then make a book. A book which is even better than the Policeman's Beard is half constructed. #todo
Under 14 minutes; it has to be three colours; not too round; Due this Tuesday; you don't know if you know; 4 things I don't know; 6 facts about bears; 1/2 the things you will know. (Just record some of the awesome things I write here. 14 minutes. Maybe the recording is the recording from last night's jam session.) #todo
Watch documentary about Carl Jung's red book #todo
Vin's dream: Invite everyone over my house, to show them the new stuff. Turn off the lights, turn on the music, and start the light show. Then when everyone is like "cj is this stuff recorded?" I give them a NES cartridge with my music on it. #cortexelation#todo
Read this book about puredata http://www.pd-tutorial.com/ #todo
Give JP a copy of September 11th and the Terrorists #todo
Make a slog pog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-logarithm #todo
Mass produce Ganzfield goggles. Glue googly eyes on some of them. I hear red LED lights work really well with them. #todo
Make a Jesus fractal. Like, each of his arms makes a new crucifix, etc. For some reason I calculated that the Hausdorf dimension should be ln3/4. #art#todo
People who make prophecies.. we should go out and make their prophecies true. Blow their minds, and everyone else's and ours. But if turns out they bet against themselves, like in Snatch, and they get the Mafia after us, then we have an adventure. We have an adventure on us. #todo
Epoc -> OSC -> PureData. Go home and use this to make brainwave music
http://www.emotiv.com/store/apps/applications/135/1446 #todo
1st -- of the sun practice; sinead/mb
2nd -- help Myssi; of the sun show [ prometheus bound]
5th -- Salon
6th -- Praful talk
8th -- Pratice
9th -- sinead birthday
15th -- togetherfest REMIX DEADLINE
16th -- UMASS thing
20th - Music 2.0: Tools + Tech for Musicians @ nerd
How to build a god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt6w48_OD34 #todo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Blues
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Loss_of_Breath
http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poe/goldbug.html
http://www.filestube.com/search.html?q=stanislav+grof+&select=All
http://www.ludism.org/mentat
"2012 Time For Change" #todo
Augmented Fencing
Two
Streetlight Manifesto
Mephiskapheles
Bumble Bee
Sage Francis
TTC
Tavern at the End of the
Deathstar / Middle School Dance
Limewax
Joker dubstep
elie golding
adichigara theme
eastern jam
chasin status
tech-edge - the ruckus
caspa
16 bit britney spears, foes #todo
Books the head of MAPS suggested I read:
This Timeless Moment
Music in your Mind
Psychedelic Healing #todo
Priorities
- Cyberpunk Music for Johnathan
- Electroencephalophone and Samples for Tom [infinite, electronic]
- Secret Ann Gift
11th 12th - hackathon
13th - submit Art to Medford's Living History
14th - (:
18th 19th - drone shows
21st - no school
Second Tier Priorities
- Adam Poetry Chatbot
- Fix Cortexelation dance party
- Myssi's website
Eventually
- Magnetic North sense
- Train text to speech
- Train speech to text
- Cortexelation
Mick Harris aka Scorn aka Lull http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Harris (the record that got him thrown off of Earache is called Logghi Barroghi, and it's really sick.)
Applebilm from Skull Disco, used to be in a math rock band called The Monsoon Bassoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleblim (I have their Soundboy Punishments LP...really good)
Justin Broderick aka Godflesh aka Techno Animal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Broadrick (PURE by godflesh was my favorite album. Metal with drum machines)
The Fred Giannelli period of Psychic TV (Fred turned their industrial music into more danceable music and influenced techno). He lives in Salem! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_TV #todo
Read all entries from exactly one year ago.
Read them in the morning. #todo
Use Hypersisyphus
With OMIBOD
To Climax girlfriend #todo
But out of that beauty, spam bots did grow.
Markov chain identities.
Make 23 a shirt #todo
I have all these shitty microphones. What should I do with them?
OH I know, let's burn them and put them in jello and stuff #cortexelation#todo
Music experiment: 1 song a day/week or something. You can only work on that piece of music for the allotted time, and it has to do with something significant (you thought of)/(that happened) that week (or last week).
Or maybe the goal is to fit as many significant things as possible that week into the one song.
Maybe each song is a remix of the song before it.
Maybe the songs only have to be 13 seconds long.
Maybe all the songs come together into a giant song at the end of the experiment. #cortexelation#todo
CJ and I want to make intricate light up shoes. Like the ones when you were little. Yeah! All you need is like, a piezo transducer or pressure sensor which completes a circle to LEDs. So easy. OR you could buy kids shoes with light-ups and then take them apart and put them in your shoe. EASIER! (Though less customized). Whatever we decide to do, it's pretty sick we're the same size. So if we decided to be really cost efficient we could make one pair, (LMAO) or if we decide we want to totally exploit this awesome idea for all it's worth, we can make two different pairs and switch them around. (awww, I agree! Yay for convenience) We could also hook up the lights to MrSans sounds.(lmao) #todo
GET a laptop with aunt's grad money:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230068
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152252
get it from newegg, because if you order an XPS from dell it'll take 2-3 weeks to get here #todo
Men's shirts:
2 Men's S Red
3 Men's S Light Blue
1 Men's S Orange
4 Men's S Black
1 Men's S White
11 (7 extra)
1 Men's M Light Orange
2 Men's M Light Blue
4 Men's M Black
1 Men's M White
1 Men's M Red
9 (7 extra)
2 Men's L Dark Gray
3 Men's L Black
1 Men's XL Black
6 (4 extra)
Ladies' Shirts: (something like this one: http://www.blankshirts.com/details.asp?style=64000L&color=Navy&uid=QSOB2TP0L3I1MBHN40685.808287037r )
1 Ladies' Medium Dark Blue
4 Men's L
1 Men's XL Black
Pick whatever color is closest (ex.light orange can just be orange if there's no distinction, etc)
A quick google reveals http://www.jiffyshirts.com and http://www.shirtsupplier.com/ seem pretty cheap ($2.50-$3 per black shirt), and http://blankshirts.com seems expensive (>$4 for a black shirt)
Isaac:
I'll take a large gray shirt with the infinity note
Ryan Chin
Medium shirt with lolspiral on the back
Ashley:
Girl Medium in dark blue with the lolspiral on the front in yellow thx
Ryan Clough
Size small! Shirt color Orange? Paint color pink? Notes on front.
Shane:
mens' medium, light orange shirt with pink note, or light blue shirt with red note, or something clashy and unusual but not too flashy "look at me!"... i'll assume you have good color taste! and can i have the note in front and the spiral in back?
Jonyvon:
XL black shirt with yellow note, or dark blue shirt with yellow note
HHayden (2 shirts)
Men's small sky blue tshirt with rainbow note
Men's small sky blue tshrit with SPIRAL
Reuben
Men's small, red shirt, ? color, infinite note/spiral #todo
+ Upload CORTEXELATION videos to youTube
+ then contact Montt Mardie
+ Submit to netlabels #cortexelation#todo
May 12 O'Brians show
May 13 Present intro to Beat Bot
May 14 TRIP
May 16 [work] meeting jimmy
May 18 HTML5
May 19
May 21 "Culture Should be Shared, Not Monopolized" at the Play-jurisms conference on 4:30pm in Cambridge
May 22 CONVERGE
May 26 Bass Oasis / An Tain / 31 India St / 22:00
June 4 Erica/Ryan's party #todo
Today+Tomorow
Go home, listen to new mathcore, read Godel's proof on the train
Learn favorite mathcore lick on guitar
Stay up and build Hypersisyphus
Start 23 fuck you remix
Record demo of cj's two-three Of the Sun songs
Clean room
Tell Ann I love her <3
T shirt #todo
CJ: I should make a max patch that inverts the spectrogram so we can listen to upside-down music when we hang out
Ann: do you think if we listen to enough upside down music, our brains will flip it?
CUTEST GIRL EVER #sssauce#music-tech#todo
"CJ you would love this: my friend went on a Psychedelic Train Ride through Northern California" #todo
http://www.amazon.com/Matcha-Green-Tea-Powder-10/dp/B001F10XUU/ref=lh_ni_t
Match Green Tea Powder
http://www.amazon.com/DoMatcha-Green-Organic-Matcha-1-0-Ounce/dp/B0019FOZC4/ref=cm_rdp_product #todo
A fourth project I want to do is music under spoken word stories. I did one earlier in this year for my brother's Cyberpunk Revue and I don't know why I haven't posted it yet. Some compositions, some soundscapes. #cortexelation#todo
My fifth project is an EP called Love is the Song: and I will make high-energy, esoteric love songs that attempt to capture this wonderfully beautiful phenomenon, and express my inspiration and appreciation in the sexiest medium I know [music!!].<3<3 #todo
Oh, and a sixth project is a CD by the existential folk duo Clive Wearing's Journals. #todo
OH and I'll probably release a 4~song EP with compiles all the bass music remixes I've worked on this year, after I touch them up, and any others I think of doing. I'll fill it with a REALLY epic song I started writing 2 years ago that i think finally makes sense to do the same style. #cortexelation#todo
These two perceptions are different functional states of the brain. They can come and go, depending on your environment, your mood, your drug intake, etc. On psychedelics one can feel both to the extreme. One can oscillate between mechanical, dead determinism and god-like free-will in a matter of minutes. For the most part one is in a state somewhere between these extremes. (Todo: adopt a state of mind which is both extremes simultaneously) #todo
http://glados.biringa.com/
This dude automates Melodyne to provide a sound-manipulation web service. Wait, how do you automate awesome proprietary software that doesn't have an API? Oh, he uses a python script that controls the mouse and keyboard activity on his machine. pyMouse https://github.com/pepijndevos/PyMouse http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181464/controlling-mouse-with-python #tohack
A form of dance in the future where one rapidly manipulates their genetic material. #dancing#transhuman
The development of lucid dreaming will be the future of virtual reality. #psychonaut#transhuman
We're waiting for technology to reach the brain. But it's the brain that needs to reach out for the technology as well. The transhuman embrace. #transhuman
The future fish
whose toes and tongues
with legs and lungs
need scuba gear
to return here
is the overman
to whose song
everyone hums along
is the von neumann
through whose mind
this poem you'll find. #transhuman
"one time i took a shower in a shower with two showerheads, one on each side. They each had individual faucets, and I turned one chatteringly cold and one scathingly hot and stood in the intersection of the two inhospitable temperatures and turned in circles. that was music."--Shane LaFierce #transhuman
One in a hundred in a population represent possible future directions for evolution. Some people just aren't from this century. #transhuman
I'm a fucking horde of information. It needs to all come together. #transhuman
Q: "If they eventually one day develop the means to scan our consciousness into computers, what will happen to the consciousness that you possess right now?"
A: "To all observers, and to the subject, you have not stopped existing. Whether you actually died and a copy was made can't be determined.
You can't really objectively determine that you are the person in your memories just in the same way. But for all intents and purposes, you are." #transhuman
"The brain will get increasingly augmented - better & more memory, connectivity... - that eventually the organic part will actually be the bottleneck, and removing it will have no perceptible downside to the person." #transhuman
Transmit
yourself into the aether.
Swim in the ocean of background hiss.
Into the reverberance of the universe,
Boost and amplify your personhood.
Onto the periods around you,
Imprint your harmonics.
Radiate your bliss and benevolence on all bands,
On all octaves.
You are the antenna,
The beacon.
Homo radius...
H~ #adam-james-davis#transhuman
Surf the Cosmic backround radiation!
Imprint your harmonics!
H~ LMAO #transhuman
I support you. I believe mental (cultural) reproduction is more important for our evolution as a species than biological reproduction. Memes not genes. My girlfriend and I do not want kids; instead it is our goal to replicate our ideas, influence, and inspire as many people as possible [old and young].
I offer a point of view which emphasizes what is good for this species (and the next posthuman species).
Typically in evolution you want your best genes to procreate, so that your species evolves into higher, more intelligent, more complex species. But humans are different for two reasons.
1) Rational-design genetic-engineering of humans is on the horizon (probably widespread within this millenia). We will enhance our biological make-up and engineer the more intelligent posthuman.
2) We have this thing called culture, where it almost appears as if ideas are organisms living across many brains. Cultural evolution (mental, scientific, artistic, etc) happens faster than biological; undergoes more change, more quickly each time; effects more lives, around the world (sometimes almost instantaneously); and most strongly effects the future of our species and the planet.
Cultural evolution will eventually overtake biological evolution via rational-design genetic engineering. What organisms we engineer ourselves into will be determined by what we want ourselves to be, which is influenced by our thoughts and our culture.
To summarize: culture (the sphere of influence of all ideas, aka the noosphere) dominates the biosphere, or is on its way to domination. Thus if you care about the future of our biology, you should care about what people think.
Alternatively, or perhaps in parallel, within this millenia we may very well witness the creation of new non-biological intelligent lifeforms. Robots, AI, nanobots life, etc. Or intelligent, designer biological life. Or man/machine posthuman hybrids. Or something yet fathomable. What we create will be determined by our culture. And what we share and pass on to AI/posthumans will be the entirety of our culture.
Our culture is a seed. An egg. Our memes are the genes of the next species we beget.
Regardless of the dominance of culture over biology in this era (after the invention of history, and before genetic engineering), it could still be a wise choice to procreate, given the circumstances.
Now, if there was a shortage of humans, then more procreation would be good for the species for the time being. But overpopulation and overconsumption is a real risk, and so cutting back on procreation appears to be the wise choice for the good of the species and the planet. This doesn't mean EVERYONE STOP HAVING KIDS; it means: slow down and pace ourselves at a rate which is optimum for our environmental and social situations.
Being an engineer, writer, and self-experimentalist, I believe I can contribute more to my species by not devoting my attention to the raising of children and rather to my work, my research, my ideas, and the culture.
I have put forth a strong argument for my decision from a point of view which emphasizes the good of the species. Nevertheless, it is also hedonistic choice. I'm drawn to exploring individual, non-parental freedom and perpetual, non-procreating romance.
I follow this up with a few questions:
To what extent does one's mental development depend on one's parents? Has the mental influence of parents changed over time? Did it matter more 10,000 years ago? In the present, are we dominantly raised by our culture? Especially in the age of media? (does it depend on where you live?) #transhumanism
Obviously God sent us HIV to use as a tool for genetically modifying ourselves into superhumans #transhumanism
"Another day in paradise."
Man I'm so happy lately.
Just when I thought I was going to be upset for a long time. My mind racing with thought loops, repetitve thought loops, repeating themselves throughout the day. Something I couldn't get out of my mind. The only thing I could think of for days. Everything else was through the filter of this one thing. I thought this was going to be a problem for a long time. I was afraid the infatuation was gone.
And then, the next day, it all returned. AWESOMENESS returned. BEAUTY returned. The sensory beauty of everything was exaggerated to huge extents!!! It was INCREDIBLE. The very definition of AWESOME. Ann shared her excitement with me that morning, and it was one of the most beautiful things to wake up to, and I saw that beauty and infatuation lived on!!! And I GLEW the WHOLE DAY!! And the next!! And the next!!! [that's today now].
I Went to Ann's house to share my awesome and it was SO FUN and she was SO CUTE and we were just stuck in each other's COUPLARITY and OMG!!!! (: (: (: (: 9:
On my way home I saw a bush, a red bush, an incredibly red bush. All of its flowers were the most red red I've ever seen. I took one, overcome by beauty!
OMG
states of awesome!!!!
1) There's low level upset thought loop state
2) Then there's awesome, optimistic, enthusiastic, high dopamine
But optimism can get old!!
3) The third level is above that, and that's bit more clever!! It's about creating and perpetuating hilarity, comedy, good ideas, love, happiness, art, aesthetic, etc!! You got to be careful. Level 2 can give you an empty mind, free of worry, but also free of other things too!! YOU have to FILL it!!
there is no poo there is only pee #ann#trent-reznor
I think logically-derived truth is a small subset of the larger function of general intelligence #ai#truth
Another dichotomy I make is between the laws of physics and chaos -- the laws are the rules by which chaos plays; however knowledge of the laws is microscopic compared to knowledge of the enormous complexity of the chaos. #ai#chaos#physics#truth
Alex Downs:
My favorite of the several ways to understand the word -understand- is as to hold something in a higher regard to yourself (stand under it); as something that humbles you and gives you an expanded appreciation (positive or negative) for the... world that was absent before (like what both of you were getting at). I think if you're a person who sees beauty in the world, understanding yourself will make the world more beautiful, but if your not, then understanding yourself could make the world seem the opposite. #understanding
The right to perceive beauty. To see beauty in death. To see beauty in a plastic bag. To see beauty in the very existence of language. To see every moment as a beautiful work of art worth shedding a tear over. #universal-declaration-of-awesome
The meta-game. My whole life is a giant game of "Figuring out the universe and myself". Everything fits within that game, and so I can direct my emotional investment to anything as I see fit. #games#awesome#universe
"The universe, in my opinion, is an uncountable amount of nothing" #nihilism#universe
You know I think in my mind it's possible you transcend the beauty of the whole universe. Which at first you might respond "Preposterous! How could something +within+ the universe be MORE beautiful the universe as a whole? You've contradicted yourself: it's simple logic and set theory." But then I'll say that you are so surreal that my mind can't accept that the universe produced you. It puts you in your own category of beauty apart from everything else. My mind intuits "no no it's way more likely +she+ in her endless beauty made my universe, from the very beginning" and uses some retrocausal strange attraction trickery to justify it. #ann#love#universe
"....The second weirdness, the one that is embraced by this book and the
weirdom community, follows one main principle: Be weird for yourself
first and be weird for those around you second. It is never wrong to
act strange when it is to your own benefit. It would however, be wrong to continue to eat your own earwax simply to disgust those around you
unless your personal self has benefit from the people around you being
disgusted. In some cases, the benefit may be present. In weirdom we
recommend finding the most useful ways to maximize your benefit and
therefore maximize enjoyment of life through constant exercise of the
weird.
To maximize good weirdness, one needs to eliminate the fear of being
judged. To successfully embrace wisdom, you must choice your actions
solely based on the direct or indirect impact on yourself rather than
on others. This does not mean you should intend to cause serious harm
on any person. Rather, this means you should not be afraid of being
weird in front of another person simply because you believe they will
think negatively of you. Instead, you must embrace the ability to
experience the reactions and interactions of those around you.." #weirdom
Being a heavy proponent of weirdom, I often live by rules and intuitions like this. I will see if I can put some of them into language. One is when I'm with someone and I don't know what to do or say. Awkwardness, as I think of it, is the feeling that anything could happen but nothing does. For example: each person in a group expects something to happen but none of them initiate it. For me, I have a mantra. It goes "if you don't know what to say, just sing. If you don't want to do, just dance". Perhaps neurologically your left brain runs out of ideas, while your right brain is dying for fun, and so you must remind yourself you can engage your own feedback loops. Unlike linear conversation for which only one person may talk at a time, singing and dancing is parallel and co-synergistic. It is saying "play! play with me until we feel inspired again to say or do". #weirdom
Start a simulation in the dream in which you can start meta dreaming. For example, dream up a hole in the universe in the shape of a red rectangle, through which you can stick your head in order to lucidly lucid dream. In a meta lucid dream, you have even more control. #what-to-do-when-youre-lucid
What if zombie meditation was possible?
As you got deeper in meditation, your body slowly transformed into a zombie. You would silence your neurological subsystems, until all you had was your fear and desire-for-flesh. It is recommended that you do this where others are safe from you. The fascinating part of this is that you would maintain full awareness the whole time you were a zombie. It would very much be like a wake induced lucid dream. If you tried to consciously control your zombie actions, you would accidentally start the reversal process. It is written that there once existed enlightened zombie meditators who could engage full conscious control without reverting back into human. #whatif
I'm also working AR into it, where glyph/object/person recognition changes the filter. That way, as you navigate your environment, your experience of different rooms/people would be through different effects.#glitching
Wrestling (WWF or whatever) is a lot like capoeira. I came to terms with it, I made amends. Like "whoa they're all actors this sucks" thought I. But then I remember that capoeira is all about dance-fighting, and communication, and entertaining, and organizing your moves so that the other doesn't actually get hurt. Yeah, it's like ballet. And ballet is art. #wrestling
Come up with a metaphor; then make the whole story the metaphor #writing
Tone is intuitive; passed in and out through intuition (ex: impersonations are lacking in symbolicness) #writing
The Stranger and Hithchbiker's are both Absurdist; yet they portray this from opposite ends of the spectrum. Hitchhiker's is zany while the the Stranger is stoic. Hitchhiker's absurd in its details and explainations, while Meusault is absurd in his lack of details (he's a blank slate). #writing
"Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live." Albert Einstein #physics#zen
Practice anger as well as I practice laughter.
Practice annoyance as well as I practice acceptance.
Practice stress as well as I practice calmness. #zen
Sometimes a finger is needed to point at the moon; don't confuse the finger for the moon. Words are employed to convey ideas; when ideas are grasped, forget the words. Awakening is the realization of one's true nature - not the ability to interpret a koan with one's mind --Zen #zen
Bad: the annihilation of confusion.
Whereas confusing is a positive property of a thing. #zen
"I can't wait for right now"
Is a totally rational statement. You literally cannot wait.
"I can wait for right now"
What about this sentence though?
Isn't this how you get momental? Being able to wait, and not overdesiring it. #zen
Emotional self (self as [interface with world]) vs intellectual self (self as symbol, dissociated) #zen
Draw the drum track. I'm talking, stars, and stuff. Text, plus real words. Photosounder.
"Take what you give. And give what you are. Or some shit" -- Adrian #zen
Cuteness: the aesthetic experience of someone else's helplessness #zen
That's pretty weird; imagining what you would have thought in the past. "So while you were meditating, what would you have been talking about?" #zen
All the things you know that you don't know. All the things you don't know that you know. #zen
"Humans are just lambdas, man" -- Adrian. (Lambda of God) #zen
If I pretend like don''t acknowledge you observing me, you maintain the illusion that I maintain the illusion of my own invisibility. #experiments#zen
‎"I am not a thought"
is a thought that I am not. #ann#zen
Cortexelation: Pure identity of self. Starts with a concept/feeling to express, uses genre as a color to paint it.
Hypersisyphus, z¬: Pure identity of sound. Start with the sound, figure out what to express with it. #cortexelation#hypersisyphus#zeptonaut
Cloning immortality. Birthed once I'm true.
Clone celebrity.
Clone immortality.
Clone your perfect sets of genes.
Rewire your epigenome.
Manipulation of the environment is manipulation of yourself.
Equal and opposite reactions.
Inside and outside mirror refections. Strange looping in the parallel direction.
Magnetism is 3D. circles spinning in the infinith direction #~
Dad Mom can you pretend like I don't exist sometimes. Can we play existential hide-and-go-seek? #~
Why do some people move in the direction of emotional deadness #~
Maybe wolves are really just yawning when they howl. (Or yawning is the leftover genetic program of howling.) #~
It's about repetition, which makes you move over the music. And the music can take greater strides, and greater rides on thought trains. "Greater rides on thoughts trained" "Greater rates: train your thoughts new!" Train to neu. Renew. Nude on revenue avenue. #~
Penny Lane. There needs to be more songs like this. Play the chorus with your MIDI guitar (instrument learns the prepresentation). Or annssong pianofy like Penny Lane #~
Nostalgia for the present in future context. (things from the context of what happens afterward)
Remix penny lane drone at the end. Remix CD mix mix mix yellow stone. It's about making it up on the spot. Who makes shit up beforehand? o_O@# the good guys. Cortexelation #~
Book of memories
Book with a glyph on each page.
Glyph creates an audio sample of something you said earlier
CONTROLLER
Audio books
Audio speaking versus writing.
Choosing what words to say versus thinking entirely in words.
The trick is to write until it becomes automatic.
Write till all your thoughts are written out.
Maybe I should blog more and chat less. !?!??! use blog time for chat time.
BLOG AND CHAT SIMULTANEOUSLY
Ann wanna hang out in my blog?
WE CAN TYPECHAT. I post it afterward. LOLOLOLOLOL
is that how it works now brother. OH BOTHER. WHERE HAVE THY THINE BEEN BUYIN'
bin buying
welcoming to [BIN BUYING] #~
It comes from running in the cold.
The bronchitis. Don't you know.
I biked to her house. I stood outside with my bike, thinking if i should get her attention or not. "Would it end badly?" I wondered. "Will she invite me in and we'd talk about our feelings and compromise and forgive each other? Or will she tell me she never wants to see me again?" Just then I looked down and noticed a pile of dog poo in front of me. It was right on the midpoint between the vertex and the arc of the bisector of the angle made between me and my bike. There could not have been a more perfectly symmetric position for it to be in. "Thanks universe, thanks." I turned around and biked home. #~;
I wrote this poem about the our fight the last time we hung out. Pay attention to the use of assonance and consonance, I've been learning well. Also internal rhyme, homophone, and neologism points.
+When I hyperventilate and insomniate, it's difficult to think straight
While I cry, I try to think big from a bird's eye,
My mind flailing like the limbs of a crushed mayfly
Naively reaching for an ideal speil to say, my
God o_o if I could only enlighten up and elucidate
All she ached was for a lucid date.
I don't write this with the expectation that you'll forgive me, nor that everything will suddenly be better. I don't write this with the expectation that you'll keep dating me. Your spirit is free, and I am not here to tie you down.
I've been doing a bit of reflection on my behavior, and I realized it demonstrated low emotional intelligence and one-dimensional thinking. My awareness of them now, I believe, will help me foster better relationships in the future. Allow me to elaborate:
+ Sometimes I felt too busy to go on dates with you. My thinking was: uh oh, if I don't show up to band practice, they'll kick me out. Uh oh, if I don't finish writing this song before the deadline, John's show will suck and he'll be disappointed. Uh oh, if I don't finish my homework, I'll fail the class. Uh oh, if I don't get sleep, people at my job might be mad the next day because I won't be productive, and I'll get fired. Friends? Too busy to hang out, maybe I'll see them at parties. Ann? Well she loves me, and she'll understand, and I'll see her on the weekends, and after just this _one thing_ I'll be able to devote more time to her; after all she's my main priority.
Right? Can you see the flaw in that thinking? That's textbook taking-your-girlfriend-for-granted behavior. At no point in my thinking did I process the fact: "Uh oh, if I don't ask her out on a date, she's going to dump me." While in mind I felt you were unmistakenly my main priority, what I was actually doing was not prioritizing you properly
And when you wanted to break up, because you didn't know if I actually liked you, or found you attractive, it was surprising, and absurd, because I thought "what? How could I not be getting my point across, with all the art I make her, and the articulation of all my feelings, and the way I kiss her, and all the fun we have? How could she possibly think I'm not attracted to her when I've +never+ known a girl more attractive?" And so your reactions felt irrational to me: "oh this is just some temporary irrational behavior, because something else upset her; all I have to do is show her how much I really love her!" And when you said "You never _____. Why don't you want to?" I thought "That's not true, I've ___ before, I LOVE to _____! In fact, I even ____ a week or two ago." Again I thought your reactions were irrational: "she must have a state-dependent memory, because something else upset her; all I have to do is show her how much I really love her!"
Right? Can you see the flaw in my thinking there too? By thinking your reaction was irrational, I didn't learn from what it was you were actually upset about. By thinking the problem was how much I was showing you I loved you -- one-dimensional thinking -- I missed the point entirely. Also, to my reasoning, "show her how much I love her" meant playing the same games I had been playing before [fun/art/kisses/articulating feelings], while ignoring the other games I wasn't giving my attention to [dates/sex]. This was not the right way to show you much I cared, as my ignorance of your needs is what made you upset. In other words, I was ignoring the core problem and instead saturating you with unrelated affection.
Another misperception I had was: "the problem with long-term relationships is that people become apathetic and comfortable. Me? The fire burns, and it only grows and grows. When everything is not alright between us, I cry and hyperventilate to the extreme. As long as I can still cry, I am not apathetic, and our relationship is saved." The conclusion is where I was misinformed. Inaction is a form of apathy. I could have all the fire and passion in the world, but if it is misdirected, nothing is saved/accomplished/triumphed.
The heart's not enough. You need the head too. Head and heart in synergy.
As you can see, these things demonstrate low emotional intelligence on my part. My awareness of them now, I believe, will help me foster better relationships in the future.
You can't believe how much pain I've been feeling. Well you can, because you feel it too.
+ It sucks, really, that we ended up like this. Because you're more than everything I ever wished for in a girlfriend. I still feel this way. It's almost shocking. You're the only person I've ever been able to fully enjoy hanging out with 7 days straight. Yet I haven't been giving 100% of myself for us to grow and give life to the blossoming strange attractor I dream about every minute of every day. It's like getting halloween candy without eating the twizzlers. I'll save you all the idealist talk about the infinite potential of our life-collaboration, because you've heard me go on about it before, and now's not the time.
So I have an idea. Forgive me if it seems like an inappropriate idea, but it may just be a genius idea. I don't think either of us want to end this in anger and bitterness. Do you? I don't, but that's all we both feel right now. I don't know if we could still be friends again this way. I need to empathize with you, and you need to empathize with me. So. . .I have MDMA. I mean, I'm getting it in a few days. We could go somewhere safe and alone to take it, and work through our emotional issues. I'm not saying we take it with the expectation that we'll keep dating, I'm saying we take it so that we can at least be friends and not end this in anger and bitterness. We can set rules like: no kissing. I mean, this is the kind of thing you want to study, isn't it? What better a situation to test it to see if it works the way it promises? What better a use for it, to see if it actually helps? Is there anything to lose? I'll pay for everything, no worries.
I just really miss her. I feel like I would be hanging out with her right now. We'd go to the music video shoot, sleep over, hang out in Boston on Friday, immerse ourselves in Anime Boston, meet up with Rhea/Owen/Nick, maybe go to that Evolver potluck if we have nothing to do. Have a slumbie over my house Friday night. Then we'd go somewhere awesome together Saturday. Maybe the woods? Maybe a bookstore? Museum of Science? I feel like all of this funness would be happening right now if only. . . .
I can't be with someone adverse to beauty.
Which is why I can't be with anyone but Ann ._.
Stop letting the past drag you down and see what's true in front of you. See what's here to be created.
One has an idea in their head, and because they are projecting it, it strange loops into truth.
I can't help but feel future transhuman Ann+CJ very disappointed in us. "Is not our strange attractor pull not strong enough :(?" they cry out through hyperspace. #~;
I think the most productive thing I could do right now is make a list of all the things Ann needs me to do.
- Listen to her.
- Don't interact with her neighbors.
- Ask her out on Alone dates [plan ahead of time].
- Be honest about insecurities.
- Be considerate.
- Be myself.
- Don't be tired. #~;
#narcism #eeg 
