Hi Elisabet my mail address is: benjamin.vossler@gmail.com
Hi Ben my email address is: elisabetcurbelo@gmail.com
"Medium is the message"
a quote of Marshall McLuhan
Bens' thoughts:
- the medium influences the way we interact and communicate
- there's a difference between writing by using a typewriter, a laptop or a pencil
- „Unser Schreibzeug arbeitet mit an unseren Gedanken / Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts“ Friedrich Nietzsche
- the structure of a medium influences the understanding on the receivers' site
in our transcontinental context
- our communication media and devices influence the quality of our communication
- misunderstanding leads to new interpretation of the submitted content
- the quality of the connection affects the esthetic of the experience -> a "glitchy memory"
- the latency forces to slow down (if a Hi-Fi perception of San Diego is wanted -> need the upload on a video hoster)
-> creates new "space" -> virtual Space
If I will remember San Diego, while a realtime connection via internet, I only have a destructive image in memory.
Ideas to work with
1. using the latency time as a metronome
-> waves from Weimar to San Diego
2. using the artifacts of the sound-transmission for the esthetic of an impulse response
-> Live-Electronic improvisation
3. collect sound spaces
-> sending claps to open spaces in San Diego and use them to convole with sounds of Weimar and vice versa
Elisabets' thoughts:
As a composer I think that there are two different ways of creating: The message is the primary element and we should find the best medium to create it. The medium is limited and we have to be creative using it in a way that the message could be interesting.
I think that the sentence "Medium is the message" refers to the second way of creating I wrote above. It makes sense to use the characteristics of the tools as inspiration to create a message in our transcontinental context because we are using a limited medium. I think It does not make sense for us to try to improve some that seems impossible in 3 month but we can create a message using the defects of the medium as part of the message .