quoted 3 lines (Anyone who doesn't think "Lifeforms" is brilliant needs to be strapped int>> (Anyone who doesn't think "Lifeforms" is brilliant needs to be strapped into
>> the backseat of a car cruising randomly around San Francisco, while flaming
>> on good E under a beautiful clear night sky and with "Lifeforms" on the
deck.
quoted 1 line Only then, young Grasshopper, will you Truly Understand.)>> Only then, young Grasshopper, will you Truly Understand.)quoted 4 lines For me, Digeridoo did not reach its full potential until I listened to it>For me, Digeridoo did not reach its full potential until I listened to it
>whilst spinning around in a swivel chair, a strobe light held in front of
>my closed eyes (a la the Brion Gysin / Ian Sommerville dream machine),
>and hyperventilating on a joint.
Two months ago I spent 4 hours in a dark room, on E, listening to I Care
Because You Do while creating animated swirling fractals on a fedback camera
signal, theorizing chaos everywhere and the birth of various new lifeforms.
Of course, everytime I listen to it now my heart skips a beat. :)
Instructions: Point a good-quality videocamera at a monitor that's
displaying the camera's output, thus creating the usual feedback phenomena.
Move the camera so that it is not exactly parallel to the ground; the
pattern will change to a spiral, or something like that. Now play around
with focus, exposure, and negative/positive settings; at a certain point the
pattern will start to move, creating the most beautiful fractal patterns
you've ever seen. You can go on fiddling with the controls forever, or
moving your hands in front of the lens in order to affect the pattern.
Highly addictive.
A.
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