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Book 68 - Jonathan Culler "Roland Barthes (Modern Masters)"

Jonathan Culler "Roland Barthes (Modern Masters)" (Fontana paperback)




A short introduction to this thinker that i finished in a couple of days.


Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but for pleasure, espousing that literature which gives the reader a creative role. He championed the Nouveau Roman but his best known works deal with classic writers such as Racine and Balzac. He called for 'the death of the author', urging that we study not writers but texts; yet he himself published idiosyncratic books rightly celebrated as imaginative products of a personal vision.

[The author] elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of this 'public experimenter' and describe the many projects which Barthes explored and which helped change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena, from literature, fashion, wrestling and advertising to notions of the self, of history and of nature.

Diggin' From A Young Age

Record diggin' sometimes starts at a young age (picture courtesy of Demonfuzz Records)

Improv DVD

 

Pauline Oliveros / Interface "Recording Filed H" (Deep Listening DVD)


"Recording Field, H" features several firsts: the first recording bringing together Pauline Oliveros and Interface; the first video documentation of Interface and their unusual instruments; the first video documentation of the sonic character pieces Streams and Pikapika; the first duo connecting the Japanese flute, a shakuhachi, and the bowed-sensor-speaker-array. 

The odd-numbered tracks are electronic improvisations, created spontaneously with custom-made instruments. The even-numbered tracks feature Tomie Hahn as two radically contrasting sonic characters; in "Streams" each gesture of the dreamlike apparition recalls bodies of water, technology, a flow of information, transmission, and liquid states; as Pikapika, Tomie embodies a spunky character influenced by anime, Japanese dance, and bunraku. In both pieces Tomie wears a sensing device developed by Curtis Bahn. This interface enables Tomie to negotiate full control of all aspects of the virtual soundscape structure with her movements.

Pauline Oliveros - accordion and Expanded Instrument System (EIS)
Curtis Bahn - sensor bass 
Tomie Hahn - interactive dance system and shakuhachi 
Dan Trueman - sensor violin and bowed sensor/speaker array 

Extraordinary improvised music.