Travelling Through Time With My VCR
Intercepting the datasphere circa feb '07: G.Lucas Crane in conversation part one: Beckjordian notions of interdimensionality surface and collide between the lines of sight
L: It’s the difference between The person running the séance tying an invisible fishing line to their finger that triggers a book falling...versus something weird happens and the medium improvises and says “she’s here” it’s the same kind of thing with a record player. The first time someone used it as an art form to access music that came before it…but musically that was a mistake…that was like breaking the record, scratching the record. Doing things you’re not supposed to do with the record Great. Space of mesmerizing strangeness… achieved. You’re totally fucking up that record player, it’s not meant for that. How can we advance our hi-fi technology when you’re destroying that needle and the drive belt of that record player? ….all those analog machines are still around. Turntablism…It’s not a mistake anymore, there’s a tradition of mixing records like that…it’s not anti-doing something else. It’s not about playing record appropriately or not… it’s another way of playing a record
C: It’s like a perceptual shift…
L: It’s a cultural, yeah, perceptual shift, and it’s super deep too. Now, it’s not just the machine, now there’s a whole culture of how you break a record correctly. It’s totally locked up. It’s not experimental anymore…there’s names for hand motions, how you mix, technique names…it’s a whole world
C: Similar to cryptozoological interests. Breaks from official taxonomies become re-absorbed…glitches and electronic or audio anomalies are going in reverse…becoming classified into techniques... wrangled in. Become a known quantity.
L: Right, zoologically is that the same as how the chart would have to evolve if we found a sasquatch is actually proved? That’s like somebody experimenting, sitting in the woods and then finding the sasquatch. Then from that experiment is a drive to completely describe and analyze it. That’s the funny thing about mysteries. The longer it’s a mystery with more people working on it and it stays a mystery. You’d assume there would be a progression and conclusion. So much on science describing the world. But we keep this a mystery…so it can function as it needs to.
C: Supsension of disbelief, or sustaining of belief…
L: Right, sustaining the necessity of sustaining belief, or disbelief…or wait where are we? Yeah sustaining belief. Is it a big deal if we discover if the sasquatch is real or not? Maybe it’s doing more good for the human race as is. That’s why they had to come up with the blobsquatch. To differentiate with types of videotaped strange things.
C: a side effect of digital perfection…the quality of images. “That’s not a strange mysterious animal…because sasquatches are ape-like not blob-like.” Or something like that…
L:What if you had high fidelity photograph of an animal that’s just a blob.?
C: There are cryptids known as globsters…giant blobs washed up on a shore…definitly aquatic but no other characteristics except that they’re unknown blobs of organic mass…possibly a correspondence between blobsquatches and globsters.
L: they’re made to confuse, they’re made to specifically be…
C: perpetual anomaly
L: A situation crafted by whatever set of factors that interlocks exactly with our desire… with our ability to be totally confused by information and our desire to get to the bottom of something. So it’s just enough to keep us going, but not enough to point us in any right direction…
C: It’s like a video switcher that has four input choices, but you push in two at once, so you get a new garbled signal that’s neither one nor the other…perhaps detrimental to the device...but also a new entity
L: But why would you do that? You would need to do that only to access the fucking spirit world.
end transmission
L: It’s the difference between The person running the séance tying an invisible fishing line to their finger that triggers a book falling...versus something weird happens and the medium improvises and says “she’s here” it’s the same kind of thing with a record player. The first time someone used it as an art form to access music that came before it…but musically that was a mistake…that was like breaking the record, scratching the record. Doing things you’re not supposed to do with the record Great. Space of mesmerizing strangeness… achieved. You’re totally fucking up that record player, it’s not meant for that. How can we advance our hi-fi technology when you’re destroying that needle and the drive belt of that record player? ….all those analog machines are still around. Turntablism…It’s not a mistake anymore, there’s a tradition of mixing records like that…it’s not anti-doing something else. It’s not about playing record appropriately or not… it’s another way of playing a record
C: It’s like a perceptual shift…
L: It’s a cultural, yeah, perceptual shift, and it’s super deep too. Now, it’s not just the machine, now there’s a whole culture of how you break a record correctly. It’s totally locked up. It’s not experimental anymore…there’s names for hand motions, how you mix, technique names…it’s a whole world
C: Similar to cryptozoological interests. Breaks from official taxonomies become re-absorbed…glitches and electronic or audio anomalies are going in reverse…becoming classified into techniques... wrangled in. Become a known quantity.
L: Right, zoologically is that the same as how the chart would have to evolve if we found a sasquatch is actually proved? That’s like somebody experimenting, sitting in the woods and then finding the sasquatch. Then from that experiment is a drive to completely describe and analyze it. That’s the funny thing about mysteries. The longer it’s a mystery with more people working on it and it stays a mystery. You’d assume there would be a progression and conclusion. So much on science describing the world. But we keep this a mystery…so it can function as it needs to.
C: Supsension of disbelief, or sustaining of belief…
L: Right, sustaining the necessity of sustaining belief, or disbelief…or wait where are we? Yeah sustaining belief. Is it a big deal if we discover if the sasquatch is real or not? Maybe it’s doing more good for the human race as is. That’s why they had to come up with the blobsquatch. To differentiate with types of videotaped strange things.
C: a side effect of digital perfection…the quality of images. “That’s not a strange mysterious animal…because sasquatches are ape-like not blob-like.” Or something like that…
L:What if you had high fidelity photograph of an animal that’s just a blob.?
C: There are cryptids known as globsters…giant blobs washed up on a shore…definitly aquatic but no other characteristics except that they’re unknown blobs of organic mass…possibly a correspondence between blobsquatches and globsters.
L: they’re made to confuse, they’re made to specifically be…
C: perpetual anomaly
L: A situation crafted by whatever set of factors that interlocks exactly with our desire… with our ability to be totally confused by information and our desire to get to the bottom of something. So it’s just enough to keep us going, but not enough to point us in any right direction…
C: It’s like a video switcher that has four input choices, but you push in two at once, so you get a new garbled signal that’s neither one nor the other…perhaps detrimental to the device...but also a new entity
L: But why would you do that? You would need to do that only to access the fucking spirit world.
end transmission
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