The Message is the Massage
The project was conceived as an outcome of online laboratory and residency Unthinking/Unlearning organised by Klammklang label, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Sound Art and Sound Studies (M.A.) at HSE Art and Design School, Moscow. The [[starting point->starting]] of this interactive novel is Yulia Glukhova's homework assignment.
Team: Alexander Agafonov, Anton Anishchanka, Tatiana Danilevskaya.
Message Mixtape: 38:40 min
Contributors: Masha Alexandrova, Anako, Anton Anishchanka, Alexey Berezhnoy, Anna Garcia, Tatiana Danilevskaya, Valeria Elagina, Alexandra Kopelyan, Kamil Shaimardanov, Isabel Soany, Alisa Storchak, Ystalost, Lubov Vink.
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(click: ?system1)[(goto: "start")]
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(click: ?system2)[(goto: "whoami")]From:
[[what I am->atmos]]
[[my perception->sounditself]]
[[my sleeping will->sleeping]]
[[my present state at the very moment->state]]
Alice
Anna
[[Osip->osip]]
[[me->me]]
[[me->you]]
[[me->me]]
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(click: ?wave1)[(goto: "radiolove")]
|wave2>[<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Onde_cisaillement_impulsion_1d_30_petit.gif">]
(click: ?wave2)[(goto: "draft")]
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(click: ?ossy)[(goto: "funnel")]
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(click: ?funnel)[(goto: "whoami")]
<!-- an image of a funnel -->[[frustration->fru]]
fatigue
socially/self-imposed anxiety
feeling not good enough to change
[[fear of cyclicality->state]]
illness and restrictions on going on expeditions
[[fear of unknown->ihorse]][[me->whoami]][[me->whoami]]sentimentally draft the time when I lived
[[...where...->places]][[the house where the poet resided->emptiness]]
place I haven’t seen for a long time
[[the village I've known for 20 years->lofi]]
the place that no longer exists
the space of the room
[[Novosibirsk->silentp]]
[[Sevastopol->fru]]
[[place between worlds->between]]
[[purgatory->purga]]
[[other side->toyou]]|air>[<image src="https://dabrownstein.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lax-sound-contour-map.jpg" />]
(click: ?air)[(goto: "belongings")]
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(click: ?piano)[(goto: "loss")]
<!-- a piano spectrum -->[[you->you))]]miss you,
Please take care of [[yourself->roma]]
loss of will when interacting with [[musical instruments->sounds]] With mirroring and radiolove[[Roma->stay]]with all your belongings and documents[[spontaneous atmosphere->ohouse]][[atmosphere of the house with Nadezhda Mandelstam->memory]][[With the memory of the place and->memoryand]]and listener’s footprints
and [[the friend->roma]]emptinesslo-fisilent presenceto talk to you at a distancehorse and ice-cream (inside)I wanted to repeat the words of Susan Phillips: “The [[sound->sounditself]] is the last thing that asks us to stay”sound of [[seagulls->seagulls]],
[[seagulls->gulls]], quiet, clean, clear, rhythm
rustle inside the plastic bag, wind
voices of [[construction workers->workers]]
and passersby,
car music
[[creaky dry strings->seag]]<image src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6jscl36c8le4jq/1.gif?dl=1" />
<image src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rosi0in8cja9y04/2.gif?dl=1" />
<image src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ju8j30fu0sqduw/seagulls.gif?dl=1" /><image src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5zh63rnq7mh4th/workers.gif?dl=1" />
<image src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc521n0s3lr3xzh/perception.gif?dl=1" />
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from: [[Participant->parti]]
to: [[Dear->dear]]
subject: (force-input-box: "=XX=", "The medium is a mess.")
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