Dematerialisation.

[sadmanbarty]

so with something that's so concentratedly trying to situate itself in the material, any evocation of dematerialisation is going to be subconscious and as such such won't be affected or feigned. it'll be inescapable. so what dematerialisation do you hear in cranes in the sky?

 

[luka]

i dont hear any dematerialisation in the digital sense it is very consciously and deliberately situated itself against that as a signifier of class and sophistication.

 

[luka]

there is a different and older kind of dematerialisation in the repeated away with its accompanying piano line- its the dematerialisation of flight into fantasy and daydream, but we are brought back by the hook

 

[luka]

you cant escape on a daydream. no one can. it's only ever a temporary reprieve, eventually the film ends and you walk out of the cinema

 

[luka]

think of how you generate a deep note as opposed to how you generate one at a higher pitch.
map these things onto the body.

 

[luka]

its a beautifully composed song because what it does always matches what it says. the form and the content are identical.

but if we put it in the context of dematerialisation- it seems to suggest to me a new elitism-
which situates itself in an aristocratic world of expensive materials, silk, mahogany,
as if the digital world was a kind of ghetto for the lower orders who cant meet their needs
in the real world... which in a sense, it is

 

[sadmanbarty]

 

[luka]

can i have a pat on the back pls? ta.

 

[sadmanbarty]

well done luke.

 

[sadmanbarty]

but as you say this isn't purely reactionary,

i dont hear any dematerialisation in the digital sense it is very consciously and deliberately situated itself against that as a signifier of class and sophistication.

?

 

[luka]

?

ok it is purely reactionary and i love it

 

[luka]

it is emblematically reactionary.

 

[sadmanbarty]

 

[luka]

the soundworld it creates and the affectual terrain it maps and occupies is almost entirely traditional.
there are modern elements (i would suggest the kind of anxiety it is grounded in is contemporary and there are sonic things too im not quite able to put my finger on)

 

[luka]

i better go for my afternoon walk. someone else will do a deep reading of those kartel songs while im out. on fact im sure everyone will do a deep listening of those kartel songs and daddy will be very happy when he gets home.

 

[luka]

well done luke.

not guna lie this did not actually meet my emotional needs.

 

[luka]

need bare pats on the back " you done good son, im fucking proud of ya" chest swelling with pride, bashful but beaming

"The process of dematerialisation is also a process of becoming weightless which is why we move from the solid to liquid. Think of the curves of 30 St. Mary Axe ('The Gherkin') and the new buildings clustered around it. "

looking over the city from Greenwich park today it occured to me that the colour palette reflects the same transition- colours of river and sea and sky replacing colours of rock and earth.

 

[pattycakes_]

Age of aquarius innit blud

 

[luka]

"am i really just a narcissist
cos i wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?" ❌

 

[pattycakes_]

Andthose references to "Soul" upthread are also very important - The West is getting more and more secular,and I have the impression even the word "soul" is getting eliminated more and more from usage.

Language got jacked. Simple words like love and happy have been misused by the marketing Borg so much that they don't carry any meaning anymore. It feels like we're operating in a Pavlovian death matrix. I'm loving it.