Revealing the Map

[woops]

ok youre right but yes i did so ner ner

 

[luka]

you said it to yourself in your room? or you thought it?

 

[woops]

i wrote it on here in a different way of putting the same thing . you're just splitting hairs (ironically enough)

 

[luka]

im going downstairs to buy some chickpeas

 

[luka]

windy out there

 

[woops]

yeah it is gale force

 

[woops]

and full moon too

 

[version]

Storm Dudley.

 

[version]

"A lot of us seem to share an intuitive sense of recorded music in its entirety as a landscape that we can inhabit and explore. Genres, idioms, epochs make different regions within the whole. The output of specific artists can form distinctive spaces within these regions, and specific works can function as landmarks.

In this “space”, just like in the real world, there inevitably are some areas with which we’re more acquainted than others. We each have our childhood stomping grounds, places we regularly visit, perhaps even somewhere we’d call home. For each of us there are also regions too remote or daunting to explore, requiring long treks beyond all familiar ground, or the scaling of difficult terrain. At least, there used to be areas like that."

-- Ian Mvuent

Creative Mode On

The internet makes a sort of engagement with music possible that’s incredibly expansive in its reach yet utterly introverted in its natur...

aloysiusplace.blogspot.com

 

[woops]

people have also drawn loads of maps of acid house, rock family trees, maps of techno and so on

 

[woops]

people have also drawn loads of maps of acid house, rock family trees, maps of techno and so on

but no one has yet described them with the consumate skill of ian @mvuent

 

[Clinamenic]

One of the more fascinating things I've encountered, in relation to this concept of map revealing. A map and catalog of "tidal disruption events" fed by data from telescopes, massive bodies tugging on other massive bodies until the less dense one gets either swallowed entirely or whipped around into some fantastic ribbon. This map is represented on a screen as having an "explored area" of collected data, and a blank area for the unmapped zones lacking in data - not unlike games such as RDR.

The Open TDE Catalog

tde.space

 

[Clinamenic]

One of the more fascinating things I've encountered, in relation to this concept of map revealing. A map and catalog of "tidal disruption events" fed by data from telescopes, massive bodies tugging on other massive bodies until the less dense one gets either swallowed entirely or whipped around into some fantastic ribbon. This map is represented on a screen as having an "explored area" of collected data, and a blank area for the unmapped zones lacking in data - not unlike games such as RDR.

The Open TDE Catalog

tde.space

Here is an example. The top image is taken from the catalog's map, and the bottom is a duplicate with a visual filter to highlight the boundary.

 

[Clinamenic]

As if our lens are sketching out our vision, as they orbit around us.

 

[sus]

"Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the Equator, and in every sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and... well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet—the biggest, the most blank, so to speak—that I had a hankering after.

True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery—a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land."

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

 

[version]

Someone's been digitising Mark Lombardi's conspiracy maps,

Mark Lombardi Networks - Goals

Mark Lombardi drawings in digital formats

lombardinetworks.net