Essays

16/02/2019

Concept for a Sound Art Work

Shaman Stones TalkThe sensing of voices coming from no tangible outer sources. You hear this after a sometimes disruptive experience of true silence. A trait of the desert, a trait of AUM.

How Does Canny Edge Detection Sound ?

A sonification of the OpenGL implementation of Brad Larson’s “GPUImage Canny Edge Detection Implementation” which applies the edge detection process described by John Canny in “Canny, J., A Computational Approach To Edge Detection, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 8(6):679–698, 1986” and implemented in OpenGL ES by “A. Ensor, S. Hall. GPU-based Image Analysis on Mobile Devices. Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2011.”

“It starts with a conversion to luminance, followed by an accelerated 9-hit Gaussian blur. A Sobel operator is applied to obtain the overall gradient strength in the blurred image, as well as the direction (in texture sampling steps) of the gradient. A non-maximum suppression filter acts along the direction of the gradient, highlighting strong edges that pass the threshold and completely removing those that fail the lower threshold. Finally, pixels from in-between these thresholds are either included in edges or rejected based on neighboring pixels.”

18/01/2019

The Unit Model - Winds Contribution

„We are all imbued with the classical Western unit model. We can hardly think in any other way. What we call “thinking” seems to require unitized things which are assumed to be either cleanly identical or cleanly separate, which can be next to each other but cannot interpenetrate, let alone have some more complex pattern.

Winds ContributionWith respect to form don’t try forcing it onto your material. It comes from within as soft or as hard as your energies allow, but you know, just learn to listen deeply.

If, for example, there are two things which also seem to be one in some intricate way, rather than try to lay out this intricate pattern in detail, thinking tends to stop right there. We consider the sense of such a thing as if it were a private trouble. It seems that something must be wrong with us because “it doesn’t make sense.” And yet we keep on having this stubborn sense which does not fit in with what is already articulated in our field. It probably stems from a genuine observation which does not fit the unit model.“

(Eugene T. Gendlin - Introduction to Thinking at the Edge)

Low Chakra LandfillsPredefines pop up, parts of the dead body of dismissed plans, unfulfilled desires and all that sexy stuff, yeah, you push it to landfills and walk this bridge.

15/01/2019

I can‘t sell you Creativity

... and I doubt anybody should or could do so. Honestly, what do you think money can buy you? Come back later... with brands deleted. Live is about you - and a pain in the ass. Get used to it...

Pain KillersCaution! Brands of Pain Killers. This is where money comes into play...

13/01/2019

Experience Expanded

Again, how develop a voice that expands experience ?

Let’s say Voice is the culmination of inward and outward energies...just wait - can I take a short cut here and simply ask my body for a felt sense of this question about voice expanding experience ?

Voice matter.Your voice matters.

The felt sense

Gendlin writes: „First there is a kind of bodily awareness that profoundly influences our lives and that can help us reach personal goals. So little attention has been paid to this mode of awareness that there are no ready made words to describe it , and I have had to coin my own term: felt sense. And second that a felt sense will shift if you approach it in the right way. It will change even as you are making contact with it. When the felt sense of a situation changes, you change and, therefore, so does your life.“

(Chapter three, „Focusing - how to gain...“ Eugene T. Gendlin)

09/01/2019

Creativity Assist, Focusing, Past

I assist others in their process of creating works of art - art, that communicates a meaningful story to themselves and others. In that context assisting means practicing conscious silence. Stop making your sense, see the other, hear the other, deep listening...

remember when for the first time I tried to hire - after finishing acting school, done being an actor, it was a scary shit being an actor it was - as an assistant producer at one of the wealthy german theatres: I was interviewed about my motivation by one of the honorable state agents: “Nothing for a narcissist like you! “ he judged.

And he was right, was right in Frankfurt a.M., 1993...

You are your method - I just want your moneyQuestion motivation as a bystander. Am I truly silent?

Eugene T. Gendlin writes in “Focusing - how to gain direct access to your body’s knowledge” :

“Focusing and Listening are like that, like talking to a person who makes your experience expand. In Focusing you must be that kind of person within yourself. And you can also be that way with others, and show them how to be that way for you. “