NOW AVAILABLE : KINDLING #2 - How Buildings Learn - Seth Cooke
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Last year, a consultant from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors took stock of my home in Bristol. He told me the survey would be sent as a pdf via email; I asked him for the audio recording of his spoken notes. The visiting field recordist graciously gifted it to me.
Around the same time, we had a security camera fitted. My daughters commented that the audio sounded like “Daddy’s music.” I can now travel anywhere in the world while producing field recordings of my home.
‘How Buildings Learn’ is the third publication in the series ‘Method of Loci’. The first – ‘This Content is Unavailable in Your Country’ – follows trails through Pornhub via videos tagged or titled “Bristol”. The second – ‘⦵ (pour Isidore)’ – transforms Plimsoll Swing Bridge into a tribute to the founder of Lettrism. 
The pieces comprising ‘Method of Loci’ are about the transcription of space. Each uses an analytical process to identify a readymade, or a readymade to identify an analytical process. The point defines the perimeter. The perimeter defines the point. Then I argue with myself about how much of the working can be exposed without merely exposing an artwork that doesn’t work.
Field recording is often about access to territory, technique and technology. Change the territory, change the technique, change the technology, and you find yourself transcribing spaces to which you wouldn’t otherwise have access.
Although not in this case. I never left the house.
Seth Cooke, April 2024
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One star review of ‘House of Leaves’ by Mark Z. Danielewski, posted 7 months ago by J dR:
Read Michael Ende’s ‘Never Ending Story’ instead, nearly all the good and fun ideas in ‘House of Leaves’ can be found there: a story that generates stories that generate stories, a house changing dimensions, even up to the disembodied scream that travels between universes.
If you like reading experimental literature just for the sake of the experiment, then go for it, but be prepared; some pages are just filled with names of photographers and at other times you have to turn the book upside down and sideways because the author thought it original to write about labyrinths in this fashion. 
You should also be very cautious about any piece of non-fictional info or quote given in this book, examples are; Baudelaire’s poem ‘Le Tasse en prison’ starts with “La poëte”; attributing “Database and narrative are natural enemies…” to Manovich (it was Paglen); and a hopelessly befuddled list of sonar-equipped animals gives us dolphins as different from cetaceans. Maybe it’s an example of the author’s sense of humour, but I find that misquoting a fellow author is rather disrespectful.
It’s a pity because there are some well written parts and likeable characters, but the need to be original for the sake of originality ruins what could have been a very enjoyable psychological thriller.
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How Buildings Learn - Excerpt

PASSAGE. Commisioned by INA grm as part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action.
Premiered 10.5.2024 at INA grm/ AKOUSMA concert series @maisondelaradioetdelamusique.fr Studio 104. Paris.

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sky cloud

beyond earth's bounds

bird's eye view of the bridge

evening light

commissioned by SEAMS,  Premiered in Vienna 3.10. 2020

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