Category: Reflections
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Music as an ecosystem?
What happens if we create and experience music as a kind of ecosystem? Improvising on the piano, using what I would call intuitive intelligence, I am developing a method for using my body, hands, arms, and mind to create a kind of sound ecosystem. This is how this improvisation came into existence: Next step is…
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Autism is an environmentalism
While reading and summarizing Descola’s giant work Beyond nature and culture, I have been ‘side-reading’ some stuff about autism. Reading the book Women from another planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism has made me think some additional thoughts to my reading of Descola. Women from another planet? is a book, collectively written by a group…
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Pocket research design 1
This is a ‘pocket research design’, where I outline the question whether knowing nature will make humans treat each other and our surroundings better.
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Does hierarchy kill nature?
After reading Freya Mathews’ article “A deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry”, (see my summary here) – which I find very inspirational – I feel the need to further investigate some of the paths she’s laying out. Particularly I would like to dig more into her framework for a ‘deeper philosophy’ based on the two concepts conativity…
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Uddrag fra mit speciale: Om handlingsvalutaer
[uddrag fra mit speciale, s. 90ff] “Handlingsvaluta - et begreb til at begribe mellemrummenes mellemrum Centralt i begrebet handlingsvaluta er det, som jeg med Deleuze kalder affektøkonomien. Det er en meget enkel model, som Deleuze har fra Spinoza. Iflg denne model udgøres en krop127 af en række forbindelser, rapports, og disse forbindelser er det, som…
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Movement, sound and people – a transnordic dialogue in progress
At the seminar The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Society – Sustainability in Art and Cultural Projects, composer Casper Hernández Cordes did a workshop, and choreographer Kenneth Flak had the role of reflecting on the workshop. This started a really interesting discussion, that we would like to continue, this time in a ‘plugged’, online version, for…
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Non-verbal cacophonia in the North
As for Jamie, it seems he has two possible faces. He has a neutral, expressionless face, that he puts on, when he is somehow taken aback (which seems to take a lot). The other – which he puts on here – is this shrewd fox-like smile, which is saying something along the lines: “I know…
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The un-toast – or how “the social stomach” can save humanity
Doran brings out a toast for Tommen, to which Ellaria gloomily reacts by emptying her glass on the floor, sending a defying look to Jamie Lannister, creating in the teenage lovers, Myrcella and Trystane, one of these wtf–the-adults-are-SO-embarrassing moments. The non-verbal element is of course very strong here, very brutal, very simple, and completely on…
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Non-verbal communication, – a world of valuable information
Non-verbal communication is a source of valuable information that we can dig into, but only when we see the need.
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How can sound help us building our collectives?
Gestures with our faces, bodies and voices are all intertwined channels of communication, and it makes a lot of sense to regard them in a holistic way. For a moment, however, let’s look at what happens in the interactions we have through sound alone. And how this affects our capacity for building sustainable collectives.