Looplog is the product of ongoing work undertaken for my completion of postgraduate studies at Murdoch University. I am an artist researcher working principally in the area of soundscape studies and acoustic ecology but with a strong sense of maintaining the creative commons via the internet. This site and its content is in fairly constant development - it is not a representation of work that I have done but a direct access to work that I am doing - so pages and menus might change around a little. Nonetheless, you can navigate to any of site's main areas by using the navigation links in the header, nestled in the leaves.

WFAE 2006 Presentation

Submitted by omjn on Sat, 2006-04-01 18:01. | |

This is the project page for attendance at the upcoming World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, to be held in Hirosaki in Japan in November 2006.  The conference site can be found here.

 

The abstract, accepted as of July 2006, outlines the content of the project more explicitly, and is reproduced below.

 

Networking Practice for Sound Environments - Modes of the Loop Network


My aim is to relate an understanding of the place of being, of body, of spirit and spirituality, of beauty and most importantly, the place of the listening subject. Presented as a journal based narrative set against field recordings taken from daily life - relating my experiences as an Australian teacher and student in Korea ( both a colonizer and colonised ) - I intend to present a map of my own research and the general acoustic ecology of the Internet, as well as a map of my daily life in South Korea as it relates to the acoustic ecology I find myself immersed in.

This paper emerges from my PhD project and proposes a revolutionary practice, not in the traditional economic or political sense, but in the sense that we should be striving for revolution as the insistence or repetition of difference as the unifying composition of being. By examining the soundscape through the filter of acoustic art and the Internet, I intend to trace acoustic practice, culture and place through the circular categories In The Loop, Oscillation, Circulation, Feedback, Spin, Cycles and ultimately Revolution.

Revolutionary teleology can be rightly criticised as utopian and naive of material realities. In a practical sense, what is it that we can be doing in the meantime to counter such criticism? The final category I propose is Loopholes, which is the active practice of finding legitimate holes and gaps in the systems and institutes that form the basis of the colonisation of everyday time. Ultimately these loopholes form the spaces of freedom and collaboration in which we find ourselves and each other, and provide a clue to the communal revolution long promised by the Internet.

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feedback

Submitted by omjn on Tue, 2006-03-07 02:27.

Feedback is the repetition of process, or the repeated application of process to a specific meaning, matter or motion.

It places us professionally and signals the navigation of noise.

Feedback produces forms in that it turns data into information and filters information for utility.

The act of looping data within a delimited domain of observation produces information.  That is to say, the repetition of any data produces or allows cognitive/linguistic processing, observation and hence significance and meaning for that given data set.

Noise is unrepeatable data, or data, that upon repetition, is unable to be processed or refined into information.  Given that their exists a theoretically infinite set of observational contexts (variations in subjectivity) it is probable that noise is only noise for lack of access to an interpretive framework/observational context.  The problem of noise is not the being of noise but the negotiation of differing and sometimes opposing views or the recognition of noise.  Governments use a form of feedback - the popular voice - to define what noise is.  They also broaden the defining observational context by seeking feedback from the expert voice (health sciences, for instance). 

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cycles

Submitted by omjn on Tue, 2006-03-07 02:15.

Perhaps cycles are the medium of revolution.

Cycles place us in the everyday.  They are repetitions of time that we use to measure and quantize our lives.  They are the domain of the habitus.

 

oscillation

Submitted by omjn on Tue, 2006-03-07 01:53.

Oscillation places us in the universe and in space.

Oscillation is the repetition of forms.  It is loop difference, or distinction, such that primary distinguishability is repeatable.

flight from theory and return.  lines of flight to practice.  from the undoable to the unthinkable.

looplog : a practice network

Submitted by omjn on Thu, 2006-03-02 00:27.

a project plan for the development of this site as an operational base for the looplog project.