Re: <documenta X><blast> rhythms

Jordan Crandall (xaf@interport.net)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 13:32:48 -0400

on 28 July, and wrote:

> might rhythm require a certaiN tEmpo (pace?) to breach the threShold of
> recognition? what happenS when we sLow dOwn the beat to the point Where
> the duratioN of Each note extendS to the point where the perception of that
> note aS subordinate to a Larger rhythm is supplanted by a reverie Of that
> note's singularity?

So the singularity, the 'pulse', has a frequency, which we then
articulate as pattern or rhythm. We can manipulate the pulse, and look
at the various patterns that result, or, we can manipulate the rhythm,
to investigate what sets the pulse.

Might there be a kind of calculus that could study and compare
technological pacing and embodied pacing? As you said earler, each
figures the other from their respective grounds, or they figure in a
groundless sense.

scheme), we could say that, when intersected with embodied patterns,
there is manifestation in embodied practice, which (when it passes a
threshold?) becomes routine, maybe habit.

> whEn we Speak of technological pacing Systems, the fieLd Of our potential
> operations becomes tactical.