For the longest, I’ve badgered a record label based out of St. Louis, Missouri — Paradise Is A Frequency — to share a mix of theirs on my radio show. For me, it all started with them reaching out years ago, sending out a digital handshake into the void saying “hello” to a fellow soul, simpatico to our cultural displacement in the greater musical miasma.
Hailing out of the midwest, like yours truly, (far from culturally “in” centers of influence — NYC, Tokyo, Paris, London, Berlin, etc.) we’d quietly staked out our own territory, perhaps, better served by our refusal to follow/heed cues coming from whatever latest, “hot” zeitgeist was out there.
We loved what we loved — in our way that we loved it — damn the torpedoes, because it was necessary to love it. In the end, game recognized game, so to speak.
On this mix for LYL Radio, other than the brilliant original artwork by Huiqian Wu, I was also sent a wonderful idea from PIAF, wrapped in a collection of like-minded music, touching on their genuinely inquisitive way of discovering that I think my readers can appreciate. Now, as for what that this is, I’ll let them take it from here:
In this synthetic age where there hardly remain clear delineations between nature and technology, the moods chosen here were inspired by these two ideas:
1) A flat ontology of digital objects at different magnitudes.
2) A recursive nourishing of the system, which I refer to here as “gardening”.
Following Yuk Hui‘s furthering of Simondon’s philosophy of technics, users must adapt to the rhythm of the system of digital objects; yet, according to Hui this system, being digital, is no longer one of cultural memory – as that of technical objects – but of future orientation (tertiary protention).– Paradise Is A Frequency, thoughts on mix.
A looming question is what sort of problems does adapting to these rhythms produce, such as the increasing prediction and anticipation by digital systems. But moreover, and of relevance here, how ought we approach an organization of digital objects for a sustainable, open future, that is, how might we tend to a productive garden of digital objects.
I hope that this mix finds listeners reflective of their own relations to digital objects, the rhythmic networks they may find themselves in, and that we may all design healthy, algorhythmic, lives.
Moods For Digital Gardening (Guest Mix by Paradise Is A Frequency)
Tracklist: Not Provided
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