#A.A.L.

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hm. I think I will listen to that one A.A.L. album again 🧍

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ADA LOVELACE

ADA LOVELACE

1815-1852

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke (Annabella Byron). Her mother was a mathematician and an abolitionist who wanted to put an end to slavery. Before her birth, Lord Byron believed he would be the father to a ‘glorious boy’ but was disappointed when a daughter was born. Her parents broke up 2-months later and mother and daughter moved to London. Lovelace never saw her father again; he died in 1824 when she was aged 8.

            Lovelace was known for her intelligence, her mother wanted her to learn mathematics in an attempt to tame Lovelace’s ‘argumentative disposition’. When she was aged 12, she became ill with a fever which resulted in blindness and being paralysed. Her sight returned, but she couldn’t walk for the next three years - she spent this time doing maths. Her mother employed a tutor who warned her, ‘The very great tension of mind which mathematics require is beyond the strength of a woman’s physical power of application.’

            In 1833 she was invited to a Charles Babbage gathering and there she became fascinated with his invention the Difference Engine (calculator machine) and Lovelace started working with him. Babbage was impressed with Lovelace’s knowledge and enthusiasm; he nicknamed her ‘Enchantress of Numbers’. She studied his lab books and designed a program called the Analytical Engine, which used punch cards with a sequence of numbers called Bernoulli numbers, which is now recognized as the first computer program. In 1843, she published her work under the initials, A.A.L. so people wouldn’t know she was female.

            In 1834, aged 20, she married William King-Noel and the couple had three children. In 1852, she died of uterine cancer aged 37 and was buried next to her father Lord Byron at her request.

            During the 1950s, Alan Turing recognised the programmable computer and in the 1980s the computer language, Ada, was named after her; which is still used today.

#adalovelace #lordbyron

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happy birthday Lornita

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Post n 67 | A.A.LLES solo exhibition

April 27

Link to the documentation of my solo exhibition at the Atelierhaus L-E-W 1 in Darmstadt for the festival #12 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie

Link here

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Part 2: Note "Musik an David"

White Fence & Ty Segall - Time

Dear Meadow - Sleepy Silver Door 

Aguaturbia - Heartbreaker 

Rollo Weissensee & Blend - Pastis Duval 

Shabjeed & Al Nather - Mtak Mtak

Arca - Arca (komplettes Album, ich revidiere meine Entscheidung zu Best Album und wähle dieses :) arca hat unter anderem das fka twigs Album mit produziert) 

Shygirl - Freak 

Coucou Chloe - Flip U 

Sevdaliza- Oh My God 

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Lord Lightning 

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bloomdido

Vladimir Dubyshkin - Lady of the Night 

Chopin - Mazurka 

Erik Satie - Gnossienne 

Brutalismus 3000 - Pentagramm 

Ariel Pink - Not enough violence 

DIIV - Under the sun 

Aleide - 123

Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks 

Amnesia Scanner - AS Too Wrong 

Arigto & Nicolas Savva - Fragile Resistence of of Falling silent 

Bauhaus - Bella Lugosi‘s Dead

Beach House - Space Song 

Best Coast - Boyfriend 

BETWEEN FRIENDS - affection

Big Thief - Shark Smile 

binki- wiggle 

Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper 

Bonjr - it‘s ok, you‘re ok 

BRONCHO - China 

Chilly Gonzales - Lana Del Rey Medley 

CHLOBOCOP - 999 (oder Narcotics)

Dream Wife - Sports! 

The Emotions - Blind Alley

The Exploited - Sex & Violence 

The Friends of Distinction - And I Love Him

Fugazi- Waiting Room 

The Garden - Clench to Stay Awake 

Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa: I. Ludus

Grouper - Dragging a Deer up the hill 

The Hails - Sugar 

HYUKOH - Wanli

IDLES - I‘m scum 

Jagwar Ma - Howlin

Japanese Telecom - Cigarette Lighter 

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey 

John Maus - ... And the Rain

Julien Andreas - Lethal Hardcore 3 

Juniore - Magnifique 

La Goony Chonga - Dimension 

Lebanon Hanover - Gallow Dance 

Unaloon - Codependency 

Lime Cordiale - Screw Loose 

Low - In the Drugs 

The Marias - Only in my Dreams 

Mystique Braves - To Myself 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - As I Sat by her side 

Papooz - Ann Wants to Dance 

The Pink Slips - Sweet Talker 

Psychic TV - The Orchids 

Ragamuffs - Used to Be

Remi Wolf - You‘re A Dog 

Rui Ho - Theia Impact 

Ryo Fukui - Early Summer 

Salami Rose Joe Louis - I Miss You So 

SALES - Chinese New Year 

Shamir - On My Own 

ShitKid - Highway 

Shuggie Oties - Aht Uh Mi Head 

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Arabian Knights 

The Sister Of Mercy - Never Land 

The Skellywags - Don‘t Preach Me 

Skeggs- Spring Has Sprung 

Slaves - The Hunter 

Still Woozy - Wolfcat 

Tigers Jaw - The Sun

Tom Hengst - Click Block 

TV Girl - Birds Don‘t Sing 

Vacations - Days 

Veruca Salt - Seether 

Yves Tumour - ALLES ICH LIEBE SEINE MUSIK 

Zola Jesus - Skin 

Swans - A little God in my hands 

13th Floor Elevator - You‘re Gonna Miss Me 

Future Beat Alliance - Hippocampus 

Aïsha Devi - Mazda 

A.A.L. - Alucinao

Pan Daijing - Disease 

Astrid Gnosis - Drop Dead 

Textasy - Deja Vu Bass (oder Touch My Level aus SoundCloud) 

Sidiki Diabaté - Choisie 

Parcels - Tied Up Right Now 

Clinic - The Equalizer 

Claire Lafutt - Mojo 

Sexy Sushi - Sex Appeal 

Clara Lucini - La grenade 

Abra - Roses 

Kris Wu - Tian Di

Cerrone - Supernature 

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Listen/purchase: With An Addict by Against All Logic

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After returning with a new single last week, Against All Logic is back with a new album. Stream 2017 - 2019 now!

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012/2017 May 18, 2018 Experimental Techno

An alter ego of electronic artist Nicolas Jaar, A.A.L. leans more on chopped samples and playful house beats than Jaar's often abstract and ominous work under his own name. This collection compiles tracks from various 12" releases, highlighting a more fun and carefree side of Jaar's sonic personality. - Fred Thomas

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A.A.L. (Against All Logic) - Flash In The Pan (2012 - 2017, 2018)

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UNIT 3 | ASSESSMENT

1 Present evidence of a body of work that demonstrates a systematic enhancement of your knowledge and understanding. (AC Realisation)

“New Observations of the History of Bees” is the body of work I have produced across TERM 1, 2 & 3. The series consists of docu-fictional investigations on both organic and inorganic materials as primary sources to understand the impact of pesticides on the cognitive system of wild pollinators.

In these works there is a visible contrast between expressly abstract areas and highly detailed elements that represent some specific anatomical parts of insects (primarily the parts of their bodies affected by the chemicals). The abstract areas have the warmest on the magenta to blue colour scale, including some light degrees of yellow. These zones represent the insects' cognitive system, and are my personal interpretation and representation of the insects' awareness. As can be easily seen, the areas representing the consciousness of these insects cover larger areas than their anatomical elements.

The body of work includes mixed media painting on emulsified canvas and drypoint on paper. They are all wall based and in the last months I started designing three different installations, composed of diptychs of canvases that are mounted on the walls with only one vertical side each.

Link to New Observations on the History of Bees

Works from this series have been included in the following academic and professional exhibitions:

This Is Not a Party - CSM Interim Show 2022 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London;

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2022 at Woolwich Works in London; Press & Play 2022 at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton; 

CSM MERCH 2022 at Koppel X, London;

E-ART-H / VISION-ARY at The Earth Vision Org in London

A solo show “Andrea Abbatangelo A.A.LLES” at the Atelierhaus Ludwig-Engel-Weg 1 for the festival Darmstädter Tage Der Fotografie in Darmstadt (Germany), where I was the artist in residency for this edition. Link here

Works from the series have also been included in two publications: 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists, published in 2022 by Artsted and #12 Darmstädter Tage Der Fotografie, published in 2023 by the Festival

In parallel with the production of the body of work, I have kept my attention for ten months on the same sample of a hoverfly fossil included in amber, experimenting several techniques of observation and representation. I have used both analog and digital cameras, table lens, hd scan and microscopes to observe direct details of the fossil. I have then developed those images with non chemical photographic processes, mainly cyanotype and a similar method based on vegetable chlorophyll fibres. The final work is a gouache on emulsified canvas. 

Link here

The information collected from microscope observations, the readings of articles and the conversation with biologists helped me to create a series of drypoint on paper with anatomical details of bees.

Link to drypoint series 

I have worked on one specific drypoint on paper consistently since Term 1 where three aspects of my research practice coexisted and influenced each other; pigment-making, drypoint and scientific readings. This work is titled ‘Ongoing Anatomy of Bee” because each time I learnt a specific challenge impacting the body and cognitive or social abilities of bees, I have gone back to work on this drypoint to represent it on the specific part of the body. In fact, gut bacteria, wings, pesticides-tongue. 

Link to Ongoing Anatomy of Bee

2 Synthesise and critically reflect coherently on your process whilst providing evidence of an active, independent and/or collaborative practice. (AC Process)

My individual practice is evidenced by, for example, my ongoing activity, especially during Term 2 and 3, of searching and collecting fossil inclusions in amber, antique victorian microscope slides with bee tongues and pollen and magic lantern glass slides. This material was crucial to inform my practice with details of the anatomy of those insects before intensive agriculture used chemical pesticides.

Link to A2 Archiving Materials

I focused my collaborative practice on the role of art in the social engagement within natural and social sciences. 

The core evidence of a research practice based on scientific resources developed in collaboration with prominent researchers is the series of investigations produced in Darmstadt (March - April 2023); specifically the work “Two Experiments with Pollution” and the microscope observations at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

The conversation I had with Dr Lentz led me to explore two specific areas of bio-toxicology: gut bacteria (which I already explored during Summer 2022, see Post n 54 Part 3) and the very worrying rapid decline of pollinators in the forests around Darmstadt.

Prof. Boris Schmidt hosted me at his laboratory in the Clemens Schöpf-Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Technische Universität Darmstadt and suggested that I research defects in wing development that indicate disturbed metamorphosis: phenotype "Notch" in the dew fly (Drosophila) is a genetically determined effect.

I undertook this whilst observing the development of mosquito larvae growing in puddles which were highly polluted with rust and residual car oil.

Link to Two experiments with pollution : Russet & Larvae

Link to Microscope Observations

As a result of exploring the information provided by both scientists in parallel, I was able to merge two divergent investigations and produce a personal and experimental research practice in which biology and art inspire and stimulate each other.  

Over the three terms, I have improved my skills at the following and and all these developments have been self-managed:

printmaking (working at the Kew Printmaking Studios);

analog photographic printing (using the darkroom at H_DA - The Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences)

using a ‘state of the art’ scientific lab, experimenting with microscope settings and learning a method of sequential observing and storing the files.

I recently attended a workshop to refresh my knowledge in chemistry to produce soil chromatography with the aim to trace micro-references of chemical pathogens (i.e. forever chemical) and pesticides on the soil.

3 Summarise and evaluate your overall progress and formulate a constructive plan for continuing Personal and Professional Development. (AC Communication)

The most important progress I have made in the last two years has been learning how to reflect on my practice. For example, I have practised on several occasions an exercise based on conscious immersion of hand-writing that Jonathan  demonstrated in two different sessions. I have embraced this self-reflective tool at each step of my research and it was incredibly powerful during my artist residency in Darmstadt.

More practically, I have also improved the quality and quantity of writing and audio recording (for example, the sound-walk at Block Beuys at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt) - I will investigate further this practice in the future.

Link to Block Beuys Sound-walk

I have found the feedback sessions particularly challenging but also beneficial. I have always found it hard to give feedback on the work of colleagues. This process has been very revealing because I have discovered methods of discussing and evaluating the work of colleagues in both individual and group settings which are effective but which I am also comfortable with.

I am currently archiving the material produced, collected, documented, exhibited and published during the last two years. To do so, I have bought an A1 Portfolio Carry Case and two A3 Portfolio boxes in cardboard. I am using, on a smaller scale, the cataloguing system of the Museum Collection CSM that we experimented with during the session of November 17th 2022. 

I will complete the series of 82 drypoints on the hexagonal crystal of snowflakes [see Post n 58; 61; 63]. This research led me to the pioneering work of Wilson Alwyn Bentley who created a body of work on the subject between XIX and XX centuries . I started this research on hexagonal shapes in nature while investigating the Honeycomb Conjecture [see Post n 52 - Third Fictional Summer Session / July 22nd 2022], which also inspired me to create the work Saknussemm for the online exhibition curated by the Digifest 2022 - Durban University of Technology. I have printed only four hexagonal crystal snowflakes out of 82. 

Link to the drypoint series 

I plan to explore the series “New Observations on the History of Bees” implementing the method I adopted during the residency in Darmstadt, in which both the laboratory making and the interaction with researchers will allow the participation of groups of people or communities to be involved in the process. I intend to continue to work on the topics bridging art and natural sciences with a special focus on the impact of chemicals and pollution in the environment. My goal is to continue these investigations through socially oriented projects, ideally in public spaces to approach polarised topics obliquely in order to heal divisions and help find a way forward.

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#26 - 2012-2017 - A.A.L. (Against All Logic)

Hey, it’s the first album from this year that I’ve covered (Note, there’s not going to be very many of these). Essentially a compilation of various dance songs that Jaar did over the time period, it’s a wonderful testament to how even tracks you don’t really like enough to make mainstays can still be amazing when in the proper context, and a fascinating look to see how different his work would have been if he decided to be a straight DJ. 

73/100  RECOMMENDED SONGS: I Never Dream, Rave On You