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Pageau speaking about attention and worship.

Podcast discussing Byung-Chul Han and the reenchantment or discovery as time as healer of ‘inferno of sameness’.

Email to myself about Basinski, hearing the repetition differently in loops. Repetition in music paradoxically a means of puncturing and disrupting homogeneity and sameness.

An article about St. Augustine’s views on time. A quote from Aristotle here.

Pierre Schaeffer was a student of George Gurdjieff.

Crawford, ‘The World Beyond Your Head’ Epilogue.

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St. John of the Ladder on monologia, or short repetitive prayers (mantra).

3HO on mantra focused on Being, or ‘I AM’.

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“They have profit to maintain your attention, and that is what is creating all the madness. They just want quantity of attention, not quality of attention […]”

Who is ‘they’?

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY #2

(Update citation — OWL at Purdue APA7)

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“Mesmerized by the images flitting about on our computer screens, we become dull, predatory flies buzzing at the window screen of our computers, desperate to consume all the futility of the world. Yet, we are not the predators, but the prey. We are not the users of information technologies and social media, but rather we are being used, manipulated, and exploited by them.”

- Hieromonk Maximos Constas

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Updated STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

The purpose of this study is to consider the potential of audio loop creation and contemplation as a means of integrating technology into a way of life that promotes a unified psyche and is sustainable from a spiritual point of view. Although musicians and composers will be considered, the primary audience I have in mind is anyone has a phone/tablet and is seeking to find alternatives to the role technologies are currently playing, namely as mechanisms of control by corporate entities.

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Annotated Bibliography #1

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Statement of problem. The question that remains difficult to answer is “Why loops?” How do these different themes connect and center around the primary theme of loops? Themes of technological temptations, using tech for a liberating creative engagement with the world, using loop creation for contemplation, for meditation, for altered states of consciousness, for heightened awareness of time and Being.

Loops are the hero of the story. The ‘villian’ is technological enslavement, as well as general sense of unconscious and unaware state of mind. Loops are one of many ways? A way in that is simple and powerful?

My audience is not necessarily musicians.

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Tillman Baumgartel Interview with Geert Lovink

Notes:

Adorno, Critical of repetition, numbing, opiating.

Loops are non-narrative and non-teleological

Instead of linear are cyclical forms

Deleuze: “Repetition as difference without a concept.”

Loops are awareness machines.

Loops do not lack structure, just teleological harmonic ‘purpose’.

David Hume

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“You know, loops are everywhere. They’re cycles. They’re in nature. They’re just universal. And if you can find a loop that can repeat without becoming redundant, then you can sort of fall into a different space, and time even. Sort of like a bubble of eternity or something, I don’t know.”

- William Basinski

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Dump of various strands of potentially useful info. These are for a project on Audio loops, time, consciousness, ASC, etc.