How do I know my life is not a simulation? As suggested by Nick Boström in Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? I have the answer: We are not in a simulation. Why would anyone simulate boredom? We are much more likely in an artwork, because simulating boredom would serve as a nifty artistic statement (in a semi-popular gallery at Neu-Stockholm AD. 102017).
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Rediscovered Titán. Their singles El Ray Del Swing and Dama Fina move me. Also digging Silverio’s Perro.
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- Continuing on spiritualism and electromagnetism: A good intro into how Soviet synthesizers bridged occultism and electronic music.
- Samples of the ANS synth (named in honour of composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin) on Wikipedia.
- A short intro to ANS from BBCs The Soundhounter 4. “All inventors were criminals because the had to steal the components”.
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About to Dance: Swing of Politics (2008) Pia Lindy.
Alas there is hope. I’m planning to join the Miesten kurssi contemporary dance course at Zodiak.
Useful stuff for the “Performance and Media” course at Kankaanpää Art School and upcoming Kettlebell techno art: Building a Better Body: Male Bodybuilding, Spectacle and Consumption (1999) Jon Stratton.
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Don’t hope – Make #ॐ
“Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency.”: http://hewillnotdivide.us
Finnish food culture is post-human as we mainly consume processed substance to maintain work efficiency. Food is a means to an end. This is usefull in our preparations for the post-apocalyptic future as processed food are more sustainable then handcrafted cuisines! When food is produced in large batches it’s difficult control it’s taste but it is way more energy efficient to produce. Force-feeding industrially produced canned shit like maksalaatikko for kids in schools and workers in public institutions for the past 70 years has changed us into post-cousine beasts. The dystopian view of human survivors eating dog food in nuclear fallout shelters is our reality. We’ve been eating military rations since 50ties.
The meat products we’ve grown accustomed to contain very little meat and will be easily replaced with proteins from plants or insects. Popular frozen-pizza brands have already replaced cheese into compressed wheat products. No one can tell the difference. Finn’s are well suited for life on a space-stations, orbiting earth while we wait for the dust to settle. Advanced cuisine-cultures will have a harder time adapting to upcoming droughts and other struggles which will make fresh foods into a rarity. An enjoyable taste in food is a luxury we cannot afford.