Vortex installation created by the collective teamLab




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Sha Xin Wei • 
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962 • sxwasu@gmail.com
Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
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[Synthesis] readings for rhythmanalysis group

(1) The Inert vs. the Living State of Matter: Extended Criticality, Time Geometry, Anti-Entropy – An Overview 
Giuseppe Longo, and Maël Montévil

(2) Emmy Noether
Invariants and symmetry theorems


Full discussion (book) by Yvette Kosman-Schwarzbach

[rhythm] constantly shifting

Just as culture is underdetermined by (vulgar) economics, and metaphor underdetermined by syntax, rhythm as a special case of ontogenesis and individuation is underdetermined by meter.   This is too abstract.   So, listen for the constantly shifting rhythms between the sound, the breathing, the tensions in the performing body which you feel if you’ve learned play the instrument, against the regular meter.

• Sainkho Namtchylak 
Night Birds (1992)
http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/ethno/sainkho/mp3/01.mp3
The longing and elasticity of this is not the same as metric regularity.


• A moving interpretation of the Bach Chaconne performed recently by a friend’s daughter Taiga (Ultan) on flute (starting at 3:08)


Listen for how she must negotiate her breathing against the uninterrupted singing line.   The Chaconne is a masterwork of implied voices.  For the violinist it’s already a great challenge to suggest and carry multipleimplied voices sliding across each other with shifting forces (rhythm!).  It’s an even greater challenge for the breathing flutist.  This young performer accomplishes it with sensitivity. 

( To hear one of the most wonderful performances of this in canonical form — for solo violin: Itzhak Perlman. )


•  Brahms : String Quartet No.1 In C Minor Op.51 No.1 - 1. Allegro ( Emerson String Quartet)

Listen for the elasticity which emerges from the interplay of swelling and fading voices, and the constantly shifting accenting (on top of the metric pulse)  The metric is a background grid that does not (and ought not) constrain the continuous multivalent shifts to fixed discrete choices.

• Example: In Mathematica: Play[|Riemann zeta function|]
This sounds totally otherworldly, not self-similar !, not predictable and not random!!


Multiscale self-similarity — “fractals”in pop literature — is just recursive regularity.   Pavan has some subtle ideas, based on dynamical systems theory, about signatures of human intention in movement, that are neither simple sums of periodic functions nor uniformly random processes.   There are connections between those ideas and spectral theory of operators, I think.  Worth discussion at multiple registers, artistic/ expressive, philosophical, as well as mathematical!

Adam, Pavan, PM me if you’d be ok with being added to this personal rhythm email list…

Xin Wei

Goldsmiths : April 23: Rhythm as Pattern and Variation -- Political, Social and Artistic Inflections


Rhythm as Pattern and Variation -- Political, Social and Artistic Inflections

April 23, 2016
Goldsmiths London


Organizers: 
Paola Crespi and Eleni Ikoniadou

Participants included

Pascal Michon (KEYNOTE)
“Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities?"



RHYTHM and ART
Dee Reynolds
"Rhythmic Seascapes and the Art of Waves"
Paola Crespi
"'Time is Measurable and It's NOT Measurable': Polyrhythmicity in Rudolf Laban's Unpublished Notes and Drawings" 
Bruno Duarte
“Rhythm and Structure: Brecht's Rewriting of Hoelderin's 'Antigone'"


RHYTHM and THE SOCIAL
Ewan Jones
"How the Nineteenth Century Socialised Rhythm"
Mickey Vallee
"Notes Towards a Social Syncopation: Rhythm, History and the Matter of Black Lives"
John Habron
“Rhythm and the Asylum: Priscilla Barclay and the Development of Dalcroze's Eurhythmics as a Form of Music Therapy"


RHYTHM and MEDIA 
Simon Yuill 
and
Bev Skeggs
"Conflicted Rhythms of Value and Capital: Rhythmanalysis and Algorhythmic Analysis of Facebook" 
Sven Raeymaekers
“Silence as Structural Element in Hollywood Films"


RHYTHM and THE BODY 
Laura Potrovic
"Body-Flow: Co-Composing the Passage of Rhythmical Becoming(s)"
Mihaela Brebenel
"What Could Possibly Still Get Us Going: Rhythm and the Unresolved"
Eilon Morris 
“Rhythm and the Ecstatic Performer"



RHYTHM and NUMBER (Topology Research Unit Panel)
Peggy Reynolds
"Rhythms All the Way Down"
Julian Henriques
"Rhythmanalysis Weaponised"
Vesna Petresin
"Being Rhythmic"
Sha Xin Wei
“Rhythm and Textural Temporality: An Approach to Experience Without a Subject and Duration as an Effect"


RHYTHM and PHILOSOPHY 
Steve Tromans
"Rhythmicity, Improvisation and the Musical-Philosophical: Practice-as-Research in Jazz Performance"
Eliza Robertson
"Rhythm in Prose: Bergson's Duree and the Grammatical Verbal"
Yi Chen
“Rhythmanalysis: Using the Concept of Rhythm for Cultural Enquiry"


Sound Installation 
Annie Goh and Lendl Barcelos’ ‘DisqiETUDE'
St Hatcham Church G01

Goldsmiths : April 23: Rhythm as Pattern and Variation -- Political, Social and Artistic Inflections


Rhythm as Pattern and Variation -- Political, Social and Artistic Inflections

April 23, 2016
Goldsmiths London


Organizers: 
Paola Crespi and Eleni Ikoniadou

Participants included

Pascal Michon (KEYNOTE)
“Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities?"



RHYTHM and ART
Dee Reynolds
"Rhythmic Seascapes and the Art of Waves"
Paola Crespi
"'Time is Measurable and It's NOT Measurable': Polyrhythmicity in Rudolf Laban's Unpublished Notes and Drawings" 
Bruno Duarte
“Rhythm and Structure: Brecht's Rewriting of Hoelderin's 'Antigone'"


RHYTHM and THE SOCIAL
Ewan Jones
"How the Nineteenth Century Socialised Rhythm"
Mickey Vallee
"Notes Towards a Social Syncopation: Rhythm, History and the Matter of Black Lives"
John Habron
“Rhythm and the Asylum: Priscilla Barclay and the Development of Dalcroze's Eurhythmics as a Form of Music Therapy"


RHYTHM and MEDIA 
Simon Yuill 
and
Bev Skeggs
"Conflicted Rhythms of Value and Capital: Rhythmanalysis and Algorhythmic Analysis of Facebook" 
Sven Raeymaekers
“Silence as Structural Element in Hollywood Films"


RHYTHM and THE BODY 
Laura Potrovic
"Body-Flow: Co-Composing the Passage of Rhythmical Becoming(s)"
Mihaela Brebenel
"What Could Possibly Still Get Us Going: Rhythm and the Unresolved"
Eilon Morris 
“Rhythm and the Ecstatic Performer"



RHYTHM and NUMBER (Topology Research Unit Panel)
Peggy Reynolds
"Rhythms All the Way Down"
Julian Henriques
"Rhythmanalysis Weaponised"
Vesna Petresin
"Being Rhythmic"
Sha Xin Wei
“Rhythm and Textural Temporality: An Approach to Experience Without a Subject and Duration as an Effect"


RHYTHM and PHILOSOPHY 
Steve Tromans
"Rhythmicity, Improvisation and the Musical-Philosophical: Practice-as-Research in Jazz Performance"
Eliza Robertson
"Rhythm in Prose: Bergson's Duree and the Grammatical Verbal"
Yi Chen
“Rhythmanalysis: Using the Concept of Rhythm for Cultural Enquiry"


Sound Installation 
Annie Goh and Lendl Barcelos’ ‘DisqiETUDE'
St Hatcham Church G01

proposition 0.4

how about this as a working proposition:

0.4
rhythm is not a thing, not a form, not even a pattern, but a sense ?
(thus, a special case of temporality, which is the sense of dynamic, change, …)

added to
0.1
rhythm is not sonic

0.2
rhythmic is not unidimensional

0.3 
rhythm is not metrically regular, or metric at all.



after Goldsmiths talk: Rhythm and Textural Temporality: An Approach to Experience Without a Subject and Duration as an Effect 

from teraswam to continuum mechanics, and rheology?

Could RHEOLOGY and continuum mechanics be a source of insight for the continuum limit from internet of things to teraswarm and beyond?

That, plus a form of general relativity that has to take into account the interactions peculiar to media?

Rheology (/riːˈɒlədʒi/; from Greek ῥέω rhéō, "flow" and -λoγία, -logia, "study of") is the study of the flow of matter, primarily in a liquid state, but also as 'soft solids' or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applied force.[1] It applies to substances which have a complex microstructure, such as muds, sludges, suspensions, polymers and other glass formers (e.g., silicates), as well as many foods and additives, bodily fluids (e.g., blood) and other biological materials or other materials which belong to the class of soft matter.