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Saturday, January 11, 2020

beginning

Since where one begins is the beginning, one should begin at the end.
in response to meddling at the middle 

What is practice.

Practice makes practical, not perfect.
17-Distracted- Jalal Toufic

William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson Two: A Brief History of Colonial Revolts"

Between "Voice" and Image

The Eidophusikon (GreekΕιδωφυσικον) was a piece of art, no longer extant, thought up by the English actor David Garrick and created by 18th-century French painter Philip James de Loutherbourg. It opened in Leicester Square in February 1781.[citation needed]

Described by the media of his day as "Moving Pictures, representing Phenomena of Nature", the Eidophusikon can be considered an early form of movie making. The effect was achieved by mirrors and pulleys.
A small exhibition centered on his Eidophusikon can currently be seen at The Huntington Library.
A full Eidophusikon, described also as a "small, mechanical theatre", was exhibited from June to November 2014 at the exhibition "Underworlds" (Unterwelten) in DortmundGermany.
The Eidophusikon consisted of a large-scale miniature theatre that let experiment the try of creating the perfect illusion of the moving nature: sunrise scenes, sunsets, moonlight images, storms, and volcanoes from all over the world with sound and music effects. The sound and light effects of the Eidophusikon, compared with the shows seen until that time, were specially inventive by their realism.






A good summary on philosophy of language and semantics.

Speech and Phenomena And Other Essays on HusserVs Theory of Signs

Read intro
DAVID B. ALLISON NEWTON GARVER 

FOR MORE THAN ONE VOICE: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression. BOOK

FOR MORE THAN ONE VOICE: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression. BOOK

read

Part III: A politics of voices. 
 :    
. Echo; or, On Resonance 
. A Vocal Ontology of Uniqueness 
. Logos and Politics 
. The Reciprocal Communication of Voices 