[rohrpost] SONIC FICTION: ClonEmotion 1.0 : Workshop with Kodwo Eshun programed and produced by 100% Future in colaboration with Lisbon night club LUX
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SONIC FICTION: ClonEmotion 1.0
A programation by CEM / Futuro a 100% with the colaboration of LUX
Workshop from 100% Future with Kodwo Eshun=20
27, 28 e 29 Sept. in LUX (club) in Lisbon from 3PM to 8 PM=20
info and aplications inf100@c-e-m.org or 00 351 918723621 , and
http://www.c-e-m.org/f100/sonicfiction=20
day one: 27 - part 1
The Groop listens and discusses particular tracks from the concept =
albums of the producer Mathew Herbert.
Herbert: Around the House (1997)
Doctor Rockitt: Indoor Fireworks (1999)
The Groop adopts and adapts the 10 Point Program of Mathew Herbert's =
Personal Contract for the Composition of Music or PCCOM, available at =
www.mathewherbert.com.
=20
day one: 27 - part 2
The Groop listens and discuses tracks from the concept albums of Mathew =
Herbert and Matmos=20
Herbert: Bodily Functions (2001)
Matmos: A Chance to Cut is A Chance to Cure (2001)=20
The Groop reads and discusses samples from JG Ballard: Myths of the Near =
Future(1982)=20
Each person in the Groop chooses a single piece of technology This can =
be anything from an ansaphone to Metasynth software to the microphone on =
a video camera to ringtones on a mobile phone.=20
Each person in the Groop can restrict themselves to a single sound =
source or not.=20
Each member of the group will use this technology to create a fragment =
from a day in your life as a clone.
=20
=20
day two: 28 - part 1
The Groop feeds on clone data. This material exists as divergent samples =
science fiction novels, scientific papers, news reports, website pages, =
video clips, musical interludes. Any patterns or incongrous events will =
be discerned, integrated, adapted or ignored into the fragment of a day =
in the life of a clone or not. =20
=20
day two: 28 - part 2
Each participant begins to use their instrument/ medium to assemble =
their sonic fiction.=20
=20
=20
day three: 29 - part 1
Each participant in the Groop reports back on the production process of =
their sonic fiction=20
=20
day three: 29 - final part
The participants of the Groop present their sonic fiction. A written =
statement explains their choice of media, their source material, their =
concept and the state of mind the sonic fiction suggests. Then the =
titled sonic fiction is presented to the rest of the Groop. There is =
Feedforward. The Sonic Fictions will be stored as Phase 1.0 of an =
audiovisual installation entitled ClonEmotion 1-5. =20
=20
SONIC FICTION: ClonEmotion 1.0
what is it?
(by Kodwo Eshun)
Kleo Mavrides. The young bride was the dead woman's clone, sharing her =
name and her genes. There were times when Lindsay felt that behind the =
merry eyes of the younger Kleo there lurked an older spirit, as a sound =
might still vibrate in the glass of a crystal just after it had ceased =
to ring.
=20
Bruce Sterling, Schizmatrix ( 1985)
=20
Over the course of 3 days, participants in the Sonic Fiction Groop will =
attend a Workshop on Sonic Fiction in Lisbon, hosted by the critic Kodwo =
Eshun. They will use digital sound to imagine a possible future. By =
fictionalising sound, the Groop operates at the soft interface between =
science fiction and organized sound. The Workshop is an informal Stereo =
Laboratory. Misspelling the word Group as Groop copies Stereolab's =
spelling and invokes that group's spirit of frank and optimistic =
thievery.=20
=20
The Sonic Fiction Groop does not proceed with an understanding of =
science fiction in its standard sense of prediction of the far-future, =
say the 30th Century. Rather, science fiction is understood here as an =
industrially based, print-driven thought process that preprograms the =
way people think in the present. You can see this process at work today =
in the future shock of cloning. Whenever governments and media think =
about the 21st Century reality of cloning, they inevitably cite 19th and =
20th Century ideas borrowed from Mary Shelley and Aldous Huxley.=20
=20
Faced with the infiltration of the present species by a new kind of =
human, mainstream authority tends to reach back in time to the fictional =
scenarios of Frankenstein and Brave New World. As McLuhan pointed out, =
they prefer to look in the rear view mirror. Cloning is experienced as a =
threatening trauma. Science fiction therefore converts this unknowable =
event into a series of worst case scenarios, into manageable disasters, =
into thinkable futures. 19th century fictional science preprograms the =
habitual responses of authority in the present day. Industrial age =
scenarios provide a sense of comfort for a species-changing event that =
is genetic and digital.
=20
In the early 1990s the critic and primatologist Donna Haraway suggested =
that the border between science fiction and social reality had become an =
optical illusion. Perhaps this is why so many Hollywood science fiction =
movies are so unsatisfying and why social reality now regularly yields =
moments of everyday extremism. None is more extreme than cloning.=20
=20
As a technology, cloning is poised on the border between science fiction =
and science fact. It is a myth of a future that is racing towards us. =
Towards concrete realization. Once the fact of cloning is assumed, it =
becomes more compelling to imagine the perspective of the clone. The =
purpose of the Workshop is to project oneself 10 years from now. To =
think of oneself as a clone. Alive and busy. Getting things done. The =
psychological, emotional, and unconscious states of the clone become =
more fascinating than the rigid reactions of the late 90s and early 00s. =
The fearful fixation on disaster is replaced by .what exactly ?=20
=20
This is the purpose of the workshop: to create create audio fragments =
from a clone's life.
Sonic fictions from an untold yet endlessly rehearsed drama. =20
=20
The sonic fictions assembled here in Lisbon proceed on an understanding =
of science fiction as a Myth of the Near Future, in the term invented =
and elaborated by the novelist JG Ballard in his books Myths of The Near =
Future and The Atrocity Exhibition. Sci fi is a way of entering into =
the Bad New Present rather than the Good Old Fashioned Future. As what =
the designer Bruce Mau calls a New Brutalism of Now.
=20
The object of the Workshop is to create a fragment of a myth from a near =
future. This Workshop will use the approach pioneered by the London =
based producer Mathew Herbert and the San Francisco based production duo =
Matmos. The ideas manifested in their music are elaborated by Herbert in =
the 10 Point Program entitled Personal Contract for the Composition of =
Music, available at www.mathewherbert.com.
=20
For the Groop, the key point in the PCCOM is that everyday life rather =
than recorded music is sampled. The sampler is used to turn reality into =
a musical instrument. The reality of 21st century urban life provides =
tones as peculiar as the most complex kind of digital signal processing =
or DSP software. The sampler- or the minidisc player, the tape recorder, =
the video-camera microphone, any recording device will do- =
simultaneously documents, memorialises and takes an audio-snapshot of =
reality. Music is made from the unmusical sources of everyday life, the =
audio-verite of a life becoming less ordinary day by day.=20
=20
The Sonic Fiction Workshop applies this approach to the soon-to-be-real =
scenario of the clone. It places real sounds at the service of a =
fictional event. Cloning is leaving the realm of science fiction, where =
it has dwelt for so long. The sonic fictions the Groop creates will be a =
series of Goodbyes to the dreams of science fiction, to the ideas that =
have preprogrammed humans for so long.=20
=20
Science fiction is crashing.=20
A Sonic Fiction is a document from an era when clones were fictional. =20
=20
Creating the fictional fragment rehearses our responses to cloning. The =
research and development process compresses a process that will take =
others years to come to terms with into 3 days. It is an example of =
adapting to the inevitable, experienced at an intensive rate. Rituals of =
adaptation will be necessary throughout the social fabric in 2011. Who =
will create these? Are science fiction-literate people uniquely prepared =
for this role? Or are they the last people you want to take advice from? =
Do you need help anyway? What were YOU doing when you first heard that =
a living clone had been produced? Maybe this act of sonic fiction is =
training you for a new job. Bringing out your Inner Clone. Maybe you =
will become an Empath, a clone-sensitive professional in a world full of =
hostile clone-haters.=20
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aplications <A=20
href=3D"mailto:inf100@c-e-m.org">inf100@c-e-m.org</A> or 00 351 =
918723621 ,=20
and</SPAN></B></P>
<P><B><SPAN style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><A=20
href=3D"http://www.c-e-m.org/f100/sonicfiction">http://www.c-e-m.org/f100=
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align=3Dleft><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-ansi-language: PT">day one: 27 =
– part=20
1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"=20
align=3Dleft><SPAN lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'">The Groop=20
listens and discusses particular tracks from the concept albums of the =
producer=20
Mathew Herbert.</SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"=20
align=3Dleft><SPAN lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'">Herbert: Around=20
the House (1997)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
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align=3Dleft><SPAN lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'">Doctor Rockitt:=20
Indoor Fireworks (1999)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
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<P class=3DPreformatted=20
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"=20
align=3Dleft><SPAN lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'">The Groop adopts=20
and adapts the 10 Point Program of Mathew Herbert’s Personal =
Contract for the=20
Composition of Music or PCCOM, available at=20
www.mathewherbert.com.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
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align=3Dleft><SPAN lang=3DEN-US=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
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143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt 335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"=20
align=3Dleft><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-ansi-language: PT">day one: 27 =
– part=20
2<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">The Groop listens and =
discuses=20
tracks from the concept albums of Mathew Herbert and Matmos=20
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Herbert: Bodily =
Functions=20
(2001)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Matmos: A Chance to =
Cut is A=20
Chance to Cure (2001) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">The Groop reads and =
discusses=20
samples from JG Ballard: Myths of the Near Future(1982) =
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Each person in the =
Groop chooses=20
a single piece of technology This can be anything from an ansaphone to =
Metasynth=20
software to the microphone on a video camera to ringtones on a mobile =
phone.=20
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Each person in the =
Groop can=20
restrict themselves to a single sound source or not. =
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Each member of the =
group will use=20
this technology to create a fragment from a day in your life as a=20
clone.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt =
143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt 335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-ansi-language: PT">day two: 28 =
– part=20
1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">The Groop feeds on =
clone data.=20
This material exists as divergent samples science fiction novels, =
scientific=20
papers, news reports, website pages, video clips, musical interludes. =
Any=20
patterns or incongrous events will be discerned, integrated, adapted or =
ignored=20
into the fragment of a day in the life of a clone or not.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial =
Narrow'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt =
143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt 335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-ansi-language: PT">day two: 28 =
– part=20
2<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Each participant =
begins to use=20
their instrument/ medium to assemble their sonic fiction. =
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt 143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt =
335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted style=3D"tab-stops: 35.4pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted=20
style=3D"mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 0cm 47.95pt 95.9pt =
143.85pt 191.8pt 239.75pt 287.7pt 335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-ansi-language: PT">day three: =
29 – part=20
1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted style=3D"tab-stops: 35.4pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Each participant<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in the Groop reports back on =
the=20
production process of their sonic fiction <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted style=3D"tab-stops: 35.4pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted style=3D"tab-stops: 35.4pt"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-ansi-language: PT">day three: =
29 – final=20
part<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DPreformatted style=3D"tab-stops: 35.4pt"><SPAN lang=3DEN-US=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">The participants of the Groop =
present their=20
sonic fiction. A written statement explains their choice of media, their =
source=20
material, their concept and the state of mind the sonic fiction =
suggests. Then=20
the titled sonic fiction is presented to the rest of the Groop.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is Feedforward. The =
Sonic Fictions=20
will be stored as Phase 1.0 of an audiovisual installation entitled =
ClonEmotion=20
1-5.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: =
yes"> =20
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style=3D"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; =
mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT=20
face=3DArial> </P>
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size=3D3><STRONG><SPAN=20
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ClonEmotion=20
1.0</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3D3><STRONG><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">what is=20
it?</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3D3><STRONG><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">(by Kodwo=20
Eshun)</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></DIV></FONT>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kleo Mavrides. The young bride =
was the=20
dead woman’s clone, sharing her name and her genes. There were =
times when=20
Lindsay felt that behind the merry eyes of the younger Kleo there lurked =
an=20
older spirit, as a sound might still vibrate in the glass of a crystal =
just=20
after it had ceased to ring.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bruce Sterling, Schizmatrix (=20
1985)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Over the course of 3 days, =
participants in=20
the Sonic Fiction Groop will attend a Workshop on Sonic Fiction in =
Lisbon,=20
hosted by the critic Kodwo Eshun. They will use digital sound to imagine =
a=20
possible future.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By =
fictionalising=20
sound, the Groop operates at the soft interface between science fiction =
and=20
organized sound. The Workshop is an informal Stereo Laboratory. =
Misspelling the=20
word Group as Groop copies Stereolab’s spelling and invokes that =
group’s spirit=20
of frank and optimistic thievery. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Sonic Fiction Groop does =
not proceed=20
with an understanding of science fiction in its standard sense of =
prediction of=20
the far-future, say the 30<SUP>th</SUP> Century. Rather, science fiction =
is=20
understood here as an industrially based, print-driven thought process =
that=20
preprograms the way people think in the present. You can see this =
process at=20
work today in the future shock of cloning. Whenever governments and =
media think=20
about the 21st Century reality of cloning, they inevitably cite =
19<SUP>th</SUP>=20
and 20th Century<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ideas =
borrowed=20
from Mary Shelley and Aldous Huxley. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Faced with the infiltration of =
the present=20
species by a new kind of human, mainstream authority tends to reach back =
in time=20
to the fictional scenarios of Frankenstein and Brave New World. As =
McLuhan=20
pointed out, they prefer to look in the rear view mirror. Cloning is =
experienced=20
as a threatening trauma. Science fiction therefore converts this =
unknowable=20
event into a series of worst case scenarios, into manageable disasters, =
into=20
thinkable futures. 19<SUP>th</SUP> century fictional science preprograms =
the=20
habitual responses of authority in the present day. Industrial age =
scenarios=20
provide a sense of comfort for a species-changing event that is genetic =
and=20
digital.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In the early 1990s the critic =
and=20
primatologist Donna Haraway suggested that the border between science =
fiction=20
and social reality had become an optical illusion. Perhaps this is why =
so many=20
Hollywood science fiction movies are so unsatisfying and why social =
reality now=20
regularly yields moments of everyday extremism. None is more extreme =
than=20
cloning. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As a technology, cloning is =
poised on the=20
border between science fiction and science fact. It is a myth of a =
future that=20
is racing towards us. Towards concrete realization. Once the fact of =
cloning is=20
assumed, it becomes more compelling to imagine the perspective of the =
clone. The=20
purpose of the Workshop is to project oneself 10 years from now.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To think of oneself as a =
clone.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Alive and busy. Getting things =
done. The=20
psychological, emotional, and unconscious states of the clone become =
more=20
fascinating than the rigid reactions of the late 90s and early 00s. The =
fearful=20
fixation on disaster is replaced by …what<SPAN =
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> =20
</SPAN>exactly ? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is the purpose of the =
workshop: to=20
create create audio fragments from a clone’s =
life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sonic fictions from an untold =
yet=20
endlessly rehearsed drama.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> =20
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The sonic fictions assembled =
here in=20
Lisbon proceed on an understanding of science fiction as a<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Myth of the Near Future, in =
the term=20
invented and elaborated by the novelist JG Ballard in his books Myths of =
The=20
Near Future and The Atrocity Exhibition.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: =
yes"> =20
</SPAN>Sci fi is a way of entering into the Bad New Present rather than =
the Good=20
Old Fashioned Future. As what the designer Bruce Mau calls a New =
Brutalism of=20
Now.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The object of the Workshop is =
to create a=20
fragment of a myth from a near future. This Workshop will use the =
approach=20
pioneered by the London based producer Mathew Herbert and the San =
Francisco=20
based production duo Matmos. The ideas manifested in their music are =
elaborated=20
by Herbert in the 10 Point Program entitled Personal Contract for the=20
Composition of Music, available at =
www.mathewherbert.com.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; =
mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: =
EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: =
12.0pt">For the=20
Groop, the key point in the PCCOM is that everyday life rather than =
recorded=20
music is sampled. The sampler is used to turn reality into a musical =
instrument.=20
The reality of 21<SUP>st</SUP> century urban life provides tones as =
peculiar as=20
the most complex kind of digital signal processing<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or DSP software. The sampler- =
or the=20
minidisc player, the tape recorder, the video-camera microphone, any =
recording=20
device will do- simultaneously documents, memorialises and takes an=20
audio-snapshot of reality. Music is made from the unmusical sources of =
everyday=20
life, the audio-verite of a life becoming less ordinary day by day.=20
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Sonic Fiction Workshop =
applies this=20
approach to the soon-to-be-real scenario of the clone.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It places real sounds at the =
service of=20
a fictional event. Cloning is leaving the realm of science fiction, =
where it has=20
dwelt for so long. The sonic fictions the Groop creates will be a series =
of=20
Goodbyes to the dreams of science fiction, to the ideas that have =
preprogrammed=20
humans for so long. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Science fiction is crashing.=20
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A Sonic Fiction is a document =
from an era=20
when clones were fictional.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> =20
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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335.65pt 383.6pt 431.55pt"><SPAN=20
lang=3DEN-US style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Creating the fictional =
fragment rehearses=20
our responses to cloning. The research and development process =
compresses a=20
process that will take others years to come to terms with into 3 days. =
It is an=20
example of<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>adapting to =
the=20
inevitable, experienced at an intensive rate. Rituals of adaptation will =
be=20
necessary throughout the social fabric in 2011. Who will create these? =
Are=20
science fiction-literate people uniquely prepared for this role? Or are =
they the=20
last people you want to take advice from? Do you need help anyway?<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What were YOU doing when =
you first=20
heard that a living clone had been produced? Maybe this act of sonic =
fiction is=20
training you for a new job. Bringing out your Inner Clone. Maybe you =
will become=20
an Empath, a clone-sensitive professional in a world full of hostile=20
clone-haters. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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