Steve Goodman Kode9 · Audio Virology (On-Line Lecture)

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  you you you you you you you you you you ... knowing through sound open program. Before diving into the today's session, I would like to remind you all that our sessions are available online through the School of Arts Facebook page and YouTube channel, so if you missed Delphine Sardo's talk on ambience, Salome…

• 00:20:10

  But another way of doing that is using artificial intelligence. And that's what we're going to do next. So we're going to use the DNA. We're going to use the genes. AI is a really powerful tool of teaching an artificial neural network, an artificial brain if you wish, to speak that language of proteins. Bueller wasn't…

• 00:31:32

  God has put God in God's dimensions to bring God to God's dimensions. I think take it farther so you get ragtime. The same process led to new spirits being created in South America with no antecedents in Africa led to ragtime here. I read an early anthology by James Wallen Johnson. He said nobody knows how ragtime…

• 00:45:04

  But it's also a viral contagion. But it's also a viral contagion. But it's also a viral contagion. But it's also a viral contagion. But it's also a viral contagion. But it's also a viral contagion. worm an alien or worm an audio insinuation this seeps into years and taps out mnemonics on its drums it's smirk sated…

• 01:03:33

  the more it implants itself. And the more the harder it is. There's some amusing material online if you search for it, like different techniques that people use to try and extract earworms from their memory. I mentioned it briefly in the video, but within Afro diasporic electronic music culture through Sonic Fictions…

• 01:22:06

  to be honest i think you know mainstream western culture is often doing a very good job of trying to vaccinate against uh local viruses that come from from black music culture at the same time you know in other language we would call that appropriation from the from the perspective of these sonic fictions we call that…

• 01:37:24

  And this is like a kind of like a micro location for you. And like, what do you think about that? I mean, I'm a little skeptical of the idea that humans are the virus. I mean, I've seen this idea crop up, especially among certain ecological or environmentalist ideas or ideologies that the human is the virus of planet…

• 01:56:45

  So I think a lot of the concept and notions that were discussed here, even the idea of, uh, virality mobilization and modulation will come up, uh, in Warren's, uh, lecture. So next week at 6 PM, uh, 6 30 PM. Sorry. Uh, and that's it. Thank you very much, Steve. Once again, thanks a lot. Uh, thanks…