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Code and Materiality Bouequet I Mallarme
"Code and Materiality Bouequet I Mallarme" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
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Definition · paragraph 15
These three original texts have then been transposed phonetically, effectively transforming them into sonic events and consolidating the work’s tendency towards homophonic equivocation, activating at the same time the latent potential of the trans-word homophony integral to two of the three poems.
Definition · paragraph 15
Each phoneme has then been paired with a three-dimensional shape designed to express its sonic and connotative properties and then modeled in three dimensions using CAD software. The shapes are strung together in an order that correlates with the phonic representation of each text in an infinite line along the surface of a sphere.
Definition · paragraph 15
These three original texts have then been transposed phonetically, effectively transforming them into sonic events and consolidating the work’s tendency towards homophonic equivocation, activating at the same time the latent potential of the trans-word homophony integral to two of the three poems. Each phoneme has then been paired with a three-dimensional shape designed to express its sonic and connotative properties and then modeled in three dimensions using CAD software.
Mechanism · paragraph 5
Each new level of abstraction multiplies language’s latent ambiguities, engendering a semantic noise that feeds back into the code system, driving it towards entropy. If the original texts are suppressed, poems that pass through this system can never be decrypted back to a definitive form.
History · paragraph 5
Bouequet is an experimental work-in-progress comprising three short synaesthetic poems responding to three texts that interrogate poetic abstraction: Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘Crisis of Verse’, (Mallarmé, 2007); Georges Bataille’s ‘The Language of Flowers’ (Bataille, 1996); and Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology (Bogost, 2012).
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.