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""Fabric theory": talking about cultural and computational diversity with the same words"

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Anonymous goto08 said...

I'd just like to lift the idea of a basic humanity in all this. After all, a bat or an octopus have a very different way of describing the world - due to their senses and bodies. Some animals use frequencies that we cannot perceive, and that's probably just the tip of the ice berg. Humans have developed our own understaing of the world, and it's not arbitrary - it comes from our brains, bodies, societies, histories, etc. And now we've developed computers which serve to perpetuate those ideas. Or at best make it a little bit less antropocentric.

All things we know are contrained and restricted, right? Perhaps there are unlimited potentials out there, but it's impossible for us to grasp that I guess. So while I understand that concepts such as "constrained programming", "restricted platforms" etc, are simplifications - I still don't really like them. Lately I've been thinking if this tendency to talk about restrictions is a christian heritage. The world of people who are just crap compared to god and heaven and jesus and all that.

17 March 2012 at 15:50

Blogger viznut said...

I had actually planned to mention the "human fabric" at some point and emphasize that everything we do and experience gets filtered by it, but it seems I couldn't fit it nicely anywhere so I dropped it. Anyway, the philosophical history of "false sense of universality" has a lot of cases where the human fabric has been ignored altogether. Music, for example, is supposed to be a "lingua univeralis", but despite its mathematical beauty and all that it is always "human-only software", i.e. geared towards the human neural system and the quirks therein.

One of the major reasons why I'm trying to introduce new vocabulary (such as "fabric") is precisely that I too dislike the constraint/limitation discourse. The main issue for me personally is that it reduces platforms to simple featureless points on a linear scale where the "less restricted" ones are supposed to be universally better than the "more restricted" ones. I want to use words that emphasize the multidimensional diversity of the possibility space instead of serving the "bigger is better" mentality.

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28 March 2012 at 07:48

Blogger I. Read said...

My apologies for clumsily deleting and editing these comments in the previous posts!

This is a very expansive concept when pursued to the fullest extent. Using this terminology, for example, one might say that the constants and properties of physics collude to create the fabric of reality itself. On a smaller scale, programming languages are sufficiently rich fabrics to study the thought forms that emerge from their use, however. Although I am not a programmer, I would find it very interesting to review some analysis on the types of thinking that are encouraged by the paradigms of object oriented programming vs. functional programming, alternatively. These two distinctly different methods of problem solving seem like they would cultivate vastly different internal hierarchies and techniques in those devoted to their branch of choice.

Meanwhile, in the world of music, the limitations of MIDI are a symptom of the widespread cultural indoctrination and adoption of the twelve tone system of music. The alternative, microtonal music, is maligned by popular culture, instrument manufacturers and virtual instrument programmers. Our addiction to the twelve tone scale is an example of a inherently limiting cultural fabric. In the West we have become so accustomed to our musical expression occurring using only twelve notes in an octave that we have unwittingly created an echo chamber that serves to constrain music to this bland and confining set of assumptions in pitch. However, there is something that may be learned of fabrics from the twelve tone system: it might be said that this particular fabric, despite its limitations, has become popular because of its deep resonance with the human psyche for whatever reason. In other words, music being what it is, if microtonal music was more compelling to the average person, it wouldn't be eschewed popularly in favor of a much less robust fabric.

If there would be any hope of creating or, perhaps more appropriately, experiencing a neutral and universal fabric, it would have to be one that fully reconciles divergent and convergent thought between the individual and the collective. I am more inclined to believe this will not take place without a fully developed AI acting as a translator and buffer between individuals. In the meantime, I think it is a worthy thing to experience and evaluate unique fabrics helping us to recontextualize our cognitive processes and greater realize our mental freedom. In my opinion, the best kinds of fabrics are ones which, for whatever reason, encourage transcendent thought. If we can learn to finely and objectively quantify fabrics and the mentalities they encourage, we will have made a broad inroads into the future of communication.

28 March 2012 at 07:53

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I guess the deceptive feeling of pseudo-universality of the twelve tone system comes from the fact that it forms a rather symmetric and "full" network of integer-ratio intervals with a relatively small set of fixed pitches. It is still a compromise, however, trying to maximize expressivity while minimizing the complexity of physical implementation. Even if we choose to stick with the usual pitch ratios Western people are most familiar with (2:1, 3:2, 4:3, 9:8, etc.), we may find out that a denser tone system (such as 72-tone equal temperament) could express them more purely. We just haven't gone with a denser system because it would make physical instruments unnecessarily cumbersome. I therefore think the twelve-tone system stems from practical constraints and traditional forms, not from any kind of profound compatibility with human mind.

In computers, available scales are not limited by physical constraints but merely by how wide counter registers can be used. Some pioneering composers of computer music back in the fifties and sixties realized this and made some experimental compositions with unusual tone systems and the like. Sadly, this path didn't lead to a totally new framework of musical expression it could have, and when computer music became commercial, it adopted a rather rigid interpretation of the traditional twelve-tone equal temperament, effectively giving every virtual instrument a kind of virtualized pipe organ fabric. This constraint is also difficult to overcome because most of us lack the theoretical language for it. It is very difficult to find musical theory textbooks that generalize beyond the Western tradition (even treatment of "microtonality" is terminologally centered around the perceived neutrality of the Western 12-tone system). When I self-studied musical theory, I had to come up with some of my own math to reach a sufficient level of general understanding. Breaking the boundaries of MIDI or tracker music can be done purely in software, so it should be technically easy, but in order to write that software, one needs to first choose an alternative theoretical framework that fits the purpose. I once did some preliminary experiments but not much more.

I personally don't believe that neutral or universal fabrics are possible anywhere. It may be possible to get subjective glimpses of something more profound by adopting a lot of point-of-views and transcending them, but once you try to express this glimpse, the expression gets a specific fabric of its own. I therefore think it is more intellectually honest to embrace the diversity of different points-of-view, even at the risk of increased complexity, than to strive for neutrality that ends up being mere pseudo-neutrality in any case.

One idea related to fabrics of computer art I've been planning to experiment with is the difference of binary and ternary fabrics. When experimenting with simple boolean logic functions in an audiovisual context one can approach the esthetic essence of binarity, but in order to really grasp the binary fabric, I feel we need something to contrast it against, e.g. ternary (base-3) and analog-computer fabrics. I'll probably write an experimentation tool for this at some point of time.

18 April 2012 at 13:15

Anonymous Danyil said...

In the 1982 book De Re Atari game developer Chris Crawford introduced a related concept with regard to computer hardware, which he later expanded on in The Art of Computer Game Design. In both books he urged the game developer to "work with the grain of the machine", not against it.

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