pendulum (PAL)Mon Jul 19 2022
PARTICIPATIVE AUDIO LAB
PARTICIPATIVE AUDIO LAB PAMPHLET
Pendulum was created as part of the Participative Audio Lab during CTM Festival 2023.
Participative Audio Lab Context
There is an inevitable urgency in re-defining our infrastructure of communication. Our models of connection and forms of culture distribution are deeply permeated by flawed industrial methods of creation based on control and extraction, generating a society of commodified attention.
Setting creation as a closed-control process has conceived a culture of ubiquitous uniformity; value can solely be tracked by the quantity of connections rather than quality of connections. Amongst several outcomes, this has created a shallow perception of value in culture creators, which implies that culture is built by repetitive content rather than by unique meanings.
Beyond our current deficient cultural practices, today we are facing the consequences of systematic extraction and control over our environments. We will not be able to reverse these issues until we fundamentally start to understand creation as a open and variable activity that is subject to change, as a system adaptable to the embedded chaos in nature.
We will not be able to reverse these issues until we create new infrastructure of communication where creation is conceived as a cooperative act and an open system where, parallel to nature, it can be subject to change and apatations.
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Today, the production of media is universal. The development of new infrastructure for music interaction on the web on top of the massification of personal computing, presents a unique opportunity for public access to the core sensorial experiences and creative processes which define our cultural essence. By granting the public power and control over the creative process, we can build a new conception of creation as an open system where cooperation and adaptation take center stage, rather than fixation and repetition.
It is in this context where the Participative Audio Lab (PAL) is created. In the midst of a culture of closed creative control, PAL is an initiative aimed at harvesting a culture of open creation through the development of tools for participative music distribution.