Quartz 4

Quick notes

4 min read

Try to recreate on op1:

  • Veronica Maggio - se mig

  • boards of Canada - roygbiv

  • sudo lab, local wiki

  • PLACE, resorcery

  • common spaces that are currently unused

  • neighborhood potlucks, community gardening

  • “dark bit”. 8 bit music, minor, with distorted guitar, bit darker.

  • How is nonalcoholic beer and wine made?

    • Flavourtech’s spinning cone column

  • Make a science/art course (for adults): over a few weeks, go out and take samples, look under the microscope, grow things on growth media, determine organisms, extract DNA, etc. Maybe mix with art, making a print (with Feral?? Or Anabella - some collage). Using pigmented bacteria to dye fabric. Make a completely interconnected course. The fabric could then be used to sew a simple top or embroider something. That pigment apparently fades with differently intense light - could we make patterns with e.g. UV light? Inspiration e.g. from ASCUS (from Anabella’s newsletter) https://www.ascus.org.uk/blog/exploring-wild-spaces - Putting slime mould onto petri dish and following the path. 500

  • Very

  • degrowth notes, podcast 1:

  • How does degrowth or lower consumption in the west not feel like lacking something? What would you miss? What would we gain?

  • Example of shared child care. Do you know of things like that? Which ones? Which ones could be imagined?

  • Concept of private sufficiency, public/common luxury: What are some examples you can think of?

  • What are grassroot steps towards a world/system described in the podcast? What can WE do? What has the most impact? What has the most impact?

  • dairy copy with and without pentopan

  • send pilot made samples within the TDF update trial

  • calculate conversion factor for TDF between pilot and factory (VLI, ff1 trial)

  • cellulase instead of bglucanase

  • cut down bglu and add a tiny bit on formulation to make up

  • present for us both: nice cutlery, nice rug

daily highlights

15 may: D dumpling place in Köln S view of Kölner Dom 16 may D arriving in reading, walk down to Thames and along S Eurostar, listening to Veronica Maggio, coal drop yard 17 may D climbing with Ros S Thames walk 18 may D Seeing Melissa S seeing MNM, wandering around Norwich 19 may D fever subsiding in the evening S view from Norwich castle 20 may D getting oyster catcher pin, seeing Melissa S Sheringham walk with MNM, ice cream, walk along the beach 21 may D dog frida on the train S nice Indian Restaurant with Ros and Edmund, hanging up laundry in the garden 22 may D Canal and custard factory S custard factory, lunch in food market, taking photobox pictures, walking along the canal, secret library garden 23 may D Pool above waterfall S CAT walk, old slate quarry 24 may D chatting with Osian, rocky cove on the beach S walk around Aberystwyth, collect stones on the beach, cool rock formations

to do

  • incubation chamber on balcony?
  • plan for balcony garden in a nice wooden box, good soil and ground cover with clover
  • buy barley and other grains to mix with rice

Clothes

Look out for:

  • Pollunder (chunky, knitted) with drop shoulders and v-neck - wear with T-shirt underneath
  • Cardigan with v-neck in nice colour (red, green, orange)
  • Midi-skirt (dark, flowy) - wear with chunky shoes and socks, T-shirt, cardigan
  • Pinafore dress (corduroy, wool, etc.)
  • T-shirts with nice graphic on it
  • Trousers, corduroy, straight-cut
  • Black jeans
  • Belt, black or brown, thick
  • Shirt, short-sleeved - to wear with long-sleeved sweater underneath

Blog

  • solarpunk history
  • how a motion sensor light works
  • How alcohol-free beer is made

Making music

Sampling like 65daysofstatic Noisiness, simple lyrics, sweet little melodies/themes like The Radio Dept Darkness, seriousness, stomping, spoken lyrics like Heartworms

  • Together with Duncan (and others?): make distinct pieces of music (“songs”)

Field recordings

citiesandmemory.com

Inspo

  • Ask people that go to different places to record sounds. Collect a library of “donated” sounds. Lord of the Isles (Neil McDonald does that).
  • Recurring building or fences by sticking microphones to them. ”… find a resonance, like it might be on a handrail for example, by sticking the contact mic onto it, which is only going to pick up vibrations, rather than moving air. You can either play the building or let the building be the lens through which you’re seeing the space.”
  • In 2023, Matthew Herbert told Bandcamp Daily that, “The biggest revolution in my time is that music can be made out of anything. We are in a new period of musical history where you can use the sound of a football crowd, the victims of modern slavery on a Thai fishing trawler, or a brick to make music.”

Listen to

  • Mitra Mitra, oh Alien, edictum - Austrian synthpop
  • super jet Kinoko - Japanese Rock band
  • Eggenberg - Austrian post-punk

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From DD newsletter 17 feb: 

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