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Thresholds and Fragile States

from At The Margin of The Sensate by David Dunn

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THRESHOLDS AND FRAGILE STATES (12:25)
2011
a live performance using unique analog electronic circuits

This recording of Thresholds and Fragile States is one of many live realizations made using a one-of-a-kind network of non-linear chaotic oscillators capable of generating an infinite variety of emergent “auditory behaviors.” As an autonomous electronic system, these circuits are more akin to living systems than information processing devices. The circuits produce a dazzling assortment of complex noises where the sounds produced emerge as a type of machine “conversation.” In this sense the circuits resemble the closed nervous systems of living unities that are under constant perturbation from other similar closed nervous systems. The intention is not to simulate the high-level functioning of biological organisms and their cognitive capacities but rather to take this question down to its most primary level of autonomous-closure machines where self-organization is more obviously inseparable from behavior. Ultimately the emergent complexity of these systems results from the dynamical attributes of coupled chaotic attractors interacting in a high dimensional phase space that is similar to the kinds of interactions and feedback that might exist between diverse sound makers within a living ecological network. While the circuits herein described give rise to autonomous sound behaviors based upon mathematical pattern formation, they also explore the underlying mechanisms that may help weave sounds together in the natural world. In many ways this work is an attempt at understanding pattern formation where comparisons and interactions between natural and artificial systems might shed light on how similar dynamical properties might be operating at their generative levels.

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from At The Margin of The Sensate, released April 15, 2023

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David Dunn New Mexico

David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, CA. From 1970 to 1974 he was assistant to the American composer Harry Partch & remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional & experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video & film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, & bioacoustic research. ... more

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