Cinema Gardens
Listening to the many great speakers on the Seminars About Long Term Thinking podcast. Here is Brian Eno speaking with Sims creator Will Wright about asynchronous loops:
"Instead of trying to design a piece from the top down, which is what you normally think of as composition - you know, you sort of build it piece by piece like an architect makes a building - this is more like a gardener. You have a seed, you plant it and see what happens."
- Brian Eno
Cinema has its monuments. It is time to harness forces and make cinema gardens. For me anyway, this shift has been liberating. Less about the creator, more about the discovering. Ambient and serial music (esp. Cage, Eno, Reich, Glass), generative literature such as OuLiPo ( esp. Queneau and Perec) are the models. Of course, there is now a history of generative video practice which I am just discovering. Not as easy to find, because many pieces are not on the net, nor available on DVD.
Comments
oh yeah!
(wish i could attend the long term thinking seminar)
regarding the rest of your post's references: yes, i'm there too.
so nice to see that queneau, perec and all are resurfacing as creative models. (and, they all dabbled quite seriously with pataphysics, btw. -even cage)
regarding the eno quote: exactly. i know how tenuous it is to get past the architect's compositional, creative schemata. it takes years to become a good gardener, just being able to see what happens when a seed, any seed is planted. that is when OuLiPo's generative stratagems come in as a liberating blessing.
Posted by: sam renseiw | November 29, 2007 1:06 AM
btw: lots of fine, rare speciments (written, spoken word, papers, sound and videos) to be found at UBUweb > http://www.ubu.com/
Posted by: sam renseiw | November 29, 2007 1:10 AM