Hello, I'm Behnoud, aka Thecimal, Sound designer based in Tehran, you can find my works on thecimal.com

Nice. I'm in the last stage of my Digital Media Informatics master program. It's a collaboration between Uni Bremen and HFK. I'm currently finishing my thesis with a company in Nuremberg. I will finish soon and then I'll look more into your project, there are surely statistical methods that could elucidate your questions. It would be interesting, for example, having more people from the same area hum the same song to look for association patterns.

Hi Rodrigo, thanks for your comment. if I am not mistaken you also study in HFK Bremen so such a coincidence! regarding your questions you are right when I say audible memory, I mean the memories which have roots in acoustic events. I was curious to know why there is a discrepancy between me and my parents when it comes to a sense of belonging, how this relationship is constructed and how is it connected to the pile of sonic elements (including language, melodies, songs, speeches) which we have been collecting during the time. first I was interested in searching for ways, in which one can morph different melodies (in this case national anthems). I have zero knowledge of programming so I was talking to people who can suggest coding methods, that enable this collision to happen. I was not happy with the result and I changed my strategy completely. so I decided to use my personal voice, humming different melodies, and manually come up with a composition that is constituted of my direct encounter with the sound edit workspace (I was using Studio One). I came up with a 5 minutes sound track, sculpted from multiple humming performances, layered on top of each other. The recordings were divided into pieces with various durations. The same composition begins to play creates infinite correspondence. Each time a track loops, it sits differently in proximity to other ones. that was actually the entry point to the collaboration with Pelle when we realized the correspondence between our projects. so basically for me, the spectrogram was nothing but the quantification of this abstract quality. A representational form, which isn’t capable of elucidating the latter. Pelle was looking at the same mechanism but regarding the cartography. so now our project deals with the politics of representation in its core. how the image or sound is constituted, which technological device is at stake and what is that this whole process suggesting.

Hi Aria. Interesting topics. Nonetheless, when you say "(...) audible memory can impact the process of Identification.". By "audible memory" are you are referring to acoustic events stored in memory? Memory is not audible, we cannot hear what we have stored in our memories. Then it would be the echoic memory which is too ephemeral to identify something. In the case of long term memory (of theorized unlimited capacity) retention of encoded acoustic events such as "melodies and sonic landscapes" for nation identification purposes, I wonder which melodies and landscapes did you use to identify which nations, who did you survey and how did you conclude that melodies and sonic landscapes must be equally contested? I'm currently finishing a sound perception (soundscape) study, it would be interesting to discuss this topic from an art-science approach.

hey everyone,

I and Pelle are a group of two artists both currently studying fine arts in Bremen, Germany. Our practice has been intersecting since summer 2018. we are both very excited to participate in the forms of discussion and presentation that are about to evolve soon among us. under the lockdown condition, it looks actually urgent to hold the conversation more than ever and we both are looking forward to getting to know you and your field of research.

I was doing research on ways, in which audible memory can impact the process of

Identification. that led me to the conclusion that melodies and sonic landscapes must be equally contested when it comes to nation-state fixation. Patrick meanwhile was investigating how the production of cartographic documents and legal procedures take part in the constitution of imperial orders. He was looking at technologies that enable the virtual 3D modeling of geographies. A key feature of visual cartography serving imperialist interests is the exposition of unknown lands. The necessity of new resources to be exploited leads to the necessity of expansion.

Using satellite imagery, mapping, and 3D-rendering tools, we are diagnosing the moments of simplification by examining the principles which lead to the “scientific image”.

While framed as “science”, based on the humanist idea of the enlightenment, such technologies often are funded by the military-industrial complex.

The fact that a lot of the programs and imagery we were using are publicly accessible as “open-source” or “freeware” on the internet, developed by students as we are, applying their knowledge to research institutes set up within universities, further illustrates the imperialist network of academic, economic and military expansion.

Researching and appropriating the technologies, while investigating the “machinery” that lies behind, led us to the question of how to reclaim and subvert them.

We started speculating the future which accommodates imaginative landscapes, the ones which have not been occupied, and never will.

It is a study process that arrives at fiction. Not as an escape plan, but rather tending to surpass fictional narratives which only project and repeat themselves. Such a future cannot be articulated positively, but will negatively emerge.

Hi all,

I hope everyone is staying safe these days. This is a really crazy time.

I'm looking forward to seeing and participating in some of the lectures and workshops which have been proposed here. The way time has seemed to come to a standstill lately makes these types of events seem very valuable and relevant to our current situation throughout the world.

I guess I'm asking all of you how this should start--what is the next step to activate these programs?

I am available to help get it started. I'm open to helping to plan or initiate them in any way I can. I am also available for a group video call, if that seems useful.

I would love to hear your ideas, and see if we get launch this part of the platform. It would be great to get something going around the start of April.

Hi, I am Dan. Being an architect I am naturally interested in architectural drawing and sketching. I organize walking sketch tours on occasions, in addition to teaching at the AAU, San Francisco. So far, everything I do is traditional, paper and ink. No digital. My occasional postings are here - https://www.instagram.com/danhogman and usually inclined towards the practical rather than the philosophical side drawing. Additionally, I am always curious about lectures in art, architecture and museum studies.

hello everyone. I am Gagan Singh, and i'm based in new delhi. I would look forward to conversations around the medium of drawing, text, and how we think through mark making. I'm interested in looking into possibilities of how can i transform my drawing practice into different mediums.

Hello everyone.I hope you are good and take care of your health.I think this stream gives us hope.It is a great thing that we are from different countries in the group and I call it global communication.I'm Simin from Iran . I work in the humanities. Sepideh, thank you very much for inviting me.I like to participate in the presentations and group discussions about art and philosophy.Recently I am studying Plato and I will write about some of my research here.And ask for your feedback and comments.

Hi all, I go by llupiy on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube.

Group Discussions: I enjoy general discussions linking the scientific method and ancient traditions. For example, the physiological basis of meditation. The neurophysiology of mindful meditation has been studied only for about 10 years and it has brought insights on everything related to the reward system,e.g., addiction, anxiety, depression. One specific topic I'm interested in is the depersonalization disorder. People who disconnect from themselves getting a sense of self-alienation after practicing meditation.

If you have other general examples of esoterism explained by modern science, please share a discussion preferably with relation to a scientific paper to have a common reference. If you have more specific interests such as the depersonalization disorder, it'd be interesting to share knowledge.

Presentations: Anyone with experience on interactive web applications with p5js or arduino web interfacing? I'm interested in interactive online presentations.

Lectures: I have some video lectures I created on music/sound production. This could be fitting for people wanting to learn/collaborate/discuss sound.

Enjoy creating :D

Hi everyone, I'm Sarah and I'm studying Architecture. My research is called Revercity. It's an attempt to understand the city of the living through the city of the dead, as it reflects and also reverses the face of the city we encounter as our home. There are places around us that draw us out of ourselves and make us feel in a way so different but intelligible, like an empty wagon after midnight in an abandoned wharf. The train implies motion and if it is stable without an engine, you're mind feels free to move it in its own ways and find out how it would have felt to be inside it when it had a destination. This is how you are no longer a visitor of the wharf, but a traveler in a train to a hundred places and also time.

If you walk into a cemetery in the middle of the full of heavy boxes city, you have the chance of feeling the slow-motion or steadiness of it and get yourself out of what you think was life and feel differently.

I would love to talk with you guys about different places in my home town or other places that have such potentials and how they can be conceived and related to each other and other places in the city.

I'm also super interested in lectures that my architect and artist friends would hold here and learn about their mind-projects and new theories and concepts.

Hoping to join in discussions with you. 😉

Hello all, Gerard Carson here. Sepideh invited me to contribute towards the wider group, but just finding my feet at the moment whilst on residency in Japan.

Currently, I am working within insections of sculpture and 3D animation, looking at modes of production and ecological breakdown. I have an interest in infrastructural architecture, where materials and resources are transported between nodes, and are mutated into products of financial capital, operating along algorithmic timescales. In contrast to this is the more ouroborotic cosmic scale of time that these materials exist in, regardless of financial abstraction. Where these two concepts merge is of great interest to me.

Hi, My name is Kiran, and I would be happy to participate in your lectures or also answer any of your questions regarding this work. I can offer here some background and explanation about my project and research.

In 1965, soon after the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, I attended a lecture given at UC Berkeley by astronomer/cosmologist Fred Hoyle where he discussed the implications of this observation. Not being familiar with cosmological theories, I don’t remember much about the lecture, except that this radiation seemed to be a problem for the Steady State Theory of the Universe, that Hoyle supported. The Big Bang Theory of the Universe seemed to benefit.

In 1969, I read the book "The Universe" by Isaac Asimov. His easy to read and understand style got me hooked. Adding to a passion for science fiction and mystery novels, I started reading science books written for the general reader. Books on astronomy, cosmology, and physics were of particular interest. One book was “The Riddle of Gravitation” by Peter Bergman. After reading the book, the riddle remained unsolved and the identity of the gravitational force still remained a mystery.

Then in 1970, I came across a curious comic book titled “The New Gravity”. The author, Kent Robertson, presented it as “an hypothesis on the ultimate meaning of the 4th Dimension and General Relativity”. This was my introduction to an expansion of matter theory, as an explanation of the phenomena of gravity and time. As Robertson saw it, all matter and space in the entire universe uniformly expanded at an accelerating rate. In this view objects don’t fall, the earth expands upward to meet them.

I found this new concept intriguing. Gravity as a “push” rather than a “pull”, was a description that seemed to make some sense. Einstein’s thought experiment came to mind, where a rising elevator, or an accelerating spaceship, is equivalent to the force of gravity. This fundamental change of direction of a universal force opened up new avenues of thought. However there remained, after considerable reflection, at least two major problems that needed to be addressed.

First, was the concept of uniform expansion of all objects and space, i.e., all objects in the universe, and the space between them physically doubled in the same time. How could the planet earth and a white dwarf star, which are about the same volume, but with an enormous disparity in mass, double in size during a similar interval of time? This would imply that density plays no part in gravitational force, which is contrary to experience.Second, was the problem of orbits. No matter how I tried, it just did not make sense that expansion alone could explain orbital motion. Expansion is a contact force. How does the expanding surface of say the Earth “reach out” and influence a satellite? Something more was needed. The search and discovery of that something more when combined with additional serendipitous concepts are the basis for this work.

Four of the five key hypotheses, spinrise, quantum wholes, little bangs, and the recycling universe were conceived during the early to mid 1970’s. Simple Object Topology, originally called Object Geometry, was developed in the mid 1970’s.

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In September, 2007, I made a commitment to finish the work, and started with the Glossary. The fifth key hypothesis, neucleon clusters was conceived in 2008 after the full implications of the model became apparent. In 2010, the charge radii values were added to the neu mass table. The 3D modeling of nuclide architecture was done in 2014, after the computing software required became more user friendly.

Some explanations:

The Neu Theory model begins by postulating the ordinary neutron as a dynamic primal object, a cosmic "egg" made up of 3 elementary matter particles, that plays the central role in a natural matter/energy cycle of universal renewal.

There is an invariant large number of neutrons in nature. In fact, in this model neutrons, in one of two physical states (a-neutral or b-electric), are the physical universe.The naturally unstable neutron structure spontaneously transforms, "beta decay" in current science, "the little bang" in Neu Theory, with one of the neutron’s elementary matter particles, the plasm (or "white" in the egg analogy) becoming four elementary energy particles. These four quanta of energy form our physical environment of electricity, space, motion, and light.The seven elementary particles (3 matter & 4 energy) with their intrinsic dynamic properties interact together in a predictable manner making the ordinary atoms, space and light of the cosmos... You can find more at NEUTHEORY.com and foreignobjekt.com/neu-theory

Hi everybody,

I'm Zahra. I study sociology in Germany. I am working on ancient mythologies about demons, devils, satan, Jinns, etc. I'd like to talk about this themes with anyone interested in this kind of stuff.

Hi, here is Julio. Super excited by this. Having a background in philosophy and history, I approach FO as an arena where unexpected encounters can happen and exchanges can flourish. I am really open to discussions, presentations, collaborations & more. Particularly, I'd be happy to have discussions with artists around the unfolding of theoretical concepts in a piece and the dynamic between theoretical point of departure and what is actually realised in the work.

My interests are broad and wide, but could be regrouped under the umbrella term of: desestabilizing epistemic and historical eurocentric fictions. Said in more conventional terms, my researches tend to circle around: hermetic philosophy, representations of nature XIV-XVI centuries, cultural exchanges and nature prospection between XVI-XVIII centuries, non-European forms of knowledge & much more.

Hi My name is Rosa. I’m a musician, pianist and composer, also I teach piano and music theory. My research is about quarter tones. All western music is based upon 12 tones. A half step is the smallest distance between two notes in western music theory. Quarter tones add notes between these notes.

These are used in middle eastern music, for example in traditional Persian,Turkish and Arabic music. Of course this type of music sounds foreign to people who are used to listen to western music...

In general, I’m open to any discussion, presentation, or collaborations, involving music theory or composition

Our research is about Jinn, we are a multi media group.

If she wants to hunt you, she transforms all the shadows to herself

Time and space is on the verge of disintegration, and I am praying for the lasting temporality

The shadows are moving and coming to life. There is always the possibility that this is my imagination, until I am touched, and the electric shock goes through my body, grabbing and tearing me apart from inside

I lose my voice

Her shiny eyes are carving through me

The pain is unleashed.

"How long must I bear that pain, that pain, that pain?" she whispers slowly. "Have I not seen you?"

Yes "Suffer it to end, that it may at length never come to an end."

I am not totally the outside, but interiority has opened up, seemingly through the shadow’s forms, a freakish experience, the pure outsider hunts all shadows and objects in me

Isn't it the ability of the shadows and objects to transform her?

How can you see the pure stranger, not from your universe, and not try to summon it?

And is it not a troubling way because you are the one that is being summoned?

There are stories about this person who is summoning the Jinn, and he always has to pay a price, the price is usually being paid by the descendants

The Jinn will be hunting them forever and taking her toll

Hi everybody, my name is Damon from Iran, I'm a writer and currently working on a theory of deception, specifically on the movements of Liar. Love to hear cool stories of yours.

Hi everyone! I’m mahsa. I’m interested in group discussions. I’m working on a thesis that mostly about dynamic architecture and animate form. I’m partially looking at data driven space. I would love to talk about any similar or related issues.