Mark Van Hoen (us)

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:17:51 +0000

“… I’ve always believed that electronic music and experimental music generally was about creating your own sonic world in a way...”

Mark Van Hoen, electronic music artist, talks about the complex trends in electronic music genre, the influences of the past music determinate the future of this art. He also reflects about his long career and how the return of vinyl and cassettes can be seen as a new appropriation of the physical aspects of music, in opposition to the modern digitalisation of tracks and albums.

This interview was recorded in The Hague, September 2012.

Jane Grant (UK)

neja — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:18:41 +0000

One of the holy grails of neuroscientific research is to determine the ‘site’ of memory. Many neuroscientists suggest that memory is stored in unstable synapses. As humans we have the potential to store long-term memory for around 100 years, yet the synaptic moment is around a second long. How can this be? Recent research claims that it is noise that carries ‘the imprint of all memory patterns in temporal correlations’. Could it be that randomness and indeterminacy are at the core of ourselves? The old model of mind is undone, selfhood a flickering event, temporal and reflexive, the self in the brain a phantom where memory is made up of noise incipient and uncertain.

ARTISTTALK » memory

Mark Van Hoen (us)

Jane Grant (UK)