We went to see Beethoven 7 by Sasha Waltz & Guests at the magnificent Radial System.

Divided into two parts, the first was Freiheit/Extasis, a sci-fi trip that filled the entire space with smoke and dancers wearing futuristic, martian-like costumes. The music was performed live by Diego Noguera.

Afterward it was 7. Sinfonie in A by Ludwig van Beethoven. Such cool movements and an incredible overall performance. It pleased me A LOT how they constantly avoided synchronization across the entire group. In just a few moments they would create a complete ‘drawing’, only to instantly shift into chaos, which felt way more pleasant to watch, as every corner were filled with a different set of movements. Damn, in the middle of it, one of the dancers was raising a silk flag with the most iridescent colors I have ever seen live.

At the end, they displayed a banner protesting the recent budget cuts for culture in Berlin.

Fifty years ago, the Arecibo Message was sent—a human attempt to contact whatever might be out there, potentially listening in space. It consisted of numbers, formulas, and representations of ourselves, as well as a depiction of the telescope from which it was sent, located in Arecibo.

I love the idea and its aesthetics—I guess because it reminds me of my beloved Game of Life↗ It makes me wonder: would it be possible to recreate that exact drawing from one of the initial configurations?

From there, I did a quick search for various messages humanity has sent into space in hopes of finding life.Voyager Golden Record (1977), Cosmic Call (1999), the Teen Age Message (2008), and perhaps one of the oldest and most famous; the Pioneer Plaques. As many have pointed out, the Pioneer Plaques offered a vague representation of humanity’s cultural and racial diversity. The depiction of the woman’s body notably omits genitalia, making it feel incomplete. While searching for a more accurate or inclusive representation, somehow I ended learning about the project by Joe Davis: Poetica Vagina↗

In the 1980s he came up with a project that records the vaginal contractions of ballerinas using a “vaginal detector” built in a laboratory of mechanical engineering. […] He used electronic music software in order to match the the frequency of the contractions to the English speech. He then transmitted the sounds of vaginal contractions to the nearest star systems.

I’m just not really sure what to think about this project at all. Lets pass to a brief musical break: Vèjula - Merope↗

Hack&Tell #100 at C-Base↗ Its cool because its as informal as the past editions, just slighty longer due to some delay in the pause. They are doing some printings to whoever brings a t-shirt, so its totally understandable. At the beginning there is also a nice recap with photos from the very early editions, and some memorables moments that are shared from fixed attendes. The project that won is QR-DICE: 6-side QR-cube↗ and it just blown our minds.

The algo did its job cos I recently finished Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky↗ and this conversation about free will between Robert and his love-hate nemesis, Daniel Dennet, appeared on my feed. Watch it here↗

Terrible weather and even worse politicians have devastated part of Comunitat Valenciana. All my love to the marvelous people that live in that beautiful part of the world. ♡

Listening: Carcáscara - II

These are definetly a worthy words put together by Margaret Killjoy↗ about one of the sweetest, charmest and most brillante humans we had have so far; Ursuka K. Le Guin. We will remember freedom↗

On this new approach looking for a better web, [matrix]↗ cross my path. Im just leaving the link here for the future me to take a look at. I still need to study better the real differences from the protocols Activitypub (Mastodon) and Atproto (Bluesky).

After some time collecting and filtering throught some german youtube channels, I think Maithink X↗ is one of my fav so far.

2 B R 0 2 B↗

In this house we adore anything that Chris↗ makes. His approach to music is as clever and beautiful as the rest of his art. For his latest project he has built a music label, spectral cartography↗ and it even have a couple of tracks mixed by Andi Toma, from the marvelous Mouse on Mars↗

After seeing Trholz↗ at idvdogh, I bought them one fanzine. Cool drawings and it has the lyrics&tabs of the songs; win-win.

I have been playing the latest album from Shellac, To All Trains (snif, DEP Steve Albini) in order to keep his memory a bit more recent in my brain these days. Im also thinking on re-doing again his famous ‘Fluffy’↗ coffe.

This is an authentic gem: A curated collection of HCI demo videos produced during the golden age from 1983-2002↗

Re-watching Serial Experiments Lain, because its so on point with how we communicate online and it doesnt matter when you read this.

My favorite thing is Monsters II is finally out. I enjoyed the first one quite a lot, so now its time for a visit to the store :)

Lately I was digging back into math rock, so this session Math rock NTS session↗ by Loraine James comes just perfect.

TTRPGs for Palestine↗ is a cute project with a tons of interesting TTRPGs. I think I dont know even one though, wow.

I bought the volumen II from Web Wide World↗ and I read it while listening to his OST. Go check John Powell-Jones↗ art.

Interesting marginalia.nu↗

Finished Animal Well; now the fun starts.