Two great saz semailer in makam Zâvîl: on the left the one by Tanburî Keçi (or 'Şîrin') Arif Ağa (1794? - 1843), on the right the one by İsmâil Hakkı Bey (1866-1927). There are many recordings of the one by Arif Ağa, while I found zero recordings of the one by […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

Four crude circuit board additions that give a serial port to each of these Tektronix 7M13 modules from the early 1970s; now I can animate their electronic text display without having to use 228 pushbuttons. #tektronix #79 #othersemiconductors #systemsthatmatter

A(nother) great book with a title that I don't think does it justice, but that must be me reading tangentially. But anyway a fantastic study of the medieval 'art-nature debate', and how the most valuable arts are perhaps not about making things by imposing forms […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

News just in from the funny materials department of the Guangdong Free-Trade Zone. #othersemiconductors #79 #广东自由贸易区 #systemsthatmatter

Yesterday I figured out how to automate entering text into a Tektronix text generator from the early 1970s, so that I can animate it. A quirky protocol that is sort of documented except the exceptions... #79 #othersemiconductors #tektronix #systemsthatmatter

A beautiful saz semaisi in makam müstear that is a bit atypical because the first hane is also the teslim. The piece was published in 1905 by Şamlı Selim and a bit later by Şamlı İskender (pictured). The name of the composer is given as İrticâl Dede and it seems […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

Recently out and just in, what seems to be an excellent book on how negotiating technologies is negotiating what it is to be human. #thomasdekeyser #technonegative #systemsthatmatter

A rabbit-hole that exerts a strong pull, but so far I have been able to resist it: the history of techniques to display alphanumeric characters on cathode ray tubes. This picture may very well be from the first fully electronic method proposed, invented at the […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tb/116411810679415009 A painful read from April, in the meantime the book has come out.

Very nice to (literally) dust off, reconfigure and do some patching with some of the high-bandwidth analog computing modules I built between 2015 and 2020. I am happy I built it, and I am especially happy to find a way to use it for something else entirely. #79 […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

This Friday 19 June 19.30 with alfonso borragen: InVitro: Body Stone Emissions as part of the wonderful seismic_mother more-than-exhibition in Peckham Rye. Details below. InVitro: Body Stone Emissions is a series of performances, and their residues, making […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Slowly wrapping my mind around how to work with text on an analogue XY-display. #analogelectronics #tektronix #vectorgraphics #systemsthatmatter

It is that time of year at KASK&Conservatorium School of Art in Ghent of exams and final presentations, with students, teachers, juries, objects and spaces in a constant state of transition. #schoolfofartsgent

Today there was tremendous confusion between (Tanburi) Emin Ağa (1750?-1814) and (Neyzen) Emin Dede (Yazıcı, 1883-1945), who are both great composers but obviously not the same person (if one is not confused). #SuzinakMakamı #emindede#SuzinakMakamı#EminAğa

The "Liberate the Machines!" book is starting to be available so I made a page for it even if it hasn't had a launch moment yet. https://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2781 #liberatethemachines! #dialogueswithmachines #systemsthatmatter #analogcomputing #mediaarchaeology