On synchronicity and mash-ups

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"The creative incorporation of what originally arises in our experience is but a overlapping disruption of the order or timing of our life-narrative. A talented jazz musician will take an accidental or mistaken chord or note and improvise with and around it, creating in the process an entirely novel passage within the context of a perhaps quite familiarly ordered piece of music."

Still fiddling around recent concert footage, never top-notch tuned at expressing musical rhetoric, Sam Renseiw instead mashed up some visual a-synchronicity: A whisper of inverted cello counterpoint, lightly marcato-ed; (with some inspired electronic drift studies in the three upper strings to follow); or an alluring, infinitesimal pianissimo: febrile, fickle, fey, inquisitive, insistent, jokey, puzzled, surprised, declamatory and somewhat messy. View the overrated piece by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 416, 01'00'', 4.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Facing the serendipitous shadow

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" Synchronicity is no more baffling or mysterious than the discontinuities of physics. It is only the ingrained belief in the souvereign power of causality that creates intellectual difficulties and makes it appear unthinkable that causeless events exist or could ever occur. But if they do, then we must regard them as creative acts, as the continuous creation.."

Elephant in the room or more probably in Sam Renseiw's daydream,investigating the shadow with a piece of dance footage. View the serendipitous conversation by clicking here or enter through the looking glass by mousing in the shadow above. (patafilm # 359, 01'37'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)