Notes for Pamphlets I don't want to write.

In the bedroom next to the architect table (40 years ago, a friend was cleaning up a house and the owner, the writer Hugo Claus, wanted to get rid of it, the pedal to raise the desk doesn't work anymore and one day all the oil ran out) there is a box full of notes, from the last months only. The notes are moslty written on old envelopes, the backs of receipts, commercial flyers they still drop in the mailbox (for instance when they are selling chicken in the village). In the attic there are many more boxes, full of notes from the last 40 years. Many boxes disappeared. That happens when you are moving across Europe too much and too far. What is left, including the box next to Claus' table, will probably never be read. Today we are having apps to make notes, on phones, tablets and computers. Much easier to combine with pictures, recordings, spoken and sung by others, or just sound happening around, plans and schemes, drawings, etc and now I became a writer like everyone just endlessly and at every moment of the day creating data

1. Auto eroticism and sound art

or the obsession of humans to enjoy exclusive human made
noise/sound and their own species' activities: somehow we
have to change creative strategy after years being inspired
by accidental situations we found ourselves in towards chosing
more diverse environments that are more representative for
our future expressivity, the only way we seem to make sense
of this timely world

2. New Songwriting

A: Would you ever have time to make a song that does(n't) change the world?
B: Why a song?
A: Because half of the world’s population will be myopic by 2050.

3. The inescapable conservatism of (most of) art today

Artists never have the intention to change the art world
bend or cross its regulations and rules, or change its interactions
Apart from a protected exclusive self-evaluation arts' society supporters
(creators and providers, distributors and promotors, managers and agents,
organizers and curators, sellers and buyers, visitors) remain
radically pragmatic and for that reason will deny vehemently
this conservative nature of all actors, forms, content, media
That is how a never to be realized promise can survive
to secure the persistence and resilience of a global **MaUSolEUM**
of selected and preserved artifacts over time decaying as material
but inversely proportional increasing in value forever

4. Creativity and Evolution

Maybe the only way to understand creativity is to link it to the imagination, a possibility to structure predictions, change this dynamically and forget it all selectively when or because it is not needed anymore. Both sex drive (humans as poseurs) and archive (persistence to impress) as well as media (the aesthetics of communication) can play a role, while importance is relative. Hey Darwin, maybe here is your missing link between survival strategies and beauty as randomness?

Interludium 1: Maybe Einstein was right! And rotating black holes are stable?

5. Restoration to Renovation, Renewal and Innovation

What was the failure of Modernism?
Only the boring dominant obsession with straight lines, minimalism?
Why was postmodernism so sad and ugly?
Only the kitsch and decorations lacking character?

6. It's better not to write anymore

Too much has been written before
It makes everything senseless
It's better not to write anything
Anymore
Consumes less materials and energy
You see, the ecological agrees as well
it is better in the end

7. The genetics of change

A: About 330 billion cells are replaced in a human body DAILY
that is almost a new person every 80 days.
B: Good thing, but how come most of the people are so conservative?
Probably people's cells and their dreams do contradict with social renewal
Scary...
A: It is a mystery
B: When I wrote "scary" i was just thinking about the tendency of a conservative environment
to impose an uniform moral judgement on all aspects of society behaviour,
also as a major standard for evaluation of expressivity
If one tries to fight this you are doomed for sure
Both č. and k. in their re/actions seem to walk in line with expectations,
scary
The conformisation is scarily including opposites,
without allowing for anything deviant or innovative
A: Have you noticed that people we met 20 years ago think we are still the same?
B: How many politicians have ever changed conservative views for progressive ones?

8. Jouhatsu

and slowly over night we all become one complex amorphous but radiating mingled being
only to disintegrate in the morning, to have breakfast and go to work as 2 split off half forms
each part occupied by different external schemes
(though still the nightly sensations are lingering on as an inescapable memory)
we are not here but we are here
have you also noticed getting older that one easily becomes sort of 'unseen'
it's fine, most of the time it is a relief

9. Art & Retirement

G: So, we are after 2022 and retired from the arts, can you help with the lost archives, from banana cases to digital (f)artifacts?
D: Vasulka style?
G: No way!
D: You have nothing to hide
G: The only idea is, it will be more like conservation of traces so aliens can be puzzled by it in another way

Interludium 2: Why the social emancipation ideas behind the Commune de Paris (1870-71) are still not realized today

Interludium 3: Somerthing to watch and wonder about: Gustavo Petro's climate speech in the UN ----

Nice title these backwards written mémoirs: Hard to say

12. (Translate!) Ik heb het gevoel dat we er langzaam vanaf geraken van de kunst, het heeft lang genoeg geduurd lijkt het wel, en verwordt toch al tot enerzijds wat decoratie (design en illustratie) of deel van een vrijetijdsuitstapje naar dit museum of die gallerij (bezigheid en gewoonte), begeleid door een wat 1-liners heen en weer op sociale media... ?

13. (Translate!) Tot nu toe was klank en muziek een zaak van mensen onder elkaar. Het domineren van de omgeving, van klein rondom tot de hele ruimte van de aardse dampkring. Het uitblokkeren van alle andere(n). Laren we het veranderen, omdraaien en vanaf nu enkel klank en muziek maken in de structuur van de omgeving en conform met de rijkheid van het omringende bio- en geogeluid. Gewoon luisteren en meevolgen. Van field recording naar field recoding. Ook met mensen die niet weten hoe anders te spelen..

14. In the Ghent city dialect, to forgive and to poison are the same word: vergeven.

15. Maybe i don't believe in the right/wrong explanation, maybe that morality doesn't exist (wondering for 40 years about it already) maybe we are just afraid of being no one and nothing, and the boredom of being alive without a purpose, like all other bío and abio is, drives us to senseless killing, music, humanitarian aid, broadcasting, pollution, affection, ... Who will tell

16. Borders in cultural attitudes, the manufacture of Metaphysics: - Christianity, autonomy, Commune de Paris, punishment - puritanism, the centralized state, production of guilt - ottoman empire diversity, tax system remnants

17. The others were getting impatient. They seemed lost in his kaleidoscopes and meandering details. They wanted a fact, a target, a straight line, a point. He wanted to show that circumstances were as important as the events. Maybe there was no end. Sometimes he could not remember a beginning anymore. He could only continue till they shut him up or walked out.

BTW the New Flemish Style: Self-willed, historically and geographically blind, arrogant.

18. The difference between the sound of raindrops falling on roof tiles, window panes and uncountable leaves, soil or uneven stones... after the ever-changing hissing, it's delicate smells lingering on... (Add something about the sound of rain and wondering how to record it?) See The Physics of Rainfall https://dosits.org/galleries/audio-gallery/other-natural-sounds/rainfall/ https://pluviophile.net/sound-of-rain/ https://www.google.com/search?q=rain+physical+synthesis&oq=rain+physical+synthesis Rain: bubble, burble, gargle, gurgle, plop, pitter-patter, slosh, splash, splosh, splatter, sputter, swoosh, or tinkle

New word? BIOLOGICS

19. Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. The eponymous Kahlbaum's syndrome is a catatonic symptom characterized by continuous and purposeless rhythmic repetition of words and sentences that are meaningless or insignificant (echolalia).

20. Forgiveness becomes obsolete When you understand the other Even an apology is not needed When you can see the changes And understand

Hoe kan ik vergeten Dat na 20 jaar en meer Afstand Er geen Vervreemding Zou zijn

21. Current rightist pitch in EU = Intentional Stupidity

22. Morizot: Ecological crisis is a crisis of sensibility Nature how we perceive and experience it Quitter la ville (...) c'est aller vivre en minorité Ecofragmentation + extractivisme Cl levi Strauss: l'impossibilité de communiquer avec les autres espèces avec lesquelles on partage la terre

23. Travelling Characters: - Woman with dog (c'mon Eddy) - nun with baseball cap (internal monologue) - Franz und Manfred (repeating one another, gradual changes in conversation) - older woman with the irregular sounding cracking telephone (Nordhausen! Crkrcjkrc! Beep!) - Spanish mother and daughter (immer blöde immer blöde)

Prächtig product! https://my-remy.be/product/remy-royal-stijfsel/

a talk on the combination: - smart apps for analysis and recognition of species in field recordings, - new creative tools e.g. descriptor based synthesis, - citizen involved science-art

10 varia “U Bent moedig!” Koning Filip (20231117) Kobe Matthys † Erik Binder † Jakub Hybler † Jirka Urbanová † Adamek †

25. About The Geriatric Art Club ... Maybe I was too enthusiastically supporting them in the past ... Definitely the sarcasm of the jester is out of fashion today ... (To JdF 20231204)

26. [12/14, 9:39 PM] Gívan Belá: Maybe I go (really) underground for a couple of years and hope to wake up in a new century [12/14, 9:43 PM] Gívan Belá: With new sounds new movements new behaviours new thoughts new beauty [12/14, 9:45 PM] Gívan Belá: Let's tell the government these kids should get young teachers [12/14, 9:52 PM] Gívan Belá: And kick them out of education once they are 21, give them the freedom to experiment and change a world [12/14, 10:19 PM] Gívan Belá: Don't get me wrong: I honour the past, but if even avant-garde and alternative keeps regenerating retro wise mythologies, then culture will keep producing a gradually more conservative and cleansed society with extreme rightist thinking rulers/politicians [12/14, 10:20 PM] Gívan Belá: Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree...

27. Maybe, it's just an idea... Do pets and plants indoors reflect our incompetence to deal with the natural environment? Maybe we human animals are somehow too cruel in our irrational environmental dominance, but how can we do it differently? .... Ahhhh

climate change = BURNING OR DROWNING

28. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/12/19/vrouw-belt-1-000-keer-naar-turnhoutse-politie-voor-geluidsoverla/ And also the obsession of a regulating society today: weird it's only about *punishment* - lawyers police judges - and not about _perception_ or trying to find out what is really going on in the woman's mind... And is the neighbour really silent?