Notes for Pamphlets I don't want to write anymore

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

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

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

9. The Last Art

there is this feeling that art is over, done
it has been enough and was around for too long
especially last century it became clear that no one knew what new to do anymore
these days what else remains than some mere decorative objects
integrating fast with design and illustration
then there is enough in museums and galleries that allow for
the leisure and fun of a one day visit
to send to friends and unknowns some one liners about on social media
with an occasional vertical picture from the phone

10. Let's Play

till now sound and music was considered a matter of humans among one another
part of the competition of domination of an environment
from just around till a magistral vision of the whole earth
the immediate atmosphere, to block one another but also entirely
what is considered life, biotics and abiotica, and soon including biologics
(as we learned a new word from the USA military indicating extraterrestrials)
let's change it fundamentally and from now on only make music
within the structure of the surroundings but conform to the rich existing patterns
of bio and geosound phenomena: just listen and dig in, accompany, never go solo
let's play, also with the ones who don't know how to play
recoding has to happen in the first place from within ourselves
and remember always that there is no way back

11. Introspection

maybe there is no believing in the right/wrong explanation
maybe morality doesn't exist (wondering for 40 years about it already)
maybe we are just afraid of admitting we are no one and nothing
to be stuck in the boredom of being alive without a purpose
like all other bío and abio
maybe that's the thing that drives us to senseless killing
music, humanitarian aid, broadcasting, pollution, affection, and more
who will tell

12. Borders in cultural attitudes, the manufacturing of Metaphysics

also don't write about:
* historical Christianity and Puritanism as a cultural outcome, following the solar border through Europe
* eko-anarchism and the centralized state, autonomy and submission
* forgiveness, punishment and the production of guilt
* political diversity, historical tax system remnants, social care
* metastasis or the production of cells, the creation of bodies till societies, to escape and be part of

13. Storytelling

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

Interludium 4 The New Politician style = self-willed, historically and geographically blind, arrogant, but most of all making contradictory statements in the media with intentional stupidity

Interludium 5 In the Ghent city dialect, to forgive and to poison are the same word: “vergeven”

14. The Physics of Rainfall

there is a difference between the sound of raindrops falling on roof tiles
window panes and uncountable leaves, soil or uneven stones
and its ever-changing hissing, while its delicate smells linger on
how to measure raindrop size and rainfall rate, its direction
how to weigh the mass of a single raindrop (0.004mg to 300mg)
and how to estimate its speed (9.8m/s to 13m/s)
where does it come from, really from 2000m high?
the end of all our onomatopoeic words
bubble, burble, gargle, gurgle, plop
pitter-patter, slosh, splash, splosh
splatter, sputter, swoosh, or tinkle
this is the end of listening

15. Creativity is so weird but nothing special

Read all about it: **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
Also the **Kahlbaum's syndrome** is a catatonic symptom
characterized by continuous and purposeless rhythmic repetition
of words and sentences that are meaningless or insignificant
(also echolalia)

16. To forgive and to forget

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

Forgotten that
After 20 years and more
Of distance
There would not be
Alienation

22. XXI Rurality

leaving the cities behind, one has to be prepared for the emptiness
while it needs time to adjust to its richness and beauty, meantime
as an artist you become part of a kind of minority, excluded forgotten
while returning to the city for any reason becomes after a couple of days
sort of unbearable, so you return to be surrounded by the isolated others
(the fate of humans: not to be able to communicate with other species)

23. Characters

While travelling
* woman with dog (c'mon Eddy, she said)
* nun with a baseball cap (reading and having an internal monologue)
* Franz und Manfred (repeating one another, with gradual changes in the conversation)
* older woman with the irregular sounding cracking telephone (Nordhausen! Crkrcjkrc! Beep!)
* spanish mother and daughter (describing a passerby saying immer blöde immer blöde)
* a man in a wheelchair fainting (hanging in my arms and helped by an asian girl)
* two men on the rolling stairs in the metro (going through my pockets and stealing my library card)

Interludium 6 Beautiful Product

24. Reco[R]dings

field recordings becoming //recodings//:
* using smart apps for analysis and recognition of species in field recordings
* working on it with new creative tools e.g. descriptor based synthesis
* ask other people: make a citizen involved science-art

25. The sarcasm of the jester

... out of fashion today!

26. Message from The Geriatric Art Club

maybe it's time to go (really) underground
for a couple of years or longer
and hope to wake up in a new century
With new sounds new movements new behaviours
new thoughts new beauty
Let's tell the government these kids
should get young teachers only
And kick them out of education once they are 21
to give them the freedom to experiment
and change a world
don't get it wrong: we honour the past
but if even avant-garde and alternative art
keeps regenerating retro-wise mythologies
then culture will keep producing a gradually
more conservative and cleansed society
with extreme rightist thinking rulers/artists/organizers/etc
maybe I am barking up the wrong tree

27. Two words about climate change after 2050

ONLY BURNING OR DROWNING

28. The radical Left around 1980

they were right about the capitalist intentions
the breakdown of social security
the privatisation of all
the arts education pension funds health care transport etc...
the end of the autonomy of science
what's next to come?

29. Song for the people we lost this year and for the people who felt lost too

the only thing left to do is
sit outside and cry together
it is the end of song itself
there is no music when
there is only crying left
and what's the weather like
tomorrow

30. The accident

it happened some years ago and don't know how
amnesia set in so don't ask the details
a double salto and lying on the road upside down
since then at any moment an emotional reaction occurs
never happened before or maybe these things
were not remembered either or were just indifferent
but also something else seems to have changed in
relationships towards others and getting annoyed with
stabilising repetition and habit formation
or maybe it is time going by and we were just
in general fed up with society's fixation
on preservation and control, instead of laissez-faire
against the decreasing dynamism and creativity
but, then it has nothing to do with the accident
and we don't have to remake Marinetti's car crash
and never write a manifesto anymore