Libet Tones by VAETXH
Tracklist
1. | Unfolding Mechanism | 6:25 |
2. | Cuntpressor | 5:45 |
3. | Rho Ophiuchi | 1:09 |
4. | List of Lists | 7:54 |
5. | Crumbling Shuffle | 5:56 |
6. | There are worlds in the gaps | 3:17 |
Videos
Credits
released February 26, 2014
MORE INFO AND 12" HERE:
detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/vaetxh-libet-tones-du17/
promo video:
vimeo.com/40107123
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COPYRIGHT 2014 DETUND™
VAETXH – LIBET TONES
A PHD PERSPECTIVE.
Written by Garth Rennie.
Dreams, hallucinations, sleep walking and other forms of subconscious perception emerge as ready, necessary states of potential life in Vaetxh’s inaugural release — Libet Tones for Detroit Underground. Four tracks map a new territory for electronic music drawing on recent research into neurophysiology and cognitive processing. Vaetxh uses the cutting of tone with noise in strange, mysterious ways drawing out the liminal, inter-zone beween consciousness and action. Listening feels like a strange factory or machine continuously assembling potential feelings, anticipated thoughts and future muscular movements.
How? Enter Benjamin Libet, a neurophysiologist with novel ideas as to what occurs between our minds and our bodies. Libet hypothesized the experience of “felt intention” e.g. the fleeting, momentary feeling of buildup as we desire to move, feel and act is registered and acted upon subconsciously by our nervous system prior to conscious awareness. The innovation Libet seems to offer, contra Freud, is how the nervous system itself appears to prime or make ready selected networks within its system anticipating the decision to act by the mind. Libet measured up to 0.5 seconds between our nervous system’s ‘knowledge’ and the decision to act. This momentary charging of the system making it ready for movement he termed the “readiness potential.”
So we’re talking about wonderful new ideas as to what constitutes lived experience.
Electronically synthesized music greatly expands the vocabulary of music, as Milton Babbit remarked, because the limits are no longer those of sound production but of the human auditory system. Rapid changes in timbre are difficult to follow especially when the cessation of pure tone is syncronized with with the on-set of noise. Vaetxh is a young scientist of the perceptual senses, mysteriously evoking the subconscious, making our bodies ready for potential movement, thoughts and feelings. He offers new innovations accomplishing for electronic music what Libet did for neurophysiology. Record sleeve designed by DMAS3 represents diagramatically Vaetxh’s Libet Tones production practice offering a new concept, a new understanding of what is happening between body and mind as audio waves are transduced into electrical impulses and we hear sound.
Unfolding Mechanism
Volume and depth build quickly opening our ear canals to previously uncharted domains arriving upon new mind-body plateaus. Oscillating, syncopated, mutilated sound waves enter labyrinthian ear semicircular ducts, vibrating tympanum skin membrane, bone ossicles, arriving calmly across the blood-brain barrier to the vestibule, harmonics now one with common central cavities of the body communicating inner experience. Welcome subjective perception as unfolding mechanism.
Cuntpressor
Libet tones is about the to-and-fro, back and forth of communication and the momentary, fractional moments (recall Libet’s 0.5 secs) between sensory input, cognition and action-response. A deep-rooted sexual rhythm demonstrates the principle prompting heightened states of bio-erotics; anticipation, arousal, desire, intimacy and love are all brought together as the dense ascending cochlea hair fibres within our ‘Organ of Corti’ move precisely in accordance to physical sensations of wave forms, massaging, pulsing, engulfing the auditory nerve. Track title derived from software Vaetxh uses for sound production.
List of Lists
Scaling the mountain from inner ear to mind are the nerve cells ‘ganglion spirale’ — ultimate magical bi-polar transducers arranged in sequence along our basilar membrane like the keyboard of a piano forte, one pole prolonged centrally to the brain and the other peripherally to the hair-cells of Corti’s organ. Searing, swirling oscillating, backwards-forward-backwards frequency spectrums ensue, a hair cell bricolage of tapestry keys. Tone and timbre coming together producing myriad results, from cacophony to tranquility in the space of minutes, moments, fractions of moments. All sorts of emotions, compulsions, thoughts in-between. Desire blooming not for a body but for a whole construction, a whole landscape, a whole, integrated cosmos of life world – subjective perception being the ‘list of lists’ governing bodily movement. Since action so often happens before a decision agency or ‘free will’ emerges as epiphenomenon.
Crumbling Shuffle
If that wasn’t enough the penultimate track is better yet, the best lead into the mysteries evoked by Vaetxh’s exploration of subconscious perception. The crumbling begins with 50-sec plethora of noise. But having reached the foot of the mountain the ‘readiness potential’ of subconscious auditory perception takes hold. Minute colours, fractional, imperceptible timbre, each to our liking, intersperse spirale/membrane cacophany. Suddenly silence. Prompting us to gaze upon ourselves amid the passing of time and the experience of being alive, listening. In silence we focus, breathing, observing breath, to calibrate, to prime ourselves for our readiness potential. Mind suddenly floats as if on our backs gazing up at the night sky removed and absolved, feeling the presence of our bodies, those of others we love, how much we need them, how wonderful it is to be alive. A lilting, somewhat distant marimaba or steel drum appears, soft metallic emulations beckoning us as if from the shores of a distant island.
Add these together and gain important integers as how to catch and save falling objects including life and Mother Earth.
MORE INFO AND 12" HERE:
detroitunderground.net/blog/2012/05/vaetxh-libet-tones-du17/
promo video:
vimeo.com/40107123
•DU17
COPYRIGHT 2014 DETUND™
VAETXH – LIBET TONES
A PHD PERSPECTIVE.
Written by Garth Rennie.
Dreams, hallucinations, sleep walking and other forms of subconscious perception emerge as ready, necessary states of potential life in Vaetxh’s inaugural release — Libet Tones for Detroit Underground. Four tracks map a new territory for electronic music drawing on recent research into neurophysiology and cognitive processing. Vaetxh uses the cutting of tone with noise in strange, mysterious ways drawing out the liminal, inter-zone beween consciousness and action. Listening feels like a strange factory or machine continuously assembling potential feelings, anticipated thoughts and future muscular movements.
How? Enter Benjamin Libet, a neurophysiologist with novel ideas as to what occurs between our minds and our bodies. Libet hypothesized the experience of “felt intention” e.g. the fleeting, momentary feeling of buildup as we desire to move, feel and act is registered and acted upon subconsciously by our nervous system prior to conscious awareness. The innovation Libet seems to offer, contra Freud, is how the nervous system itself appears to prime or make ready selected networks within its system anticipating the decision to act by the mind. Libet measured up to 0.5 seconds between our nervous system’s ‘knowledge’ and the decision to act. This momentary charging of the system making it ready for movement he termed the “readiness potential.”
So we’re talking about wonderful new ideas as to what constitutes lived experience.
Electronically synthesized music greatly expands the vocabulary of music, as Milton Babbit remarked, because the limits are no longer those of sound production but of the human auditory system. Rapid changes in timbre are difficult to follow especially when the cessation of pure tone is syncronized with with the on-set of noise. Vaetxh is a young scientist of the perceptual senses, mysteriously evoking the subconscious, making our bodies ready for potential movement, thoughts and feelings. He offers new innovations accomplishing for electronic music what Libet did for neurophysiology. Record sleeve designed by DMAS3 represents diagramatically Vaetxh’s Libet Tones production practice offering a new concept, a new understanding of what is happening between body and mind as audio waves are transduced into electrical impulses and we hear sound.
Unfolding Mechanism
Volume and depth build quickly opening our ear canals to previously uncharted domains arriving upon new mind-body plateaus. Oscillating, syncopated, mutilated sound waves enter labyrinthian ear semicircular ducts, vibrating tympanum skin membrane, bone ossicles, arriving calmly across the blood-brain barrier to the vestibule, harmonics now one with common central cavities of the body communicating inner experience. Welcome subjective perception as unfolding mechanism.
Cuntpressor
Libet tones is about the to-and-fro, back and forth of communication and the momentary, fractional moments (recall Libet’s 0.5 secs) between sensory input, cognition and action-response. A deep-rooted sexual rhythm demonstrates the principle prompting heightened states of bio-erotics; anticipation, arousal, desire, intimacy and love are all brought together as the dense ascending cochlea hair fibres within our ‘Organ of Corti’ move precisely in accordance to physical sensations of wave forms, massaging, pulsing, engulfing the auditory nerve. Track title derived from software Vaetxh uses for sound production.
List of Lists
Scaling the mountain from inner ear to mind are the nerve cells ‘ganglion spirale’ — ultimate magical bi-polar transducers arranged in sequence along our basilar membrane like the keyboard of a piano forte, one pole prolonged centrally to the brain and the other peripherally to the hair-cells of Corti’s organ. Searing, swirling oscillating, backwards-forward-backwards frequency spectrums ensue, a hair cell bricolage of tapestry keys. Tone and timbre coming together producing myriad results, from cacophony to tranquility in the space of minutes, moments, fractions of moments. All sorts of emotions, compulsions, thoughts in-between. Desire blooming not for a body but for a whole construction, a whole landscape, a whole, integrated cosmos of life world – subjective perception being the ‘list of lists’ governing bodily movement. Since action so often happens before a decision agency or ‘free will’ emerges as epiphenomenon.
Crumbling Shuffle
If that wasn’t enough the penultimate track is better yet, the best lead into the mysteries evoked by Vaetxh’s exploration of subconscious perception. The crumbling begins with 50-sec plethora of noise. But having reached the foot of the mountain the ‘readiness potential’ of subconscious auditory perception takes hold. Minute colours, fractional, imperceptible timbre, each to our liking, intersperse spirale/membrane cacophany. Suddenly silence. Prompting us to gaze upon ourselves amid the passing of time and the experience of being alive, listening. In silence we focus, breathing, observing breath, to calibrate, to prime ourselves for our readiness potential. Mind suddenly floats as if on our backs gazing up at the night sky removed and absolved, feeling the presence of our bodies, those of others we love, how much we need them, how wonderful it is to be alive. A lilting, somewhat distant marimaba or steel drum appears, soft metallic emulations beckoning us as if from the shores of a distant island.
Add these together and gain important integers as how to catch and save falling objects including life and Mother Earth.