-------------------- README CN_ZERO V6.4 -------------------- VERSION 6.4 UPDATES INCLUDE: (1) The implementation of '01_BIG TRIP' as an initialization sequence to conjure memories of 'things' whether or not these 'things' have never or not yet happened. By 'initialization sequence' the artist/performer/conductor/medium would like to communicate 'a loosening of the spine' or possibly a Heideggerian 'openess toward being.' Users of version 6.0 may be pleased to discover '01_BIG TRIP' has now been assigned the subtitle 'UNCANNY MIX.' ----------- (2) A re-working of '04_CAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN (ETHICAL MIX)' This sequence caused some communication i/o conflicts in version 6.0 when the artist/performer/conductor/medium failed to transmit the following word-loop: --look at me, drowned in light, --a module placed outside of your 'proper' system --look at me, submerged in light, --a module placed outside of your 'proper' system --how am i not you? how am i not you? The above word-loop provides a much needed grounding to the global variables defined in the opening lines of the sequence: --a car at the bottom of the ocean is humor --because of the lack of the car's utility --thus the car's subsequent fall into 'nothing' --a car at the bottom of the ocean, --a displaced module outside of your 'proper' system ----------- (3) Accelerated Improvisational Extension based on the artist/performer/conductor/medium's ever-increasing familiarity with the protocols of 'CN_ZERO' results in faster execution of command lines thus more opportunities for the artist/performer/conductor/medium to access chance through the creation of random, real-time, sub-routines. (4) More economical allocation of memory for the execution of irony, e.g. in sequence '05_IF MEMORY SERVES US,' the command line: 'as serious as i can be' could also be translated into 'sincere as pie' or 'as sincere as I have the potential to be' or 'as sincere as death itself' or 'as sincere as nothing at all' or 'sincerity at a distance' or 'serious laughing' or 'laughing seriously' or 'as much sincerity as I have been delegated as a citizen of the united states of america' or 'as much sincerity as can be expected through exposure to an artist/performer/conductor/medium' or last but not least, 'true toward myself thus sincerity of my intentions toward you.' (5) Increased compatibility for users of 'European Operating Systems' via live exposure of the 'CN_ZERO V6.4 TECHNO-LECTURE' in Glasgow. Those users running 'European Operating Systems' may be able to better globally contextualize thus critically analyze the american source code (asc) of CN_ZERO. This may result in increased capacity for the reporting of errors and allow for greater ethical consistency, increased dialogue and more efficient distribution of information that is alternative to that delivered through the SPECTACULAR outlets of american mass media. ----------- PLEASE NOTE: Because of the current 'Post 9.11- U.S. Information War', if you are currently running 'George Bush's America: System 3.0' you may experience an exposure of contemporary 'poetics' that could challenge your notions of american history, patriotism, morality and maybe even art. This could result in frequent errors and crashes while using '05_IF MEMORY SERVES US.' Some problems have also been reported while using '03_HOME ON THE RANGE (POST 9.11 CLUB MIX).' If you are using the 'Poetic-Filter Extension' that came standard with 'George Bush's America: System 1.0' you will experience no problems at all and will continue dancing happily to the 110-140 bpm techno music. ----------- IT IS MY SINCERE HOPE THAT CONDUCTOR NUMBER_ZERO V6.4 might function as a demonstration of how to begin to conduct a 'multi-media seance' or more literally how to interrupt new media technologies and allocate space for the consideration or reading of such exposures. CN_ZERO is concerned with how the viewer may assume an active position and begin to read the 'multi-media experience' instead of the often-times passive position of the recipient immersed in the intoxicating dream of light and sound. Toward realizing these ends I would like to suggest that CN_ZERO V6.0 functions not only as a simultaneous play between the actual 'live' performer and the real-time 'spectral' image of the performer, but it also functions simultaneously as a cultural work and a 'performance of culture itself.' CN_ZERO emits a 'low frequency humor loop.' This subsonic, psychic hum produces a feedback of irony where impossibility yields laughter and strangely then laughter hints again toward possibility. Cary Peppermint - Artist/Performer/Conductor/Medium Paris, July 4th 2002 -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- LECTURE OUTLINE - 07.04.2002 CONDUCTOR NUMBER ZERO V6.4 TECHNO-LECTURES OF MEMORY, DISTANCE & FORGETTING 2002 CARY PEPPERMINT -------------------- I - MEMORY 01. big trip (uncanny mix) 02. space is your place II - DISTANCE 03. a song like polaroids (home on the range version) 04. car at the bottom of the ocean (ethical mix) III - FORGETTING 05. if memory serves us 06. i am sure -------------------- THE FOLLOWING LECTURE SEQUENCES MAY BE BEST RECIEVED IN SYNTHESIS WITH THEIR TECHNO-SONIC (AUDIO) COMPONENTS. The complete 'techno-lectures' of CN_ZERO will be available late fall 2002 in audio mp3 format for FREE worldwide download & distribution. SELECTED ROUGH DRAFT EDITIONS (IN UPDATE) of this material may be currently downloaded at the following address: http://www.restlessculture.net/downloads -------------------- ----------- I - MEMORY -------------------- 01_BIG TRIP (UNCANNY MIX) -------------------- big trip cracked up couldn't breath almost died laughing big... big trip wouldn't believe goddamn super-freak big trip big... long way long way long way long. way. -------------------- 02_SPACE IS YOUR PLACE -------------------- good people of this world if you will fix your eyes upon this monitor if you will fix your eyes upon my eyes fix your eyes just here... until my eyes are not eyes at all until my eyes are just LIGHT emanating from this monitor fix your eyes now into this light fix your eyes now into this light imagine now that you are on a trip somewhere far away somewhere in the unforeseeable future you are in a city whose name you cannot yet speak you are in a place that appears only as a dim light to you now you are in a place that scares you because this place does not belong HERE today you are in a place where you do not yet belong lets pretend this world is open 24 hours lets pretend that 'here' all the seasons run together imagine (if you will) that every night is the big game and all 'the best' songs are chosen for you and these songs play all the time imagine that you want to be alone but there are no private spaces imagine that you want to return home but all the airlines are booked for the next 7 years... it is important at this point not to give over to panic it is important to just continue standing as you have been standing for a long time now it is important to know what stands here is 'you' in your space space is no extension. space is your place. space is no extension. space is your place. space is no extension. space is your place. space is no extension. space is your place. you are already home. you are already home. ----------- II - DISTANCE -------------------- *03_HOME ON THE RANGE (POST 9.11 CLUB MIX) -------------------- oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play, where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day. chorus where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free, the breezes so balmy and light, that i would not exchange my home on the range for all the cities so bright. chorus oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand flows leisurely down the stream; where the graceful white swan goes gliding along like a maid in a heavenly dream. chorus the red man was pressed from this part of the west, he's likely no more to return to the banks of red river where seldom if ever their flickering campfires burn. chorus how often at night when the heavens are bright with the light of the glittering stars, have i stood here amazed and asked as i gazed if their glory exceeds that of ours. chorus oh, i love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours; the curlew i love to hear scream; and i love the white rocks and the antelope flocks that graze on the mountain-tops green. chorus then i would not exchange my home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play; where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day. chorus home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play, where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day. CP_V90 RAP EXTENSION TO 'HOME ON THE RANGE': this ain't no movement this ain't no moment this ain't new york at all this is a pop song don't get excited you've been through this before no party dress up no one you heard of this ain't no big deal this is a pop song remain seated you've heard all this before this ain't the real thing there ain't no real thing this was rehearsed all before this ain't your music, i'm not your dj this ain't what you like at all **this ain't no party **this ain't no disco **this ain't no fooling around **this ain't the mud club or cbgb **this ain't the time for that now -------------------- * words from american folk song 'home on the range' the official song of the u.s. state of kansas written by brewster higley 1873 ** words from 'life during war-time' written by david byrne from the talking heads album 'fear of music' 1979 -------------------- 04_A CAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN (ETHICAL MIX) -------------------- a car at the bottom of the ocean is humor because of the lack of the car's utility thus the car's subsequent fall into 'nothing' a car at the bottom of the ocean a displaced module outside of your 'proper' system a car at the bottom of the ocean is pretty funny a car at the bottom of the ocean is pretty peculiar a car at the bottom of the ocean is pretty funny a car at the bottom of the ocean is pretty peculiar look at me, drowned in light, a module placed outside of your 'proper' system look at me, submerged in light, a module placed outside of your 'proper' system how am i not you? how am i not you? look at me, drowned in light, a module placed outside of your 'proper' system look at me, submerged in light, a module placed outside of your 'proper' system how am i not you? how am i not you? look at me. pretty funny. pretty peculiar. look at you. pretty funny. pretty peculiar. to forget yourself must be paradise to forget yourself yet remember forgetting ----------- III - FORGETTING -------------------- 05_IF MEMORY SERVES US -------------------- i can remember the beach before it was a beach i can remember the sea, a swarm of silver just beneath its surface i can remember the night was black so black you could not see i remember blackness. deep black... now this was back when the cops couldn't find me this was back when no one knew my name it sounded more like thunder back then it sounded like a heartbeat i couldn't tell one from the other thunder. heartbeat. thunder. heartbeat. thunder. heartbeat. i remember these things and so that is why now my itunes plays the following song: ---pull all the planes down from the sky ---wreck all the cars on the highway ---make the dams break - cut the phone lines ---burn down each & every shopping mall ---this world must be destroyed ---this world must be destroyed ---sing this song ---sing this song ---sing this song ---sing along ---pull all the planes down from the sky ---wreck all the cars on the highway ---make the dams break - cut the phone lines ---burn down each and every shopping mall ---this world must be destroyed ---this world must be destroyed ---sing this song ---sing along... ---am i serious? ---am i serious? ---'as serious as i can be' --- as serious as i can be -------------------- 06_I AM SURE -------------------- i 'm sure the world's not like this not like this at all... i 'm sure i am wrong and i have been mistaken all along i 'm sure this is all a big misunderstanding (i 'm) (sure)) i 'm sure the world's not like this not like this at all... i 'm sure that i'm wrong and have been mistaken all a. l.... o...... n............. g...................... well this is almost over now and i didn't say what i wanted to say this is almost over now and i never had the time this is almost over now and i don't want to ever forget you this is almost over now and i don't think i ever really knew you at all so goodnight sianara here comes tomorrow so goodnight sianara make way for tomorrow at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 you will go to work at the count of 10 you will come home again at the count of 10 YOU WILL GO TO WORK at the count of 10 YOU WILL COME HOME AGAIN 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9... -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- CN_ZERO - BRIEF SYNOPSIS & SELECTED MP3 DOWNLOADS (IN UPDATE) http://www.restlessculture.net/cnzero -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- A HISTORY AND ONLINE REFERENCES TO THE CONDUCTOR SERIES -------------------- -------------------- CONDUCTOR NUMBER ZERO: TO FORGET YOURSELF YET REMEMBER FORGETTING http://www.restlessculture.net/cnzero -------------------- -------------------- 07.02 - CN ZERO (LIP-SYNCH MIX) - PLACARD HEADPHONE FESTIVAL - PARIS/TOKYO 07.02 - CN ZERO V6.4 - CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - GLASGOW 04.02 - CN ZERO V6.0 - POSTMASTERS GALLERY - NYC 11.01 - CN ZERO V4.0 - GALAPAGOS - WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NYC 03.01 - CN ZERO V1.5 - WALDEN GALLERY - NYC 02.01 - CN ZERO V0.2 - WARHOL HIJACK W/VERBAL GROUP - NYC -------------------- CONDUCTOR NUMBER SEVEN: (EXPOSURE #0001) INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER SIDES OF HERE http://www.restlessculture.net/hvc -------------------- -------------------- 06.00 - CN SEVEN V3.0 - HARLEM VISION CENTER - NYC 11.99 - CN SEVEN V2.0 - THE KITCHEN - W/VERBAL GROUP - NYC 12.99 - CN SEVEN V1.0 - POSTMASTERS GALLERY - NYC -------------------- CONDUCTOR NUMBER NINE: TO FORGET YOURSELF YET REMEMBER FORGETTING http://www.restlessculture.net/cn9 -------------------- -------------------- 10.00 - FUN (CLUB MIX) RHIZOME OPEN-MOUSE 10.00 - GALAPAGOS - SANDBOX #8 - WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NYC 09.00 - HARLEM VISION CENTER - HARLEM, NYC 02.00 - SPARK GALERY - SYRACUSE, NY 07.99 - MT.HOME - GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NYC 05.99 - POSTMASTERS - NYC -------------------- CONDUCTOR NUMBER ONE: GETTING IN TOUCH WITH CHICKEN http://www.restlessculture.net/cn1 -------------------- -------------------- 09.97 ARTEMISIA GALLERY - CHICAGO 09.97 ISEA '97 - CHICAGO & THE WORLD WIDE WEB 04.96 PORT - NYC/MIT/SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY & THE WORLD WIDE WEB -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- --------------------