5. OCTOBER 1995


THE THINKING ROSS DID

G.X.Jupitter-Larsen: Live Radio-Performance of
"The Thinking Ross Did"
Musikprotokoll, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, 1995

LIVE RADIO PERFORMANCE - GRAZ, Congress

von G.X Jupitter-Larsen


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Technik: Landesstudio Steiermark
ORF Kunstradio & Musikprotokoll/Steirischer Herbst'95
DOCUMENTATION (Sound & Image) of "The Thinking Ross Did"
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My primarily concern is with giving new meanings to old symbols and old meanings to new symbols in order to communicate the absurdity I find in rot and decay; re-information emphasizing entropy. This re-information is accomplished by means of variation on a theme and contrast between medium and massage.

One case in point of re-information is the Welsh mathematician Ross Rhesymolwaith (1911-1983) who use to say that random radio static reminded him of thought. He wrote in his book PLAT RHIF CAR (1964): "Thinking is just like any other kind of white noise, static is never still."

My radio play "The Thinking Ross Did" consists of me rubbing a hand-held calculator against some very abrasive sandpaper non-stop for 35 minutes. Two contact-mics mounted on the calculator are used to amplify the resulting white noise of the grinding.

White-noise is said to be an accumulative effect. The listener is in the centre of a spiraling wind of grinding static. Rhesymolwaith's reference to a beauty resulting from the wearing down of numbers is made tangible during the performance and broadcast of this play.


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