Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

Chapter 18: Strange Heaven


1: A Hidden Switch

2: I am Sitting in a Classroom

3: Worlds of Music

4: Four Ridiculously Large Speakers

Interlude: Multitrack

5: Playing with Chips

6: The Infinite Amplification of Silence (or I Ching for Dummies)

7: Old Guard Avant Garde

8: Newcastle to Narvik

9: The Eden Before Apple

10: A Bright Red Electric Guitar

Interlude: 33 1/3

11: Devil's Music

12: Planes, Trains and Step-Down Transformers

13: A Computer Walks into a Bar

14: We Were All Seated Around the Campfire

Interlude: Soundcheck

15: Still Lives

16: STEIM -- IRCAM with a Human Face

Interlude: Silence

17: Whistling in the Woods

18: Strange Heaven

19: Art School

Interlude: How Things Work

20: Hardware Hacking

21: Salvage

22: The Missing Switch

Interlude: Things I'd Like to Own

23: Surprise Me

Christian Marclay Empty Cases (In Memoriam Tom Cora). Installation at Archiv X, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz. Copyright Christian Marclay.


My First Sony™: "Experience Music" at The Music Box in Sony European headquarters, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. A major consulting job for the author. Photographer unknown.