[Nettime-bold] marsthematics

[Nils Röller <nils@khm.de>]

Dear nettimers,

I'm working on a series of small articles about artistic and scientific
concepts And I would like to publish this first one (others will follow)

in nettime. The idea is to establish with a friend in Peru a regular
exchange on this issue with the aim to build a warm-time-machine.

Unity-Idiology: Imagine a world where calculations are different? With
their new album Idiology  Cologne Pop-Band mouse on mars work on
favourite of a modified view on calculations and mathematics. Track 9
“unity-concepts” is devoted to “marsthematics”. marsthematics stands for

mathematics on the mars.  This approach to calculation is different from

the current digital one. The vocals of “unity-concepts” are difficult to

understand. The voice is charming and clear and seductive. But one gets
the meaning of the spoken words only by permanent rewinding or simply by

reading the text on the CD-tray. marsthematics find their roots in a
struggle on the foundations of mathematics at the beginning 20th
century. In this struggle two concepts were fighting for the right view
on mathematics. One that with David Hilbert works with the concept of
correct operation and another with Luitzen Brouwer that keeps track of
the meaning. The struggle did make Turing conceive the Turing-machine
and the turing-mashine did lead to digitial computing devices. Digital
stands for discretness and exact distinction between one step and the
other. marsthematics do open a way for a different view on the relation
between one and the other. marsthematics focus on the connecting force.
The vocals  say: “The one that if it is seen with others it is in the
position to become more than one”. Here a thought of Brouwer is
reformulated. Brouwer argues that the connection and not the discretness

is first. Only at second place the split into one and the other occurs
and  numbers and calculation become possible.  mouse on mars’ Idiology
is an example of marsthematical music. The soundfiles used by andi
thoma, dodo nkishi, and jan werner are all constructed. Constructed that

does imply that every step of the sound production is retracable to
“Eigen” (selfmade)-sounds. They are all produced by the musicians.  The
opposite of construction is sampling of found or copied material.  But
is this information interesting? I doubt that because it does reinforce
distinctions and not connections ( between construction and sampling,
between one and the others). Instead of informations about distinctions
one should look for ideas of connection. The connection between mouse on

mars and Brouwers constructivism is scholastic, it remains scholastic
even in the context of Deleuze and Guattaris Mille Plateus, where
Brouwer is worshipped as a nomad. marsthematical constructivism becomes
inspiring looking at the context of mouse on mars. A part from their
career they do build a network of strange musicians that  support each
other viceversa. For more information: www.sonig.com.
For more: on aethetics and problems of science:
(www.inpetto.com/tuxamoon/text/Kerzenhaendler/Folge_11.html)



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