Re: animal loops and the future

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>more on topic, is it true that in switzerland the cowbells are tuned 
>to specific
>pitches, so that the cows create distinct harmonies?

Only if the farmer buys them all from the same manufacturer :-)

>this could lead to some
>interesting looping possibilities. i picture a group of cows being 
>herded about
>the audience in a finely-choreographed dance. guests would have to 
>carefully
>watch their footing upon leaving the event, however...

Thanks for getting serious. Lets film this: Looping the picture, any 
cow can dance. Or use a computer, we can create any beauty now!

>also in brasil you have some excellent parrots. here in los angeles, 
>there are
>clans of green parrots (evidently escapees from the trade in exotic 
>species)
>that make their homes in several neighborhoods around town; my 
>daughter calls them "circular birds" because of their habit of 
>flying in large swooping orbits around the palm trees...natural 
>loops...

There are also spread  "flocks" of sad dogs here in the city that 
comunicate through a big number of loosely synced (can you do that in 
MAX?) bark loops that grow and fade, gamelan like...

I think I am going mad here... my head pulses... I just saw one of 
this terrifically optimistic american films about a high tech war 
against huge insects on some distant stars. People give their legs 
and lives for the believe that mankind can win against those neat 
creatures and their central "brain" worms... the corresponding power 
orchestra film music has definitally no loops in it!
The only other kind of future films I remember are the ones where 
technology did not win and in the smoking cities anarchy takes over...

*** Why can't we film a future that we would like to have? ***
Wouldnt such film sell much better even and cost less to produce?
As long as there is fear, there is no peace. The desire of domination 
is the desire of security, the lack of confidence which starts at the 
first lie...

Is it really mankind who has these ugly visions, or just a decadent 
culture, or just Holywood?

... and during the comercials (really!) I switch to the educational 
channel and a biologist explains that the monkeys invented war and 
programmed their (and thus our) small brain to fight because the 
females only want to be fertilized by the best...

How do we reprogram ourselves to get out of this cycle of suffering?
A profound brain wash?
Do loops help for this?
Are we doing the right jobs?

I am aware that I drift off topic and that it comes out wrong if 
everyone post his doubts of a bad day, but I am also sure that it all 
comes totally wrong if we dont step back frequently to visualize 
where we are heading for!
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