Computational Culture

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Since a couple of years the concept of “post-digitalism” is shaking the heads of scientists, artists and philosophers. I stumbled upon this when reading a paper of Kim Cascone about the potential which lies in the limits of software-based systems for generating and analysing music. I tried to dig deeper into this topic over the past 2-3 years and then I put it to the side. But very recently some intimate debates at barcamps (e.g the Palomar 5 summit and the FMCs in Mannheim and the a2n in Berlin and .. and … and …) popped up again around this theme. Further brainfood was and is delivered on a daily basis by the very mundane fact that I still use Facebook .. too much … and the heavy interaction between the FB network and the real social network is driving me nuts …

This Saturday I met Jonathan Imme at FMC2010, a bright self-acclaimed digital native and major driving force behing Palomar5. When exchanging a little bit of our latest experiences on facebook and foursquare we agreed: it’s not a matter of the name of the game, the post-digital-neo-analogue movement is already lurking around the corner…

FMC2009: I presented a sketch about my very personal need for semantic music recommenders including automatic storytelling. In 2009 this raised very controversial discussions.

FMC2010: 1 year later we have already intermediate results and a first demo. Furthermore we are already cooperating on a conceptual level and exchanging first datasets with leading German-based startups (AUPEO, MUSICLOAD). At this year’s FMC I had interesting conversatons with SIMFY and EMI, further action ahead …