One of the first music composition I ever created… Moody autumn 2009, while studying audio synthesis on a Linux machine. I started with ambient.
“Letters to myself”
A philosophical blog about everything
Ethics, aesthetics, society, technology, life, cosmos
-
Strange days of September 2009
Comments / Sharing: Strange days of September 2009Original screenshot of my 09.2009 desktop, somehow I posted it on an internet forum from that era -
Malicious elements of a system, cultural code elements
Comments / Sharing: Malicious elements of a system, cultural code elementsDictators and authoritarianism, totalitarianism as well as excessive capitalism or even a concentrated ultimate socialism = damaged DNA of the cultural code of the cells of the colonies in leadership. Democratic models can heal such systems with the infusion of fresh minds.
Image source Values are key elements in the DNA chain of the cultural code of subjects of society. Values of the vision to the real quality, will for prosperity, feeling and motivation for the long distance perspective, humanism, understanding importance of freedom, understanding of moral – and all those formed by will as long as it sees the value in those… all the mentioned are of the most important elements in the code to have a prosperous, successful time.
-
Simulations, simulacra, post mixed-reality creations
Comments / Sharing: Simulations, simulacra, post mixed-reality creationsNo matter what kind of simulation it is, the reality, i.e. the original from which the simulacrum is taken, will always have a higher value.
This applies to the virtual world, art from ai (simulation of human neurons and feelings), porn, racing games, everything. This experience, it recreates feelings, that is, the screen-surface, but not the atomic, spatial and ideological depth.
An interesting counter-example is video games, simulations of sports matches, say for instance footbal. It’s not really a simulation in the literal sense anymore….. there’s no reality where you control 11 people, it’s a new game, like table-footbal. A slightly new, different entity.
-
Freedom and limitations
Comments / Sharing: Freedom and limitationsAbsolute freedom is an illusion, like if transport in the city moved as everyone wanted it to – spontaneously and without rules. In movement (and life is movement), reasonable restrictions on the flow are necessary, you can’t just let everyone move freely and chaotically.
The same with aesthetics and ethics where limits are needed, they are the primary – framers of style.
And with politics. the problem is not so much that there is a leader with power, the problem is how smart and noble he is, that he is not a scum and where he will lead the system, to collapse if he is a fool and nothing or to prosperity and well-being if he is smart and noble.
Real freedom is found at a higher level – in formulating, realizing, planning and discussing these limitations – i.e., in freedom of speech, information.
-
Internet is above them
Comments / Sharing: Internet is above themInternet is an supra-state entity.
It’s an extraordinary phenomenon in our history, like the domestication of electricity.After all, who ever said that countries, especially in the decadence of today’s fashion of so called “nations” – actually overgrowth weak bureaucracy/money hunting systems, are something ultimate, finished? Just because it was suitable at some point in our evolution doesn’t mean it will be suitable after that. Mankind is waiting for a completely different organization structure, a one to be closer to the perfection of balance and symmetry.
Let’s say they can even block it, turn it off, but in this way they block and turn off themselves, their economy and growth. The pressure of the technological evolution is quite a serious event, in fact.
-
The two sides
Comments / Sharing: The two sidesIn general, all forms of creative art can be divided into two categories: dark and light, i.e., warm and cool, serious deep and lucid – affirming and joyful.
In short, there are two extremes of feeling and emotion, and two extremes of up or down.
Black and white.
Minor-major.
With shades and combinations varying from one to the other.
But categorically no other is possible.
There is also gray: neutrality, futurity, technology, but it’s still a cool essence.Why just those two? There are things that there is no point in asking questions about… There are and there are, + and -. What’s given is given. We look at the whole – there is yes, and there is no. Literally at the basic level of atomic perception there is a plus and there is a minus – at the level of electric charge, even at the level of energy distribution…
-
Emptiness
Comments / Sharing: EmptinessThere is no such thing as absolute emptiness.
But there is the idea of absolute emptiness.
How empty is that idea?I know what emptiness is, it’s when I’m not there… and the mind tries to go back to the place where it wasn’t and realizes it was empty.
So doesn’t emptiness equal absence?
The idea of emptiness is space without thought.
Absence is a relative notion.
-
Look at unknown…
Comments / Sharing: Look at unknown…Look at unknown people with kindness and neutrality, like you would look at your future doctor.
It is important for us to maintain peace and balance, ethics, aesthetics, decency… Until you see for sure that the person in front of you is an asshole, give him some trust, at least a little.
But never fully believe in anyone. Most people are stupid, lazy and selfish after all. Always keep your privacy and personal security at a reasonable level, especially today.
-
Problems of capitalism, public structures and money
Comments / Sharing: Problems of capitalism, public structures and moneyIn the jungles of modern world’s capitalism, in a huge big company… they’re not aiming to make just a good product.
They’re just trying to make a product that will sell well.Values there don’t aim a healthy, beautiful, prosperous society, but only to fill their own pocket with money, no matter if letting other people die.
That’s completely wrong because we are all connected, we are all fruits of the same tree – the tree of life, we share the same home – the earth, we share the same roof – the sky.Value, quality, perspective? All these things are unimportant in the mainstream of capitalism today – just to sell, just to promote, just to hold on to their position.
We live in times of anti-humanism. Money and greed have conquered ordinary people. The sudden ultra-globalization of markets and sharp information revolution has only increased the masses of fools.
Systems and organization of resource and energy fluxes corresponds to the volume and geometric structuring of the environment – that is, what is the composition of the flow of people and their labor, its complexity and depth, so their self-organization and regulation of efficiency.
Today’s model is inefficient… our world is in crisis. With globalization and ultra-productivization, the money-market model of generations before yesterdays – of capital accumulation and distribution – is becoming increasingly irrelevant. As if feudalism were today. Actually what we see, by the way – the profound absurdity, the inappropriateness to progress and the common good of techno-feudalism of overgrown bureaucratic based, authority biased corporations and states.
All these systems work well on a small scale, adaptation is needed when outgrowing them. Laws, society, companies, money…
The next systems to be decentralization, universal basic income, and the rejection of money as the main stimulant of production.
-
Wrong way
Comments / Sharing: Wrong wayToday’s state of Iran, China, Russia – reminds me cancer… Maybe some other times they might be interesting cultures, but not today. Politica defines general cultural flow…
That all looks very similar to an organism. Malicious elements sucked in like parasites, destroying everything around them, doing no good, unwilling and unable to leave.The best people furiously leave those places. Such systems are doomed to decline in the long distance.
Growth for growth’s sake… but what’s the point of your growth, what’s the purpose?
Overgrown big tech – an another example of general system-scale wrong-values directed degeneration. They’re all rotten: techno-fascists; we’re sick of paying, the market is monopolized. We should have thought of this earlier. It’s hard now. We’ll have to clean up this mess. Most people are lazy dumb suckers, that’s why all this crap can grow: on the passivity and ignorance of the masses.
Education is not about getting rich and converting science and school into money, as is common today… how utterly pathetic is that! Education is to develop culture and values, to avoid such unfreedom, blind money chasing, general decadence.Live free or die trying, never obey to the idiots or money. You not a special one, you’re just a fruit on the tree of life, care the general usefulness at first. Anyway you’re going to decompose soon.
-
Nature can sound like hallucinating synthesized electronics
-
Passivity is a substrate of fascism and degradation
Comments / Sharing: Passivity is a substrate of fascism and degradation‘The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality’ – Dante
-
Balancing aesthetic: the base prevails
Comments / Sharing: Balancing aesthetic: the base prevailsAesthetically, even if one likes the colorful (for example, in clothes), it is normal and acceptable, and sometimes it might even be good, but one must remember to balance it with the “base” – the garnish – “rice”, “bread”, that is – the simple.
Aesthetically, but also ideologically. Balancing it with simplicity.
Black, white, gray, beige, blue…
In music, by the way, rhythm plays an interesting balancing role in this context
-
Criminal romanticism
Comments / Sharing: Criminal romanticism
Criminal romanticism (idealization of criminality and everything lower-class – rude, insolent (for example, it’s also inherent in the majority of hip-hop) is deeply and universally spread in Russia (peak – 90s and post 2000s), because the Russian state and its cultural code are very rotten, started even before the USSR, and became especially stinky after the Bolsheviks’ times, today we can see kinda the same disaster, it’s evolution: neo-stalinism (authoritarian idiot-dictatorship with deep passivity of most people, a highly damaged and corrupted set of values that feeds the people who govern and follow orders) – cannibalistic and absolutely uselessFor defense and sense, ordinary people unconsciously look for strength and loyalty in seemingly foolish and absurd criminal romanticism (a light touch of peculiar aesthetics also sweetens it).
As a result, the same people who were resentful of their own state and fed by this romanticism come to power in Russia (in modern societies, it’s still randomness that often decides the scenario: very often accidental people come to power, that’s why we need to establish democracy, it protects against over-powerful, over-confident fools), and the state becomes even worse, losts any bits of ideology, spreading just cheap cynicism everywhere, even more cannibalistic, eats its own people and craps under itself. That is, there is a vicious circle, when it is worse, and then even worse.
There is no way and no future, just as there is no good present without humanism and framing of big, good values; criminal romanticism is a sign of a weak, sick system, rotten cancer-alike values, it’s not Dionysus, it’s just an unhealthy degeneration, a dead-end code.
-
Music
NEWS
-
An announce
I’ve completed several new albums, and they’re just waiting for me to finalize the artwork, upload the tracks, and do the final trimming. Here’s a brief overview: I hope to find enough time in the coming weeks and months to release all of these. In the past, I didn’t have such a queue of unreleased…
-
🎉Anniversary compilations of the best tracks now available ✨
Finally, after many months of preparation, I’ve released three monumental albums/compilations of the best tracks I’ve ever made, in the three main spectrums of music: high-tempo, low-tempo, and no-tempo. Initially the album names and covers included the years 2010-2023, but then I changed my mind and decided to let these albums be “live-periodically-updated”, so I’ll…
-
mittnetworkmusic: new Iksnx, other details
New Iksnx album has been released. Downtempo Acid Tape, Vol. 1 by Iksnx In December 2023, when I was working on jazz albums and beats, among other things and I happened to have an interesting sketch, I added acid riffs to the downtempo groove… and then it was decided to make an album like this.…
CLOUD OF TAGS
abstract Aesthetic Aesthetic fields aesthetics AI analysis art authoritarianism balance brain brain protection capitalism cognition complexity Consciousness consumerism Corporations creativity critical thinking cultural code culture death Decentralization emotions ethics evil evolution Experience fascism feelings fight fools fortune freedom future general philosophy habits human being humanity ideas idiots Illusions information internet Life logic luck market masses mass media mind minimalism Mistakes mittnetworkmusic money morality morals Mother Nature Music My Life News noise open source People personal perspectives Philosophy Philosophy of Life politics post-capitalism post-modern privacy progress psychology quality reality reason reasoning reflections russia sense simplicity Society space stoicism suffering systems Tech Things thoughts time Trends truth understanding Universe values various war Will wisdom