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V.F. Cerveny F Tuba

This F tuba was built by the Czechoslovakian company Cerveny in Koniggratz, at the time called part of Bohemia.  This reference to Bohemia narrows its date of manufacture to either before 1918 or the German occupation of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War.  The most interesting feature of this instrument are its so-called “Walzenventile”, or “roller valves”.  This valve mechanism places the rotors at a 90° angle to their usual orientation, which was done to improve the valve action by increasing the mechanical advantage of the keys.  Of course, this means that putting the valve tuning slides in the usual plane adds an extra 90° of tubing at each connection to the valve.  The key mechanisms use the traditional sort of clockwork spring, which are adjustable by screws instead of the usual roller-like mechanism. This valve system implies that this is a pre-1918 instrument, as the examples I have seen are dated to roughly 1910. While this wrap of instrument appears small, it actually stands an impressive 41" tall, and likely has a bore of .710" through the first two valves and .748" through the third and fourth, based on another F tuba by Cerveny.  This particular instrument appears to be in relatively good shape, with the only significant damage being to the bottom bow area and bell.  As usual, the defining factor here would be valve compression, which of course isn’t described by the seller.

BEN CERVENY + BENJAMIN BRATTON CONVERSATION

Philosophy - Technology - Science Fiction → 3 come together

Browser Window → a human facing container of lots of protocols

Monopoly vs. emergent standard (GU)

Model of the real world vs. forget about the real world, build another world → Linked back world vs. Gnostic world

Notion of the prime material plane

“Quantitative analysis has left the building of humans.”

Technology is everything that happens after you are born. Everything before is just stuff...

The pastoralization of technology

The archaic rewire

The avant-garde’s role in capitalism as the first wave of things to be exploited

Being ok with the static frame from the bigger node-storm

“The static view is a jailed window”

Information architect / application designer → role has shifted

The perspective itself is the design

Which of this hyper rotational pivots do you want to engage

Notion of the signal-to-noise ratio

Yahoo: The last portal... → Never saw itself as a platform, saw themselves as a media aggregation

Data visualisation → a way to look at the ocean rather than the drop of water... (but doesn’t remove you from the discipline of data editorialization)

It’s no longer Journalism ↔ Data visualization , the data visualization is the journalism

The architecture of a concept model

WIRED ↔ Media Lab

Architecture has always been the practice of building a cult to spend lots of resources to build something that may or may not exist in their lifetime

Architecture → used to be the biggest pitch-making industry in the world (now this role has been taken over by Tech Sector)

Concept Model ↔ Cult Building

Introduction of the iPhone, lots of introductions:

Assumption that always with us, technology always with us

A object that has all functions

Even though the object surrenders its function to the network, the object retains its fetish (surprising, actually...)

Apps become single verbs

The performance is no longer curation, the performance is action (taking the selfie, etc.)

Once you make technology into verbs, the verbs that rise to the top are the ones that gives immediate satisfaction to the lizard cortex, primitive needs like validation or instant gratification

Controlling the vocabulary of verbs

The possibility of building a pipeline

Spaces that had “nouns” & “verbs”, the semantics of spaces and how they recombine as experiences

Game design → creation of the semantic model

Notion of structure information

Data visualisation is representational

Visualization producing the concept model

Apps as specific simulation, grouping nouns/verbs into specific activations

A culture of peer produced simulation design

Disney → narrative universe world, great power

World ↔ Instances within it

Notion of instantiations, views into the model, narrative views, self-rationalizing rule spaces

A lighting strikes of narrativization inside universe

Sub-sculptures, choices into constraints

Super-potential and carving out instances, understanding the value of instantiations

Things are excreted, something in the metabolism

The role of “model tending, keeping it alive” → power of this has been realized

“Flickr as a glider”

One person is the sculptor (story, application, building)

Other person is the one feeding the universe, maintain the world, keeping track of it

Context ↔ Operation

i.e. process becomes understood as less than act of genius or intuition, process becomes more formalised

How to socket ontologies into simulation systems

Notion of a “Model Architect”

Games are the only place that we have a popular representation of complex adaptive systems → tools that are as close as possible to understanding metabolism, the city

First build scopes and then build expressions

Culture of the new, fetishization of novelty

Changing fashion of what being a consumer in this space

What the return to the fashionability in the literacy of complexity (curation) with these tools, rather than the duck face immediate response in these apps?

Filter foam

Any attempt at looking at nth dimensional data is filtration

Parallax, cast light

Sculpture in the possibility space (OG)

Decision graph of A.I. / machine learning process also exposed

AI as a platform of instrumentality

A surface for instrumentation

A landscape of models

A catalogue

ON LAYERED SPACE  / Ben Cerveny 

In terms of mapping, the thing that’s interesting now about our concept of space is not so much the act of modeling space that we don’t really know yet in order to get there, but modeling spaces that we know quite well, in order to layer them with activity and possibility.

At some point there will be a type of service which is a massively, multi-participant model of real space in which all of these types of mediation are collected in real time and targeted on the objects that represent them in this virtual layer.

One of the things that we’re experiencing most, because they’re making the blind share of the R&D expenditures right now, is the idea of commercial data projection onto these spaces. Obviously Google is attempting the beginning of an ability for giant multinational corporations to keep the data about the spaces and then project it back to you and sort of manage your understanding of the space - and of course this gives you a kind of view of reality that’s been filtered by incumbent concerns (advertising, ranking systems that come from somewhere else)