GMU:Habitats SS18/Fernanda Caicedo

Project Ideas

• analog animation
• jazz music
• experience dynamics of an organism
• stop motion/animation

My first Physarum polycephalum

Some thoughts and peripheral thinking about Jazz and Physarum

First thought

Jazz its difficult to define cause contains many sub-genres and improvisation its one of its key elements. / Physarum its also for me difficult to define. Its one of 700 species of slime mold, ist a procaryote organism that in order to function reunites with millions of nuclei to maximise its means.

Second thought

Jazz is essentially a improvisation musik style. It evoques the myth of resistance. Jazz focus on individual freedom and an authentic expression of oneself, as well as the concept of living in the present. / Physarum polycephalum conceive the essence of improvisation for survival. It spreads, seeks for food and in every steep recognise it self with the intention of prevail.

Third thought

Jazz interpretation involves totally recognition of the members of the band. There must be no ego. Every good played sound also depends of the effort from the other musicians. / Physarum is a millions of nuclei organism, all sharing a cell wall, all operating as a single entity. They work in group...

Fourth thought

Jazz its influenced by early forms of blues music, wich is a form of folk music wich arose in part from the work songs of the African-American slave plantations. This songs are structured around a repetitive call-response pattern. / The particularly way that Physarum grows also respond to a repetitive call-response pattern. They go two steeps forward and one backwards, then two forwards and one backwards and so on... They talk to each order und response, then grow...

SOME TEXTS, INSPIRATION AND REFERENCES...

Jazz and Existencialism By MARITHE VAN DER AA [1]

Heather Barnett TEDTalk [2]

Jazz WIKIPEDIA [3]

ANIMATION_ esthetic and concept