Ben Myungin Lee (myunginlee)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 14:58:06 JST
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!netmusucsb reading "Network Fever" by Mark Wigley. It is interesting and confusing that the author does not locate the concept of networks in cybernetics but rather in real architecture. The certain concept was unfamiliar with me, and I could not clearly define what I should get from the reading. However, I believe being flexible with my knowledge is one of the most important property to learn from the new concept. I tried to follow Doxiadis's stream of consciousness and be inspired. From the statement "the real dimension of cities is not space, but time," I found the beauty of network music. In other words, no matter where music is played, if the players are at the same time, synchronized, we can assume that the players are in the same "city." Before I read this journal, and even while I was reading it, architecture was all about spaces composed of bizarre structures considering mechanics. However, the term "architecture" was actually all about human's life and philosophy. Likewise, I guess music can be the new "architecture" using the current worldwide network. Doxiadis and scholars made a lot of discussions and researches on existing architectural concepts such as settlement preparing network fever. Therefore, it is time for network musicians to reconsider, discuss, experiment, and study on the various concepts of music according to the new network fever.