Machine
Related: robot - drum machine - factory - industry - machine age - technology - mechanical
The age of work in the art of reproducibility
Thrust () - Herbie Hancock
Thrust () - Herbie Hancock
Definition
A machine is any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/machineThe soul of machines
"The 'soul' of the machines has always been a part of our music. trance always belongs to repetition, and everybody is looking for trance in life... in sex, in the emotional, in pleasure, in anything... so, the machines produce an absolutely perfect trance."[...]
--Ralf Hütter, 1991, quoted in Kraftwerk: Man Machine and Music, Pascal Bussy
Synthetic electronic sounds
Industrial rhythms all around
Musique nonstop
Techno pop
--Kraftwerk: "Techno Pop" (1986)
Robots [...]
The breakthrough came with 1977's Trans-Europe Express: again, the concentration on speed, travel, pan-Europeanism. The album's center is the 13-minute sequence that simulates a rail journey: the click-clack of metal wheels on metal rails, the rise and fade of a whistle as the train passes, the creaking of coach bodies, the final screech of metal on metal as the train stops. If this wasn't astounding enough, 1978's Man Machine further developed ideas of an international language, of the synthesis between man and machine. - Jon Savage
Futurism
Early 20th-century artistic movement that centred in Italy and emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life in general. The most significant results of the movement were in the visual arts and poetry. [...]
Cyberpunk fiction
One of the central themes in cyberpunk fiction is established early on by writers like Gibson and Cadigan and by filmmakers like Cronenberg: technology's invasion/replacement of, effect upon, or indistinguishability from the human body. The body, within cyberpunk visions, becomes a physical site for the working out of postmodern conflict and for the speculative mapping of technology. But these conflicts, issues with reproduction (both sexual and mechanical, if there's a difference), and constructions of the body have as much to do with current perception and fears of the body in relation to technology as they do with the future- mapping "speculation" of sci fi.
Eroticizing the Machine
The ultimate substitution of
signs is perhaps the intervention of the technological into sexuality.
The machine steps in and enhances (or serves as well as or better than)
the body as an object of desire. Renn caresses and sticks his face in an
undulating television, and Gina wonders if being forced into sinning can
be considered rape if she knows she's going to like it. In addition to
the obvious comparisons to the sexual act and its pleasure when Bobby "jacks
in," Rikki comes on to Jack by beginning to stroke his electric arm.-- Brought to you
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The Cyberpunk Project