Participatory Inquiry, episode 109: Polyphonic

John Kellden
Jul 22, 2017 · 3 min read

“In a network, a resonant beauty beyond words: polyphonic becomings.”
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You thought you were singing out of key. You never were. The polyphonics was, is and will forever be beautiful beyond belief.

“In a network, singing things into vibrancy, into being.”
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You sang, and that was all that mattered.

How Beautiful Your Ugly?

“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.”
— Paul Klee

After all is sang and done, the beautiful was, is and will forever be inseparable from music.

inseparable from music

It never was tied to any which subject, but to our scribbling down resonant notes. In this way and in no other does music transform the seeming ugly, bringing us to a shareable place where we listen forth our own and others’ beauty.

Beauty, love, trust & annotation
When transcribing events, when jotting down the core, the gist of our experiences, we can choose to let go of how the product, the mixtape comes to pass.

let go of how

Any which sufficiently advanced frame and framing, is indistinguishable from realigning around and meeting in, a context conducive to increasingly convivial choice.

Notes?
Yes. Lines of inquiry, a line of inquiry aligning inquiry.

“Drawing is taking a line for a walk.”
— Paul Klee

Inquiry? Yes: warm data, essentializing information, vibrant interfaces, resonant knowledge and convivial wisdom.

“In fact, wherever information — or comparison — is of the essence of our explanation, there, for me, is mental process. Information can be defined as a difference that makes a difference. A sensory end organ is a comparator, a device which responds to difference. Of course, the sensory end organ is material, but it is this responsiveness to difference that we shall use to distinguish its functioning as “mental.” Similarly, the ink on this page is material, but the ink is not my thought. Even at the most elementary level, the ink is not signal or message. The difference between paper and ink is the signal.”
Gregory Bateson

A Signal By Any Other Annotation, Would Play As Sonorous
Handcrafted, co-produced, polyphonic mixtapes.

“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
Buckminster Fuller

The wonderful thing with the universe is, we get to be part, parcel, parsing and participatory sensemaking of it all, and celebrate our being perfect amidst our seeming imperfections.

perfect amidst our seeming imperfections

Our every moment of dissonance, turning an even more beautiful resonance.

Code of Convivial Conduct
By the end of the day, art, your art, is co-extensive with your celebrating there’s things left for you to do, and your music, how what you are doing resounds.

“In a network, singing things into vibrancy, into being.”
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Code is your attempt at capturing and sharing what needs to be brought into form and the mixtapes is how your code turned notation, plays. Techne. What produces polyphonics.

infused with heart, head and skillful hands and feet

Techne infused with heart, head and skillful hands and feet: art. Art and music, turning ugly into resounding beauty. Polyphonics.

Participatory Inquiry, episode 109: Polyphonic

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