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The Secret Life of Blobs
by Borut Savski

The Concept

Blobs are short-lived sound creatures, which reproduce in synthetic environment & in real time. I am talking about a synthetic “biotope”, where the musical (the aesthetic) qualities give place for something which is more close to communication qualities. To speak and to be heard. Sometimes wild and sometimes quiet. I try to find and link together the sound creatures which have similar qualities. Blobs are short (8 bit high) creatures (ok, some are 16 bit high), but their modus of expression ranges from being able to be anywhere (on the time & frequency scale) at any time.

In the presented piece “The Story of Blobs”, the artist’s involvement was on three levels:
– the level of deciding for an appropriate individual blob
– the level of accepting the resulting character of three or four layers of blob activities
– the level of arranging the meeting of all the blob layers in one place & time

The last mentioned production layer was performed live in a radio mix at Radio Student Ljubljana on the 2nd of April 2001, during a radio show the I have – Heavy Weather. So, the last judgement of the quality of communication was, of course, the artist’s (-> human = mine). There was a deliberate decision of the need for a final more or less aesthetic result – so it is not an experiment anymore. The communication qualities still exist throughout the piece. This is the result of the nature of the three or four layers of blobs. The concept of blobs can be translated to material world. Even more so, since the principles were taken exactly from the material (and spiritual) world. They probably hardly wait to be allowed to enter back to “real” world – and who am I to say no?

The Philosophy

The greatest achievement of nature is the economy with which it produces and sustains life forms. Each and every individual receives a certain autonomy of existence, even intelligence – which is the top level of autonomy, but maybe just for a reason that life itself is perpetuated. In other words – individuals must find their own reason=motive to move in place&time. By doing so succesfully – they fulfill their role. Then others come to do the same. Stopping the process is only possible with destruction of ALL the autonomous individuals – which is almost impossible. Or just the autonomy itself? Looking from the other side of world – the microspace – the organisation of individual alive specimen is such that it already holds information of the whole in its building parts – the genes in each cell. I believe that the spiritual world=mind functions in the same manner. We can only think in logic structures – we always define none other but logic structures. True – logic is a very elastic apparatus – it gives wildly different results. But we are destined to think and “make the world” – to produce reason and motive.

With this logic I approach the sound structures – a couple of individual sound forms, autonomous, yet tightly inter-related. It does not have to be art-form that comes out, but it must show dynamics or some other sort of liveliness. It is quite easy for a human to add aesthetics to it. Co-existence of sounds is beautiful. Not that it is easy to impress just anybody with “The Secrets Life of Blobs”.