Sonic Genealogy is what I call the form of this short video that I recorded while recording the The Dead Zone, the show I host and produce on WRHU 88.7FM Radio Hofstra University. I made this video in order to explore a significant moment in my sonic genealogy, which is a way of describing the retrieval of those live music experiences that offered me examples of what can and perhaps should be done in the making of philosophy. Here I document the recording of the DZ that is itself a commemoration of my first ever Dead show, 4.17.83 Brenden Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands, East Rutherford, NJ. I capture in this video the 'all encompassing' Space and describe this performance as disclosing for me a topos (time/space, a landscape or ground for thinking), which, once experienced, became one of the landscapes for my philosophical wandering, specifically, the purposeful sojourn that made Being and Learning!
February 13, 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the original experiment that produced 363 phenomenological mediations, published as 'Being and Learning' (Brill: 2012). Each day between Feb 2014-15, I returned to the original meditations, and my commentary is documented here. And then, again, on February 15, 2024, on the 20th anniversary of the first days of the original experiment, I revisit and comment on a daily basis, once again.
3.0 - in the wake of yesterday's 20/10 yrs later commentary, which focused on improvisation and spontaneity, I'm pleasantly surprised to encounter this second post from yesterday 10 years ago, 4.3.2014. The still is also interesting, giving the original meditations and "Being and Learning" are in the midst of a slow careful reading of Plato's Allegory, a reading that includes some musings on the mysterious "liberator" who descends into the cave to set the cave-dweller free. Who is that behind my back peering into the studio?
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