Translated material
amber drive
"I would trade all my technology in one day with Socrates"
Steve Jobs
High tech burst into our lives like a whirlwind, blew up our consciousness, and changed our thinking. It became a style, gave breathtaking competition to established traditions and declared to everyone and everything that its time had come! The time has come for experiments, humor, radio waves, electric rays and, of course, Tesla currents! And without delay, the word “art” immediately remembered its literal translation from Greek, namely “technology”. Such a truly comic hit in the top ten provoked the best minds, charged talented eyes with extraordinary brilliance, and, in general, did its job clearly, accurately, and great!
Music decided to transform itself, trying on synthetic rhythms, putting on headphones and choosing the computer as the one with whom you can happily play a duet. The musicians took this according to all the rules of subjectivity, out of habit calling something shocking, something stupid, some did not say anything, but thought out loud, so loudly that everyone heard: “What? We must try!
“Viola is my life” is not a Hollywood movie, not an elegant pocket-sized novel, not a cool brand of a concert clothing line, and not even a rare vinyl record by Jordi Savall, which would be quite appropriate. No, this is a dream that was destined to come true. The theory of sets, the battle of atoms, the war of currents, a crazy synthesis of everything at once, a combination of the incompatible, give any definition and you will be right everywhere, because the theory of probability, where all accidents are natural, fascinates, fascinates and fascinates again.
Behind all this, in theory, there must certainly be something fundamentally large-sized, absolutely immovable, huge, inconveniently grandiose, numbering millions of words, signs, functions, formulas, verified indicators, tables, human emotions, faces, gestures, etc., etc., etc. An incredible colossus, where improvisation with an imperceptible movement turns into a renaissance, steps with easy grace to impressionism, takes off with inspiration towards romance, stubbornly and persistently knocks minimalism to the beat of the heart, floats with radio waves right up to the ceiling - and all this for the sake of an unusually childish, perhaps even very naive alto attraction in a hot air balloon! Agree, an absolutely fantastic project!
So who is the author? And what is live electronics? And why the prefix d'amore? And all this would be nothing if mathematics had not joined here with its aristocratic profile, intellectual inaccessibility, a full-length riddle and a gentle greeting, where all the answers for some reason converge on the last page. Well, people who are generalists are gaining more and more momentum, the idea of how successfully you can build your future if you draw a geometric composition of several parallels that will miraculously and amazingly connect at the end of the road is becoming more and more popular!
So, the bicycle has been invented, take off your hat. The great Leonardo only smiles from the portrait of La Gioconda. You can't tear yourself away from this smile. She's like electricity. As a psychological phenomenon. Charged particles rush around in the nooks and crannies of our subconscious, teasing us with their lights, turning them on with a golden key and that same amber drive or electron drive begins. A spark in a single copy, a spark that belongs exclusively to one person!
Sergey Poltavsky is a violist, composer, mathematician, sound designer, music director. Do you think that's it? Have you seen it next to the sewing machine?