Carmen et Error
Songs, mistakes, and metamorphoses. Twenty-three essays on one disc. One face is the argument, in order. The other is what each essay is, as an instrument. Spin.
Part 1
Foundations
1Embodied Cognition & The VR Presence ParadoxObservatory2Trust the HandThe Hand3The Chronotope of the VirtualA chronotope4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial CompositionA composition; montage5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of PossibilityThe Spread6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR InteractionA language game7The Method of LociThe Method of Loci8Tool Transparency and the Phenomenology of MasteryA fader
Part 2
Practice
Part 3
Ethics
Part 4
Distribution
Part 5
Consequences
1ObservatoryEmbodied Cognition & The VR Presence Paradox2The HandTrust the Handthe hand, across every tradition that notated it3A chronotopeThe Chronotope of the Virtualthe Columbia seminar room, returned to three times4A composition; montageFrom Temporal Cuts to Spatial Compositionthe session, heard as a cycle of tala5The SpreadConstraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibilitythe banjo in the hand6A language gameLanguage Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interactionthe first day at ITP, arriving from music7The Method of LociThe Method of Locithe Brooklyn Avenue apartment, five years of the same route8A faderTool Transparency and the Phenomenology of Masterynone of its own; borrows the banjo and a spacesuit9A symbiosisSymbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XRthe Baggot Inn, old-time in the front room, bluegrass in the back10The nightThe White Suitthe theatre, one night, five days after the first show11A ritualRitual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interfacethe Oberlin co-op, one semester of a hundred mouths12The WindowsInterdimensional Selfhoodthe table: a café table, then the Seder table every spring, then the Windows13An inscriptionMovement as Inscriptionone body, from the Power Pad to the park14A braidThe Banjo, the Body, and the AlgorithmMass MoCA, 2014, the first Freshgrass banjo competition, with a tabla player15A splitOther Minds, Other Bodiesthe Egg, 2020–21, built inside 5th Wall; two strangers at Etiquette's table16A palimpsestNarrative Furniture & Memory Palace of Selvesthe apartment entered in spring 2019, a dungeon by the next spring17A superpositionPoetics of Dissolution & Quantum SuperpositionJamey Haddad's rhythm class at Oberlin, working in pairs18DecalcomaniaRemembering Wellthe Chelsea, and the four homes, across years19ClewThe Grin Without the Catthe proceeding with the form of a trial; the semester the body broke20The JukeboxThe Jukebox of Memoriesthe song as a house: George Jones in his own doorway at 2 PM21A bleedWhen Fiction Bleeds Into Realitythe walk home from the honky-tonk; breakfast at the Black River Café22An unwriting that failsThe Body That Cannot Be Unwrittenthe 2011 Columbia seminar; the headset coming off23The Spinning DiscThe Spinning Discthe disc in the hand; the Chelsea entered in a headset before the street