Conclusion. Reverberation is the
Inevitable
"The refrain is
rhythm and melody that have been territorialised because they have become
expressive – and have become expressive because they are territorialising. We
are not going in circles. What we wish to say is that there is a self-movement
of expressive qualities. Expressiveness is not reducible to the immediate
effects of an impulse triggering an action in a milieu: effects of that kind
are subjective impressions or emotions rather than expressions." - Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, page 349
Resonation is a form of designation, the criterion
delineating and determining perpetual motion. We share this in common: our
stories seem the same. That’s why we tell stories and why we like hearing them
– they offer us support, we feel like we’re not alone. Especially at a young
age, we identify with signals: we even embody them, sometimes, and it all seems
so simple. We feel like we are expressing ourselves through our familiarity
with others. As we mature our performativity convolutes. Grand narrative
security dissolves into vulnerability. We realise that fairy tales are
unrealistic in real life – that’s what makes their promise so inviting and
appealing. Communication henceforth results in complication: the disparity of discourse
divulges how alone we really are. We withdraw to the stories that make us feel
less lonely. We remember being kids, and believing every word. We think about the
air, the light, and how they haven’t changed (although, they have changed, we
start to realise, slowly). The distance of desistance determines the difference
guiding dissonance. Fragility fragments and we see things as they really are:
proportional. We’re expressive as derivatives, faint echoes of the source, yet we
want to articulate the anomaly of our response. The only honest option is to shape
the stories told. We can be singers too, as long as we learn to sing our own
songs. Mathematically, it’s simple: pertain to the formula (t-1)*. Contraction
is all about selection, extraction, not addition, nor intimacy; distance is
crucial. Prepare for barriers, confusion, misapprehension. Avoid recession
strategies that are imitative and decisive and difficult to interrogate once
set in motion. Learn to appreciate lived time. We need to be aware of each
moment in its entirety if we are to understand the nature of rhythm and
reverberation.
Beau Deurwaarder
Figure 13-7 taken from http://www.dspguide.com/ch13/2.htm