Jack Jack & de Wandelende Feedback
give the dog a shot
A self-oscillating feedback loop is like an
autonomous organic machine. Give it a little
push and it will walk on its own.
The closed loop and the repetitive nature
suggest eternal recurrence, an hermetic
cycle. Its bipolar nature flip-flops between
frantic squaking and gloomy rumbling.
Sometimes it hesitates and sticks to one of
the poles for a while. But never long enough
to change the general pattern.
Der Geist Der Stets Verneint
It behaves like Charon, the ferryman on the
river Styx. It is forever doomed to go back
and forth between the world of the living
and the world of the dead.
The ferryman is the secret attractor of the
feedback oscillator. It is a psychopomp. A
living dead. A zombie.
What you hear is amplified positive feedback
of noise and sonic pollution from inside the
amplifier. The whimsical nature is increased
and chaotic dynamics become tangible in the
oscillations. The course of the ferryman
starts to show complex and fractal-like
patterns. It flip-flops between the two
poles like a drunk Parkinson patient on a
broken bicycle.
Psychopomp of two mirror neurons in a bipolar fixation.
The land is burning, trees launch into orbit like rockets and one-thousand horses and clouds of steel storm the bloodred skies
Electric noise is like water. It auto-
matically detects the limits of the system
and starts to nibble on the edges. The
resistors overheat. The system becomes
hypersensitive and unstable. It is a complex
dynamic spectacle in constant state of
energy consuming hypomania. The system
vibrates and jumps from one hype to the
next. The path becomes chaotic.
Unpredictable.
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My basic consumer radio-amp really is not a
very good oscillator. Everything in this
machine is made to create linear and
predictable behaviour. If necessary by
force. Free-flow is obstructed. There are
dykes, thresholds and bridges. There is one
-way trafficking. It is disciplined. The
ferry is on the chain.
The oppressor got reckless and free radicals
were able to escape through cracks in the system
If an oscillator is like a rollercoaster,
then this one is a bungee-jump. Here self-
oscillation is a state of continuous
despair, arousal and stress. It pushes
towards the edges of sanity. Its bipolarity
generates tons of endorfines. It shoots back
and forth between a state of extatic
delirium and catatonic brain-death. A
typical manic depressed lost in an infinite
paradox. Balancing between a state of
enlightenment and a state of emergency.
Smoke comes out of its ears. Its only
bifurcation point is right before the total
collapse of the system.
Suicide by electrocution.
But feedback is freaky. There is no purity.
There are no borders. A line is a Concept.
Pollution is omnipresent. Even suppressive
systems can show signs of creative
behaviour. It is only a matter of locating
it. Nourishing it. Watering it on time and
cloning it,.. like a fuchsia.
Observation put the channel gate into a
state of hysteresis. It signals timecoded
soundwaves that bridge the communication gap
by means of analogue perceptual interference
7.the WordPad
Glitch as a
metaphor for
abstract
expressionism
12.The ABC of
creative
self-oscillation
for the
autonomous artist
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