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+ | ====== The Tide and the Algae====== | ||
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+ | ====== Thinking Tide, Sensing Scale ====== | ||
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+ | ====== A Course in Rhythmorphology ====== | ||
+ | Signe Lidén and Arjen Mulder | ||
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+ | AM: In your [[https:// | ||
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+ | SL: Maybe not as a person but with personhood, does that make sense? Perhaps because of the sense of singularity of a person, whereas I experience the tide as a multitude, a force where multiple beings meet in rhythmic relation. Thanks to the length of the residency, I was taking part in that tidal rhythmicity over days, weeks and months. It was such a sensory experience, quite hardcore some days when the wind and waves were fierce. Then I regretted the idea of stretching a sonic sail through the intertidal zone. At the same time, the dimensions of the sail, or the recording membrane as I call it, pushed the human “horizon” of experience because one can listen to the whole length of the zone at the same time, both under and above water. A colleague described the experience as a scaling. I think scale is a really useful conception with reference to maps, measurements and music. So in a way the recording membrane widens the human scale into the tidal … into the tidal person. Here you go. | ||
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+ | AM: The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that the tidal surge is a person. | ||
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+ | SL: I approach rhythm both in a sensual and a conceptual way. During a presentation once, I described it as to ' | ||
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+ | AM: What you just said reminded me of the comments made by the schoolgirl from Ramberg whom we heard in your podcast, and her definition of the tidal sense. That it is the ability of ‘the tidal’ to sense the surrounding world, to think about it, and to ' | ||
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+ | I read this in an old book called Biological Rhythm Research: ‘All living organisms are set in the solid framework of the physical world, the structure of which pulses with an abundance of “external rhythms”: diurnal, tidal, seasonal, solar, sidereal. The capacity to follow them, to oscillate, enhances the survival and developmental potential of a species. In the tide the 25 hour cycle of the lunar day is combined with the 24 hour cycle of the solar day. The sun determines the rhythms of photosynthesis and respiration of the plants, and the exposure to the sun gives the algae in the upper part of the tidal zone a rhythm of drying out and inundation. Algae hardly photosynthesize when they fall dry’. | ||
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+ | SL: And then there are all these other environmental rhythms, like air pressures such as wind and sound, vibrations with different wavelengths … what more? | ||
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+ | AM: I just got the idea to create a new study. It would be named ‘rhythmology’, | ||
+ | The layered rhythms of the tide are forces that form matter into living organisms. A new kind of biology, or morphology, becomes possible. In this new science one doesn' | ||
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+ | SL: What about rhythmorphology? | ||
+ | AM: I think you should teach the course too. And Grace too of course. | ||
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+ | SL: So what would the course plan look like at the Academy of Rhythmorphology? | ||
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+ | AM: Ok, let's make a course plan ... | ||
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+ | //ACADEMY OF RHYTHMORPHOLOGY | ||
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+ | Faculty: Rhythmorphogenesis | ||
+ | Department: Tidal Sense Studies | ||
+ | Course: Rhythmorphogenesis of Intertidal Persons | ||
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+ | Workshop I: The Rhythmorphogenesis of a Filamentous Green Algae | ||
+ | Duration: 6 months | ||
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+ | Workshop II: The Rhythmorphogenesis of Oystercatchers | ||
+ | Duration: 6 months | ||
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+ | Workshop III: The Rhythmorphogenesis of Coastal Human Persons | ||
+ | Duration: 6 months | ||
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+ | Workshop Location: Academy of Rhythmorphology´s institute in the intertidal zone in Lofoten. | ||
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+ | Workshop I: The Rhythmorphogenesis of a Filamentous Green Algae | ||
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+ | The first 3 months of the workshop will consist of theoretical presentations, | ||
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+ | 1: Sensing Tides | ||
+ | 2: Rhythms and Form | ||
+ | 3: Feedback and Memory | ||
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+ | We will study the typology of algae in the tidal zone, and the spatial principles they use to organise their bodies into larger assemblages, | ||
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+ | We will examine the different external rhythms on the position of the green alga in the tidal zone. In the lab we will study the different internal rhythms of Enteromorpha. We will combine what we found about both the external and the internal rhythms in the experimental setting and the field, to give an exact account of how the tidal rhythms allow the green alga to find its form. The dialogue between the non-living rhythms in the tidal zone, and the living rhythms within the body of the algae. | ||
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+ | The last 3 months will be centred around applied oscillation structures and instrument building. | ||
+ | The students will be creating instruments, | ||
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