Weirdest Algorhythms EP Review of All Time Ever

I really can't tell if he liked the album or not, but it's safe to say we really got him thinking, at least. This is by Shintaro Miyazaki, a hip hop fan all the way from the Humboldt University in Berlin (Ja! Wirklich!) and here's what he had to say about the Algorhythms EP:

"Algorhythms is trying to understand enhanced media technologies from a sonic, sometimes even musical perspective, which means that I am interested in temporal structures of networks. Rhythms are full of little events. You can listen to the examples online. Details can be read in my draft version of a forthcoming article, "Hidden AlgoRHYTHMS Everywhere".

The notion of an algorhythm can also be connected to the Deleuzian concept of assemblages/ agencies. In their pragmatics Deleuze & Guattari propose a method, which starts with making copies, then drawing maps/ cartographies, think about the abstract machines and creating the diagrams and finally sketching and conceptualizing the programs of the assemblages, which make effects, movements and actions out of those assemblages.

I would place emphasis here on the programs, therefore on the algorithms and protocols, which control the rhythm of our network transmissions. Algorhythms act therefore as hidden control structures, in which power relations are implemented and which also act as power controlling or enabling mechanisms as all forms of media operations do.

The notion of algorhythm is able to show more precisely the media archeological hidden structures of networks than the term "protocol", because it points at materialistic, effective and affective temporal structures of micrological processes, which we cannot perceive.

Nevertheless it doesn't look deep enough into aspects of time, which I think become more and more important, when studying the epistemology of networks."

THANKS FOR THE REVIEW, HOMEY!! I have to say, though, I disagree on your criticism that we neglected temporality in our fundamental analysis of the human condition. The track "Blowing Numbers" is actually an extended discourse on that exact subject. Not trying to be snarky, but come on, man, listen.

--Thirtyseven