Seth Cooke - KINDLING #2 - How Buildings Learn Newsprint Zine & Audio download code

Last year, a consultant from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors took stock of my home in Bristol. He told me the survey would be sent as a pdf via email; I asked him for the audio recording of his spoken notes. The visiting field recordist graciously gifted it to me.

Around the same time, we had a security camera fitted. My daughters commented that the audio sounded like “Daddy’s music.” I can now travel anywhere in the world while producing field recordings of my home.

‘How Buildings Learn’ is the third publication in the series ‘Method of Loci’. The first – ‘This Content is Unavailable in Your Country’ – follows trails through Pornhub via videos tagged or titled “Bristol”. The second – ‘⦵ (pour Isidore)’ – transforms Plimsoll Swing Bridge into a tribute to the founder of Lettrism.

The pieces comprising ‘Method of Loci’ are about the transcription of space. Each uses an analytical process to identify a readymade, or a readymade to identify an analytical process. The point defines the perimeter. The perimeter defines the point. Then I argue with myself about how much of the working can be exposed without merely exposing an artwork that doesn’t work.

Field recording is often about access to territory, technique and technology. Change the territory, change the technique, change the technology, and you find yourself transcribing spaces to which you wouldn’t otherwise have access.
Although not in this case. I never left the house.
Seth Cooke, April 2024

Shell, Services, Scenery, Set (Duffy)
Site, Structure, Skin, Services, Space Plan, Stuff (Brand)
Sensors, Software (proposed additions to Duffy & Brand)
Systems of Record, Systems of Differentiation, Systems of Innovation (Gartner)

How Buildings Learn #1 recorded by RICS Associate
ASR processing of How Buildings Learn #1 by Seth Cooke
Concept graph extraction via LLM from RICS Survey by Seth Cooke
Concept graph visualisation by Seth Cooke
How Buildings Learn #2 & #3 recorded by Ring Security (thank you --- & --- )
How Buildings Learn #4 composed by Seth Cooke
Version -- Build -- , 11 February 2024. Property of ---- and ----, Bristol, UK

This is the third publication in the series Method of Loci. The second was ⦵ (pour Isidore) sethcooke.bandcamp.com/album/pour-isidore
The first was This Content is Unavailable in Your Country. sethcooke.bandcamp.com/album/this-content-is-unavailable-in-your-country

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KINDLING #02 is currently only available as a newspaper plus digital file. Download code will be included with the printed newspaper. Once all printed copies are sold this release will be available in purely digital form, as audio files plus PDF.
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KINDLING is an evolving publication series exploring the intersection of digitally shared sound and printed image and text; each worked together or against each other to open a site of conversation for community of makers, listeners and readers by testing new modes of presentation and distribution. While the material form may be less-than-precious, ephemeral or even recyclable, we hope the ideas, feelings or actions it may encourage will remain.- Sonic Rubbish