Consider the act of live sampling a trumpet - by not identifying as a "trumpet player" or aiming to approximate a representation of their ideal - the remixician can shift the musical function without constraints. By negation and oppositional divergence, the remixician can play out different roles depending on the balancing needs of the remix.
Similar to the archetypal idea of a trickster, the remixician can challenge the established or expected through creatively transforming and expressing different "counterpart functions" that progress the musical narrative.
Withstanding disjunctive pressure
The Remixician must be willing to explore disjunction, to maintain distinctiveness and individuality even amidst the gravitational pull of homogenization. This might mean introducing elements that contrast starkly with the prevailing musical texture or disrupting rhythmic or harmonic expectations to foster curiosity and engagement.
Resisting overly conjunctive group mentality
Similarly, the Remixician must navigate the tendency towards overly cohesive, group-driven creativity, which might stifle innovation. This requires a readiness to step away from collective comfort zones and to challenge the status quo, daring to introduce elements that may not immediately resonate with the collective sensibility, but will perturb the flux of music into novel expressions.
As we approach the Origo, the extremities of experience and operation, collective and individual, order and chaos - converge and cancel each other out, signifying an immediate moment of equilibrium. This equilibrium is not static, but a dynamic flux, a state of continuous genesis, echoing Whitehead's ultimate principle of creativity where the many become one and are increased by one.
Think of the potential within the silence between notes, the space between beats - it is where music breathes and finds its creative force.
Ch. 0.1
Criticality
The Origo is a challenging pivot point, given the inherent need of balancing the push and pull of collective dynamics and individual gestures in a live remix. To assess your chances of facilitating the emergence of sonic concrescence, try to analyze the criticality of your rig, namely the border between order and chaos in your setup.
An analogy can be how an ice cube - structured water - does not start to melt before it transgresses its critical temperature of 0°C - from where it starts moving into a higher order of entropy - fluid chaos.
The criticality of your setup will be proportional with your own capacity to process all the available actions and events without risking a meltdown of your CPU or brain.
In embracing the apophatic aspect of the Origo, the Triaxis model transcends mere analytic tool; it becomes a philosophical compass guiding the remixician into the immediate experience of sonic innovation. Here, within the Origo, we find ourselves "beyond the model" in a state where the constructs of our musical paradigms dissolve, and we leap off the cliff of the known into novelty.
Ch. 0.2 The apophatic Origo
The Origo is the zero point where all oppositions dissolve and the familiar contours of musical structure and agency give way to a silence. This silence, however, is not an empty void but an apophatic revelation—a gateway to infinite possibilities and the birthplace of novelty. Just as negative and positive phases in sound can cancel each other out, the Origo transcends the axes' binary paradigms, allowing for a unique emergence of music unbound by traditional constraints.
The apophatic nature of the Origo challenges us to redefine our understanding of musical elements. It is not merely the absence of order, chaos, hierarchies, rhizomes, collective or individual agency; it is the potential of all and none.
In this space, the act of negation becomes an act of creation, where the extremes of the infinite axes negate themselves, leaving a fertile emptiness teeming with creative potential.
The role of the remixician can be guided by this principle, so as not to identify rigidly to a given musical "responsibility" - but rather be liberated from the potential expectancy of fulfilling a specific role.
Ch. 0.2
Courage of divergence
For a sustained experience of Origo equilibrium, there needs to be a constant creative effort, artistic integrity must retain authenticity and cannot be predicated on the safety net of a plan to fall back to. Given its placement on the Triaxis in relation to the Z-axis, the collective agency of audience members, musicians and computers - has to be lead into novel territories by the conceptual cancelling out of the Remixician and the Collective operating in conjunction. This seemingly paradoxical aspect of the Triaxis shows that there needs to be a responsive dance between convergent and divergent actions happening for novelty to be generated. So for the concrescence of concrescences to emerge in this musical universe, a prerequisite is the novelty introduced by individual forces.
This can be achieved through de-construction of hierarchies, divergent and oppositional musical choices, creatively expressing personal and emotional relations to what is happening in the sonic landscapes or narratives. When this balance is acheived, the optimal conditions for concrescence are achieved.
