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Title: the subconscious amoeba.


We will be exploring the inner thoughts of an amoeba as it finds itself in a supposedly controlled physical environment, which is really just added complexity to the already subjective environment created by the researcher. The transparent nature of the amoeba exposes it's inner thoughts to the delighted scientist, which is in fact seeing his own inner self.


The drum kit represents the structural changes to the amoeban architecture, winds the genetic state, strings the metabolism, and voice the cognitive output. The experimental conditions (independent variables) are the sound environments generated by the computers. The transference of scientist self onto amoeba is the the projection of light, and the images the social substrate that the scientist has existed in.

The scientist attempts to create a simple controllable environment with limited variables in order to see how changing these variables changes the subject. A model is proposed and tested to see if it is valid. In this case the research is aimed at interpreting the cognitive output of the amoeba, a daring new experiment in cognitive neurobiology. The amoeba is so sensitive a creature having such a small energy system that human neural activity effects it to the extent that the researcher sees himself for the first time. This first introspective experience has a profound affect on the scientist.

The drum kit represents the structural changes to the amoeban architecture, winds the genetic state, strings the metabolism, and voice the cognitive output. The experimental conditions (independent variables) are the sound environments generated by the computers. The transference of scientist self onto amoeba is the the projection of light, and the images the social substrate that the scientist has existed in.

Libretto

Scientist: What?
Amoeba: Other!
S: In.
A: Escape.
S: Amazing.
A: Amazing.
S: Together.
A: Love.
S: Me.
A: Other.
S: Lonely?
A: Disgust.
S: Irrational.
A: Fear!
S: Fear!
A: Fear!!
S: Fear!!
S: Fear!!!
A: Sad.
S: Helpless.
A: Loveless.
S: No.
A: Yes.


Composed by: the Shenanigans
performers: Deon Foster, James Madaski, Ben Rhodes, Jim Ryan.

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