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18*, #18 in 22 hours.
What am I listening to when I listen to the passing of time?
The word “time” has several meanings linked to each other but distinct from one another.
1. “Time” is the general phenomenon of the succession of events (“The inaudible and noiseless foot of time”);
2. “Time” indicates an interval in this succession (“To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, /Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, /To the last syllable of recorded time”); or
3. its duration (“O gentlemen, the time of life is short”);
4. “Time” can also indicate a particular moment (“Time will come and take my love away”; often the current one; “The time is out of joint”);
5. “Time” indicates the variable that measures duration (“Acceleration is the derivative of speed with respect to time”).
Source: Carlo Rovelli. The Order of Time
18* is the internal magazine of Werkplaats Typografie, first published in 2006. Each issue revolves around a single theme selected by an ever-changing editorial team.
“One after another,” he says “the characteristic features of time have proved to be approximations, mistakes determined by our perspective, just like the flatness of the Earth or the revolving of the sun. –– Carlo Rovelli (The Order of Time)
This year twenty-two participants are invited to make a contribution, relevant to the current state of their research to include in this eighteenth issue of 18*. The issue will come along through a weekly one-hour broadcast using this Phantom Radio stream, completed after 22 hours.
An essential aspect to time: its passage, its flow, the eternal current of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies: “The eternal current. Draws all the ages along with it. Through both realms, Overwhelming them in both.” –– Rainer Maria Rilke (Duineser Elegien)
The inspiration of this theme is the sound of passing time. Asking participants to answer the question of defining their passing time at the WT within the parameters of sound. Having a duration between 00:10:00–01:00:00 and the defining moment is now.
The awareness of the passing of time is based on our experience of music. When we listen to a hymn, the meaning of a sound is given by the ones that come before and after it. Music can occur only in time, but if we are always in the present moment, how is it possible to hear it? A sound, a song, is in some way present in our minds in a unified form, held together by something—by that which we take time to be. And hence this is what time is: it is entirely in the present, in our minds, as memory and as anticipation. –– Carlo Rovelli (The Order of Time)
