INTERACTING SPIRITS IN A

DIGITAL WORLD Lysandros Falireas

Athens, 10.12.13

SAMPLING

Selecting musical phrases from recorded music,

extracting them and embedding them into a new

context.

Sampling allows human interaction within a digital

interface.

This can be a guideline for future creative spaces.

A symbol of blending old with new.

Why we need it

How to achieve it

Human interaction

1. Correction

2. Admiration

3. Copying

4. Surprise

Randomness & intensity of human interaction occur less during virtual encounters

→A future library has to succeed in stimulating human interaction

The importance of Human Interaction for the

creative process

Defining our target group

1. It will not be the person who has decided to

specialize in music

2. A library should not be a music school

3. Generic vs Detailed • Generic skills can only be acquired in the internet

• Specialized skills are taught in music schools

How to create creative spaces within a

future library

1. Looking for music

2. Playing music for an audience: DJing & radio

3. A space for digital skills

4. Spaces for rehearsal/ Jamming/ Practicing

an instrument

5. A recording studio

Musical needs a future library may cover

Focus on personnel

Give back to the library

Focus on spaces

How to make the most out of these creative spaces

Facilities are not enough

Conclusion The benefits of random human interaction - Examples

Sampling

→ important means of creativity

→ interaction with someone you can’t actually meet

Libraries have always provided random human interaction.

Libraries used to be a place where people went

to find data that they couldn’t find elsewhere.

They need to become a place where people go

to find people they can’t find elsewhere.

Future decrease in human interaction & a

libraries’ potential against that