not_the _centre_of_the_universe.mov

The earth revolves within the stars. As used by Aphex Twin and Florian Hecker as the first 10 minutes of their live sets on their international tour in 2009, including at Block Weekend, STRP and at Warp 20 in Paris on the 8th of May 2009.
Shot on a purpose built machine which rotates once every 24 hours and gives long exposures of the sky.
Initial impulse to build the machine came from reading Adam Smith 'On the History of Astronomy' in which he attempts to describe the process of scientific discovery. In the model the first phase is "surprise" which is in turn replaced by "wonder" and it is the job of the scientist to transform this into "admiration". 'not_the_centre_of_the_universe' was composed partly as an attempt to reverse this. Equally the centrality of the Earth in a theological cosmology functioned as a primary lie of power, as Giordano Bruno found out to his cost (500 odd other heresies taken into account).

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Film & Animation

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• Giordano
• Bruno
• Adam
• Smith
• astronomy
• Aphex
• Twin
• Block
• Weekend
• Florian
• Hecker
• Warp
• 20
• STRP
• Paris
• Brendan
• Byrne
• VJ
• Theory
• VJam