"Radical Duality" is a practical way based on my own ontology beyond arguments of “eternal return” (Deleuze) and speculative realism. In this ontology, I found out “the Time after that” as an extremely creative concept of time which is appearing at the top of capitalism’s dynamism.

In this practice, then, three elements, “Media”, “Theme”, and “Method” define creative acts, correlating to each other.

Any medium used for creative activities is a variable there.

“Method” is a factor which strongly prescribes characteristics of a creator, and is the thought about relations. “Method” decides relations between media, and also “Media” change themselves according to “how these media relate each other”, so each artist should think about “what the meaning of relating is”.

For myself, the relation is “a multiplicity of radical duality which consists of the discrete and the continuous”. For example, I first made a patch of MAX/MSP. In this patch, then, I made two primitive faders ― “the discrete” and “the continuous” ―, whose values affect the whole sound. Additionally I made four faders －”continuation of discreteness”, “discreteness of continuation”, “continuation of continuation”, and “discreteness of discreteness” ― whose values change various parameters of this complex patch.

Since the way “Radical Duality” has media as variables, those variables do not have to be limited to music. We can treat visuals, concepts, digital contents, bodies, photos and so on ― as media, then change completely these forms, defining new relations each time.

(Masafumi Rio Oda)