Tuesday, September 9, 2008
BLOG ASSIGNMENTS
are not optional
i am grading your responses to the materials assigned in class.
As it stands now only Shamar and Mario have done any blogging and the rest of you have zeroes on the first two. Meet with me Tuesdays and thursdays 9:30-12:30
pp
i am grading your responses to the materials assigned in class.
As it stands now only Shamar and Mario have done any blogging and the rest of you have zeroes on the first two. Meet with me Tuesdays and thursdays 9:30-12:30
pp
Monday, September 8, 2008
Ambience - Class Notes
La Monte Young
Is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school.
Mela Foundation
The Theater of Eternal Music: Sometimes later known as The Dream Syndicate, [1] was a mid-sixties musical group formed by LaMonte Young [2] that focused on experimental drone music. It featured the performances of La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Billy Name, Jon Hassell, Alex Dea and others. The group is stylistically tied to the Neo-Dada aesthetics of Fluxus and the post-John Cage noise music continuum.
Just Intonation
In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series.
John Cale
Though most well-noted for his work in rock music, Cale has worked in a variety of styles and genres, including drone, noise andclassical.
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as apainter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
Songs:
Pan-Sonic
Oval
Matmos
Exploding Plastic Invitable
Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
Heroes
Music for Airports
Fluxus
Is a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well asliterature, urban planning, architecture, and design. Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higginsin a famous 1966 essay.
Brian Eno
known popularly as Brian Eno (pronounced /ˈiːnoʊ/), is an English musician, producer, music theorist, and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the "Father of Ambient Music". Art-school-educated, and inspired by minimalism, he became artistically prominent as the keyboards and synthesizer player of the 1970sGlam rock and Art rock band Roxy Music.
Robert Fripp (Frippertonics)
Frippertronics (a term coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s) is an analog delay system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders situated side-by-side. The two machines are configured so that the tape travels from the supply reel of the first machine to the take-up reel of the second, thereby allowing sound recorded by the first machine to be played back some time later on the second. The audio of the second machine is routed back to the first, causing the delayed signal to repeat while new audio is mixed in with it. The amount of delay (usually 3 to 5 seconds) is controlled by increasing or decreasing the distance between the machines.
My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts
Is a 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, titled after Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name. The album was re-released in expanded form in 2006.Receiving strong reviews upon its release, My Life is now regarded as a high point in the discographies of Eno and Byrne.[1] In a 1985 interview, Kate Bush[2] stated the album "left a very big mark on popular music," while critic John Bush describes it as "[a] pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music."[3]
Found ARt
The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a mundane, utilitarian function. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th-century.
Is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school.
Mela Foundation
The Theater of Eternal Music: Sometimes later known as The Dream Syndicate, [1] was a mid-sixties musical group formed by LaMonte Young [2] that focused on experimental drone music. It featured the performances of La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Billy Name, Jon Hassell, Alex Dea and others. The group is stylistically tied to the Neo-Dada aesthetics of Fluxus and the post-John Cage noise music continuum.
Just Intonation
In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series.
John Cale
Though most well-noted for his work in rock music, Cale has worked in a variety of styles and genres, including drone, noise andclassical.
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as apainter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
Songs:
Pan-Sonic
Oval
Matmos
Exploding Plastic Invitable
Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
Heroes
Music for Airports
Fluxus
Is a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well asliterature, urban planning, architecture, and design. Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higginsin a famous 1966 essay.
Brian Eno
known popularly as Brian Eno (pronounced /ˈiːnoʊ/), is an English musician, producer, music theorist, and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the "Father of Ambient Music". Art-school-educated, and inspired by minimalism, he became artistically prominent as the keyboards and synthesizer player of the 1970sGlam rock and Art rock band Roxy Music.
Robert Fripp (Frippertonics)
Frippertronics (a term coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s) is an analog delay system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders situated side-by-side. The two machines are configured so that the tape travels from the supply reel of the first machine to the take-up reel of the second, thereby allowing sound recorded by the first machine to be played back some time later on the second. The audio of the second machine is routed back to the first, causing the delayed signal to repeat while new audio is mixed in with it. The amount of delay (usually 3 to 5 seconds) is controlled by increasing or decreasing the distance between the machines.
My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts
Is a 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, titled after Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel of the same name. The album was re-released in expanded form in 2006.Receiving strong reviews upon its release, My Life is now regarded as a high point in the discographies of Eno and Byrne.[1] In a 1985 interview, Kate Bush[2] stated the album "left a very big mark on popular music," while critic John Bush describes it as "[a] pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music."[3]
Found ARt
The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a mundane, utilitarian function. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th-century.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sound Unbound (1st reading)
There is an Italian expression,"L'arte D'arringiarsi" which means "The Art of making something out of nothing." This what resonates in my mind as I read every word, phrase and sentence of "Sound Unbound"
The idea of "noise being another form of information" is both fascinating and liberating. It opens a whole different world in which sound, if taken to the right editing editing point, can create virtual realms in the minds of people.
As I read through first few chapters I hear the words of Maya Angelou, "Everything in the Universe has rhythm; everything dances." I hear ancient bits and pieces of the Vedic sound theory, where sound is intrinsically alive it just has to be channeled and sculpted right can create parallel worlds.
The Wire Tapper
Life Is a Beautiful Monster
The piece started out as a repetive sound, much like a skipping cd, and then suddenly leaped into an experimental jazz sort of chaos. It sounded like a party with all of the different noises representing people interacting and moving, moving, moving. Then the saxaphone mellowed out a bit as if a person were leaving the party or taking some time for reflection out in the streets. The music then seemed to get darker and spookier as if ghosts were entering the scene or as if a homeless person suprised someone in the dark shadows by appearing at an unexpected time. It ends with an owl like sound and barking noise.
Sweetest Charms
The song gave me the feeling that I was an observer watching a young woman walk through a forest filled with water drops and electronical bugs and birds and glitter dust. Then, because of a static sound that would sometimes appear, it made the entire picture that I was forming in my head seem less real and more like it was existing only on some sort of television screen or pixilated reality that had the ability to shift or fade in and out in sync with the static. I liked how the soft whisper of the girl and occasional child-like voices mixed with stringed instruments, nature noises and harsher static sounds all mixed together to take me on a journey in only about five minutes.
The piece started out as a repetive sound, much like a skipping cd, and then suddenly leaped into an experimental jazz sort of chaos. It sounded like a party with all of the different noises representing people interacting and moving, moving, moving. Then the saxaphone mellowed out a bit as if a person were leaving the party or taking some time for reflection out in the streets. The music then seemed to get darker and spookier as if ghosts were entering the scene or as if a homeless person suprised someone in the dark shadows by appearing at an unexpected time. It ends with an owl like sound and barking noise.
Sweetest Charms
The song gave me the feeling that I was an observer watching a young woman walk through a forest filled with water drops and electronical bugs and birds and glitter dust. Then, because of a static sound that would sometimes appear, it made the entire picture that I was forming in my head seem less real and more like it was existing only on some sort of television screen or pixilated reality that had the ability to shift or fade in and out in sync with the static. I liked how the soft whisper of the girl and occasional child-like voices mixed with stringed instruments, nature noises and harsher static sounds all mixed together to take me on a journey in only about five minutes.
The Wire Tapper #12
"It don't bother me/Where is Mike" is a solemn funeral party remix.
It reminds of you an Afro-peruvian song about death. A slave boy dies and is thrown on the flat bed of an improvised tricycle made to be a funeral vehicle. His feet hang off the edge and bounce up and down on his way to the burial. His mother is crying hysterically so is every one else.
However a contrasting element is also present, one that doesn't fit in. The boy's mother begins to move her hips to a rhythm. People noticed it and cheer her on, "Cry on, cry on black woman, cry it out and but keep moving those hips". She cries to mourn the death of her baby boy; she dances because death is better than slavery.
In more contemporary context remix Mike might the boy's name.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Looking at this film clip through the lens of the Beat Generation, although Bob Dylan was not a member of such, I can see the first attempt to capture contemporary audiences using a visual, acoustic and literary medium. I think that Bob Dylan and the Beatniks saw a need to take self expression to the net level and permeate audiences senses subliminally by instilling socio-political messages in the context of entertainment, design and technology.
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