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.