Shamar's Final Presentation

An Eaoh in the Fibonacci Sequence Starring Burroughs

Fibonacci sequence
A sequence of numbers, such as 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ... , in which each successive number is equal to the sum of the two preceding numbers. Many shapes occurring in nature, such as certain spirals, have proportions that can be described in terms of the Fibonacci sequence.


Inspirations:

Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis, Mycenae Alpha

Xenakis pioneered electronic, computer music, the application of mathematics, statistics, and physics to music and music theory, and the integration of sound and architecture. He used techniques related to probability theory, stochastic processes, statistics, statistical mechanics, group theory, game theory, set theory, and other branches of mathematics and physics in his compositions. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances. He integrated both with political commentary. He viewed compositions as reification and formal structures of abstract ideas, not as ends, to be later incorporated into families of compositions, "a form of composition which is not the object in itself, but an idea in itself, that is to say, the beginnings of a family of compositions." - Wikipedia

"By 1979, he had devised a computer system called UPIC, which could translate graphical images into musical results, wrote Andrew Hugill in 2008.[16] "Xenakis had originally trained as an architect, so some of his drawings, which he called 'arborescences', resembled both organic forms and architectural structures." These drawings' various curves and lines that could be interpreted by UPIC as real time instructions for the sound synthesis process. The drawing is, thus, rendered into a composition. Mycenae-Alpha was the first of these pieces he created using UPIC as it was being perfected. - Wikipedia

Terry Riley - He said that music was a way for him to know more about himself in relation to the Universe. He saw music as a path for self realization.

Brian Eno - He noted that he was often lead to decisions that he wouldn't have permitted, decisions that would have been against good taste, had he not given himself a set of guidelines to follow.

"I look at the variety of the world of organisims and so on and instead of saying each one of these is an entirely separate phenomenon, I say that each one of these is the product of quite a small number of forces and constraints reconfiguring in different ways. So, the basic thought of how the Universe is made can run through into how I decide to make music."

William Burroughs - Cut-up technique - He cut up text and then re-arranged it to create new text.

DJ Spooky - Culture as a re-mix.

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"A human-machine symbiosis."

"The technician and the programmer are the new artists in the age of technology."


Process

Set Parameters:

The composition will make use of the Fibonacci Sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8 and it's reverse 8,5,3,2,1,1. So the entire sequence will read 1,1,2,3,5,8,8,5,3,2,1,1. Before abstracting the piece, everthing will be based on this foundation.

Everthing except two sound files, that of Burroughs and the sped up version of the same, will be made out of only one sound that will be changed in a variety of ways - Eaoh.

Burroughs words will also be cut up based on the sequence.
1 word, 1 word, 2 words, 3 words, 5 words, 8 words etc... I, I, I think, I think the...

Once the foundation is established out of abstracted Eaoh files, begin abstracting the piece even further by moving different Fibonacci Sequences around, speeding them up, slowing them down.