Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The Cut-Up Technique
Popularized and developed by the Dadaists and William S. Burroughs, the Cut-Up Technique initially involved slicing up text documents and then rearranging them, looking for new interesting patterns and literary phenomenons. This general idea, however, has evolved into music and video with remixes.
While the cut-up technique is interesting, I think that it takes more work than perhaps it initially seems. I have a colleague who used a computer to randomly sequence words from a returned war vet's interview and Homer's Odyssey. He held himself to a rule though, that the computer would randomly generate the lines, and he had to either accept or reject the line, he could not modify it.
That said, his version of the cut-up technique was actually highly structured, and wasn't just attempting to have some sort of esoteric intent. In fact, it involved the same literary techniques he would normally employ, but used the advantages of technology to provide his base "atoms" of content (or cut-up words, so to speak).
The Cut-Up Technique
While the cut-up technique is interesting, I think that it takes more work than perhaps it initially seems. I have a colleague who used a computer to randomly sequence words from a returned war vet's interview and Homer's Odyssey. He held himself to a rule though, that the computer would randomly generate the lines, and he had to either accept or reject the line, he could not modify it.
That said, his version of the cut-up technique was actually highly structured, and wasn't just attempting to have some sort of esoteric intent. In fact, it involved the same literary techniques he would normally employ, but used the advantages of technology to provide his base "atoms" of content (or cut-up words, so to speak).
The Cut-Up Technique
Monday, February 24, 2014
In Class Assignment & HW 2/25/14
In-class assignment
Piano midi - https://soundcloud.com/alexisbenter/pianomidi
Piano and Drums midi remix - https://soundcloud.com/alexisbenter/remixmidi
Loop (Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys) - https://soundcloud.com/alexisbenter/loopingbeachboys
Piano and Drums and Loop Remix - https://soundcloud.com/alexisbenter/beat3
Homework
Beat looped - https://soundcloud.com/alexisbenter/beat
Tom Dowd, Homework, and Lynda.com
Tom Dowd
Adding to what Joseph wrote about Layla, here's an excerpt from Tom Dowd and the Language of Music:
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman are there, apparently thrilled to be in each other presence after Allman performed. Tom Dowd describes the creative process, "there were very few words exchanged; it was just complete musical dialogue."
Homework
My loop from "Let It Go" combined with MIDI sequences.
Lynda.com
We all have access to lynda.com, where there are plenty of great Ableton Live Tutorials. The most relevant to this class are
3.4 Loading and playing clips
4.4 Managing files in Live
9.1 Understanding the mixer
Adding to what Joseph wrote about Layla, here's an excerpt from Tom Dowd and the Language of Music:
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman are there, apparently thrilled to be in each other presence after Allman performed. Tom Dowd describes the creative process, "there were very few words exchanged; it was just complete musical dialogue."
Homework
My loop from "Let It Go" combined with MIDI sequences.
Lynda.com
We all have access to lynda.com, where there are plenty of great Ableton Live Tutorials. The most relevant to this class are
3.4 Loading and playing clips
4.4 Managing files in Live
9.1 Understanding the mixer
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