individual test run
Part1
Part2
Part3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__LfYx1mWs
Add comment October 30, 2009
rob joyner’s words of wisdom
performing active listening to guide the participants of the installation.
Add comment September 17, 2009
john zorn
A Bookshelf on top of the sky – 12 stories about John Zorn, a film by Claudia Heurmann, A project of Hips Road, 2004, Tzadik, Germany.
The following are some quotes of John Zorn I pulled out of the documentary on John Zorn referenced above…
A new kind of music and they cannot market it. They cannot package iot. This music has been marginalized and trivilkised because of money, because of greed and because of people’s stupiditity of not thinking things through….they are looking but they are not hearing. The world is predominately a visual culture. Most musicians are ostrcised from the rest of the world. They hear…most critics can’t use their ears better then they see.”
He used to watch roadrunner and try and imagine it without the visuals. It was difficult because we are trained to associate the 2. He used this experience to develop qand learn about composition. “To me sound is primary” to learn new structures of sound.
Need to read and speak in various musical languages
“everything goes trhough the Zorn filter in some way”
Manipulation of musical blocks
Each movement is complete in itself like building blocks. And the movements are one after an other in a linear fashion so it ends up telling a story.
Music is not sound itself but a way of manipulating sound , a certain aesthetic, and so is it possible to work with sound with a visual medium in a musical way? Can you make a film look musical?
I believe that composition is hard work and it si fun and it’s about problem solving…to stay interested I’ve managed to pose myself different questions and different problems.
Add comment August 15, 2009
what i have been listening to
Bar Noise: Full Volume Live Vol.1
• The most noticeable thing about this album of noise is that there is a blurring of tracks. You do not know if it is a new track or not unless you keep an eye on the cd player. I think this is testimony to the nature of noise – song structure is so loose or rather different to traditional forms of music that this distinction between songs is difficult to determine
• Beginning and end of track is unclear. Noise tears away or challenges structure.
• The length of tracks too is not determined by aesthetic laws. They vary from 44 seconds to 12 minutes.
• I didn’t really find these noise tracks painful in anyway. I found most of them quiet mediatative. The focus is on sound or rather listening to new sounds or old sounds in a new way.
Maritime Rites, Alvin Curran, New World Records, 2004, recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc. printed in the USA.
• The entire album is themed around maritime themes so there is a sort of fog horn repetition and vocal excerpts from her on different subjects.
• Disc 1 track 2: Rattlesnake Mountain by Pauline Oliveros. Mixed with her solo, in a quiet rhythm that emulates breath itself, are the sounds of the whistle buoy near Robinson’s Rock, a three-toned gong from the Graves near Camden, and foghorns from Rockland Harbour, all in Maine. Also heard is the voice of the only female lighthouse keeper in America, Karen McLean of the U.S. Coast Guard, Doubling Point, Main.
• Disc 2 Tack 3: Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape by John Cage. Recites 5 monosyllabic words of his own choice. These ar emixed in a rigorous exercise of silence with the diaphone horn of the Natucket II Lightship and the broken horn of the Edgartown Lighthouse on Martha’s vineyard, Massachusetts, which was recorded from the interior of the structure through a hole in the outer wall.
Impakt 2000, Impakt’s 10th Anniversay CD.
John Cage Cheap Immitation, Ampere3, recorded on the 7th March 1976 at the centre for contemporary music, mills college, Oakland, CA, produced by David Behrman, engineered by Blue Gene Tyranny, direction by Dawson Prater.
John Cage: A tribute, Joshua Pierce pianist, Robert White tenor, American Festival of Microtonal Music Ensemble, produced by Joshua Pierce and Bill Siegmund, engineered and edited by Bill Siegmund, Digital Paradise Island Studios, all pieces were recorded 3/11/2000 at Lefrak Concert Hall, Colden Centre for the performing arts, Flushing, New York.
Indeterminacy. John Cage: READING, David Tudor: MUSIC, New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music Ninety Stories by John Cage, with music, Notes by John Cage with intro by Richard Kostelanetz, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40804/5, 1992, Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, orginally issued in 1959.
• This is where he speaks of the monk stories and what music is.
• These are his works of indeterminacy with text and are written in his silence lectures.
An Anthology of noise and electronic music 1937-2005/forth a-chronology volume #4, produced ,by Sub Rosa curated by Marc Hinant, mastered at Daniel Leon studios, Brussels, 2005.
• Cd2 track 5 Alvin Lucier still and moving lines of silence in familes of hyperbolas: voice (1972-74), 11:39
• This track really grates on the ears.
Add comment August 10, 2009
