Experimental Musics (Update)

Hi,

I included Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire and Michael Nyman's 1-100 on Decay Music which pertains to the reading.

Experimental Musics

Listening Assignment for Reading 4.

Also included in this playlist are pieces discussed during class on Monday - e.g. Alvin Luciers: I am Sitting in a Room.

[See above for updated playlist version]

A link for Burcin

Imogen Stidworthy

I hate
Medieninstallation 2007

http://www.documenta12.de/uebersichtsdetails.html?gk=A&level=1&knr=39&L=0

Documenta 12

A link to a movie/ SCRATCH

SCRATCH, Doug Pray (Director)

the whole movie could be found online here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7085594575841814301
and some critic
http://phlow.net/mag/video_clip_film_kritik/scratch_the_movie_doug_pray.php
the ones who like hip-hop gonna enjoy it

and the musician that i mention
Venetian Snares

Contact Microphones

For those who are interested in contact mics here is a way to assemble one. It doesn't seem so complicated, possibly I will give it a try. Efi

Music in the Age of Electronic Reproduction

This playlist pertains to Reading Three.

Modes of Listening (2)

Additional Listening Assignment.
You probably already know this but just to be sure - just hit the play button and you can hear pieces at full length. Unfortunately the widget is on shuffle mode and I believe there is nothing I can do about it. If someone knows, please let me know. Otherwise click on the forward button and it should take you to the piece you want to (re)listen to. Also on the playlist is the complete La Selva piece. Enjoy!

Playlist for Week 6

Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here by 65daysofstatic

Hi again,

I discovered 65daysofstatic just two days ago and absolutely loved it. Their genre is post-rock/electronic and the band uses guitar sounds dredged over rhythmic computer glitches.

You can listen one of their pieces, "Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here" from the album "One Time from All Time" on the link below. I always find it effective the use of minimalist piano and i appreciated in this videoclip the parallelism between image and sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZEcg8NLtM

Music and Its Others

Kenneth Goldsmith wrote several wonderful, witty and brief articles all summarized in Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art. This is interesting reading for those who want to dig deeper into "Music and Its Others".

Kenneth Goldsmith has been doing a weekly show on WFMU, the New Jersey-based freeform radio station since 1995, where Goldsmith assumes the broadcast name of Kenny G. The show is an extension of Goldsmith's writing experiments, his pedagogy and UbuWeb. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith

Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City

Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City by Fran Tonkins (The Auditory Culture Reader 2003: 303)
This text talks about modes of listening in the urban environment. In particular it refers to the aspect of memory and sound: "This realation fo sound to memory is audibly present at the moment of 'recall', the melding of space, sound and memory there in the concept of 'resonance'; a movement in the air like sound you can touch."

This short text might be of interest to some of you since we spend some time this week discussing the concept of memory, and the phenemenology of sound in regard to memory and space.

Course Outline v.4 : Updated Nov.6

Noise and Politics-Jacques Attali

4th page of the reading 1, 2nd paragraph
"to listen,to memorize-this is the ability to interpret and control history"

If you want you can read one short story of Borges named Fiounes the Rememberer
that is very interesting about the concept of being able to memorize.
It is also very important to connect somehow the function of memorizing with the function of generalizing and see how these work.
I have the story but in greek.If anybody is interested we can search and find it in english.If not I can summarize it and we can talk about it.

This is a link to see some things about Borges:

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/

Theatrical approach

Thinking about the theatrical approach to a music piece I would like to add also a link to a song of Sopor Aeternus.He/She is a very strange persona but I think this song is very interesting as its vocals have a personal and also theatrical aspect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXtNYT7Sca0

About Chantal Dumas presented radio piece from Burcin

Hello again!

I told you in class that listening to that piece strongly reminded me the work of Chris Marker,French artist,film maker and photographer.I am giving a link about his life and work:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/marker.html

The year with the 13 moons

Hello everybody!


As I already told you in class there is a link where you can find an analysis about the concept and the content of the film.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/37/thirteen_moons.html

I have found the scene from the slaughter-house in you tube but it is translated into italian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VckMYv6WE0

I will have the original german film in 2 weeks so if you don´t want to spoil your appetite I will be able to do this triple presentation that I was talking about that will use the original scene,my interpretation (my video) and the audio by itself.

Radio Art Piece

Hello to all,

The radio art piece I have presented in class was recorded by Chantal Dumas, Canadian sound artist who works in radio, composition, improvisation and sound installation.

You can listen again from the link below:

http://www.silenceradio.org/silence.php?id=121

an austrian recommendation

as some have posted here stuff from their home country, i would like to recommend an austrian band too. they are called attwenger and can be listened here: http://www.last.fm/music/Attwenger

and here

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f30qFcr0sU8 (the video under the audio is not interesting)

greets, walter

Update on Sound Projects

Wk 3 and course outline has been updated.

pk

Indonesian Heritage

When Indonesia leaded by Ir Sukarno as the first president of Indonesia, he has slogan “Ganyang Malaysia (Smash Malaysia). It is caused by greed of Malaysia which always take Indonesian Heritage.

See Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation

Ssee also about some indonesian heritage which has campaigned by Malaysia

1. Original indonesia folk song
2. Rasa sayang in Netherland Film
3. Rasa Sayang Malaysia Campaign
   

The actual issue between Indonesia and Malaysia is Angklung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angklung). Almost Malaysian people play angklung and several website campaign that angklung is one of the Malaysian Heritage (http://malaysiana.pnm.my/kesenian/Idio_Angklung.htm). To solve this problem, Indonesian people try to present to the world by concert from one country to another country. See angklung concert in hamburg

I interested in intrument music, all kind of instrument music. Angklung is one of Indonesian heritage. I think it is the social command for Indonesia young generation to tell to people in the world.

Aneta / 29 Oct / Show and Tell

Hello,

Here is my modest contribution to the Show and Tell meeting.

http://atakh.tripod.com/SB.wav a short sample of work by Saeed Bazoqua - just to remind what it is - modernized folk music.

If someone wants the full version - let me know in the class room and I will get it for you :)

Naseer Shamma - Alamiryya

Naseer Shamma, Iraqi composer. This is his web site where you can listen to his music:

http://www.naseershamma.com/

The piece I presented is called Alameriyya, name of place in Iraq. You can watch him playing part of it in the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_dQCSUa4jU

Other thing as I mentioned that he plays Oud with one hand this video is showing that. It is not really a good video the sound doesn’t match the picture but just to have an idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY152bc_pjA

Ahmad Saleh

Radio/Montage/Pastiche

As mentioned during class ...

Radio Inferno
Andreas Ammer/FM Einheit

People Like Us
http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_recyclopaedia.html

Image/Sound

This came through my mind as we listened to Spyros presentation.

Ingmar Bergman films:
"Persona" (1966)
The First Sequence

"Cries and Whispers" (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhh5djH7id8

Efi Kontogeorgou:: show and tell

The sound from the video I showed on Monday was based on a piece of John Cage, called Third Construction(1941), from the album Music For Percussion Quartet

Enjoy the original.

Efi

Thanasi's contribution @ Show & Tell

Hi guys
so here follow my info:

About the piece that i chose:
Amon Tobin
Bloodstone 4:10
Foley Room 2007
more details about the artist
http://www.amontobin.com/field/
http://www.myspace.com/tobinamon

As far as it concerns the video/film director that i mentioned:
Michel Gondry
http://www.michelgondry.com/

GENERAL COMMENTS

for Walter
FSOL or Future Sound of London
http://www.futuresoundoflondon.com/
Album
Lifeforms 1994

for Spyros
The voices reminded me also the voices of Monty Python
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python

for Burcin
somewhen in your piece sounds that remind me of
Kraftwerk
Radioactivity 1975
http://www.kraftwerk.com/

thats all for now...
cheers
T.

Mike Patton - Pranzo Oltranzista

Pranzo Oltranzista is Mike Patton's second solo project. It is subtitled "Musica da Tavola per Cinque (Banquet Piece for Five Players)," and is based on "Futurist Cookbook" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, written in 1932. Following on from Adult Themes for Voice, it contains a number of tracks linked by a culinary theme and best listened to as a unitary movement. Featuring Marc Ribot on guitar, William Winant on percussion, Erik Friedlander on cello and John Zorn on alto sax, this is Patton's most technically sophisticated solo project.

source: Wikipedia

Show and Tell

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