WTF muziek #2

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Op donderdag 17 november 2011 20:05 schreef LostFormat het volgende:
Ikeda is baas. Zijn muziek klinkt niet als data maar is data waaraan een klank is gegeven. Echt heel goed.

Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer (1965)

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Alvin Lucier: Music for Solo Performer - for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion (1965)

The alpha rhythm of the brain has a range from eight to twelve hertz, and, if amplified enormously and channeled through an appropriate transducer, can be made audible. It can be blocked by visual attention with the eyes open or mental activity with the eyes closed. No part of the motor system is involved in any way. Control of the alpha consists simply of alteration of thought content - for example, ashifting back and forth from a state of visual imagery to one of relaxed resting.
Place an EEG scalp electrode on each hemisphere of the occipital, frontal, or other appropriate region of the performer's head. Attach a reference electrode to an ear, finger, or other region suitable for cutting down electrical noise. Route the signal through an appropriate amplifier and mixer to any number of amplifiers and loudspeakers directly coupled to percussion instruments, including large gongs, cymbals, tympani, metal ashcans, cardboard boxes, bass and snare drums (small loudspeakers face down on them), and to switches, sensitive to alpha, which activate one or more tape recorders upon which are stored, pre-recorded, sped-up alpha.
Set free and block alpha in bursts and phrases of any length, the sounds of which, as they emanate from the loudspeakers, cause the percussion instruments to vibrate sympathetically. An assistant may channel the signal to any or all of the loudspeakers in any combination at any volume, and, from time to time,engage the switches to the tape recorders. Performances may be of any length. Experiment with electrodes on other parts of the head in an attempt to pick up other waves of different frequencies and to create stereo effects. Use alpha to activate radios, television sets, lights, alarms, and other audio-visual devices.
Design automated systems, with or without coded relays, with which the performer may perform the piece without the aid of an assistant.

[Original Prose Score taken from "Alvin Lucier: Reflections", Edition MusikTexte, 1995, K�ln, www.musiktexte.de]

Steffi Weismann's Statement about "Music for Solo Performer":

Our making of Lucier's "Music for Solo Performer" went ahead with extensive preparations and technical research. The performance itself, however, is very open to the moment and demands nothing but deep relaxation. When I wrote the concept of the piece, I instantly loved that antagonism and and welcomed the challenge to reduce my performative activities to a minimum. While working out my interpretation I slowly learned to be aware of my mental activities. I acquired a sensitivity for subtle changes in tension and the ability to switch the state of my brain from beta to alpha and back again. Nevertheless, the outcome is not completely controllable. This makes the live act quite thrilling.
Sukandar Kartadinata and I decided to create a real solo version of the piece that will go without the aid of an assistant who usually channels the brainwave signals to particular speakers and instruments. That means that parameters like the occurrence, length and intensity of the alphawaves will be detected in real-time and disseminated randomly through a multichannel system to ten vibrating objects placed in the wide space. All sounds will be generated as amplified live-signals from the 4 electrodes that are placed on my head.
Alvin Lucier noted in his score that alphawaves may activate also visual devices. We decided to operate with the possibility of this extension but to separate it from the sound part: Our version will end silently with the transformation of the brainwaves into light signals using the matrix of the 64 light bulbs hanging above the stage.
more information: www.ausland-berlin.de/sololala-2009-5th-night

Alvin Lucier: I'm sitting in a room (Part I)

Alvin Lucier: I'm sitting in a room (Part II)

Alvin Lucier: I'm sitting in a room (Part III)

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I am sitting in a room (1969) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known works, featuring Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself. The recited text describes this process in action—it begins "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice," and the rationale, concluding, "I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have," referring to his own stuttering.

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Op donderdag 29 december 2011 14:07 schreef starla het volgende:

Justice of the Unicorns - Pterodactyl Sun

Justice of the Unicorns

Little Wings - Mark Gormley

Ellen Fullman on the Long String Instrument

Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument

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The long string instrument is an instrument where the string is of such a length that the fundamental transverse wave is below what we can hear as a tone (�20 Hz). If the tension and the length result in sounds with such a frequency the tone becomes a beating frequency ranging from a short reverb (approx 5-10 meters) to longer echo sounds (longer than 10 meter). Besides the beating frequency, the string also gives higher pitched natural overtones. Since the length is that long this has an effect on the attack tone. The attack tone 'shoots' through the string in a longitudinal wave and generates the typical science fiction laser gun sound (shooting sound), similar like is happening in upper electricity cables for trains (which are ready made long string instruments in a way).

A known example of a long instrument is invented by the American composer Ellen Fullman, is tuned in just intonation[1] and played by walking along the length of its approximately 100 90-foot-long strings and rubbing them with rosined hands and producing longitudinal vibrations. A C-clamp is used on each string for putting tension on the strings, much like a guitar capo, and a resonator is placed on the end the musician faces. The Long String Instrument's range is centered on the octave of middle C[citation needed] and extends above and below this by an octave. The strings of the bass octave extend the instrument's full 90 feet.

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Op donderdag 12 januari 2012 11:02 schreef On het volgende:
Ik vind die overvloei van het betere krautrockwerk/ritmes naar de psychedelische maalstroom juist wel een interessant aspect van het album. Minder toegankelijk, maar wel boeiend door de evolutie binnen de muziek en dus de plaat zelf.

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Op donderdag 12 januari 2012 21:40 schreef On het volgende:

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Ik had jou nog een recommendation gestuurd op RYM. Maar nu ik hier toch ben, denk dat je dit ook wel tof vind.

Sobre a Máquina - Garça

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Op donderdag 12 januari 2012 21:43 schreef Gehenna het volgende:

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ga ik vanavond doen

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Op zondag 15 januari 2012 19:37 schreef Nithosm het volgende:
Nihilist Spasm Band.. hebben naar het schijnt een dude in de band die zich aftrekt tijdens een show

The Gerogerigegege

Nihilist Spasm Band - Destoy the Nations

AMMmusic - Later During A Flaming Riviera Sunset 1 - 1966

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Op zondag 15 januari 2012 22:22 schreef On het volgende:
Ik moest ook meteen aan Gerogerigegege denken, met hun geniale covers.

Z' EV - elemental music

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“Z’EV doesn’t just break the rules, he changes them.”

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Op vrijdag 27 januari 2012 17:03 schreef voetbalmanager2 het volgende:

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Lol, toppertjes, zoals je meeste posts in dit topic. Enig idee waar ie in beide nummers over 'zingt'?

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Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 17:57 schreef hoarse het volgende:
het meesterlijke gero is al genoemd gelukkig

tevens

Mayo-man @ De Hondenkoekjesfabriek

en ganz vielen harsh noise natuurlijk

tevens

Mini moni - Telephone Ring Ring Ring

Waskracht Underground Noise Pt 1

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Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 19:11 schreef hoarse het volgende:

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ja, is geweldig! kaoru abe + masayuki takayanagi - mass projection, heerlijk chaotisch. het heerlijke en iets rustigere gradually projection doet er niet voor onder btw.

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Op zondag 29 januari 2012 20:55 schreef On het volgende:

Bull of Heaven - Her Name is Unending

Vijf uur lang hetzelfde, vijf uur lang niks eigenlijk. Rare gasten, Bull of Heaven.

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287 is more than 10 billion years in length, compressed to a tiny 85 kilobytes in size. Warning: this file can permanently damage your computer. Ultimately, it decompresses to 1.263 Zettabytes, or 1.263�10^21 bytes, which Wolfram|Alpha assures me is 110 times the estimated information content of all human knowledge. So, take it easy and only unpack single files. They're all identical, anyway. Unless I stuck an Easter egg in there somewhere. I forget. Happy New Year, everybody!