"Every sound I associate with a color and every color I associate with sound."
New York
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Monday, 28 April 2014
Sunday, 20 April 2014
Eternal Longing
Ludwig costume, Stockman bust size 38, projected image,
2 speakers, 1 projector
Wagner: Tannhauser - 'Song to the Evening Star'
New York
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Friday, 6 December 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Sunday, 17 November 2013
MP on Capa
video 1:44
Spectrum Generator + Morse signs from the only survivor in town
on
Robert Capa
American troops arriving in the abandoned town
Friday, 8 November 2013
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Friday, 1 November 2013
Sound Sculpture
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with
Attila Csihar
"low frequency kind of sub-audible compositions... like a perfect complement to the idea of sculpture - it has weight, gravity, it extends itself into space..."
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Microtonal Soundings
The sounding wall is made up of 1500 simple one-bit speakers, tuned individually to create an intricately varied continuum. From far away it is a white noise, from up close you can hear each individual tone.
Monday, 23 September 2013
Stockhausen's Journey to Heaven
instrumental opera
New York
Production of Wiener Taschenoper
musicFabric
"Sometimes music vibrates beyond the clouds, and we can no longer hear its echo... very rarely is truly infinite; then it makes us forget the earth."
This cosmic story of Michael the angel, the sovereign of our universe, who leads humanity to God through love against Lucifer, the cosmic spirit of rebellion and destruction, is a mix of absurdity and spirituality performed by clarinets, trombones, violins and percussions instead of human voice. Michael is a trumpet player who flies on a crane that allows him to challenge gravity, making seven stop journey around the world represented by an orchestra consisting of 28 musicians. The journey is characterised by the sonic 'atmo-spheres', typical instruments, typical musical styles of the places visited.
The three main figures appear as musical forms, called 'formula' by Stockhausen, which allows the figure to be recognized aurally. Layered on top of one another, these three formulas comprise a composition, the 'super-formula', where the three different characteristic formulas confront each other, comprise vibrations that can be transformed into each other through transposition, stretching or compression; so one thing flows into the other, because it all has the same origin. That is the core of 'serial thinking'.
"This opera is also a promise of a more harmonious era following the suffering on this Earth, this human existence."
after-performance
This cosmic story of Michael the angel, the sovereign of our universe, who leads humanity to God through love against Lucifer, the cosmic spirit of rebellion and destruction, is a mix of absurdity and spirituality performed by clarinets, trombones, violins and percussions instead of human voice. Michael is a trumpet player who flies on a crane that allows him to challenge gravity, making seven stop journey around the world represented by an orchestra consisting of 28 musicians. The journey is characterised by the sonic 'atmo-spheres', typical instruments, typical musical styles of the places visited.
The three main figures appear as musical forms, called 'formula' by Stockhausen, which allows the figure to be recognized aurally. Layered on top of one another, these three formulas comprise a composition, the 'super-formula', where the three different characteristic formulas confront each other, comprise vibrations that can be transformed into each other through transposition, stretching or compression; so one thing flows into the other, because it all has the same origin. That is the core of 'serial thinking'.
"This opera is also a promise of a more harmonious era following the suffering on this Earth, this human existence."
Avery Hall
Sunday, 22 September 2013
La Monte Young - Fluxus Wawes
video detail
0:43
Live Sound and Light Performance
La Monte Young, voice
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
sine wave frequencies
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
sine wave frequencies
multi-channel video installation
Light Point
drawing with
pinholes
black wrap, translucent paper, fresnel lights, video
In the transcendent setting of videos, multi-layered, video-lighted drawings and mobile paper-compositions with heavy incense smell, the three vocalists improvise over the implied tonic that changes imperceptibly throughout the performance of the composition, in which the linear superposition of 77 sine wave frequencies and 6 channels of voices are set in ratios based on the harmonics 2, 3 and 7, imperceptibly ascending toward fixed frequencies and then descending toward the starting frequencies, infinitely revolving as in circles, in parallel and various rates of similar motion to create continuous slow phase shift with long beat cycles.
The relationship of the vocalists' improvisation to the drone continuously elaborates the musical meaning of the pitch, creating a compelling, harmonious construct that draws the listener into a profoundly contemplative world.
"eternity
taking a form of ephemeral presence that is infinitely variable"
New York
Monday, 10 June 2013
All That She Wants
She leads a lonely life
She leads a lonely life
When she woke up late in the morning light
And the day had just begun
She opened up her eyes and thought
Oh what a morning
It's not a day for work
It's a day for catching tan
Just lying on the beach and having fun
She's going to get you
All that she wants is another baby
She's gone tomorrow boy
All that she wants is another baby
All that she wants is another baby
She's gone tomorrow boy
All that she wants is another baby
All that she wants - all that she wants
So if you are in sight and the day is right
She's the hunter you're the fox
The gentle voice that talks to you won't talk forever
It is a night for passion
But the morning means goodbye
Beware of what is flashing in her eyes
She's going to get you
All that she wants is another baby
She's gone tomorrow boy
All that she wants is another baby
All that she wants is another baby
She's gone tomorrow boy
All that she wants is another baby
All that she wants is another baby
She's gone tomorrow boy
All that she wants is another baby
All that she wants is another baby
She's gone tomorrow boy
All that she wants is another baby
All that she wants - all that she wants
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Norwegian Wood
I once had a
girl, or should I say, she once had me...
She showed me
her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?
She asked me
to stay and she told me to sit anywhere,
So I looked
around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.
I sat on a
rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
We talked
until two and then she said, "It's time for bed"
She told me
she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
I told her I
didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I
awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown
So I lit a
fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood.
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