Archive for the 'Sonic Fictions' Category

 

No difference whatsoever

Feb 02, 2010 in Anthropology of Sound, Popular Culture, Sonic Fictions, Sound Studies

Snippets from Brian Eno talking to music critic Paul Morley (BTW: founder of Zang Tuum Tumb Records):


I liked the processes and systems in the experimental world and the attitude to effect that there was in the pop, I wanted the ideas to be seductive but also the results.


Instruments sound interesting not because of their sound but because of the relationship a player has with them.


A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t.


You define who you are and where you are by the things that you know you are not.

Is there conceptual music…

Nov 11, 2009 in Anthropology of Sound, Essay, Personal, Sonic Fictions, Sound Art, Sound Studies

…as there is concept art?


Or did the new avantgarde genres of happening and performance art in the 1960es already absorb all the conceptual qualities and energy of the musical score?

Are performance scripts the only way of musical conceptualism an art history could think of?


The all-knowing Trash Heap seems to approve.

Or is this conceptual music; or this?


One Minute Soundsculpture

Oct 19, 2009 in Aural Architecture, Link, Popular Culture, Sonic Fictions, Sound & Vision, Sound Art, Sound Studies, Web

By Daniel Franke:



(via Beautiful Decay)


Endless Rain Record

Oct 16, 2009 in Anthropology of Sound, Link, Sonic Fictions, Sound Art, Sound Studies


this phonograph record plays endlessly.

the grooves in the record forms a circle.

it endlessly plays rain sounds and the sound of rain drops.


(via argh.de)


Locative audio media: You mix when you move

Oct 01, 2009 in Anthropology of Sound, Aural Architecture, Link, Popular Culture, Sonic Fictions, Sound & Vision, Sound Art, Sound Studies, Technology

Looping musical phrases are represented on a map as overlapping circular territories. As the vehicle approaches the center of a circle, the volume increases. In areas of the map where territories overlap the vehicle generates dynamic mixes of the overlapping musical phrases. By exploring a very large map of many overlapping territories the Beatmap creates complex, dynamic mash-ups.

The map can be explored on foot, by plane, boat, train, or automobile. In this footage the map is explored by car on the Bonneville Salt Flats, allowing the user to freely accelerate, swerve, and slam to a stop for optimum musical control of the instrument.



Ohrentropfen

Jul 07, 2009 in Anthropology of Sound, Essay, Philosophy, Research, Sonic Fictions, Sound Studies

Oder: Wie wir von Sounds durchdrungen werden:

Habe ich ueberhaupt einmal bewusst vor einem Aquarium gestanden? Ich habe diffuse Erinnerungen an fremde Wohnungen, an Bars und Fernsehbilder, Zeitungsbilder der Bueros von Bundeskanzlern und weltbeherrschungssuechtigen Konzernfuehrern. Das Aquarium stand fuer mich damals wohl ganz offensichtlich fuer eine andere, unerreichbare, erschreckend eindeutig geordnete und ganz klar machtbesessene, machtbesetzende, reiche Welt. Familien mit Firmensitz, Swimmingpool und Sauna, mit eigenen Bediensteten und Stehempfaengen, zu denen passte dann wohl auch ein Aquarium. In meinem Imaginarium jener Zeit. Es ist Statussymbol und genuiner Bestandteil buergerlicher Repraesentanz. Die Welt im eigenen Wohnzimmer: Globus – Aquarium – 5.1-Surround-Sound-Heimkino? Ueber die Zeit ist das symbolische Allmachtsinstrument deutlich beweglicher und welthaltiger geworden.

Mehr: Berliner Gazette

Zur Lage der Musikpresse & -industrie

Apr 17, 2009 in Allgemein, Anthropology of Sound, Link, Sonic Fictions, Sound Studies


Kultur ist Porno - in dem Sinne, dass sie spannend sein muss, körperliches Wohlbefinden auslösen soll und entsprechend zur jeweiligen Stimmung eingesetzt wird.

Letztlich ist Kultur, insbesondere Popkultur, derzeit die konstitutive Dekoration ihrer Subjekte.

Mark Terkessidis: Die Musikpresse sieht ziemlich alt aus (Der Freitag Berlin 8. April 2009)


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Making the world safe for pleasure;

control and surrender;

kinds of abstraction sickness;

the north and south of you;

transcendence and intoxication:

what sex, art, religion, music and drugs have in common…

Brian Eno & David Byrne (Interview): The business is an exciting mess (The Guardian London March 27th 2009)


Genuine Audiovisual Sampling

Mar 06, 2009 in Popular Culture, Sonic Fictions, Sound & Vision, Web


Funk-reggae musician and producer Ophir Kutiel a.k.a. Kutiman from Israel audiovisually mixes You Tube-tracks in a truly flabbergasting manner: ThruYOU



Kutiman-Clips on You Tube.

More of Kutiman.


Audio Poverty

Feb 04, 2009 in Anthropology of Sound, Exhibition, Festival, Lecture, Link, Performance, Research, Sonic Fictions, Sound Art, Sound Studies, Symposion

Music is currently undergoing a loss of value not only in economic terms, but also in ways that have an impact on the social and aesthetic structure of musical life, affecting forms of publication, the culture of listening, musical discourse, and the music itself.


Audio Poverty explores the link between music and poverty, from impoverished musical material to the starving artist. Audio Poverty looks at music from the margins—the sounds of the viola da gamba and a chirping Barbie doll, between broken vinyl and Africa’s acoustic everyday life, between Philippine art music and Detroit trash. The concert hall and the club are given equal status in a musical discourse where poverty becomes musically concrete.


Hans Platzgumer im Gespräch

May 01, 2008 in Link, Popular Culture, Sonic Fictions, Web

Heute (jetzt!) von 13 bis 15 Uhr auf FM4 Wien mit der großartigen Gesprächsgeberin Elisabeth Scharang:

Hans Platzgumer ist Kapellmeister. Sein Orchester besteht aus den unterschiedlichsten Tönen und Sounds; spezielle Gesellen, die sich ungerne einordnen und zuschreiben lassen. Ganz so wie der Mann mit dem Taktstock, der mal vorne, mal hinten oder mitten in der Geräuschesymphonie steht, die er gleichzeit dirigiert und deren Herz er ist.

Nachträglich zu hören via FM4-Interview-Podcast.