musings on an electro-acoustic and improvisational concert
Including backround information, you lucky dogs you.
Today is the annual Northwestern New Music Marathon. It's exactly what it sounds like. I went to a concert of electro-acoustic music with an improvisation interlude. Electro-acoustic music is basically electronic music made with found sounds and/or sine waves, with a lot of messing with sounds, manipulating them etc. The improvisation was in terms of this type of music, and was partly (a lot) electronic and manipulation of acoustic sounds (there were some acoustic instruments). It was great. I'll tell you the piece and then tell you what it made me think of. Just three pieces, i heard more but these are the important ones for today. All three pieces were great, with just some small things that I was unhappy with. I think I enjoyed it so much because I was in the right frame of mind.
The musings should be considered improvisations, as they were conceived, as a whole, at once, quickly written down.
Untitled by Chris Mercer
Transcribe 20(?) minutes of Alaskan wilderness for chamber orchestra... need to experience it and record it for future reference... do research 1st - spend a few nights outside in diff. times/weathers/seasons - talk to people who work w/ wolves/birds etc. about the sounds of the wilderness.
Improvisation by backGammon
Collective improvisation is (partly? mostly?) about playing off each other, not in the obvious way but in the manner of pacing. Pacing can come in many forms, like dynamic, density, pitch, rhythm, sound (associative sounds). And it is not about doing the same this as other people (in the same or different aspects of pacing), but contributing to a whole through any/all of the previously listed aspects, which do not have to (but can) line up.
Med lekande kval by Paulina Sundin
Sounds are so pure - it's sad that so many are caught up in associations that can ruin the pure expression of sound. THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN IN NATURE, even though the sounds are still associative?
Today is the annual Northwestern New Music Marathon. It's exactly what it sounds like. I went to a concert of electro-acoustic music with an improvisation interlude. Electro-acoustic music is basically electronic music made with found sounds and/or sine waves, with a lot of messing with sounds, manipulating them etc. The improvisation was in terms of this type of music, and was partly (a lot) electronic and manipulation of acoustic sounds (there were some acoustic instruments). It was great. I'll tell you the piece and then tell you what it made me think of. Just three pieces, i heard more but these are the important ones for today. All three pieces were great, with just some small things that I was unhappy with. I think I enjoyed it so much because I was in the right frame of mind.
The musings should be considered improvisations, as they were conceived, as a whole, at once, quickly written down.
Untitled by Chris Mercer
Transcribe 20(?) minutes of Alaskan wilderness for chamber orchestra... need to experience it and record it for future reference... do research 1st - spend a few nights outside in diff. times/weathers/seasons - talk to people who work w/ wolves/birds etc. about the sounds of the wilderness.
Improvisation by backGammon
Collective improvisation is (partly? mostly?) about playing off each other, not in the obvious way but in the manner of pacing. Pacing can come in many forms, like dynamic, density, pitch, rhythm, sound (associative sounds). And it is not about doing the same this as other people (in the same or different aspects of pacing), but contributing to a whole through any/all of the previously listed aspects, which do not have to (but can) line up.
Med lekande kval by Paulina Sundin
Sounds are so pure - it's sad that so many are caught up in associations that can ruin the pure expression of sound. THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN IN NATURE, even though the sounds are still associative?