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#21, January 2019

 

THE BODY AS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

 

ATAU TANAKA and MARCO DONNARUMMA

 

Atau Tanaka and Marco Donnarumma build upon phenomenology and body theory to consider the human body as musical instrument. This paper presents a history of gestural musical instruments and looks at musical works using physiological signals, including seminal works of Lucier and Rosenboom. The body as instrument is discussed as schemata and configurations of body and technology.

BETWEEN SCREEN AND PROJECTOR: ’LIVE’ IN LIVE MEDIA

 

DAVID FODEL

 

This essay describes a way of looking at live media performance practice that questions the notion of the screen as final destination for the content of a performance. Using a systems aesthetic, it examines a set of entangled elements that give an audience an alternate means to decode the liveness of a performance based on embodied action, transcoding, and intermedia narrative.

GRAPHIC NOTATION, INDETERMINACY AND IMPROVISATION:
IMPLEMENTING CHOICE WITHIN A COMPOSITIONAL FRAMEWORK

 

LARS BRÖNDUM

 

The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of graphic notation in relation to improvisation and indeterminacy in practice.  Along with terms and ideas pioneered by composers in the 20th century, the techniques the author used in his own compositions are discussed and examined, including informal interviews with four musicians, in regarding graphic notation as a bridge over improvisation and notated music.

LANDSCAPES OF ABSENCE

 

BRANDON BAUER

 

The project Landscapes of Absence explores the ethical issues around the use of ISIS propaganda within broadcast media. The project uses images drawn from eight beheading incidents disseminated by ISIS, these images are digitally erased, leaving only the landscape and the absence of the dehumanized image as a metaphor for the larger issue of the absence of reliable reporting from this region.

IT IS AS IF YOU WERE DOING WORK — A (MIS)READING

 

MIHAI BACARAN

 

Through a (mis)reading of Pippin Barr's game It is as if you were doing work (2017), this essay explores the relationship between bodies, labour, and entertainment. It speculatively argues that performing useless labour seems to be essential for maintaining the illusion that our(?) bodies are still 'human.'

TIPS:

Centuries Of Sound

Birth of Music Visualization: April, 1924

The 'Groupe de Recherches Musicales' Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry & Jacques Poullin, France 1951

Daphne Oram's 1960's Optical Synthesizer Oramics Machine

The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire documentary

Glenn Gould The Idea of North(1967)

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall




 

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