WEEK.thirteen

FINAL PROJECT: reSCOREd
Our final performance and project will be Tuesday December 13 from 6-7pm at the Windup Space. A full rehearsal will take place in class on December 12th.

GROUP 1
Olya Androsik
Faith Bocian
Shawn Cook
Micah Wood

GROUP 2
Dan Nicholas
Justin Livi
Chang Park
Sasha de Koninck

GROUP 3
Andrew Scotti
Kate Setzler
Way Spurr-Chen
Tyler Tamburo

• Trent Reznor on his electronic score for The Social Network.

WEEK.twelve

• Project 4: spaceAnd.texture is due today. Come to class ready to perform your set. We will be broadcasting the audio live on the internet.
• You can hear the stream here: http://ixda.mica.edu/soundart/live/
• Below is a trailer for an upcoming documentary on modular synthesizers.

• Happy Thanksgiving! Have a great break.

WEEK.eleven

• Project 4: spaceAnd.texture is due next week. Come to class ready to perform your set. We will be broadcasting the audio live on the internet.
• Today we will be working with MIDI and Key mapping in addition to working with soft and hardware synthesizers.
• Recap from class of MIDI and Key mapping in Ableton Live with either a MIDI controller, computer keyboard or an APC 40.

WEEK.ten

• Begin work on Project 4: spaceAnd.texture. Due November 21.

Listen:
ELECTRONIC NOISE MUSIC:
- Whitehouse: The Birthdeath Experience [1980]
ELECTRONIC AMBIENT/NOISE:
- Zoviet*France: Assault and Mirage [1987]
- Fenneze: Field Recordings 1995-2002
PURE ELECTRONIC AMBIENT SPACE MUSIC:
- Steve Roach: Structures From Silence [1984]
- Kit Watkins: Thought Tones Vol 1. [1990]
DOWNLOAD [390MB password protected .rar]

• Below is the brilliant 2010 BBC 4 documentary “Another Green World” on ambient music pioneer, video artist and philosopher Brian Eno. He should need no introduction but if you’re not familiar with the breadth of his work I recommend starting with this Wiki entry.
- ENO ON WIKIPEDIA

Brian Eno – BBC 4 Documentary Part 1.

WEEK.nine

• Download Project 3: frequencyMusik. Recorded live today directly from the live FM microCast.  DOWNLOAD [177.2MB zip archive]
• Class will begin at 10am next week.

Artist talks next week 11/7:
- Andrew
- Kate

WEEK.eight

Homework:
• Continue to work on Project 3: frequencyMusik. The project is due next week. Please come to class ready to perform your work live.
• Watch: No Input: The Electronic Noise Underground

Review of Ableton Live’s clip launching modes from today’s class.

WEEK.seven

• Recordings of Project 2: Live Electronic Tape Loops performances. DOWNLOAD [130mb zip archive]

Homework:
• Begin work on Project 3: frequencyMusik. Make sure you have all your recordings finished before the next class & bring them with you.
• Listen to the North Avenue: NOISE + vibrating.AIR performance. The entire 30 minute piece was created entirely with live and prerecorded radio static and transmissions.
• Check out the Transmissions Arts Timeline [LINK]

• Watch the Documentary: Pirate Radio USA.

• Remember we don’t have class next week because of Fall Break.

WEEK.six

Project Two due this week: Live Music For Magnetic Tape: Improvisation with four custom tape loops and signal processing.
We will liveStream the audio live here: http://sound.mica.edu/live/

Homework: Transmission and Radio Art
- Read the Wikipedia entry on Radio Art
- Visit and explore Free103point9
- Transmission Art: Early radio & TV experiments to current projects.
- Electronic Musician and Sound Artist Pamela Z. will visit our class next week ..at 1pm. Visit her web site

Student artist presentations this week:
- Olya
- Micah
Next week: 10/10
- Tyler
- Way

WEEK.five

Visiting Artists in this week’s class:
This week we will be visited by the Electronic music artist duo TwistyCat. TwistyCat’s compositions explore themes such as electronic abstraction of acoustic timbre, the bleed between the senses of sight and hearing, post-industrial dissonances, and radio as a vehicle for displacing sound. Check out their work at: http://www.twistycat.org/

Student artist presentations this week:
- Shawn
- Faith
Next week: 10/3
- Olya
- Micah

Project Two due next week: Live improvisation with four custom tape loops and signal processing.
We will liveStream the audio here: http://sound.mica.edu/live/

WEEK.four

THIS WEDNESDAY:

The Sound Concentration presents: Kaffe Matthews
http://www.annetteworks.com/
Wednesday September 21, 2011
Artist Talk 6:30-7:30pm Brown 206 – Live Performance Brown Center Atrium 8-9pm – Free
Acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of electronic improvisation and live composition, Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new electro-acoustic music worldwide with a variety of things and places such as violin, theremin, Scottish weather, desert stretched wires, NASA scientists, melting ice in Quebec and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Currently she is researching 3D composition for outdoor enjoyment through Hammerhead sharks in Galapagos and sustainable vibratory interface design with ‘music for bodies’. Kaffe has released 6 solo CD’s on the label Annette Works and has collaborated and performed with agf, Ryoko Kuwajima, MIMEO, Sachiko M, Ikue Mori, Marina Rosenfeld, Oren Ambarchi and Christian Fennesz.
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THIS EVENT

Simple cassette tape loop composition

Extended loop with deck modifications

Homework:
• Project Two: Tape Loop performance due next week. Come to class ready to perform
your piece.

Listen:
• Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- DOWNLOAD [133MB password protected .rar]

Visit:
• Free103point9: Transmission Arts