Kulturtechno

Mathieu Tremblin, ‘Tag Clouds (Rue de Gaillon)’ (2010)

(via pietmondriaan)

Dave Soldier und Komar & Melamid haben in den 90ern nach Umfragen die unbeliebteste Musik geschaffen. Steht leider nicht online – vielleicht weil zu unbeliebt? Bei Ubu kann man’s anhören (danke, Samuel):

http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html

This survey confirms the hypothesis that today’s popular music indeed provides an accurate estimate of the wishes of the vox populi. The most favored ensemble, determined from a rating by participants of their favorite instruments in combination, comprises a moderately sized group (three to ten instruments) consisting of guitar, piano, saxophone, bass, drums, violin, cello, synthesizer, with low male and female vocals singing in rock/r&b style. The favorite lyrics narrate a love story, and the favorite listening circumstance is at home. The only feature in lyric subjects that occurs in both most wanted and unwanted categories is “intellectual stimulation.” Most participants desire music of moderate duration (approximately 5 minutes), moderate pitch range, moderate tempo, and moderate to loud volume, and display a profound dislike of the alternatives. If the survey provides an accurate analysis of these factors for the population, and assuming that the preference for each factor follows a Gaussian (i.e. bell-curve) distribution, the combination of these qualities, even to the point of sensory overload and stylistic discohesion, will result in a musical work that will be unavoidably and uncontrollably “liked” by 72 plus or minus 12% (standard deviation; Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic) of listeners.

The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and “elevator” music, and a children’s choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commericals and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world’s total population would enjoy this piece.

http://awp.diaart.org/km/musiccd.html

Update: Es hat sich auch ein Video gefunden (Danke Jenny!):

Aus der aktuellen Keyboardliteratur zwei bemerkenswerte Stücke:

Henrique Vaz: Black MIDI (2013)
Duo piece for Piano + Dispositive (eccentric rotating mass vibrating motors – amplitude: from 6G to 13G} & MIDI Keyboard.

Piano & MIDI Keyboard: Henrique Vaz

Anton Wassiljew – Keyboardstück III (2011-2014)

Keyboard, Sebastian Berweck
14.04.2014 Konzertsaal der Hochschule für Künste Bremen

Das nächste Re-enactment (könnte man auch ein ganzes Online-Festival draus machen):

Trevor Cox hat Alvin Lucies Klassiker I am sitting in a room in dem Raum mit dem mutmaßlich längsten Nachhall realisiert.

A rendition of Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room played using the Inchindown Oil Tanks that hold the Guinness World Record for having the ‚longest echo‘. The text passes through the oil tanks multiple times, until all that remains are strange tones created by this long feedback loop. The immense reverberance of the oil tanks give a very different feel to the early evolving sound compared to renditions using more conventional concert halls.

Umgekehrt wär’s auch interessant, das Stück in einem maximal schallschluckenden Raum aufzuführen.

(via Disquiet)

Schönes Re-Enactment von György Ligetis „Poème Symphonique“ für 100 Metronome – so wie ich es verstehe haben Paul Hübner und Niklas Seidl YouTube-Filme mit Metronomen genommen und als Split Screen angeordnet, wobei aus den verschiedenen Dauern der vorgefundenen Filme der Ausdünnungsprozess resultiert, der bei Ligeti durch sukzessives Ausscheiden der entspannten Metronomfedern entsteht.

by David Pocknee

for Andy Ingamells

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13718 verbs re-imagined as Fluxus one-word text scores, arranged in a random order that will change when the page is refreshed.

Some verbs appear in both English and American spellings. These small differences should indicate a subtle change in the approach to performance.

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ANDY (leafing through Yoko Ono’s „Grapefruit“): A lot of these scores seem like you just take a random word from the dictionary, stick „PIECE“ on the end of it and then the piece is just that word with a full stop after it and the date…

DAVID AND ANDY: …wait a minute…

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(via textscoreaday)

Wer sich für den amerikanischen Abstraktminimalisten interessiert, hier gibt’s eine hervorragende Ressource:

http://www.cnvill.net/mftexts.htm

(via Ali)

Sounds of Silence is a new compilation of silent tracks by the likes of Orbital, Crass, Andy Warhol, Sly & The Family Stone, John Denver, Afrika Bambaataa, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and many more artists. According to the avant-garde Italian label Alga Marghen that issued the LP, limited to just 250 copies, „The carefully chosen silences of this anthology are intrinsically linked to the medium of reproduction itself and reveal it’s nude materiality. They expose their medium in all its facets and imperfections, including the effect of time and wear. At the most basic level, these silences are surfaces. And it is in their materiality that they distinguish themselves from the conceptual experiments of John Cage with „4’33“.“ Of course, the title (and sleeve) is its own musical reference. Below, enjoy Lennon and Ono’s „Two Minutes Silence“ from 1969.

(via BoingBoing)

Seit mehreren Jahren sammelt annette hollywood Vinyl-Singles aus dem gesamten Spektrum der Popmusik, in denen die Liebe besungen wird. Ein scheinbar einfacher Kunstgriff macht die Lieder zu ART SONGS: Das so inflationär verwendete Wort »Love« wird durch »Art« ersetzt. […] Die umgewidmeten Texte werfen eine neues Licht auf unser Verhältnis zur Kunst, wobei Kunst und Liebe mitunter ungewohnte Entsprechungen oder Gegensätze zu zeigen scheinen: „ART HURTS, art scars, art wounds and marks, any heart, not tough…“ (Original: Love Hurts, Nazareth, 1976).

http://www.annettehollywood.com/artwork.html

(Danke für den Tipp, Anne!)

Haha! Seth Kim-Cohen hat mal eine ulkige Aktion durchgeführt: Allen Personen, die in der Januar-2009-Ausgabe der bedeutendsten englischsprachigen Kunstzeitschrift „Artforum“ mit Adresse genannt wurden (scheint in dem Heft üblich zu sein), hat er eine Karte geschickt.

A postcards is sent to each address appearing in the January 2009 issue of Artforum.

The postcard reads:

„You have received this card
because your address appeared
in the January 2009 issue of Artforum.“

http://www.kim-cohen.com/projects/vettingthevetters_home.html