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„Neuer Konzeptualismus“ in der Literatur

3. Januar 2014

Für alle, die die Strömung des „Neuen Konzeptualismus“ interessiert, ein sehr interessanter Text von Kenneth Goldsmith im „New Yorker“ über neue konzeptuelle Formen von Literatur im Internet. Er nennt es „conceptualism in the wild“.

In the past decade, writers have been culling the Internet for material, making books that are more focussed on collecting than on reading. These ways of writing—word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriating, intentionally plagiarizing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, to name just a few—have traditionally been considered outside the scope of literary practice.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/the-writer-as-meme-machine-how-has-the-internet-altered-poetry.html

Vergleichbar mit meinen „Sätzen über musikalische Konzeptkunst“ hat Goldsmith auch „Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing“ verfasst.

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„I will return“ – ein Songtext wird musikalisch ernst genommen

2. Januar 2014

Von Genoël von Lilienstern. Wie man Ohrwürmer wieder loswird, hab ich ja unlängst gebloggt.

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Antimusik: Wie man Ohrwürmer loswird

1. Januar 2014

Neues aus der Anti-Musik-Forschung:

Researchers claim the best way to stopping the phenomenon, sometimes known as earworms – where snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain – is to solve some tricky anagrams.

This can force the intrusive music out of your working memory, they say, allowing it to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts. […]

“The key is to find something that will give the right level of challenge,” said Dr Ira Hyman, a music psychologist at Western Washington University who conducted the research. “If you are cognitively engaged, it limits the ability of intrusive songs to enter your head.

“Something we can do automatically like driving or walking means you are not using all of your cognitive resource, so there is plenty of space left for that internal jukebox to start playing. […]

“Verbal tasks like solving anagrams or reading a good novel seem to be very good at keeping earworms out,” said Dr Hyman, who now hopes to examine whether similar techniques could be used to prevent other intrusive thoughts caused by anxiety or obsessiveness.

(via Neatorama – siehe auch SpOn)

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Zwölf konzeptuelle Stücke

31. Dezember 2013

Wie immer am Jahresende fasse ich kleinere konzeptuelle Arbeiten zusammen. 2010 waren es vier konzeptuelle Stücke, 2011 zwei, 2012 fünf, heuer sind es zwölf konzeptuelle Stücke.

 

 

Das Subjekt-Objekt-Problem

 

 
 

Mention of Rhythm in the Introduction, perhaps

 
 

Trauermusik für Boris Becker

 
 

Shed

 

 

 

Schwarzes Quadrat

Dieses Jahr feiert das Schwarze Quadrat von Kasimir Malewitsch
hundertsten Geburtstag. Dazu habe ich ein kleines Musikstück
gemacht, eine klangliche Umsetzung desselben:

 

Das Quadrat erklingt als Rechteckschwingung (“Square Wave”);
die Farbe “Signalschwarz” hat den CIEL-Wert
28.66, darum als Frequenz
28.66 Hertz;
die Frage nach der
Dauer, die Peter Ablinger für ein klingendes
Quadrat gestellt hat, beantworte ich subjektiv mit 8 Sekunden.

 

 

 

New Complexity Fountain

 

 

 

Kubismus

 

 

True Type Font Music

Joseph von Eichendorff’s Gedicht “Mondnacht“, dargestellt in TrueType
Fonts mit musikalischen Notationselementen, als Notenblätter.

Hier die Versionen in den Fonts
Boulez
Concreta
Controla
EngraverFontSet
EngraverText
FarHat-Accordes
Maestro Percussion
Sonora
Toccata
Woodwind Tablature

 

 

Duration of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel, “Sound of Silence”, stretched to 4’33” duration.

 

Depeche Mode, “Enjoy the Silence” (2004 version), stretched to 4’33”
duration.

 
 

ASFSP

 
 

Back in C

Transposition back to C of Seth Kim-Cohen’s Transposition to D (“In
D“) of Terry Riley’s piece “In C”.

Recording

 
 

Crescendo and Ritardando Compositions

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Egoshooter auf dem Klavier spielen

30. Dezember 2013

Ich wäre ja neugierig, wie das Spiel verliefe, wenn man eine Klaviersonate von Beethoven oder eine Fuge von Bach spielen würde.

(via Gamasutra)

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Musizierende Tiere (im Mittelalter)

29. Dezember 2013

(ca. 1330)

(ca. 1430)

(draufklicken zum vergrößern)

(via discarded image / discarded image)

Früher auf Kulturtechno:

Schönberg played by cats mashup’d

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Mikrobenstimulation funktioniert mit Mozart am besten (am allerbesten mit der Zauberflöte)

28. Dezember 2013

or all the chatter about how Mozart makes your kids smarter (false!) or how it helps with the SATs (possibly), the one thing that Mozart definitely seems to do is make sludge-eating microbes digest faster. A sewage treatment plant in Treuenbrietzen, Germany, has experimented with different operas, playing them at high volume through loudspeakers set up around the site. „The Magic Flute“ seems to work best. Anton Stucki, the plant’s chief operator, believes the reverberations quicken the pace for breaking down refuse. „We think the secret is in the vibrations of the music, which penetrate everything—including the water, the sewage, and the cells,“ he says. „It creates a certain resonance that stimulates the microbes and help them work better.“ Stucki doesn’t even like opera; he’s a rock ’n‘ roll fan. But he tolerates Mozart because it makes the microbes more efficient, saving the plant up to $1,250 a month.

(Video gehört nicht original zu dem Text)

Mozart – ein Pionier der Land Art (oder so).

(via Neatorama)

ps.: Nun gut, dafür steigert Popmusik die Effizienz von Solarzellen (besser als Klassische Musik).

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Fan-made Music

27. Dezember 2013

Daniel Freitag hat auf Konzerten von Die Antwoord, Apparat, Deadmau5, The Roots und Gold Panda leere Vinyls auf den Boden geklebt und aus den zerkratzten Platten wiederum Musik gemacht.

(via nerdcore)

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Personalmelodien

26. Dezember 2013

Interessant: Auf Papua Neu-Guinea gibt es einen Stamm, bei dem sich jeder Mensch durch eine individuelle Melodie zu erkennen gibt.

Konggap, sung melodic motifs that last only a few seconds embody the acoustic representation of a person among the Yupno people of Papua New Guinea and are a unique phenomenon in the Pacific. The konggap forms a very complex system of personal identification and expression of social relationships; at the same time it connects the singer to the ancestral world. Every person in Yupno society possesses his or her own konggap, and Yupno people are able to identify a large number of konggap, some men even up to three hundred. Nobody would sing his or her own konggap during the day. When crossing Yupno land, a person has to sing the konggap of the respective landowner to identify himself as an insider, a local person − unlike strangers (and possible enemies) who remain silent. But at nightly dances each dancer sings his own konggap and during mourning at funerals groups of women simultaneously sing the konggap of the deceased person. An interdisciplinary ethnographic-musicological-cognitive fieldwork study was conducted in order to find out how it is possible that the Yupno are able to identify and distinguish between this staggering amount of very short sung motifs.

I was very curious to hear what these sounded like, but I couldn’t find anything online, so I emailed the lead author on the paper, Raymond Ammann, and asked if he knew of any publicly-available recordings. He directed me to a flash site that contains an impossibly brief snippet of recorded konggap melodies. Here’s how to find them:

Go to this site, which is mostly in German: http://www.opos.unibas.ch/
Click the little red dot on Papua New Guinea (some big circles will pop up when you hover, you can ignore them).
Click “soundscape” in the top left corner.
Then click “Ton und Bild,” which will appear just to the right.
That will bring up a media player that plays soundscape recordings taken every hour in the jungle.
„At 18:00 when people are walking home from the gardens you can hear konggap.”

You can barely make them out behind the birdsong, but there they are!

http://noiseforairports.com/post/68265390197/personal-melodies

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Sebastian Berwecks Doktorarbeit über das Aufführen elektroakustischer Musik

25. Dezember 2013

Sebastian Berweck hat promoviert! Herzliche Gratulation. Allein schon der Titel der Dissertation spricht Bände: It worked yesterday.

Playing electroacoustic music raises a number of challenges for performers such as dealing with obsolete or malfunctioning technology and incomplete technical documentation. Together with the generally higher workload due to the additional technical requirements the time available for musical work is significantly reduced. Many of the issues have their roots in composers, publishers, performers and promoters considering how their work process could easily be adapted to the additional demands of electroacoustic music. It was also found that the employment of music technologists cannot sufficiently make up for incomplete documentation and inadequate archiving of compositions. Using case studies made up of single compositions and whole concerts, solutions are proposed, which the several parties could effortlessly employ to considerably ease the process of preparing and performing electroacoustic music. Finally hands-on methods on how performers can deal with the situation as it is today are proposed. It is being hoped that by implementing these strategies not only better performances of electroacoustic music will be facilitated but also that electroacoustic works in general will enjoy a longer life-span in the future, thus enabling the sustenance of a vivid electroacoustic repertoire.

Hier kann die Arbeit heruntergeladen werden:

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/17540/

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