Creative Music Technology @ A.R.U.

Hey guys, I wondered how many of you thought of using the recorded sound

on video as our sound source in the style of Christian Marclay?

watch this…



BORN IN 1928, Karlheinz Stockhausen grew up in rural Germany under Nazism, endured deprivation and war, flirted with poetry, and studied philosophy, finally deciding in 1950 to devote his life to defending so-called degenerate art, and to composing a new music of transcendent abstraction. Inspired by the power of radio, he first came to public attention as a white-coated, nuclear-age modernist and composer of the awe-inspiring Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youths, 1955–56), a five-channel tape composition dedicated to the Catholic faith and grounded in information science and linguistics. In both his electronic and his instrumental music, Stockhausen pursued a poetics of spatiality and movement prefigured in Disney’s 1940 Fantasia but ultimately abandoned by Hollywood. To his musical inventions he brought an unparalleled fluency in acoustics and a rejection of cliché. The intense frown and piercing gaze of the young man situated in the back row on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper are straight out of Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, and the engraving’s symbolism of hourglass, numerology, astrology, and geometry—even of the carpenter’s nails on the floor—is also strangely appropriate. Stockhausen’s music is intelligent, haunting, elusive, intimidating, and curiously revealing, to the performer or listener who is prepared to work for it, of an inexplicable and profound beauty. Underpinning the invertible Bauhaus graphics and jazzy exuberance of Zyklus for solo percussionist (1959), for example, is a delightful and truly genial dissertation on chance and determinism.

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artforum.com / IN PRINT

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A communication from the Major Project Module leader for those doing their MP’s this year:

Dear CMT student,

It has come to our attention that there is some uncertainty about what can be submitted within the portfolio for Major Projects in Creative Music Technology.  To clarify, the written element of your portfolio should comprise a minimum of 2,000 words and detail your project’s plan/rationale, its context and your self-evaluation of your practical work.  This self-evaluation should examine the process of creation of your practical project and review what you consider to be the most salient points of this work.  For most projects, the practical and creative elements will be the most substantial part of the portfolio.  This part of the project may include composition(s), an installation project, a performance, a media production (e.g. radio, film, drama, poetry and/or ‘new media’) and/or software design and implementation.

The exact nature of your project and portfolio should have been negotiated with your supervisor in Semester One and will be described by your registered title.  All registered titles are posted on the MPA notice board outside the Departmental Office (Hel 262).  Your project must correspond to your title and you must respect the balance of written to practical work as agreed with your supervisor.  As all CMT Major Projects must include a substantial practical element, you cannot submit a 10,000-word written dissertation.  However, your written element may exceed 2,000-words if this has been agreed in advance with you supervisor.  Do bear in mind that the practical work and written element submitted in your portfolio should not together exceed the equivalent of 10,000-words.  Your supervisor will have taken into account this ‘word-equivalence’ in negotiating your title.  Where your practical work is sufficiently complex to count as equivalent to 8,000-words, you will gain no advantage in writing more than 2,000-words.  If you remain in any doubt about your project, please check your title and/or see your supervisor urgently to seek further clarification. 

You should also consult the module guide for the Major Project, which is available on the MPA website.  The most relevant section for CMT students is reproduced below.

Best wishes,
Sue

Dr Sue Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Drama
Department of Music & Performing Arts

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Hey Guys !

I’m going down to this, anybody want to come along? let’s fix a date, it’s on for a bit but I say we catch it early ! remember Sonic Acts !

Experimental Cinema – Home

The Tate Modern gallery (London, UK) starting March 14th until May 2nd will present Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890–2008, a series of screenings with more than sixty landmark films from the french avant-garde cinema. The event has been programmed to coincide with the major exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia .

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