In addition to your continuing weekly progress reports reflecting any project-specific instructions and advice given in class, include a technical rider in your next progress report, due at class time, Tuesday, April 12.
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Notes from 3/10/2016
Useful search phrase: “Extended techniques for cello”
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_string_instrument_extended_technique
A treatise from Oberlin College: http://www.oberlin.edu/library/friends/research.awards/messina.pdf
B4ch1007 (Bach Loot) Video Score
This is a set of six variations Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 (BWV 1007), especially the famous opening motive. These silent videos are presented as musical graphic scores, meant to be interpreted more subjectively than traditional notation. Continue reading
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Notes from 3/8/2016
Navigating the page, reconstructing a Bach prelude, composition books, motion-controlled sound processing, and thumb picks (for good measure)!
Notes from 3/3/2016
A de/reconstructed opera recitative, bowed piano ensemble, and prepared guitar
Notes from 3/1/16
In the last class, conversation changed before I could mention Stelarc’s mass-remote-controlled body performance pieces, most notably Split Body: Voltage In/Out but also Ping Body, of which a video can be found here. I also came across a history of performance art using electrically manipulated bodies in Leonardo. Of course, Jonathan and Blake’s idea didn’t involve direct control over a performer’s body, but the concept is related; it might be seen as the same but replacing the electrodes with a social contract and voting mechanism, a view on the piece which may be helpful in inspiring future decisions shaping the piece.
Notes from 2/25/16
Deprivation music, silhouettes vs. video, and how to fake sophisticated interactivity.
Notes from 2/23/16
Notes from today’s class: Rube Goldberg, Lou Reed, and emotions
Counterpoint, Ready to Translate to Other Media
Your First Étude Video
Here’s the assignment we delayed from earlier in the semester. Post it on your site (as instructed below) by class time, Tuesday, April 5.
Click here for a video walkthrough