Haunted Critque and My ideas

My inspiration.

I'm sorry to keep doing this. I live in Sledd and I barely get internet, I usually have to walk my laptop away to the common area-downstairs and through the hall- to get internet, cause we live on the end. My battery life doesn't last long... ANYWAY. As i said in class, i wanted to do an abstracted piece where the visual and physical parts of the elevator were transformed into sound, as well as the sound an elevator makes. I was inspired by the cinematic and I guess took a page from Disney (bleh) and it turned out to be like a R rated tower of terror or somthing. (maybe PG-13) I wanted a very abstracted almost anti-musical piece like the fluxus people do. I think my loop pertained more when it was by the elevator, but it evoked more of the intended feelings I had hoped for in the dark haunted hallway. The hysteria of the ghost girl probably added to it too.

Critiques

Ryan's was okay. His intention conflicted with his piece and hit set-up of the viewers. It sounded just like my car when I search for radio stations with all the mainstream music. It was pretty musically based.

Emily's stuck the truest to her original score, it did evoke an almost claustrophobic, unbearable feeling which is good if intended. The hallway was good acoustics for it, and i loved how it sped up and that strange clown fart noise was interestingly odd. it got a lil repetitive but it looped seamlessly.

In Will's i was lost at first but then i gathered a narrative feel. As if someone put a microphone by a boy and recorded the sounds of his day.

The twilight zone was good, it fit the hallway nicely. The totally random if I'm Alive was awesome and I wish you could've expounded on that, idk make the main stream artist zombified and twisted.

Gaby's had a lot of really good seamless transitions between songs. I really liked hers. The phonograph sounded like dragging bodies and make me feel a bit unconformable. It was sweet.

Leslie's piece was very abstracted and nice. Those mechanical noises were intense and mimicked the elevator very nicely. I didn't get the sun exploding, but that's because i was relating it to the elevator and not her previous piece about the sun.

KT's piece was soothing and nice with the random slot machine pieces, it would lull me into a stupor then yank me outta it. I really liked how she broke down the opera song in the end.

Rest of Sound Critque

Olga: Musical, most peoples are musical, its cool how the poem goes with the tempo of the music. The second one makes me sleepy , very ambient and relaxing with the birds and waves. I like how the volume went up and the ringing and chaos entered. Something peaceful like birds and waves becoming threatening, it was a nice touch.

Melissa: interesting, the french one seemed a little better. it was stranger that's probably why i liked it. the German one was a bit scattered but still neat.

Will: musical, beat-boxy. a very good remix, it seems like you've done this before. I like the second one, I'm glad you used an old speech in your work.

Anthony: wasn't here

Somthing Cool

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Moment-Forming and Momente reading

First off I found the lecture quite hard to digest. I flipped to parts multiple times and this is what I got from it. Stockhausen’s Momente is a type of organized randomness composition. Organized is an understatement. He devised a system that’s divided into 3 main parts the M, D, I and K moments. Which represent, instrumental randomness, durations, pure randomness and vocal randomness(?). The these 3 main combined branches slit and divide more intricate creating sub branches of each other like K(m) moment. This seemed like a type of equation to me. As if Stockhausen had a formula he was following. It became clearer when he gave examples to what these variables he labeled represented. These moments follow specific rules of order and sequence. The result from this is an intended random discord that follows, that once the guidelines are set in place, Stockhausen lets them go where they will.

The heterophonic event was a bit confusing. I think he was trying to create the opposite of a symphonic event? Where the instruments and vocals do not harmonize or synchronize rather repel and create discord? For instance he gave the each male in the choir certain sounds like Oh! Pooh! and others to randomly say during their time, as well as specified pitches to do them at. I like the fact that he gives them a choice here. In a way by adding this human element of choice in his composition, they too are collaborating with Stockhausen to create and carry out his composition.

Another part that confused my was the pure K moments, where Stockhausen says give and take the least, but also give and take the most. He also quotes that he wants the moments to have as little in common as possible and makes an effort to see this through. Also his large M-components of “statistical randomness” went over my head.

I enjoyed his anecdote in the end and his detailed description of the score. It really makes me want to hear it in person.

Fragmented Critques

Emily: pretty trippy, im not sure i like the steady beat of the drums and the techno-like music in the beginning. i love the sped up voice, so weird! lol just enough of it.... i can't believe that song was on the prelinger archives. i like this one better, i like how the horn in Empire is repeated.

Ryan: so far pretty musical, you did a very good job making music out of different song clips. very mellow piece, not a head ache. I like the voices a lot, I wish they faded out a lil better and didn't abruptly go out. the first was a bit rocky but the second was smooth. Nice looping, goes and ends seamlessly.

Joel: very musical, im glad it breaks down cause i 1st i was thinking of a techno song. Ah loved the 2nd, it really hearkens back to an era. the bongos seem really random, i like it. where in the in the original score i wonder?

Lesley: The Sun is going to blow up was really funny, bc of the its gonna rain/ pretty techno like but it was funny. I really like the second with the rainstorm or whatever that is, it sound like something rolling or exploding i like it, its very abstract. ahh windshield wipers, i was off. lol

I really like the Twitter one, i almost want to hear the "urr" in twitturr that they annunciation so profoundly. Omg obsessed with the Snow Storm one with the chorus in the back, ob-sessed. I really like these two alot.

Jim: its really good i like the juxtaposition but at the same time, the English person is referring to the eastern ppl's chants. awesome. the voices were intense. C.S. Lewis's Jabberwoki poem. awesome, i like how the poem flows in and out. i almost wished you didn't tell people it was that poem, but the random lady telling ppl its in the public domain is funny.

Kirstin: techno, very techno disco musical. very relaxing hawiian music typre.

KT: i'm such a sucker for the opera pieces, but i like the inverted quality you've given the voices and music. i love the arrangement you did. the fart noices or whatever those art. this one's very abtract, i love it. the voice is very calm too, i love the storm. this one was one of the best i think, very good!

Gabby: I love betty boop and totally forgot. but i loved the idea of a broken record kinda like i did. your second is very ominous i wonder what he is saying. the repetition is nice, you lost me a little bit when you combined the fast and slow voice but i liked when the music tied it in the end.

Sara: I really get the heartbeat feel with your sound piece. I like this one much better than the 1st only bc you can barely distinguish whats going on. i like how you abstracted and alienated the sound.

Loop inspirations

I felt very limited as an artist to mimic another artist style, so the manatory loop is the lesser favorite of the two i made. I drew from my love of retro movies and theatre, using a radio theatre creation of a Humphrey Bogart movie. I'm love with the time period, the references and sayings, the currency value at the time, everything. I chose for the first to focus on the advertizement of that time Lux Plates, which apperently cleans stalkings quite nicely. the advertizing also said alot about who was listening to these radio shows at the time. i switched it up the second time with 4 repeated seconds of Chopin, mixed with sounds still from the previous advertizments.

My second one I enjoyed doing so much more. I played with the idea of languages and where they break down and build up. a digeridoo is the steady keeper, which for the aboriginees is a language of itself. there is also a spanish liberal saying thing, no filters on that i found it that way, a a capello japapnese version of A Whole New World, which sped itself up when i copy and pasted it to its own track, and 3 words from a wrap about freedom from oppression of goveremnt. I find this one funny but also ominus. it was a lot of fun making this loop. i loved it! but i also loved the old music and voices and sound quality of the other too.

Sound Project

I'm thinking of something rhythmic and tribal. the stereo one will be much more complicated but more fun to work with. One will be mono, nm lol both model. i much prefer Chopin, Ill think ill do the first one.

More Video artist project

Anthony, Errol Morris "The Little Grey Man"
Different style, looks like first person interview. viewer is more involved. interesting device, web cam like technology. the way the person is talking right TO YOU, it is really intense. A lot of angles tho, that's a bit annoying. actualy no, i can't even focus on what he's saying. I don't much care for the music either.

The next one is MINE!! yay :D