MUSC 402: Music & Sound for Media
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My Piece, Patience is a Virtue, was a fixed media piece with added live elements. The fixed media portion was inspired by my current struggle with finding patience in my life right now. I am a graduating senior this semester, and finding the patience to handle everything from freshmen in my organization’s drama to making [...]
Continue Reading →“Weight”
“Weight” is an intermedial piece created by Ross, Bridgette, Zack, and myself. This whole project began around the centralized theme of fighting modern-day slavery. When Bridgette and Ross first came to me with the idea, I was so excited to add anything I could to the project. Bridgette’s passion for freedom and strive [...]
Continue Reading →While our readings have focused on “authenticity” or similar terms in specific ways (e.g., Eco and openness/validity, Benjamin and aura, Barthes and authenticity, Phelan and ontology, and Auslander and “we don’t care anymore”), we’ll try to put a finger on what’s behind it all, and call it substance, whether it’s in effort, creativity, or uniquenes.
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Continue Reading →This is the sample mapping étude I made to demonstrate the assignment for class. I purposefully created it quickly and have avoided polishing it for demonstration and discussion purposes.
Because rhythm patterns are important in it, I decided to use traditional music notation, but you don’t have to do that. As you’ll see, the score [...]
Continue Reading →Today we performed my piece, Ancient Chinese Secret, juxtaposed it with René Clair’s 1924 Dada film Entr’acte, and looked for connections between the two, even though we know they weren’t intended. Our minds are natural pattern recognizing machines, so all we need to do is bring interesting elements close together and meanings will “zap” in their [...]
Continue Reading →Read the instructions in this musical score (designed for non-specialists), and come to Friday’s class prepared to perform it. We’ll perform it for ourselves and use it in the next lesson.
You’ll need to find and bring in some resonant found object
Continue Reading →Here are some descriptions of recent large group intermedia performances we’ve done. The first three were from MUSC 402.
Nguhhhhhhhh — a Zombie Folktale.
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{ Jack meant 600 pixels on each side (600x600). } – Apr 21, 8:50 PM
{ Maybe it's just me, but 600 pixels (20x30) is absolutely tiny. } – Apr 21, 11:39 AM
{ This was so cool! It sounded like the Knight Rider theme! Just had to post for sentiment... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8Qls0HnWo } – Apr 18, 6:18 AM
{ If you need any help putting together the actual "Time Machine" let me know! I'd be glad to help with constructing it. I have some... } – Apr 05, 2:50 AM
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