Showing posts with label Experimental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Experimental. Show all posts
22/02/2010
10/02/2010
Απλά, λιτά και ωραία : Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten, μεταφρασμένο στα αγγλικά "Collapsing New Buildings". Στα ελληνικα θα ήταν κάτι σαν "καταστρέφοντας καινούρια κτήρια". Όταν το 'industrial' απέκτησε κυριολεκτική σημασία.
28/01/2010
The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project - Vanessa
"These are my neighbours. My wife and I have two little kids and live in a multi-cultural neighbourhood in downtown Toronto. In the hot summer months all the kids in the neighbourhood play outside together and everyone is out on their porch enjoying each other’s company, telling stories and sharing thoughts. A year or so ago I began inviting some of them over to the house for a casual interview vaguely centered around the subject of happiness. In some cases we never broached the subject directly but none-the-less my friends began to call it my “Happiness Project”.
After each interview I would listen back to the recording for moments that were interesting in both meaning and melody. By meaning I mean the thoughts expressed, by melody I mean the cadence and inflection that give the voice a sing-song quality. It has always been interesting to me how we use sounds to convey concepts. Normally, we don’t pay any attention to the movement of our lips and tounge, and the rising and falling of our voices as we toss our thoughts back and forth to each other. We just talk and listen. The only time we pay attention to these qualities is in song. (Just as when we read we don’t pay attention to the curl and swing of the letters as though they were little drawings.)
Meaning seems to be our hunger but we should still try to taste our food. I wanted to see if I could blur the line between speaking and singing - life and art? - and write music based on these accidental melodies.So I had some musician friends play, as close as they could, these neighbourhood melodies on different instruments (Mrs. Morris on the tenor saxophone, Marisa on the harp, my daughter Ondine on the violin, etc.) and then I arranged them as though they were songs.
All of the melodies on this album are the melodies of every day life."
http://www.happiness-project.ca
"These are my neighbours. My wife and I have two little kids and live in a multi-cultural neighbourhood in downtown Toronto. In the hot summer months all the kids in the neighbourhood play outside together and everyone is out on their porch enjoying each other’s company, telling stories and sharing thoughts. A year or so ago I began inviting some of them over to the house for a casual interview vaguely centered around the subject of happiness. In some cases we never broached the subject directly but none-the-less my friends began to call it my “Happiness Project”.
After each interview I would listen back to the recording for moments that were interesting in both meaning and melody. By meaning I mean the thoughts expressed, by melody I mean the cadence and inflection that give the voice a sing-song quality. It has always been interesting to me how we use sounds to convey concepts. Normally, we don’t pay any attention to the movement of our lips and tounge, and the rising and falling of our voices as we toss our thoughts back and forth to each other. We just talk and listen. The only time we pay attention to these qualities is in song. (Just as when we read we don’t pay attention to the curl and swing of the letters as though they were little drawings.)
Meaning seems to be our hunger but we should still try to taste our food. I wanted to see if I could blur the line between speaking and singing - life and art? - and write music based on these accidental melodies.So I had some musician friends play, as close as they could, these neighbourhood melodies on different instruments (Mrs. Morris on the tenor saxophone, Marisa on the harp, my daughter Ondine on the violin, etc.) and then I arranged them as though they were songs.
All of the melodies on this album are the melodies of every day life."
http://www.happiness-project.ca
23/01/2010
Phill Niblock - The Movement Of People Working
"[...]he made a number of films in a series titled The Movement of People Working. Filmed in primarily rural environments in many countries (China, Brazil, Portugal, Lesotho, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, the Arctic, Mexico, Hungary, the Adirondacks, Peru), the films look at everyday work, frequently agrarian or marine labor. These films are remarkable for their realistic quality and absence of artifice, their use of long takes in high resolution and their supposedly artless juxtaposition of compelling images in vivid colors. These scenes of the movement of human manual labor are treated abstractly without explicit anthropological or sociological meaning. As in the music, a surface slowness is countered by an active, varied texture of rhythm and form of body motion within the frame; this is what Niblock himself considers the ultimate subject matter of his films."
Wikipedia - Phill Niblock
21/01/2010
02/12/2009
22/08/2009
20/02/2009
65daysofstatic - Live in Athens (4/4/2009) & "Escape From New York"
A preview:
And here's the trailer from their upcoming album.
NYCTrailer1 from 65dayosfstatic on Vimeo.
15/02/2009
Cello Powder
A project by Nikos Veliotis to record the entire sonic range of a cello (this means all the playable notes of a cello, including quarter tones, laying between two 'quantized' notes such as C and C#) in drones, for an hour (each note separately), and then combine them all together in a unique audio file.
What's most intriguing is the performance that will be held in Glasgow on March 9. The cello , after the live performance of the project, "will be destroyed (turned into power)" as the info on Nikos Veliotis' website reads, and will be put into 100 jars (250ml each one). The jars will be sold along with the album.
The audio file and the unedited video file of the performance will be available for free download from the website.
Links : cello powder
The audio file and the unedited video file of the performance will be available for free download from the website.
Links : cello powder
11/02/2009
26/01/2009
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