steve reich

zizek talking about SOund of Music

the killing machine

The killing machine

by Janet Cardiff y George Bures Miller

www.cardiffmiller.com

robots

Tanaka Karakuri's masterpiece, made around 1840s, Mojikaki Ningyo (writing doll):

Qrio robot throwing a ball:

link to watch others performances by Qrio

Asimo conducting Detroit's Symphony:

(she need a toilet)

link to robot orchestra

WF-4RII playing flute:

and this Toyota android playing violin like a robot:

using the spare energy to make music (part1)

That is the scheme of the project I've been working on.

I know that is an unreadable, so I will write it in here to help you to understand.

USING MY SPARE ENERGY TO MAKE MUSIC

ROTINE

home + cooking + traveling from one place to another + sleep :ll

People have: brain and muscles.

-brain controls muscles

-brain can think of others things instead of muscles

-brain is stronger than muscles

-If I have brain I have muscles

-If I have a lot of muscles, I probably have a small brain

-I have energy coming form my brain to move my muscles and play an instrument

-But if I don't have enough energy or I can't connect each other, can I still use that power to play?

-So if I have brain but not muscles, can I still make a sound?

-Or if I have something to do, but I want to make music, can I merge them together?

SOURCE OF POWER

friction car

hula-hoops

on grandma's chair

scratch card

milkshake

kiss

weight

SPACE TO PROPAGATE THE SOUND

basically there are 3 scales:

between the ears / on the hands / above the head

[showed different spaces and how the sound works on them]

(I've been researching for my new project)

sudden infant

website.

on YouTube.

glass bees

their page.

following the carnaval, have a look on this picture! 

fantasy

...at the end is always fun.

otomo's gig

I went to Otomo's gig! 

sim, exclamation mark!!! 

como eu ja contei num outro post, eu assisti uma 'palestra' ou uma atipica e inesperada e tambem unica apresentacao dele no meu coleginho, onde foram quase queimada as caixas de som; entao pra este show, alarmei meus amigos a cuidarem dos ouvidos..

hein?! 

nao, pior que nao precisou........ o show comecou, o lugar tava lotado, eu fiquei de pe bem na frente dele e no meio do corredor com varias pessoas sentadas ao redor. no primeiro ato tocou ele e a Sachiko M (duo chamado Filament) e devagarinho, mas beeem devagarinho eu escutava alguns estalos vindo do lado direito, alguns chiados do esquerdo, alguns ruidos, alguns celulares esquecidos de serem desligados, algumas pessoas andando no andar de cima (que devia ser uma simples casa com poucas pessoas), meu proprio barulho mudando de uma pose pra outra, alguns suspiros do publico, mais chiados dos fios do Otomo, mais estalos da mesa de som da Sachiko e pra encerrar a longa musica que durou uns 30 minutos, ouvimos a sirene de um carro de policia em fade out (sim, os musicos acompanhavam e interagiam com tudo!)

aham, uma completa obra zen budista ou qualquer outra coisa do tipo!! 

meu amigo adorou; eu fiquei apreensiva pro proximo ato..

o segundo comeca e desta vez tem o Christian Marclay acompanhando com mais duas mesas de turntables (ou mesa de turn, pra nao soar tanta redundancia)!! portanto temos 4 turntables mais o kit da senhora Sachiko, cada um no palco com seu propio par de caixas de som. assim, comeca o barulho!! 

Era bastante ruido e muita sincronia! nao explodiram meus ouvidos, nao vi sangue jorrar na plateia, eles tiveram classe e experiencia, pois deixaram todo mundo com vontade de ouvir mais, talvez um terceiro ato!! (particularmente, acho que este seria a sintese perfeita dos dois, cairia como um doce..)

enfim, fiquei satisfeita, mas vou atras de um terceiro ato, seja la onde for. 

Onde eh? Ainda nao sei, mas vou procurar e voltarei pra contar.

Bom, com de praxe, sugiro este link do Otomo: 'Many moods of Otomo'. Ali tem uma parte em que ele toca o instrumento de uma forma admiravel (por volta dos 2'') e mais admiravel ainda eh o pedacinho da trilha sonora que ele fez pro filme chines The Blue Kite. Eu assisti esses dias e eh lindo, vale a pena!!

women, just us

A homage! 

Maria Callas the rock and roll from classical music.


Elis Regina (Essa Mulher, maravilhosa!) 

Janis Joplin (Cry, Baby.. can you?)

Holiday, Billie Holliday.

Ella (your Portuguese is perfect!!)

sao elas e todas nos.

just us guys, just us can go that deep in feelings.
bursting into tears!! easily!! is good for the heart. 

deeply superficial, deeply serious, maliciously light, beautifully happy!

garotas, nos somos incriveis!
let's celebrate!

follow those links, I recommend!

backing to Otomo.

He is coming to London to play at Cafe OTO tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday! I've got the tickets already. Can't wait.

"People generally classify into experimental music or avant-garde field, sometimes into jazz. But I have no attention to specific genre. I am just attracted by each music in terms of different dictions. Each music contributes to create a world of plenty in each different way, I believe."

jorge macchi

So, keep going with music notation, have a look at this work by Jorge Macchi. 

Fim de Film

His is an Argentinean artist who works a lot with music score, making relationship between music notations and visual art. But he is not a musician, at least I don't know that, he is on the other side, working from plastic intentions using musical images. We can't actually play it, as the others score are made for. Well.. have a look at the link I showed above and search for others things on his website and you can see what I mean. 

I think he is incredible.

music notation

UOu.. Its seems I was on Carnival here, as I haven't been writing lately..

anyway...

Something I always appreciated in music is the music notation. I remember trying to write my music in a way that I would quickly understand for recording that later. I also should have kept Brawl's notation to our instrumental band, Malagueta. 

Music notation is always an amazing graphic design, logical and schematic. Is like a painting with symbols of sounds. Or an architectural project for music. Architecting music:

The traditional score is beautiful I agree, but too complex and not complet enough.. Look at different ones:

they are all incredible!!

(by the way, Michel Gondry again; too much, Michael! I will kill you)