Mouthdrumming : Wes Carroll’s Instructional Site For Vocal Percussion
Solkattu (S Indian), Bols (N Indian), peurt a beul (Celtic), and ‘beatboxing’ are all kinds of mouth music. Check out the sequencer via this link to Wes Carroll, and groove away!
The Monks - A rare clip from the 60’s - live - music - the - monks - german - tv - Singing & Dancing - Celebrities - ?
Probably the most eagerly awaited release of any musical interface in a decade or more, the Tenori-On is presented in a Sonic State video, presented by Yamaha’s Yu Nishibori.
Seems like an extraordinary year for innovation in musical interfaces with the Nintendo Wii controller being adapted by a number of people for music performance and now the Tenori-on
This page on the Stockhausen web site contains an >>Intoduction to the HELICOPTER String Quartet.
Music with Roots in the Aether is a seminal series of interviews and performances conceived and realized by Robert Ashley in 1976, consisting of 14 hours worth of video and audio. Subjects and performers include: David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley says: Music with Roots in the Aether is a series of interviews with seven composers who seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music, a movement that had its origins in the work of and in the stories about composers who started hearing things in a new way at least fifty years ago.”
Another Aspen page - this time about La Monte Young’s Notes on Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations of map of 49’s dream the two systems of eleven sets of galactic intervals ornamental lightyears tracery by La Monte Young
The audio can be heard here
This UBU Web page contains audio excerpts from 2 famous early electronic music works:
Mario Davidovsky
In Memoriam Edgar Varèse
5 mins. 22 secs.
This magnetic tape composition was done in the tape studio of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In contrast to Horn, this composition was done entirely on magnetic tape with each sound created and controlled entirely by the composer in the tape studio.
Gordon Mumma
Horn, a coulisse from antiquity in the guise of an objet trouvé.
Gordon Mumma, French Horn; Robert Ashley, Cybersonic Console; George Cacioppo, Cybersonic Console
6 mins. 21 secs.
Aspen no. 4, item 6: Audio: A Sampler of Electronic Music
It also contains links to text on both works.
This site Aspen no. 5+6, item 21: Fontana Mix
Contains an interactive - one each of the ten different drawings, transparent sheets and graphs which make up the complete score - and some information about a performance by Max Neuhaus of Cage’s Fontana Mix (including a link to an audio file of the performance)
Performer’s Notes for “Fontana Mix-Feed”
as recorded Nov. 9, 1967 by Aspen.
I used “Fontana Mix” to make a score, which I called “Feed,” for adjustable resistors which are affecting acoustic feedback. In this performance, the adjustable resistors were controlling the frequency response of two channels of feedback which were set up by putting two microphones in the vicinity of their respective loudspeakers.
The score for this performance was made by assigning a ten-second time period to each of the differentiated lines on the opaque sheets. When the transparent sheets with dots were superimposed over these, each dot coinciding with a line dictated a change in one of the resistors during the time period assigned to that line. The specific resistor to be changed was then decided by throwing dice. Throughout the piece, these changes in the adjustable resistors are extremely slow and gradual.
The score removes my taste and musical judgment and allows the electronic and acoustic phenomena of that particular situation to produce the piece. Each time it is played, it is different. In fact, the three times that I performed the piece for this recording, three totally different versions resulted.
Max Neuhaus
This is a sneek preview of one of the tracks from our upcoming CD Surface, Texture Line.
Electrocufusion features Michael Atherton on electric guitar with some GRM Tools processing and Garth Paine on Wacom Tablet controlling his Capybara/Kyma system.
This is a rough mix only. Keep an eye on this site for the release of the new CD Surface, Texture Line, due by December, 2008
