D.V.D.

This is a video of the group D.V.D. that I talked about in class. The group consists of two drummers and a visualizer on a laptop. The two drummers controller the visuals by playing varioust drum patterns.

John Whitney "Catalog" 1961

You can find quite a bit of John Whitney's work on YouTube. This is Catalog, discussed in the reading.

"Early Abstractions" (1946-57), Pt. 2

I was looking for some of Jordan Belson's work and found this lovely piece of abstraction.

Existentialism

This is an amusing clip from The Pet Shop Boys on existentialism, which I thought relevant given our current readings.

"Aside from the fact that he insisted on incorporating extra vowels into his name and killed his wife's lover, Eadweard Muybridge was an unusual fellow. Long before the word movie even existed, he was playing around with stop-motion animation; devising ways to freeze sequences of motion and then reanimate them."

Muybridge exhibition featured on NPR:

http://n.pr/9HUvhb

DSCP by Atau Tanaka

http://www.ataut.net/site/DSCP

This a musical piece composed by Atau Tanaka for chamber orchestra and two electronic instruments.

S.S.S, a trio performing visual music with sensors and gestures

This piece is titled lifting and is performed by Atau Tanaka, Cecile Babiole and Laurent Dailleau. The group uses theramins,ultrasound sensors, and gel electrodes to create a musical and visual performance that embodies the groups collective movements.

Intersection with Classical Music

Here is a clip of John Cage's Work:



Here is a clip of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage:



I also found some images of how John Cage's music is notated:



Also mentioned in the chapter is Russolo's Ballet Mechanique, set to the Fernand Leger film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgsqmQJAq0


This is a piece I've known and liked since undergrad music school, using metronomes and randomness:



And finally, the trautonium. First is a clip of Hindemith's Concertino Per Trautonium, 3rd movement. Second is a clip of someone playing the instrument alone.

As mentioned in the Salter book, the Hyposurface:

http://bit.ly/NNZZI