MUSI/DATT 3070/4070 – Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
and
DIGM 5070 – Interactive Performance and the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra
Course Syllabus for 3070/4070
Course Syllabus for 5070
1/10 – Week 1: Intro/Orientation, Experimental Music History, EAO Overview, Tuning Meditation
Response #1: thee Doug Van Nort Electro-Acoustic Orchestra – ‘Live’ for the Winter Solstice 2022
1/17 – Week 2: Interdependence, Granular+FM instrument introduction, Sounding the Network: Ping Experiments
3070/4070: Assignment #1: Instrumental Invention
5070: Project proposal, draft #1
1/24 – Week 3: Rhythm Circle, Rhythmic Pings, First Two-Space (+Zoom) Telematic Experiment
Response #2: 3070/4070: INDIGENOUS TO THE NET: Early Network Music Bands in the San Francisco Bay Area (text only version here)
5070: Reminder, please prepare some form of (media-generating) sketch to show in class. If this is not part of ensemble playing and need its own time to share, it should be limited to no more than 10 minutes. Please send me some a/v documentation of this by Monday so that I can know what to expect, and how it fits into our class rehearsal time. If you have any technical requests (cables, etc.), please mention these as soon as possible.
1/31 – Week 4: Two-space playing, Tuning Meditation with Electronics, Gesture-Concepts: whole groups, rest of group, groups, improvise, noise/tone, sudden entry/exit, fade in/out, scanlines, sustain/pointillism, pitch ranges, with, this, continue, volume and density faders
2/07 – Week 5: Free improv w/ acoustic processing, Gesture-Concepts: rough/smooth, pitch fader, on-off, relate, who-wants?, performer gestures: don’t know, can’t play, please repeat
Responses #3: Listening Selections (see “listening grouping 5” below for artist/piece name)
For this response, please use the gesture-concepts we have discussed so far to describe what you are listening to. Also, in the course of the writing reflect on how you are listening.
2/14 – Week 6: “Transmitting” tones – mental imagery, fm-based rhythmic group play, networked rhythmic play
2/28 – Week 7: Gesture-concepts: morph, relate, hits/Braxton hits
Response #4:
DATT: An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008
Please read the booklet for the collection here and then select 30 minutes worth of pieces to listen to here. (please list what pieces you listened to, separate from your 500-word response or 3 questions).
MUSI: Experimental Vocals, Selections
Ute Wassermann, Jaap Blonk and Michael Vorfeld – Datacide
Jaap Blonk, Paul Dutton, Koichi Makigami, Phil Minton and David Moss – Cappa
Id M Theft Able – Lowell, MA 2016 (watch first 10 mins)
Andrea Parkins & Viv Corringham – at Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn – Aug 13 2013 (watch first 15 mins)
3/7 – Week 8: Gesture-concepts: on/off, breaks, stab-freeze, shapeline
3/14 – Week 9: Grad presentations – Jevi and Xiao, Checking in on sound combinations, Ensemble playing, Point-to-Point
3/21 – Week 10: Ensemble playing with and without networked FM rhythms, integrating A2 presets
General Format for Responses (Four in Total)
Write a 1-page (500 word) response; this can take any shape, but below and separate from the main response, this should include a list of three questions that the content raised for you. Please send me a pdf file that includes your name, course code (3070 or 4070), and “R1/R2/R3/R4” (depending on the submission) within all digital documents and in the file name, and email them to me before the deadline. The responses are due on Mondays, but can be submitted anytime in advance of this.
Bibliography
Listenings:
John Zorn et al – Cobra (2002 recording)
Listening Grouping 1
Pauline Oliveros – I of IV
AMM – Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset
Listening Grouping 2
the Hub – Simple Degradation and Stuck Note
John Cage – Williams Mix
Tom Erbe – Williams Mix, digital realization
Triple Point – Phase/Transitions (vol. 1)
Triple Point – Phase/Transitions (vol. 2)
Triple Point – Phase/Transitions (vol. 3)
Trevor Wishart – Red Bird
Trevor Wishart – Tongues of Fire, Vox 5
Iannis Xenakis – La Legende d’Er
Iannis Xenakis – Persepolis
Iannis Xenakis – Hibiki Hana-Ma
Iannis Xenakis – Metastasis
Listening Grouping 3
James Tenney – Saxophony
Phil Niblock – Didgeridoos and Don’ts
Francisco López – untitled #188
Listening Grouping 4
Autechre – Parhelic Triangle
Carsten Nicolai/Ryuichi Sakamoto – Duoon
Derek Bailey/John Stevens – Reflecters
Fennesz – Caecilia
John Butcher – Swan Style
Pan Sonic – Maa
Ryoji Ikeda – C7: Continuum
Kaffe Matthews – Clean Tone Falling
Jem Finer – Longplayer 13.2.2003
Listening Grouping 5
Kim Cascone – Gravity Handler
Christian Marclay – Jukebox Capriccio
Oval – –
Janet Cardiff – The Missing Voice
Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon (pt 1)
Louis Dufour – Materio_*
Richard Devine – Partition Refinement
Gyorgi Ligeti – Atmospheres (Beyond the Infinite)
Kim Cascone – Mirror Test
Kim Casone – Gravity Handler
Pauline Oliveros – I of IV (excerpt)
George Lewis – Voyager Duo 2
Jean-Claude Risset – Mutations
Iannis Xenakis – Hibiki-Hana-Ma
Anthony Braxton & Richard Teitelbaum – Behemoth Dreams
Fennesz – Caecilia
Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori – 39 Steps
Death Ambient (Kato Hideki, Ikue Mori, Fred Frith) – Prophecy
MEV – Spacecraft
Eliane Radigue – Adnos I/II/III
John Chowning – Stria
David Dunn: Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond
David Dunn excerpts
Mark Fell – multistability
Fennesz – Endless Summer
Oren Ambarchi – Suspension
Terry Riley and the Poppy no Good Band
Pauline Oliveros in the arms of Reynols
Evan Parker / Keith Rowe, Dark Rags
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble – Drawn Inward
John Zorn et al – Cobra (2002)
Parker / Guy / Casserley Trio
James Tenney – Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (tam-tams)
James Tenney – Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (Sonic Youth)
James Tenney – Cellogram
James Tenney – Beast
Steve Reich:
Music for 18 Musicians
It’s gonna rain (about here)
Come Out (about here)
Gerard Grisey – Partiels
Horațiu Rădulescu – Inner Time II
Helmut Lachenmann – Schreiben
Hildegard Westerkamp – Kits Beach Soundwalk
Francisco López – Untitled #281
(note: please sign up for the free SONM site to hear these pieces)
James Tenney – Analog #1 (Noise Study)
Charles Dodge – Earth’s Magnetic Field
Prurient – Frozen Niagara falls (portion two) (start with volume low on this one)
Pharmakon – Self-Regulating System (start with volume low on this one)
Merzbow – Woodpecker No. 1 (start with volume low on this one)
Viewing/Listening
Alvin Lucier on a Lifetime of Experiments | Red Bull Music Academy
Malcolm Goldstein – solo violin improvisation
Keith Rowe – prepared guitar
Fred Frith & Otomo Yoshihide
Atau Tanaka – Le Loup, Lifting, and Myogram
Onyx Ashanti – NIME 2018 performance
Pamela Z – solo voice and electronics
Improvisation avec la Hyper-flûte – Cléo Palacio-Quintin
electrumpet lecture/demo – Hans Leeuw
Lamonte Young and Marian Zazeela – Dream House NYC
endangered guitar – Hans Tammen
Practices of everyday life: Cooking – Chong/Delapierre/Montanaro/Navab
Ecosystems feedback music – playlist
Keith Rowe: What is a man and what is a guitar?
Michel Waiswisz – performing w/ The Hands
Laetitia Sonami – performing w/ Lady’s Glove
David Wessel – discussion/performing w/ Slabs
Resources:
Readings:
Entire Journals/Conferences:
Jan, Stephen and Robin Laney (ed). Journal of Creative Music Systems. Huddersfield University Press. 2016-2022.
Keislar, Doug (ed.) Computer Music Journal, MIT Press. 1977-2022.
Landy, Leigh (ed.) Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press. 1996-2023.
Marsden, Alan (ed.) Journal of New Music Research, Taylor and Francis. 1984-2022.
MOCO Conference Proceedings (20124-2022). https://www.movementcomputing.org/
MUME Conference Proceedings (2012-2019). https://musicalmetacreation.org/.
NIME Conference Proceedings (2001-2022). www.nime.org
Leonardo Music Journal, in general!
Specific Articles and Books:
AMM Liner Notes
Articles on Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble here and here
Born, G. (2020). Diversifying MIR: Knowledge and Real-World Challenges, and New Interdisciplinary Futures. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 3(1).
Cage, J. (2012). Silence: lectures and writings. Wesleyan University Press.
including: The Future of Music: Credo
Cascone, K. (2000). The Aesthetics of Failure:“Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music. Computer Music Journal, 24(4), 12-18.
Cascone – The Aesthetics of Failure
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Society, culture, and person: A systems view of creativity. Springer Netherlands, 2014.
Chadabe, J. (1997). Electric sound: the past and promise of electronic music. Pearson.
Chadabe – Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music, Chapter 4 (out of the studio)
Cox, C., & Warner, D. (Eds.). (2017). Audio Culture, Revised Edition: Readings in Modern Music. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
Bosma, H. (2016). Gender and technological failures in Glitch music. Contemporary Music Review, 35(1), 102-114.
Bovermann, T., Campo, A. de, Egermann, H., Hardjowirogo, S.-I., & Weinzierl, S. (Eds.). (2016). Musical Instruments in the 21st Century: Identities, Configurations, Practices (1st ed. 2017 edition). New York, NY: Springer.
Chris Brown and John Bischoff – INDIGENOUS TO THE NET: Early Network Music Bands in the San Francisco Bay Area
Mike Bullock – Self-Idiomatic Music
Cage, J. (2012). Silence: lectures and writings. Wesleyan University Press.
Cascone, K. (2000). The Aesthetics of Failure:“Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music. Computer Music Journal, 24(4), 12-18.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Society, culture, and person: A systems view of creativity. Springer Netherlands, 2014.
Chadabe, J. (1997). Electric sound: the past and promise of electronic music. Pearson.
Cipriani, Alessandro, and Maurizio Giri. Electronic Music and Sound Design – Theory and Practice with Max/Msp – Volume 1. Contemponet, 2010.
Cipriani, Alessandro, and Maurizio Giri. Electronic Music and Sound Design – Theory and Practice with Max/Msp – Volume 2. Contemponet, 2014.
Cook, Perry R. “Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications (Book & CD-ROM).” (2007).
Collins, Nick. Introduction to computer music. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Cook, Perry R. Music, cognition, and computerized sound. Cambridge, MA: Mit Press, 1999.
David Dunn – Music, Language and Environment
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Emmerson, S., & Landy, L. (Eds.) (2016). Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
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John Dack on Pierre Schaeffer’s Typomorphology
Dodge, Charles, and Thomas A. Jerse. Computer music: synthesis, composition and performance. Macmillan Library Reference, 1997.
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Hayes, L., & Marquez-Borbon, A. (2020). Addressing NIME’s Prevailing Sociotechnical, Political, and Epistemological Exigencies. Computer Music Journal, 44(2-3), 24-38.
Hayes, L. (2019). Beyond skill acquisition: Improvisation, interdisciplinarity, and enactive music cognition. Contemporary Music Review, 38(5), 446-462.
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Leman, M. (2008). Embodied music cognition and mediation technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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Lewis, G. E. (2008). A power stronger than itself: The AACM and American experimental music. University of Chicago Press.
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Magnusson – Sonic Writing, introduction
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McLean, A., & Dean, R. T. (Eds.). (2018). The Oxford handbook of algorithmic music. Oxford University Press.
McCormack, J. and d’Inverno, M. (eds.) (2012). “Computers and Creativity”. Springer, Berlin.
Steven Miller: Listening Modes and Strategies
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Russolo – The Art of Noises (chapter one: futurist manifesto)
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Pierre Schaeffer – Solfege du L’Object Sonore
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James Tenney – Postal Pieces
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Van Nort, D – Distributed Listening in Electroacoustic Improvisation
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