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Nano-tonal mouth organ
A nano-tonal mouth organ. The instrument is made out primarily of six dog whistles, wood, cork, and string. The dog whistles are tuned at around 10,000Hz, with slight deviations between each other. The mouth organ produces very clearly audible difference tones when played with enough strength, so relatively low pitches can be heard together with the high pitches of the whistles.
Omar Hernandez dies
Omar Hernández, one of the most amazing musicians I've known, was recently killed. Another depressing day... man is, indeed, the wolf of man.
- Posted on:
- 2010.06.12 -0500
- Tags:
- art , homo homini lupus , music , people
Draftmasters live
The audio-visual duo The Draftmasters performing with Daniel Iglesia. Jeff Snyder and I control the pen plotters live via the Manta (top half) while Dan captures the drawings in real time and creates 3D projections (bottom half). You need 3D glasses to perceive the effect.
Artist as illusionist
If we, as mischievous scientists, happen to separate out the cues associated with legitimate clustering and to manipulate them independently, then it should come as no surprise that we can "fool" the ear into perceiving "illusions." [p.13]Rhythm and Transforms (2007)
William A. Sethares
Listening conditions
Composer Stefano Gervasoni came to seminar this week. One of the ideas he discussed resonated in me. The idea that it is not enough for a composer (or for him at least) to define the sound sequences; one should also define the listening conditions. There are many listening conditions a composer cannot control, but there are some that he can. The choice of instrumentation is itself a listening condition. It is not the same experience to hear a sound X coming from a device A (e.g. a violin) than to hear a sound X' (very similar or identical to X) coming from a device B (e.g. a general purpose computer). A program note handed in at a concert or written in a CD booklet is another listening condition very much controllable by the composer...
Jorge Yazpik
I first saw Yazpik's work in Cuernavaca in 1996. I remember the pieces and the resonance of the after-experience quite vividly... unusual. I remember feeling that I had just been given some fundamental knowledge while at the same time not knowing what this knowledge was.
If I had to reduce his work to one word, it'd be schisma. There is violent contrast and break in almost all his work; contrast and collision between the raw and the sharply worked, the carefully designed; the noise of the natural rock and the purity of the polished metal; the juxtaposition of a water bed (a natural perfectly flat mirror) and irregular heavily textured islands resting on it; the contrast between proportions in some of the pieces is also very striking: tall cubes of flat nothingness ending with tiny geometric details. Yet, with all these sharp cuts and collisions, there are also channels of communication, correlations, connections between opposing bodies: square rocks with perpendicular patterns that prolong down to the solid ground and infect it, making the stiffness of both the material and the geometric patterns appear to move and come to life, and making the space that the piece occupies part of the piece itself. His use of negative space is intricate and mysterious. Many pieces are defined by the negative space.
Mexican photographers
Collection of mexican photography at the Wittliff gallery. Fotos by Yolanda Andrade, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Marco Antonio Cruz, Héctor García, Maya Goded, Graciela Iturbide, Nacho Lopez, Eniac Martínez Ulloa, Francisco Mata Rosas, Rodrigo Moya, Raúl Ortega and Antonio Turok.
- Posted on:
- 2005.11.24 -0600
- Tags:
- art
