Tuesday, January 12, 2010
HOLY CRAP I DID IT!!
I'd just like to share with everyone that I successfully made a video of myself, exported it and put it on pd, rotated and translated it! I'm super excited!!! Thought I'd share. Now if only I could find lighting and fog!
"Sita Sings The Blues"- Cool Animation
Here is the website to view a full length animated movie by Nina Paley that I recommend. I like the way she moves between ancient myths and her contemporary world. She also uses voices recorded from people she interviewed, and created the animation around it as superimposed puppet figures, which is interesting. Since she didn't have the money to pay for the rights to some of the old Blues songs she uses in the soundtrack, she couldn't distribute it commercially. It has such a following that this site has been established for giving her an income stream for all her work. It's a cautionary tale for artists who may not think about copyright issues in the excitement of beginning a major project.Monday, January 11, 2010
PLease watch 1-6 one at a time: ROBERT ASHLEY
This is a groundbreaking modern Opera by Robert Ashley. PLeas ebegin to view it and make a comment on each section. There are six sections. This is a postcard and a snapshot of ideas about dealing with video in entertainment media [TV].The kind of ideas you read about in magazines. His early affiliation with ONCE group is very influential.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBB3KgAk94
Robert Ashley (born March 28, 1930), is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.
Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan with Ross Lee Finney, at the Manhattan School of Music, and was later a musician in the US Army. After moving back to Michigan, Ashley worked at the University of Michigan's Speech Research Laboratories. Although he was not officially a student in the acoustic research program there, he was offered the chance to obtain a doctorate, but turned it down to pursue his music. [1]. From 1961 to 1969, he organised the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor with Roger Reynolds, Gordon Mumma, and other local composers and artists. He was a co-founder of the ONCE Group, as well as a member of the Sonic Arts Union, which also included David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma. In 1969 he became director of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. In the 1970s he directed the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. His notable students include Maggi Payne.
The majority of Ashley's recordings have been released by Lovely Music [1], which was founded by Performing Artservices [2], the not-for-profit management organization which represents Ashley and other artists. Ashley's opera Perfect Lives was featured in Peter Greenaway's documentary 4 American Composers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBB3KgAk94
Robert Ashley (born March 28, 1930), is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.
Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan with Ross Lee Finney, at the Manhattan School of Music, and was later a musician in the US Army. After moving back to Michigan, Ashley worked at the University of Michigan's Speech Research Laboratories. Although he was not officially a student in the acoustic research program there, he was offered the chance to obtain a doctorate, but turned it down to pursue his music. [1]. From 1961 to 1969, he organised the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor with Roger Reynolds, Gordon Mumma, and other local composers and artists. He was a co-founder of the ONCE Group, as well as a member of the Sonic Arts Union, which also included David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma. In 1969 he became director of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. In the 1970s he directed the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. His notable students include Maggi Payne.
The majority of Ashley's recordings have been released by Lovely Music [1], which was founded by Performing Artservices [2], the not-for-profit management organization which represents Ashley and other artists. Ashley's opera Perfect Lives was featured in Peter Greenaway's documentary 4 American Composers.
Book for readings
Everyone please take a look at
http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/book.pdf
and read through the introduction and skim the chapter titles. Hopefully something will strike your interests before i assign it officially.
pp
This book offers the proper conceptual approach for dealing with "expanded cinema" which is 1970s speak for what we are experiencing now
http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/book.pdf
and read through the introduction and skim the chapter titles. Hopefully something will strike your interests before i assign it officially.
pp
This book offers the proper conceptual approach for dealing with "expanded cinema" which is 1970s speak for what we are experiencing now
Gem Tutorial
here is a beginner GEM tutorial. take a gander and run some of the help patches
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~wardn1/qm3/gem/index.html
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~wardn1/qm3/gem/index.html
Friday, January 8, 2010
SPRING 2010 DIG 5931 2630
This blog will serve us for logging links i mention in class, ideas you may want to share and current ideas, critiques and things we may be looking at in class. I will post links to .pdf files for readings, links to videos to watch as well as [hopefully] pasting code directly too. Lets have fun with this blog since i am not grading you on it, please explore ideas here!
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