Sound artists have experimented with everyday noises for centuries. Now this music is making a comeback….Continue Reading Making music from noise – Soundhunters | DW Documentary
Making music from noise – Soundhunters | DW Documentary
How the orchestra is arranged by the biology of the brain
An interesting accompaniment to the David Byrne TED talk and the Diana Deutsch Radio Lab episode “Suddenly Behaves so Strangely”…Continue Reading How the orchestra is arranged by the biology of the brain
Luc Ferrari – Presque Rien avec Filles
The conceit behind the 1989 edition of Luc Ferrrari’ “Presque Rien Avec Filles” is that a concealed composer/photographer records some girls having a picnic. If that sounds potentially passive and prurient, it ends up being neither. The opening nature sounds are soon elbowed aside by isolated words and exhalations, which are in turn blasted by bursts of a very late ’80s-sounding drum machine. …Continue Reading Luc Ferrari – Presque Rien avec Filles
SOUND X SOUND
from Everyday Listening: Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard is a Danish composer who, in his series SOUND X SOUND has been working with multiplying instruments to make the sound transcend itself, creating a pure new sound without references to anything. The SOUND X SOUND series consists of a cycle of 7” vinyls where each release is an…Continue Reading SOUND X SOUND
Songs of War – Music as Torture
Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica at Taliban hideouts – the…Continue Reading Songs of War – Music as Torture
Pierre Henry – Variations for a door and a sigh (1963)
The idea of “sculpting” sound is a critical aspect Henry’s “approach” to composition. In 1981, Henry himself said, “The origin of this music is also found in the interest in ‘plastifying’ music, of rendering it plastic like sculpture.” …Continue Reading Pierre Henry – Variations for a door and a sigh (1963)
