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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
It is often overlooked that music is embedded in the physical world. Sound is a thoroughly physical phenomenon, the oscillation of pressure through matter—the vibration of air, water and wood. The sounds that our ears are capable of hearing oscillate between 20 and 20,000 cycles per second, with wavelengths on ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Michael Winter is a composer, curator, music theorist, and software designer. He co-founded and co-directs (with fellow composer Eric km Clark) the wulf., a non-profit arts organization that presents experimental music free to the public in Los Angeles. Michael is a firm believer in music making as an experimental process ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Jacob Sudol writes intimate compositions that explore enigmatic phenomena and the inner nature of how we perceive sound. He currently resides in La Jolla, California and is working towards a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California San Diego with Chinary Ung. He has written music for domestic and ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Charles Stankievech is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work has been included in the context of the Biennale of Architecture (Venice), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Eyebeam (New York), Planetary Collegium (UK), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), among other venues. His writings have been included in academic journals, ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Anthony Jay Ptak is an artist and a composer born in Brooklyn, NY 1970. An inviolable autodidacticist, he has studied with Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Lydia Kavina, Peter Campus, and Herbert Brün. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival. He was a guest artist at the historic Experimental Music ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
G. Douglas Barrett makes experimental music, performance, installation, and text pieces. His work has been presented in festivals, galleries, concert halls, academic conferences, and street performance events throughout North America and Europe. Performers of his music and performance works have included The S.E.M. Ensemble, Francesco Gagliardi, Adam Overton, Philip Thomas, ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
"I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.”
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One day in 1969 — let us say, wishfully, that it is also early evening in the middle of January — Alvin Lucier steps into the Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University, a chunk of glass‐and‐brick ...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
MATA INTERVAL Vol.3
Wednesday, January 13, 2010Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound
David Kant & Cameron Hu, curators
Every musical event is accompanied by an often unacknowledged and yet not-so-silent partner. The built environment reflects, refracts, and remakes sound, and performer and audience act and listen under the influence of its formal language. Architectures ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
An excerpt from Margaret Leng Tan’s article, TOY PIANOS No Longer Toys!, which appeared in Experimental Musical Instruments, September 1998. Used with permission from the author.
THE TOY PIANO deMYSTIFIED
The mechanism for the original Schoenhut toy piano consisted of a series of flat, gradated steel sounding-plates held together by twine. These ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
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