Alternative venues for computer music: SoundGallery_Living Room_ARTSHIP

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-303
Author(s):  
MARGARET ANNE SCHEDEL
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
Free People

The audience for contemporary classical music is small – the audience for computer music is even smaller. Traditional concert halls are failing to generate interest in new instrumental music, much less computer music, while museums are having much more success with new art, including art with a technological component. By marketing our music to art galleries and museums, we can reach an audience predisposed to accept the new and unusual in artistic expression. Presenting the works of music outside a traditional proscenium setting also helps shatter any a priori definitions of ‘music’ audiences may hold. Using the term ‘Sound Art’ instead of ‘music’ may also help to free people struggling to appreciate unfamiliar sounds.

scholarly journals Improving models for urban soundscape systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
Lawrence Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Concert Halls

Large-scale urban soundscape systems offer novel environments for electroacoustic composers, sound artists and sound designers to extend their practice beyond concert halls, art galleries and screen-based digital media. One such system with 156 loudspeakers was installed in 1991 on the Southgate Arts and Leisure Precinct in central Melbourne. Over the next 15 years another three large multichannel soundscape systems were installed on other sites close to the first. A fifth system was established for a single work of art in 2006. Despite this private and public investment in sound art estimated at over one million Australian dollars, several systems are no longer in operation while some remaining systems require technical and curatorial development to ensure their continued cultural presence. To investigate why some systems had failed, interviews were conducted with key players in the development and operation of the five systems. A report from the interviews was produced and is the basis of this paper framing critical issues for improving models of urban soundscape practice. Following a brief overview of related studies in urban sound practices, and descriptions of the system and original study, key themes that emerged from the interviews are examined.

Art School Manifestos, Classical Music, and Industrial Abjection: Tracing the Artistic, Political, and Musical Antecedents of Punk

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Dines
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Situationist International ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Sex Pistols ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
Art School ◽  
Music Tradition

This chapter charts and explores the complex cultural origins of punk in Britain through three different case studies, beginning with an exploration of the influence of the Situationist International (SI) on the punk ethos and aesthetic around the Sex Pistols. Second, it looks at the musical and artistic trajectory of the anarcho-punk band Crass and, in particular, the contemporary classical music tradition that informed the work of Penny Rimbaud et al., from the late 1960s to the formation of Crass in the 1970s. Third, the chapter turns to the artistic influences of Neil Megson, later to be known as Genesis P-Orridge. Here, emphasis is placed on a timeline of artistic and political activities by P-Orridge, from his time in school, through his forming of COUM Transmissions in the early 1970s, to the early days of the innovative musical ensemble Throbbing Gristle (TG), formed in 1975. The case studies contribute to a wider understanding of the richer cultural references, practices, and traditions that early punk drew on.

Village life and Concert Hall: Is There a Connection?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Lawryshyn
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
One Step ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Insight Into

Ukrainian folk music has been embedded into much of the classical music we hear. Mykola Leontovych and Peter Wilhousky are credited for the ever-famous piece Carol of the Bells, an arrangement of a Ukrainian Epiphany carol called Shchedryk (Щедрик). Despite the applicability of Ukrainian folk-inspired music in our society, people are generally unaware of its origin. In fact, researcher Yakov Soroker provides evidence of Ukrainian folk inspiration in various classical pieces being misclassified as Russian, Polish, and/or Hungarian. Ukrainian classical music, for many reasons pertaining to its unstable history, is not well known outside Ukraine and, therefore, is rarely discussed. This has limited potential insights it might bring to those who have interest in its place in Western music. My research explores the influence that Ukrainian folk traditions have had on contemporary classical music. My research has come from gathering and sifting through historical literature about the origins of classical, Ukrainian classical, Ukrainian folk, and other folk music works. I have also listened to selected works and examined the critiques of experts to form conclusions about how composers today have been influenced, knowingly or otherwise, by Ukrainian folk music. Going one step further, in order to provide a deeper, practical insight into the creative process of composers who have been influenced by Ukrainian folk music, I have composed a piece of my own influenced by Ukrainian folklore. 

scholarly journals Comparing rhythm in speech and music: The case of English and Polish

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Jekiel
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Music Notation ◽  
Temporal Patterning ◽  
Speech Rhythm ◽  
Musical Notation ◽  
Variability Index ◽  
Point Of Departure

Abstract The point of departure for the following study is Patel and Daniele (2003), who suggested that the rhythm of a culture’s language is reflected in its instrumental music. The former study used the normalised pairwise variability index (henceforth nPVI), a measure of temporal patterning in speech, to compare the variability of vocalic duration in recorded speech samples with the variability of note duration in music notation on the example of English and French speech and classical music. The aim of this experiment is to test whether the linguistic rhythm conventionalised in the language of a community affects the rhythm in the musical practice of that community, by focusing on English and Polish speech and classical, as well as folk music. The nPVI values were obtained from a set of English and Polish recorded news-like sentences, and from musical notation of English and Polish classical and folk musical themes. The results suggest that reflections of Polish speech rhythm may be more apparent in folk music than in classical music, though more data are needed to test this idea. This initial study suggests that the method used might bring more fruitful results when comparing speech rhythm with less formalized and more traditional musical themes.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Interaction between Music Education and History: Shaping the Musical Preferences in Classical Music of the 20th Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerneja Žnidaršič
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Control Group ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interaction ◽  
Western Classical Music ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether an experimental programme, based on interdisciplinary interactions between music education and history and the implementation of arts and cultural education objectives, could influence pupils’ interest in Western classical music of the 20th century. The programme was designed on the basis of collaborating with music education and history teachers at two Slovenian primary schools and a Slovenian composer. Classes of pupils, aged fourteen and fifteen, were divided into an experimental and a control group. According to the outcome, the pupils in the experimental group showed a higher level of interest in contemporary classical music after the experiment than their peers in the control group. Furthermore, the pupils in the experimental group reported having listened on their initiative, to more classical compositions after the experiment than the pupils in the control group had.

What's your music? Subjective theories of music-creating artists

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Holtz
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
Intergroup Conflicts ◽  
Rational Construction ◽  
Musical Communication

In an interview study with 17 music-creating artists (composers of contemporary “classical” music, electronic music, musicals, movie scores, and jazz musicians) from Southern Germany, three types of music-creating artists could be discerned: the avant-gardists, the neo-romantics, and the self-disclosing artists. These types represent social groups that are prone to typical intergroup conflicts. The different types of music-creating artists adhere to different aesthetic ideals: the avant-gardists emphasize the abstract beauty of musical structures and try to develop their music from within the music itself, the neo-romantics view music as the true language of the heart and try to express something through their music, and the self-disclosing artists feel the drive to express their feelings and sensations by means of music. As a consequence, different dimensions of musical communication are pivotal: formal aspects, the relationship between the musician and the listener, and self-disclosure. The three types of music-creating artists resemble the types of composers analyzed by Julius Bahle in the 1930s ( e.g. Bahle, 1930). Regarding their modus operandi, the musicians differ on a continuum between a purely rational creative work and the creation of music in an unconscious outburst of inspiration. Nevertheless, most musicians experience an alternation between phases of intuitive inspiration and phases of deliberate rational construction during the creative process. Therefore, a typology of musicians based on their modus operandi seems unhelpful.

Sublime Stenches

Art Scents ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 182-200
Author(s):  
Larry Shiner
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Professional Artists

Chapter 10 discusses hybrids of odors with visual art genres or materials, works that are typically created by professional artists and presented in art galleries and museums under the rubric “olfactory art.” After surveying various types of olfactory or scent art, the chapter considers the question of whether “olfactory art” actually names a coherent category or art form, suggesting a tentative yes, based on historical parallels between olfactory or scent art and contemporary “sound art,” such as the fact that there are a number of artists who identify themselves as olfactory artists and have issued manifestoes promoting olfactory art and that some galleries and museums have recognized it as an art kind. The chapter then takes up some questions of ontology and interpretation, including the question of why “sublime stenches” are important in much of contemporary olfactory art.

St Albans: ‘Messiah Preludes’

Tempo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (228) ◽  
pp. 70-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Barlow
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
Choral Society

The idea of commissioning modern preludes to preface well established pillars of the classical repertoire has apparently been done a few years ago with soft new sounds gracing the air as audiences picnicked as a lead up to performances of Mozart's operas at Glyndebourne. Conversely one hears of The Departure of the Queen of Sheba, and other novelties. However, when conductor George Vass, musical director of the Presteigne Festival, commissioned three modern preludes to Handel's Messiah, to celebrate his tenth anniversary at the festival (2002), this must qualify as a ‘first’, and his brainchild. The Presteigne Festival is well known for its commitment to contemporary classical music. This was an ideal opportunity to commission three major British composers, to make their own 21st century ‘commentaries’ on Messiah, using the same instrumental forces available to Handel. As he also directs St Albans Choral Society, they put on the Messiah 25 October 2003, at St Albans Cathedral, prefaced by the three new preludes in the presence of two of the composers, Cecilia McDowall and David Matthews, using Orchestra Nova from the Presteigne Festival.

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