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16 Cards in this Set
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Distortion
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"clipping" the highest and lowest sound.
-Rocker 88--Jackie Brenston with his Delta cats. -Frank--Ween(1991) |
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Noise Floor
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-Background noise
-tape hiss -self noise |
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Signal:noise
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signal to noise ratio
to control noise and get rid of background noise. |
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John Cage(1912-1992)
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"I believe that the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments"
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The Anechoic chamber story
*Fix this card* |
-Music vs. Silence
-Indeterminacy |
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Indeterminacy
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I Ching
Random operations Aleatoric music Stochasic |
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"The meaning of sound..."
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-Psychological
-Representational (Foley Work) -Sonic"narratives" |
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Prepared Piano
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-(1948)Sonata I--John Cage (Darryl Rosenberg piano)
-Sonata XIV and XV "GEMINI" (1948) |
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Cage:William Mix(1952)
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-The architect Paul William's funded Cage for a recording project which resulted in this tape piece, composed by Cage and realized by him and several other people
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Type of Sounds in Cage:William Mix (1952)
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A)Country sounds
B)city sounds C)electronic sounds D)manual sounds E)wind sounds F) sounds so quiet that they require an amplifier to be heard |
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Karlheinz Stockhasuen(1928-2007)
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-Etude(1952)
First electroacoustic composition created out of the transformations of six recorded piano sounds -was 24 years old |
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Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
pg 49-50 |
-Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1959)
-Italian composer -Advanced musique concrete All sounds are from the soprano Cathy Berberberian -"word painting" -Multiple languages used |
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Iannis Xenakis
*more notes* |
-Born in Romania
-Raised in Greece -Mathematical and architectural background, studied modern music in Paris - 1958, created the Phillips Pavillion -Orient-Occident(1960) bowed objects, some recorded music, signal from the ionosphere -Diamorphes(1957) -Ugly sounds(crashes,jet engines - |
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Phillips Pavilion
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-built for the 1958 world Expo in Brussels
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Xenakis:Concrete-PH(1958)
*More notes* |
-Burning coal
-The piece was composed for the Phillips Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World Fair. |
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Alvin Lucier (1931)
pg 75-76 *more notes* |
-"I'm sitting in a room"
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