Ambient music

Harmonia Mundi is a chapter that speaks to how music has changed throughout history, how it continues to change through new ideas, and views on what defines music. It shows that as our understanding of music changes, the way we listen to and view music changes as well. The chapter is broken down into 5 main sections each highlighting a certain point or view one music. The beginning of the chapter detailed how in the beginning of time how the world is said to have been created by a…

James Tenney 's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion" felt calm and collected within the first few minutes. It reminded me of an electronic piece I composed for another class. However, about five minutes in, I became suddenly aware of the volume and sense of restlessness the composition was bestowing within me. There wasn 't much movement, pitch wise, and it felt like a wave of sound was crashing into me. The contrast between the barely audible beginning to the loud crescendo was so…

“My Experiences With Art” I believe art is all around us, whether it is something we see, or something we hear. Art has always been something very important to me. I’m not sure where my love of art began but it has always been something that is fun to me. I love art a lot and I believe I have a very artistic philosophy towards life. When it comes to my life, I live very carefree and “in the moment”. I live very passionately. I believe art is this way too. Many times when creating art things…

self-aware group of beings. Everything that we can see, touch, hear, smell, and taste is a form of art. It is not restricted to one sense of our bodies, but can be all at once. I have an incredible amount of trouble getting used to new practices in music, but I realize that just because I do not understand it does not negate the fact that it is a form of expression that the world uses to evoke its true potential. I cannot think of a single object around me that does not serve this function. Even…

In Gayl Jones’ Corregidora one of the main texts focus and themes is centered and founded upon the blues. Through Ursa; the main characters singing of this specific genre of music, the reader is forced to recognize that Ursa’s singing ties in completely to her defined belief that her sole purpose is to “make generations” and her singing in a way fulfills that purpose as she in body can’t. The reader is given evidence to this by past recollections in the text, current statements that repeatedly…

cultivating an ongoing dialectical debate about composing techniques, expanded by my experience in electronic music with Riccardo Sinigaglia. In those years, inevitably, I felt like to explore an original path. This led me to seek which poetics moves the need for a language, that today I describe, thanks also to the discussions with Filippo Maria Caramazza, in Pericronismo – Perichronism Music…

composition classes and began his course to train as a pianist and conductor. It is in this time he gradually became more and more “scornful of much of traditional music.” His conducting teacher Nikolat Tcherepnin, was a modernist. He tried to foster Prokofiev’s interests in modernism and at the same time rouse Prokofiev’s enthusiasm of the Classical music. Therefore, Prokofiev had a unique way of associating Russian modernism…

Zukofsky’s great love for music as an art form to experiment with shows up as interweaving themes in his work. Consider this passage from the first chapter of his great poem “A”: “Music leaving no traces, Not dying, and leaving no traces.” (“A” 6) Zukofsky aims to explain the process of a scientific recording, through the processes of objective statements made in his work. On the other side of the coin lies creation, the ability to produce something tangible from the mere idea of it. On the…

Jeffrey Koons is an artist who enjoys exploring beyond reality. There are some artworks in particular that have a stronger connection to the theme of Fantasy. Through these artworks , Jeff Koons is able to speak his mind and give the audience the gesture they wish. One of Koons’ sculpture series, Banality, demonstrates his point of view on different icons around the world. Many of these fantasized sculptures get displayed in famous museums and other areas because of the great impact on the…

yet organic and natural feel. This moment may take place in a moonlit forest, the forest floor dappled with moonlight offering just enough visibility to see where one is going but not make out what is in the shadows. At the end of this section the music because more energetic with the dancers forming a group with a soloist downstage of them. To generate the feeling of community and unity- most of the choreography in this section is done in unison. I chose to use Coral Amber (Apollo 7650) in the…