User:Andre Castro/FactoryReset/1.3/Factory Project

Projects for factories

loose ideas

• modes of culture production

Andre: a factory for making songs based on sampling

Questions

(think about you want to get across, the issues/questions you'd like to address)

Online collaborative sound/musical composition

• what are the motivations to participate in collaborative sound works ?

• what results might arise from such process?

• how can such a system be devised?

• what will bring users to participate?

• what existing examples of collaborative music composition exist?

• can it become something not serious?

Sketches

• Offer recipes for others to create sampling songs??
  • It could bring an insight into the compositional process (1 interesting aspect of Oulipo))
  • Could have the same humor as Oulipo creations?

• the power relation of such creation: A system deviser and executer. I am still the author, and although results might be extremely varied it would be a shared authorship (as in a Christian Wolff open composition, he still the author)
• Oulipo - was a peer group that created the works; there was no blurring of reader-writer position; the more interesting aspect (for my project) might be the playful, game strategies, and use of constrains for the creation

• could a song be created collectively, with unrestricted contributions?
• could something like a svn system be devised for music making? go back on the process, resurrect old fragments -> a song in constant construction
  • what are the (possible) rules of this composition:
    • a) only found sounds;
    • b) maximum sound duration;
    • c) DO A NUMBER 1 HIT

• a perverse twist:
  • something like google eats itself';
  • each new song could apply for the charts - something plays with the industry; the appropriation of copy-righted material, but to such a degree that makes impossible to sue due the large amount of sources

A project that motivates people to participate

what i want address with it?

• copyright laws?
• collective collaboration

• an advocation of plunderphonics?

(the art work that struggles with its own formula)

References:

• Sonic Outlaws - FILM
• KLF - The Manual - how to make a number one the easy way

mix tape culture books - tape of favorite songs

• Aymeric - The sound of network topologies - http://su.kuri.mu/00000001/2011----THE.SOUND.OF.NETWORK.TOPOLOGIES/
  • Notes:The Sound Of Network Topologies

Interfacing

how the projects could enter into a dialogue?

• Dave - svn, git. What does he wants to head with it? What is his take
• Eleanor - shared storage, maintenance

Each project has to think about 2 interfaces in other projects

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Other's porjects

Eleanor: facebook censored from facebook

if you establish a social protocol that circunvent the restriction that allow a social experiment

• pirco wireless code of conduct - for Eleanor project

Graphic scores and Git

• Dave
• Cornelious Cardew - The Great Learning - negative feedback built into it
• the reproducibility and
• the social idea between open scores
• if open composition were tools for allowing non-musicians and trained musician to compose-play together
• graphic scores and open composition

• Cobra by John Zorn
• Notations by Christian Marcley

Petra

• design integral to a work system
• this can be a meta-system for
• your are trying to create a mourning site, or something that is pushing it forward - thinking of how I position myself as graphic designer in the present and future
• the post-industrial
• think of it of as publishing industry that is happening now

• what is missing from graphic design is a critical reflection on the printing material now-a-days

• in the contemporary graphic design do we have a counter-culture arts and craft movement (William Morris) ?

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CONCLUSION OF PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

ideas are medium specific

• applying the factory paradigm to the medium which we are familiar with
• the next step is to abstract from the media; what are the common lines between project

when they similar in their structure and their approach