Tape+Loop
i am sitting in a room
Alvin Lucier, 1969
- Marc Chia (Onemannation/Tara Transitory): Bufferrrbreakkdownnn Arkestra
- Lieven Van Speybroeck: Word in Process
tactical audio
... when you cut into the present the future leaks out
(re) ordering the archive
"Pluderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative"
The precarious commodity in music today is no longer the tune. A fan can recognize a hit from a ten millisecond burst,9 faster than a Fairlight can whistle Dixie. Notes with their rhythm and pitch values are trivial components in the corporate harmonization of cacophony. Few pop musicians can read music with any facility.
An active listener might speed up a piece of music in order to perceive more clearly its macrostructure, or slow it down to hear articulation and detail more precisely. Portions of pieces are juxtaposed for comparison or played simultaneously, tracing "the motifs of the Indian raga Darbar over Senegalese drumming recording in Paris and a background mosaic of frozen moments from an exotic Hollywood orchestration of the 1950's (a sonic texture like a "Mona Lisa" which in close-up, reveals itself to be made up of tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal."
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