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'''XPUB1: SI18 RW&RM / large project space'''
'''XPUB1: SI18 RW&RM / large project space'''
* 11:00 - 17:30 With Steve - Reading:  
* 11:00 - 17:00 With Steve:  
 
In The Cybernetic Explanation (1967), Gregory Bateson wrote: ''“If we find a monkey striking a typewriter apparently at random but in fact is writing meaningful prose we shall look for restraints, either inside the monkey or inside the typewriter”''  
In The Cybernetic Explanation (1967), Gregory Bateson wrote: ''“If we find a monkey striking a typewriter apparently at random but in fact is writing meaningful prose we shall look for restraints, either inside the monkey or inside the typewriter”''  


In this session we will be using this small library to inform our experiments. Text by Simon Yuill https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses; Scratch Orchestra's ''Nature Study Notes'' (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf and John Cage's ''Song Books Vol 1'' (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf
In this session we will be using this small library to inform our experiments.  
 
Text by Simon Yuill https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses;  
 
Scratch Orchestra's ''Nature Study Notes'' (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf  
 
John Cage's ''Song Books Vol 1'' (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf


Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation
Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

Revision as of 09:24, 20 April 2022

XPUB1: SI18 RW&RM / large project space

  • 11:00 - 17:00 With Steve:

In The Cybernetic Explanation (1967), Gregory Bateson wrote: “If we find a monkey striking a typewriter apparently at random but in fact is writing meaningful prose we shall look for restraints, either inside the monkey or inside the typewriter”

In this session we will be using this small library to inform our experiments.

Text by Simon Yuill https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses;

Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf

John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf

Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation


Order of play

We start at 11:00. Please be prompt.

AM (reading and annotating):

1) Look at Nature Study Notes (1969) by Scratch Orchestra (ed.Cornelius Cardew) read out some of the instructions...

2) RAPID reading and annotation of all problems of notation will be solved by the masses

AM/PM (inventing and experimenting):

3) Return to Nature Study Notes (1969)

In groups, invent, perform, record notations

a) record your own notations

b) record notations from another group (so, we end up with different recorded versions of the same piece)

4) 16:30 upload and listen

5) 17:00 wrap up