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Feb

Mixtur 2003

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.09.00.10.37 — Categorie: ElettroacusticaPermalink

Karlheinz Stockhausen, “Mixtur 2003 (Forward Version)”
for 5 orchestra groups, 4 sine-wave generator players, 4 sound mixers, with 4 ring modulators and sound projectionist

From the Musica Viva Festival
Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Lucas Vis
Recorded January 27, 2008
Muffathalle, Munich

The essential aspect of MIXTUR is, on one hand, the transformation of the familiar orchestra sound into a new, enchanting world of sound. It is an unbelievable experience, for example, to see and hear string players bowing a sustained tone and to simultaneously perceive how this tone slowly moves away from itself in a glissando, the pulse accelerates, and a wonderful timbre spectrum emerges. Orchestra musicians are astonished when they hear the notes they play being modulated timbrally, melodically, rhythmically, and dynamically. All shades of the transitions from tone to noise, noise to chord, from timbre to rhythm and rhythm to pitch come into being from such ring modulations, as if by themselves.

Finest micro-intervals, extreme glissandi and register changes, percussive attacks resulting from normally smooth entrances, complex harmonies (also above single instrumental tones), and many other unheard-of sound events result from this modulation technique and from the variable structuring.

Secondly, the ring modulation adds new overtone- and sub-tone series to the instrumental spectra, which can be clearly heard, especially during sustained sounds in MIXTUR. Such mixtures do not occur in nature or with traditional instruments. Through these mirrored overtone harmonies, one is moved by alien, haunting sensations of beauty, which are completely new in art music.

Only such renewal in how music affects us imbues new techniques with meaning.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

From ANABlog

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9

Feb

iMussolini

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.09.00.03.02 — Categorie: Italia, SocietàPermalink

iMussoliniChe cosa sia l’Italia oggi si può anche dedurre anche dal fatto che una applicazione su iPhone che contiene clips audio, video e testi di 100 discorsi del dittatore è stata la più scaricata nel nostro paese nel breve tempo in cui era disponibile, raggiungendo il 2° posto nella classifica del software iPhone in Italia.

L’applicazione è stata rimossa grazie all’intervento dell’istituto che possiede i diritti sul video e l’audio. La minaccia di una causa per violazione di copyright è servita ad indurre il suo creatore, tale Luigi Marino, 25 anni, di Napoli, a ritirarla.

Se ne parla anche sulla stampa estera (NY Times, BBC News), oltre che su quella locale (Corriere).

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8

Feb

Imaginary Landscapes

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.08.20.08.50 — Categorie: ConfinePermalink

Speaking about Brian Eno (see previous post), on You Tube there is the whole Imaginary Landscapes, a film on Eno by Duncan Ward & Gabriella Cardazzo.

Imaginary Landscapes is a profile of a modern artist at the cutting edge of technological change and popular taste. It brings into an intensely personal focus Brain Eno’s seemingly disparate work in sound, vision and light, and explores his music in visual terms, based on landscapes and images that have shaped his life as an artist.

The film is in 4 parts. Here is the first


and the followings

Continua a leggere Imaginary Landscapes

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8

Feb

An audience with Brian Eno

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.08.19.43.46 — Categorie: ConfinePermalink

EnoPaul Morley recently spoke to Brian Eno for a BBC arena documentary in which Eno proved that he is always good for a controversial and catchy phrase about the music industry:

The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you’d be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate - history’s moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.

The whole interview is published on the Guardian’s site.

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8

Feb

Berlusconi on Photoshop Disasters

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.08.02.26.51 — Categorie: Italia, SocietàPermalink

Il nostro elegante commander-in-chief è finito sul popolare Photoshop Disasters per una serie di immagini malamente e dilettantisticamente ritoccate tratte dal libro Noi amiamo Silvio edito da Peruzzo.

Nella fattispecie si vede una foto in cui pezzi di folla sono stati chiaramente duplicati al fine di far apparire più gente intenta ad osannare il nostro. Anche il mazzo di fiori è disegnato gran male. In realtà è probabile che questa immagine sia il montaggio di tre foto: Berlusconi, la folla, piazza Duomo. Il fatto che la menzogna sia utilizzata come normale strumento di propaganda dovrebbe far pensare.

Qui l’immagine ingrandita.

Il commento di Photoshop Disasters:

Oh Silvio. I have no problem with your mafia connections, your masonic lodge business, the tax fraud, the false accounting, the bribing of judges, embezzlement, seducing young girls, etc. We all do that kind of thing. But when you start pumping up your crowds with Photoshop you cross the line, mister.

berlusconi on photoshop disaster

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8

Feb

In Holden’s footsteps

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.08.01.29.25 — Categorie: LetteraturaPermalink

coverChi ha letto Il giovane Holden (The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951) potrà ora seguire le sue deambulazioni per Manhattan grazie a una mappa interattiva completa di citazioni pubblicata sul New York Times.

Trace Holden Caulfield’s perambulations around Manhattan in “The Catcher in the Rye” to places like the Edmont Hotel, where Holden had an awkward encounter with Sunny the hooker; the lake in Central Park, where he wondered about the ducks in winter; and the clock at the Biltmore, where he waited for his date. Roll your mouse over each point and read about Holden’s experience there in J.D. Salinger’s words.

Map is here.

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7

Feb

Hubble look at Pluto

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.07.23.06.27 — Categorie: ScienzaPermalink

plutoSince its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the largest ground-based telescopes. But NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has now mapped the dwarf planet in never-before-seen detail. The new map is so good, astronomers have even been able to detect changes on the dwarf planet’s surface by comparing Hubble images taken in 1994 with the newer images taken in 2002-2003. The task is as challenging as trying to see the markings on a soccer ball 40 miles away.

Hubble’s view isn’t sharp enough to see craters or mountains, if they exist on the surface, but Hubble reveals a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain. The overall color is believed to be a result of ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking up methane that is present on Pluto’s surface, leaving behind a dark, molasses-colored, carbon-rich residue. Astronomers were very surprised to see that Pluto’s brightness has changed — the northern pole is brighter and the southern hemisphere is darker and redder. Summer is approaching Pluto’s north pole, and this may cause surface ices to melt and refreeze in the colder shadowed portion of the planet. The Hubble pictures underscore that Pluto is not simply a ball of ice and rock but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes.

Click the image to enlarge. Original site is here.

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Feb

Torment of the Metals

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.04.17.37.53 — Categorie: ElettroacusticaPermalink

coverThe sound of Akashic Crow’s Nest begins with the use of an image synthesizer which turns very long photographic images into audio output, in the manner of a piano roll. The initial part of composing this music is thus designing the picture. For this latest project, the first audio output is converted to midi and run through a different softsynth, before being subjected to a battery of effects to get to the sounds you hear on this album.

Download from Webbed Hand Records

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Feb

Interlace

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.02.01.03.53.32 — Categorie: ElettroacusticaPermalink

logoThe English netlabel INTERLACE devotes to concerts featuring free improvisation, live electronic music, interactive composition, and, of course, a mixture of it all. It is a continuous series of concerts aiming at 3 or 4 times per year.

Excerpts from the Interlace archives: three improvisations from the concert dated 18 July 2009

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Jan

Rùt

Autore: Mauro Graziani @ 2010.01.30.00.46.21 — Categorie: ConfinePermalink

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Published in 2008 by Enough Records

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