COMPONENT AMB PROCESSOS: PERSPECTIVES SOBRE MÚSICA GENERATIVA I DE SISTEMES #1

A càrrec de Mark Fell i Joe Gilmore. Narrat per Connie Treanor.

"Continu" investiga com la música pot ser generada mitjançant un ampli rang de tècniques. Aquestes van des de sistemes de procediments simples, com és el cas de "Twin Bleebs" de Mika Vainio, en la qual la constant repetició de dos esdeveniments produeix un continu desfasament, fins a "Neural Synthesis No.9" de David Tudor –un sistema electrònic més complex que explora la indeterminació a través de l'emulació d’activitat neuronal. El programa repassa també exemples de música composta mitjançant regles matemàtiques o geomètriques formals, com "Studie 18" de Martin Neukom o "27 Fibonacci Numbers in a Binary Chain" de Thomas Brinkmann.

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COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #1

"Continue"

Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore. Narrated by Connie Treanor.

'Continue' investigates how music can be generated using a wide range of techniques. These range from very simple procedural systems, such as Mika Vainio's 'Twin Bleebs' which features two repeating events going in and out of phase, to David Tudor's 'Neural Synthesis No.9' – a more complex electronic system which explores indeterminacy through the emulation of neural activity. The programme also looks at music which has been composed using formal geometric and mathematical rules, for example: Martin Neukom's 'Studie 18' and Thomas Brinkmann's '27 Fibonacci Numbers in a Binary Chain'.

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Yasunao Tone - Live at Lovebytes (2002)

"BLACKOUT. Representation, transformation and de-control in the sound work of Yasunao Tone." (Roc Jiménez de Cisneros 2009)

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Yasunao Tone (Tokyo, 1935) is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist. He graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957, majoring in Japanese literature. He became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and moved to the United States in 1972. He organised and participated in many experimental music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center and Team Random (the first computer art group in Japan). His unconventional musical work brings together certain forms of traditional Eastern culture and post-structuralist theories, and since the mid to late nineties has become a notable influence on new generations of sound artists worldwide. He lives and works in New York.

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is a musician and composer. His work, mainly as part of computer music group EVOL, explores algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other mathematical phenomena. He lives and works in Barcelona.

The conversations which form the basis for this interview took place in March 2002 (email interview by Anna Ramos) and July 2008, during Yasunao Tone’s visit to Barcelona, coinciding with his performance at MACBA, and were continued by email with Tone, Fell, Hecker and Held during February-March 2009.
Tone’s work has alsobeen featured on issues 1 and 7 of the Ràdio Web MACBA programme Lines of Sight.

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