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*LOrk Digression #5 — "Dance" music?

Submitted by ruviaro on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 8:33pm

By using external controllers of various sorts (usually of a more “gestural” nature, beyond the keyboard-and-trackpad paradigm), a laptop performer engages on gestural activity that reconnects her, at least on one level, with the dimension of movement as discussed in my previous tentative definition of musical instrument.
*LOrk Digression #4 — Staring at the screen

Submitted by ruviaro on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:58pm

One might argue that staring at a computer monitor on stage is not much different than looking at a musical score, but sometimes it does feel odd to watch a laptop musician constantly staring at the screen. Why is this? Reading from a musical score in a traditional musical performance is not generally seen as a problem; sometimes it is even the norm. A solo pianist is usually expected to play by heart, but a string quartet player usually reads from scores.
*LOrk digression #3 — The enigmatic performer

Submitted by ruviaro on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:46pm

The laptop musician often—not always, but often—appears to the audience as an almost motionless performer, completely absorbed by the computer screen. A significant change in terms of stage presence occurs when the need for constantly monitoring the computer screen diminishes and the musician is invited—or required—to look more at the other performers or conductor. In most cases, however, the engima persists: what is actually going on on stage?
*LOrk Digression #2 — Futurism, futuristic

Submitted by ruviaro on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:29pm

A great deal of the theatricality of a laptop orchestra lies in the very fact that we are confronted with, well, a lot of laptops on stage. With one player behind each laptop, and often mimicking or resembling the configuration of a traditional orchestra on stage, the laptop orchestra of today plays directly with our historical notion of an orchestral concert. To some extent, the theater of a laptop orchestra performance is the fact that acoustic instruments (tradition) are replaced by machines with a quasi-futuristic appeal.
*LOrk digression #1 — What is a musical instrument?

Submitted by ruviaro on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:06pm

In his Traité des Objets Musicaux, first published in 1966, Pierre Schaeffer defined a musical instrument in the following way:

“Tout dispositif qui permet d'obtenir une collection variée d'objets sonores—ou des objets sonores variés—toute en maintenant à l'esprit la permanence d'une cause, est un instrument de musique, au sens traditionnel d'une éxperience commune à toutes les civilisations.” (p. 51)
running Access Grid from CCRMA

Submitted by cc on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 4:10pm

Access Grid is a flexible video streaming / conferencing system installed on all CCRMA linux machines. It'll share streams globally and also within CCRMA. It's multi-user, not just bi-directional and you can pile up the feeds, making it especially useful for big band distrubuted network performance.

This is with a Logitech USB web cam plugged into a linux station...
Design Readings

Submitted by sleitman on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 12:33am

These are the readings that are due on Wednesday:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~sleitman/UserExperienceAResearchAgenda.pdf

(This one needs to be accessed via SUL)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tbit/2006/00000025/00000002/...

www.research.ibm.com/compsci/spotlight/hci/p300-gould.pdf

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"A Mechanical Mozart"

Submitted by leshg on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:57am

Here are the links to the "computer program creating music" debate I brought up in class:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/machines-wi...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/03/a-mechanica...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/03/a-mechanica...

pretty interesting stuff with some connection to what we talked about today...
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Reactions to Moholy-Nagy and Ascott

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Art and Technology Readings

Submitted by sleitman on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 7:41pm

The readings for Monday on Art and Technology can be found here:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~sleitman/DysonEmbodyingTechnology.pdf

And here:

www.jstor.org/stable/1125231

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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/apcproxy/
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