sound: social media, gps, sonic bikes and asmr

 fast forward a few centuries! sound making today

Golan Levin’s Telesymphony: a composer who was inspired to use cellular phones. during performances he would call the audiences phones and they would ring creating the music composition.

Marek Choloniewski and Jeremy Wood: a Polish composer who based his composition on the car drawings of Wood. here he used gps to make large scale drawings on the streets and these were then transforms into a sound programme to start producing sounds. also the cellular phone while drawing/driving would also record the soundscape and this was relayed to a live composition piece for an audience.

Robin Rimbaud’s ‘scanner’ piece: using a device to listen in on private conversations and use this to create a piece.

Kafee Matthews: uses gps and sonic bikes - a bike with loud-speakers and sensors as it is ridden. playing and composing together.

ASMR: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is a tingling response that is triggered by tactile and auditory sensations. asmr-tists deliberately create sounds to create this sensation and has taken off online. using high fidelity experiences that are routed in sound – a niche area and can be ironic, therapeutic and fun. examples – Whisper Red, Heather Feather and Ephemeral Rift.

Johannes Kreidler: asks how to use the net to outsource the work of a composer? he would ask musicians to make some work based on his style and then play this as his own work, asking who is the author? he also asked musicians from places in Africa, Asia and India – again playing into the notion of colonialism.

black culture and global music with Mark Anthony Neal. left of black series – a video podcast who work in the field of black studies – a way to introduce people to work that is going on in this field. ‘what the music said’ his book which outlines music and the diaspora, e.g. how spiritual music meets the mainstream, secularisation of the spiritual tradition, soul, blues, hip-hop also part of that cultural influence. these influences also became part of political movements - racial marches and cries for change – right up to today hip-hop that articulates social injustices. hip-hop is born from the melting pot of latin America, black culture in the Bronx. other sounds that emeerege from black culture – handclaps and stomping of feet came from lack of instruments and incidental noises of the city such as the rhythm of the subway come into play in these musical developments as does loud voices of the city.

Collaboration & Generative Aesthetics with Bill Seaman & John Supko: the periodic table of elements can be the beginning of a sonic piece. repetition through laser discs and then the navigation of files and their positions to build up structures. using sound like photographs – collecting spaces and actions. text also can become the sound – without stopping using shuffle function. the oper& which changes with each performance. the generative engine makes decisions as it is performed, but always with an unchanging anchor piece that does not change – e.g. text or structure.

“Endings” Project & Interactive Compositions with Quran Karriem: a collaboration of sound and visuals – how does the piece effect how the audience move inn space and move their bodies.