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Composition and mapping Program music to Sonification - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Composition and mapping Program music to Sonification - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Composition and mapping Program music to Sonification Jatyantara-Parinamah, for large ensemble (1st movement) Jatyantara-Parinamah based on an acoustic analysis and transcription of a stream understanding of any sound (a stream in this
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– based on an acoustic analysis and transcription of a stream – understanding of any sound (a stream in this case) as music – technology: recording equipment filtering music notation
Jatyantara-Parinamah
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background (1st component) background (2nd component) background (3rd component) foreground (4th component)
Jatyantara-Parinamah
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Program music Transcription Sonification Audification Soundscape composition
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Program music
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Janequin Le chant des oiseaux
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Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral” (4th movement –the storm)
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Transcription
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Olivier Messiaen, Petites Esquisses D’Oiseaux
(European robin)
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Re-definition of “Music”
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- “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly
- noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When
we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound
- f a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between
the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them not as sound effects but as musical instruments.” John Cage, in The Future of Music, Credo (1937)
John Cage, The Future of Music, Credo (1937)
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John Cage introducing Water Walk in the show “I’ve got a secret”
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John Cage, Water Walk
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Mapping
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excerpt from Mappings and entrainment, by David Dunn “I tentatively term the possibility of (…) eco- systemic mental
- structures. The suggestion is that some sort of primal
separation from such structures rendered mankind both individually conscious and with a deep sense of loss. The religious impulse is evidence for the vestigial need of the individual to reconnect with some larger systemic complexity”.
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John Cage, Atlas eclipticalis (1961-1962) for open instrumentation Atlas eclipticalis 1950.0 by astronomer Antonín Bečvár (1957)
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Iannis Xenakis, Pithoprakta (1958)
– based on the statistical mechanics of gases, Gauss's law,
- r Brownian motion. Each instrument is conceived as a
- molecule. This theory states that "the temperature of a gas
derives from the independent movement of its molecules” for 2 trombones, 46 strings, xylophone and woodblock
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Sonification
Conversion of data into audio. Its use may be didactic or artistic.
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Matthew Burtner, Iceprints (Ecoacoustics)
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Audification
Process of taking a vibration signal outside the range of normal human hearing and shifting it into the audible range
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"Electrical Walks is a public walk with custom-made sensitive wireless headphones by which aboveground and underground electromagnetic fields are detected, amplified and made audible. While the sounds were mixed, they were not altered at all electronically or by any other means.”
- Christina Kubisch
Christina Kubisch, Security (from “Electrical Walks”)
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Soundscape composition
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Hildegard Westerkamp, Cricket voice
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David Dunn The sound of light in trees
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Geysir, for 7 pianists and electronics
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Frequency analysis
Re-synthesis / removal of the partials with the lowest amplitude (SPEAR)
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Notation
From re-synthesis to text file (Orchids)
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From text file to XML file, quantization (Max MSP)
Notation
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Notation
Pitch classification code: removing complexity (BASE X)
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Dynamics (loudness)
Amplitude contour from the DAW
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Score
Indeterminate notation
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Under the sea ice, for string quartet
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