Part of a series of commissioned longform pieces instructed to be my interpretation of "looking into a diamond (or precious stone)". All music by Will Long, 2020. https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/gems-2
Jonáš Gruska
http://jonasgru.sk/ Jonáš Gruska is a proud amateur, honouring the French origin of the term (to love what you do). Curiosity and passion run through pretty much everything that Gruska engages in. In our conversation ranging from his site-specific sound installations to his hand-crafted microphones and audio tools, his recent interest in mycology, and his playful exploration of... Leer más →
Imaginary Landscape, John Cage
An article on imaginary landscape score. IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE No. 4: STUDY AND ANNOTATION OF THE SCOREAndrea Valle y Amedeo CasellaDescarga
Zodiac Music, Stockhausen
In 1974, Stockhausen composed the 12 melodies of the star signs for music boxes and produced them in collaboration with technicians at the Reuge music box factory in Ste. Croix, Switzerland. 07.12.201808:34 amTopics:MusicTags:Karlheinz Stockhausen In the mid-seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen composed the 12 melodies of Tierkreis (or Zodiac), one for each star sign. He assigned the 12 notes of... Leer más →
Nicole L’Huillier, cosmos sound
Cosmos y sonido. https://vimeo.com/276326098 On 17 November 2017, 20 researchers from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology posed excitedly in front of a specially modified Boeing 727 at Sanford International Airport in Florida. Wearing navy blue boiler suits with American flags emblazoned on the sleeves, the group of graduate students and researchers—all part... Leer más →
Laurie Anderson, The end of the moon y landfall
With the folks at NASA, Anderson toured the Hubble Space Telescope and met astronauts and nanotechnologists, ultimately producing a poem called The End of the Moon, which she recited between violin interludes. Formally and conceptually grappling with colossal forces of the unknown. Starting last month and running until January 2019, the country’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art features... Leer más →
Sun Rings, Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet
Composed by Terry Riley for string quartet, chorus, and pre-recorded space sounds, Sun Rings is the first complete recording of Kronos Quartet’s landmark multimedia production of the same name. Commissioned in part by the NASA Art Program, the fully staged show, featuring visual design by Willie Williams, premiered at University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in October 2002.... Leer más →
Tampakis Dimitris, Echo Camber, 2020
Echo Chamber, Tampakis Dimitris, 2020 Según he entendido, hace escáneres de las excavaciones que hace con la mano y luego hace una escultura con eso (Excavated, 2019). Me encanta su relación con la arqueología, con el gesto y con la cueva. Tiene este otro diseño de una especie de cámara de eco pequeñica, algo que... Leer más →
Cage's rocks, selected by chance operations for use in 75 Stones, 1989. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGNwiQviiGU&list=WL&index=12&ab_channel=CrownPointPress
Transhumanismo y sonido
"Según Turner, hubo ideólogos en Silicon Valley que estuvieron influenciados por las formas artísticas de aparente libertad ensayadas por el Black Mountain Collage (John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham), o que estuvieron relacionados con la comuna de artistas ecologistas USCO (The US Company) y la San Francisco Tape Music Center (Pauline Oliveros, Ramón Sender, Steve... Leer más →