COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #1.1
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’.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with sound artist Lars Holdhus that we were unable to include the first time around.
The Globe
The second episode of this series presents an overview of the sixties, starting with the world music collages of Richard Maxfield, Teiji Ito and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and following through to the impact of John Cage and Marshall McLuhan on the Beatles.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with David Burraston that we were unable to include the first time around.
David Burraston
Artist/scientist David Burraston talks about his rainwire project and how using rain as a creative medium has led him to an ongoing research that could overcome some recognized shortcomings in the field of rainfall measurements. He also talks about complex systems and creative practice in science, with an overview of CA and its applications, including his findings on CA rule space self-organization using modular synthesizers and CA sequencers.
Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore
Sound artists and curators Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore talk about minimalism, complexity, abstraction and the processes and concepts behind their audiovisual works.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by German artist Florian Hecker and Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda.