COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #5.1
Duration
Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore. Narrated by Connie Treanor.
The fifth episode in the series continues to explore the idea of time in music practice, particularly in relation to duration.
The show looks at how music is measured in terms of both micro and macroscopic intervals: through granular synthesis, where sound is constructed from microscopic sonic ‘grains’, to extended works whose duration is measured not in minutes and seconds, but years.
Bringing together ideas and theories of the engineer Denis Gabor and composers Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads, this episode examines early tape and computer music works using granular and pulsar synthesis.
The show closes with a focus on two recent treatments of time in music: by the German artist Hanne Darboven and media producer Terre Thaemlitz.
Diedrich Diederichsen. Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with the cultural critic and music journalist Diedrich Diederichsen.
Diedrich Diederichsen
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This show takes a listen to techno-pop of the seventies and early eighties as a brief yet deliberate interruption into the realms of pop, rock, soul and R&B.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Ben Vida and THE HUB.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #5.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
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.
Time
The relationship between time and music and the impact of technological development and how time is treated within a range of musical idioms.