Son[i]a #125
Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore
In their respective works, British artists Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore esplore the possibilities of algorithmic processes applied to the creation of music, graphics and installations. Fell and Gilmore are also the curators of the Ràdio Web MACBA program COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC, which recounts the story of generative music from different perspectives.
Son[i]a talks to Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore about minimalism, complexity, abstraction and the processes and concepts behind their audiovisual works.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #8.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #7.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #6.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #5.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #4.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #3.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Transcript of COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #2.1., curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore.
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler talks about music, computers, and instruments, about infrasound, ultrasound, and thresholds of the listenable, about archives and obsessions, about affect as a film editing criteria, and about the enormous complexity involved in representing a person’s life. We also talk about the forces that make some artists disappear from the cultural canon altogether in spite of having created fascinating, ground-breaking work.
Two Discrete Generative Systems
Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore wrap up this series on generative and process music with a piece created specifically for the occasion: 'Two Discrete Generative Systems'.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Keith Fullerton Whitman and Carl Michael von Hausswolff.
Models of change
This episode considers the notion of change in music. It looks at how scientific and mathematical concepts can be used to model change in the acoustic domain.
Exclusives
Two exclusive works-interviews by Goodiepal.
Approaches to change
This episode considers the notion of change in music. It asks how we perceive and quantify change in musical structures, and how generative processes disrupt and enlarge our sense of surprise, expectation, tension and boredom.
Space
This episode explores sound in relation to space. It considers various ways in which composers have utilised acoustic space as an active element in the process of music composition.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Ben Vida and THE HUB.
Duration
This episode explores the concept of duration in music. It examines the different ways that composers and musicians have explored duration in terms of both the large and small.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Laurie Spiegel and Terre Thaemlitz
Time
The relationship between time and music and the impact of technological development and how time is treated within a range of musical idioms.
Theo Burt
Interview with Theo Burt on perceptual processes, visual music and intermedia art.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Stephan Mathieu and Russell Haswell.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by Yasunao Tone and Christophe Charles.
EVOL
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros talks about EVOL’s very free deconstruction and reinterpretation of György Ligeti's 'Continuum' and Hanne Darboven’s 'Opus 17A', and how these works relate to the duo's current artistic practice. Unusual notions of time in relation to music, algorithmic reverse engineering, complexity through simplicity, anti-climax, ancient trance music, weird mental states and Dick Higgins’ Superboredom concept pop up in the conversation.
Determinacy and indeterminacy
This episode looks at how chance has been used in a variety of ways in the composition and performance of musical works.
Systems
The role of formalised systems in music making.
Exclusives
Exclusive music by German artist Florian Hecker and Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda.
Continue
A range of sound works representing different periods, traditions and approaches to generative and systems based music.