Journal 2 - Post presentation
I played my RMIT application folio, stating that it really felt like the most recent collection of musical pieces I've worked on.
Phil picked up on a temporal quality being explored. Phil said, "Sounds like these pieces have been playing before we heard them." or words to that effect. Interesting, considering the compositions I enjoy the most create a similar sense. The notion that when you look through a window the world outside doesn't begin the instant you engage with the window, activity has been occurring in perpetuity. I'd like to explore this more in music. I think Phil was just commenting on the fades. There is so much scope to compose without being clamped to the x axis with only a time vector to slide across it to the right..
3 key influences:
I would have liked to have picked a Xenakis and Cage pieces for this, but fundamentally I find their structures and concepts to be far superior to their aesthetics. The following artists left more of an impact on me sonically as I enjoy their aesthetic as much as their technical skill. Parmegiani, Penderecki and Wendy Carlos are all classic composers I really enjoy.
Autechre - Live at Flex Vienna (1996)
Long form minimalist performance, exercise in restraint. I love this.
Meshuggah - In Death is Death [Catch 33]
Sections of this manages to capture order and chaos simultaneously.
Polymetric timing and odd tonal choices create this effect.
Machinedrum - Half The Battle // Prefuse73 - Radioattack
Using the voice as rhythmic sound object allowing hiphop to be stripped of
contextual baggage and retaining/developing its aesthetics.
Key concepts, motives that can be transposed out to new presentation models beyond non visual stereo speakers/pa.
Development of a performative aspect to recording and presenting work.
Focused, directed work. Objective driven experimentation. Conceptual works obfuscated with process.
Working toward to a sound design portfolio.
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