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4’33
John Cage’s most infamous work “4’33” is an experimental composition and is sometimes referred to as the precursor/beginning of noise music as we know it. First premiered on August 29, 1952, in the Maverick Concert Hall located in Woodstock, New York. It is completely silent, with the only movement in the entire piece being Cage’s…
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STRAVINSKYWASTHEORIGINALNOISER
Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” debuted in May 1913 at the Theatre du Champs-Élysées and was performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Bringing elements of harmonic dissonance, complex and experimental rhythm structures, and an all-together avant-garde composition style brought abrasion, brutality, and subjectivity to the world/culture of orchestral music/performance. With an intentionally minimalist assortment of melodic…
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CONTROL.INFANTRY.NOISE
CONTROL Although an abstract notion containing a multitude of applications, the term “control” is integral to my practice. How do we use sound/music to take control of our lives and break free from the control of others? How can performance art allow us to simultaneously give up and take control of a situation? And how…
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“Sound Arts” never seemed an all that concrete/fixed term to me. From what I can understand, the field is a group of artists, scientists, and researchers who found safety and commonality in an umbrella term that serves only as a general form of classification for what they do. I find that the term “Sound Arts”…
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