Hey guys, can we meet up at some stage before wednesday? I think Sadie has all our numbers except Danny’s. Please get some sort of reply up soon!
Archive for the ‘improvisation’ Category
Before Wednesday?
Posted in improvisation on 10 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
Emmet Mulholland – Review – Atau Tanaka & Cosmic Debris
Posted in improvisation, music, performance, projects, review on 4 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two concerts which couldn’t be much further apart in terms of genre, yet both included large amounts of the mysterious process we call ‘Improvisation’:
Atau Tanaka and his completely unpredictable BioMuse vs. the psychedelic delights of the Cosmic Debris Music concert.
Review of Two Improvised Performances – ‘The Jahm Band’ and ‘Tom McRae’
Posted in discussion, essay, idea, improvisation, music, online diary, performance, projects, reading, reflective writing, review, sounds, tangent, tagged The Jahm Band, Tom McRae on 4 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This review looks at performances from ‘The Jahm Band’, a psychedelic, funk-jazz fusion group based in North Antrim and singer songwriter ‘Tom McRae’ who are two performing artists/group who share the same or similar (self-proclaimed) chaotic approach to improvisation within their perspective music/sounds. However within the context of a live performance, this same attitude towards [...]
Something a bit random… (but relative)
Posted in discussion, improvisation, performance, tagged AI, performing on 3 December 2007 | 5 Comments »
As far as I understand it when a computer generates a random number it uses the current time value from its built-in clock as the starting point (seed) in a mathematical formula which generates reasonably randomised values. They’re not truly random because if the formula is started again at the exact same moment, resulting in [...]
REVIEW – Dan Gillen, FAINT & Disparate Bodies @ SARC
Posted in discussion, improvisation, projects, reflective writing, review, tagged Disparate Bodies, Faint, Project 1 on 3 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A comparison of the Disparate Bodies network performance (29th Nov 2007) and FAINT (11th Oct 2007), both in the Sonic Lab at SARC.
by Daniel Gillen
I find the Sonic Lab a bit disorienting at the best of times, due to a fairly debilitating fear of heights and fascination with shiny things which light up. Combine this [...]
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Posted in discussion, improvisation, instruments on 29 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
Check this out: http://music.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/nov/28/vegetable.orchestra.
Definitely an improvisation worth considering. This may give you new ideas about instruments.
I have seen them live in Belfast.
They were great.
