Evelyn Glennie’s music challenges the listener to ask where music comes from: Is it more than simply a translation from score to instrument to audience? How can a musician who has almost no hearing play with such sensitivity and compassion?
The Grammy-winning percussionist and composer became almost completely deaf by the age of 12, but her [...]
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Listening With Your Whole Body
Posted in discussion, listening, performance on 29 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ode To A Ford
Posted in instruments, listening, performance on 23 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reminds me of Performance Workshop a little but it is interesting none the less.
You may or may not have seen this TV ad but it involves professional musicians playing parts of a car and making, surprise surprise, music.
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 [...]
Technical Proficiency and Improvisation
Posted in discussion, improvisation, music, musical parameters, performance, sounds on 26 November 2007 | 7 Comments »
Frst of all I want to state that this post could be tied with the post on classical training and improvisation so I suggest you check that out too. “Why listen to you?!” I hear the masses cry….I dunno, sounds like a right old laugh. Anyway I think we can all agree that any preconsceptions [...]
