ART 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Piano Phase, Pendulum Music, Gramophone Record
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Unit 2 ppt 3 sound as signal. Like john cage, steve reich began composing using the 12-tone system created by arnold schoenberg. Dangling a series of microphones above speakers, causing them to feedback. Simple phrase (arpeggio) played by both pianists but slowly they start playing at different speeds and move out of synchronization and develop a rhythm out of that: marshall mcluhan canadian media theorist, born in edmonton in 1911. The repertory of the 1920s was revived and given new complexity by this new (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s. (cid:863) Increased length of a side of disk new complexity, reinterpreted, etc: time constraints of the medium imposed itself on the content, ritual of listening to music on records transformed and evolved with things like music on iphone. What results is an amplification of the resonant qualities of the space the sound is played in (cid:862)musi(cid:272) fo(cid:396) solo pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:863) = lu(cid:272)ie(cid:396) uses se(cid:374)so(cid:396)s (electronic technology) to bring out an inaudible part of the human body.
