MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: San Francisco Tape Music Center, Alone Again (Naturally), Oh, Pretty Woman
Lecture 15 – Postmodernism and Beyond pt. 2
❖ Paulie Oliveros Be-e Butterfl, 19
• San Francisco Tape Music Center
• Queer woman
o Focused on making music outside of the institutions and spaces that were
unaccommodating to her
• Recorded improvisation
o it ids fareell ot oly to the usi of the 9th century but also to the
system of polite morality of that age and its attendant institutionalized
oppression of the female sex. The title refers to the operatic disc,
Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, which was at hand in the studio
at the time and which was spontaneously incorporated into the ongoing
opositioal i. – Pauline Oliveros
• Materials:
o 2 oscillators
o 2-line amplifiers
o 1 turntable with record
o 2 tape recorders in a delay setup
• Deep listening
• Sonic Awareness
❖ Mashup and Remix – polyvalent practices
• There are different kinds of remix and mashup practices that emerge from
different traditions, and have different purposes, including:
o Hip Hop and the sampling of breakbeats and instrumentals from other
popular music tracks
o Experimental Sound Collage
o Artistic challenges to originality as it interfaces with commercialism
(Duchamp and Warhol)
o Plunderphonics and intentional subversion of popular media to send a
message
❖ Copyright, Sampling, Mashup, and Remix
• I early 99’s, series of lasuits dealig ith saplig
o Fair Use Clause (Parody/Satire, non-profit educational)
o “aple Clearaes
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