New instruments, lesson one: keep it clean. Composer, performer, and instrument designer Martin Marier exemplifies this statement in The Sponge, a foam-like instrument about the size of a bible that can be twisted, shook, contorted, and most importantly used to generate sound. I've included some rare footage of a performance at CIRMMT this past year.
Clarinette (Albino Butterfly) - live@CIRMMT from Martin Marier on Vimeo.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Who cares if you listen?
Well, frankly, I do.
I'm here to show you what's been done, how, and why as frankly as possible. I know I can't make you care about art or technology. If I said embodied cognition I think you'd squirm. But I will make you listen. Because if music is our golden thread, then new is the sound we make plucking it. Cut it and we're dead- this is about new music.
"Who Cares if You Listen?", Milton Babbit, High Fidelity, Feb. 1958
I'm here to show you what's been done, how, and why as frankly as possible. I know I can't make you care about art or technology. If I said embodied cognition I think you'd squirm. But I will make you listen. Because if music is our golden thread, then new is the sound we make plucking it. Cut it and we're dead- this is about new music.
"Who Cares if You Listen?", Milton Babbit, High Fidelity, Feb. 1958
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