Sunday, May 15, 2011

Is this music?

 Is this music? Would you buy this record? The music for the piece was composed by Edgard Varese. He was a french composer who spent the later half of his life in the United States. He is noted for his use of, and experimentation with timbre and rhythm, a culmination which he called "organized sound." He is also known as the "father of electronic music. " You can recognize him below by his long, parachute-y hair. 


While the audience entered and left the pavilion Iannis Xenakis' composition Concrèt PH was heard. 


Once the audience was in the pavilion they heard Varese's composition, which consisted of sirens, honks, machine noises, voices, bongo sounds, chimes, etc.  These sounds were based on spatialization, which is the "use of the localization of sounds in physical space as a compositional element in music, in sound art, and in sound editing for audio recordings, film, and video. " This means that the sounds seemed to come from a certain sound source instead of just a stereo so that the sound almost felt 3 dimensional.  To really implement this idea of spatialization, the sounds were synchronized with a film/photos.

 

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