MONDAY

LECTURE: AUDIO ART

No audience, no player, no composition: this popcorn controlled robotic drumset is the most hygenic and the random performance I ever built. All sounds are triggered by popcorn, sensed by piezo elements, converted to MIDI, transfered to a robotic system and played live on drums without the interference of a human composer. MORE MUSIC ROBOTS INSTAGRAM   / moritzsimongeist  

Audio Art Examples

AUDIO STUDIO ASSIGNMENT:

Make a one-minute work of AUDIO ART.

RECOMMENDED LENGTH: Approximately one minute.

Final works will be posted on the blog, or your choice of audio sharing services/sites

No late assignments will be accepted.

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Students will create an audio art piece between 30 seconds and 1 minute in length.

While the conceptual parameters for this project are open, consider some of the themes and strategies of the artists listened to in class.

Some strategies may include:

-You may assign yourself (or others) a conceptual feat, and perform it, or document it in sound.

-You may combine different layers of sounds reflecting places, times, popular music, and voices.

-You may interpret or translate non-audio experiences or spaces in sound.

-You may re-interpret noise or other found sound as music.

-You may perform a list, or other kinds of interesting found or constructed language.

-You may distort or edit found sound or music, to change its original meaning and effect.

Consider audio works by some of the following artists:

Dave Dyment

Santiago Sierra

Yoko Ono

Daniel Olson

Matthew Sawyer

Jonathan Monk

Christian Marclay

Kelly Mark

John Cage

Janet Cardiff

Steve Reinke

Emeka Ogboh

After critiques and final revisions – students will post their works with a title and short description on our class Blog.

RECORDING demo with Nathan

WEDNESDAY

More audio art examples

Audio Editing Demo with Nathan

Due: Roundtable presentation of ideas for audio art

COMPLETE BLOG POSTS due for everything week 1-6 including:

1. Km assignment with description/notes
2. Work in progress for video
3. Field Trip Notes
4. Video assignment with description/notes on each group member’s own page
5. Comments on your classmates’ blog pages about their final video
6. Response to Bridget Moser’s video My Crops Art Dying but my Body Persists

MONDAY

Final critique of final One Feat, Three Ways videos

WEDNESDAY

WATCH and COMMENT ON THE WORK OF YOUR CLASSMATES:

We need to complete our final critque of One Feat, Three Ways videos. From home, comment directly on the blog pages of the students below. Say more than “I liked x”, or “x was funny...” Comment in detail on at least three things about their video – for example: the specific significance of their references; how the video begins and ends; use of cuts, and transitions, text, image quality or other editing effects; some of the ideas, arguments, and questions raised by the artwork; and how all of these artistic decisions affect the experience of watching the video, and how they may or may not serve ideas the artist intended.

1. Haadi, Fatima and Patrizia (on Haadi’s page)
2. Melissa
3. Tumi and Zamani

*Some of these final Internet videos have not been posted yet. Please post your final videos and a description ASAP! These three works should be available for viewing by 3pm today.

Suggested time required to complete: 1 hour

WATCH and MAKE A BLOG POST REFLECTION:

“Moments of pathos and humour in Moser’s work arise from the friction between her virtuosity and ineptitude. On one hand, Moser’s writing is full of disarming turns of phrase and poetic insight (“I’m drowning in a sea of Hamlets! All indecisive and infested with ghosts. And me worst of all”), and her imaginative reconfiguration of simple props is nothing short of thrilling. Her vaguely narrative performances elicit sensations of being slightly “off” or unreconciled. They feature props and set pieces in states of becoming or collapse. They access humour and produce pathos through the haphazard and awkward. They reveal moments of beauty and insight to be the tenuous constructions that they are by allowing them to fall apart.” – Jordan Tannahill

My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists

Meet Bridget Moser and watch the video: My Crops are Dying but my Body Persists. Read the review of this work in Artforum here:

https://www.artforum.com/events/bridget-moser-247483

Watch the video again – in light of the commentary by Charlene Lau – and comment on the ways Moser appropriates internet tropes, youtubers, pop culture references, and/or memes in this work. What are some of the things her colour choices, and/or her props and costumes remind you of? How do you experience the video physically? What are some of the ideas Moser is playing with, including questions she is raising? What is the role of absurdity in her work? In your discussion of Moser’s work, you should quote the art forum review twice.

Suggested time required: 1 hour

OPTIONAL: Dive into Moser’s other works, including performances and videos.

And Recent Work

THERE IS NO HOMEWORK DURING READING WEEK*

Note: Your blogs should be up to date with your final videos and descriptions (every member of the group should make a post) and all of the required posts so far. I will be grading all the work on your blogs when we return.

I hope you will enjoy a restful break!