Andrymi, a collection of music nerds Topic: electro acoustic

Andrymi, a collection of music nerds Topic: electro acoustic http://andrymi.com/community/ Andrymi, a collection of music nerds Topic: electro acoustic en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:44:21 +0000 Breakfastime on "electro acoustic" http://andrymi.com/community/topic/electro-acoustic#post-619 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:35:18 +0000 Breakfastime 619@http://andrymi.com/community/ not without my pre-coffee! vardi on "electro acoustic" http://andrymi.com/community/topic/electro-acoustic#post-617 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:20:29 +0000 vardi 617@http://andrymi.com/community/ it's like 'Pre-Noise' maybe we should start naming our genres pre instead of post, i mean this post thing is sort of depressing. like everything is over already. i'm gonna go make some pre-rock. Breakfastime on "electro acoustic" http://andrymi.com/community/topic/electro-acoustic#post-610 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:07:18 +0000 Breakfastime 610@http://andrymi.com/community/ No, this is experimental electronic music from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. I guess it continued on into the 80's but the origins are tape manipulation and electronic instrumentation recordings from the 50's. These sounds preceed modern synthesis which took hold in the 60's but would certainly include whatever electronic synthesis and sound manipulation techniques available at the time-like of the course the theramin and tape manipulation: echos, phase shift, looping, etc... It's the cutting edge/avant-guard stuff...the stuff people were saying "that's not music' about back then. Sometimes this stuff was combined with standard instrumentation (Varese's 'kontact' used pre-recorded tapes alongside a small orchestra) and sometimes the stuff was crazy minimal (Steve Reich's tape loop stuff from the 60's). Of course this stuff eventually started filtering it's way into popular culture: sci-fi and horror movie soundtracks, the music of Frank Zappa, Hendrix, Brian Eno's work in the 70's, the early music of The Residents, etc. The modern 'noise' movement might or might not borrow from this stuff, but mostly indirectly, being an offshoot of the 70's/80's NYC underground-Glenn Branca, Elliot Sharp, Fred Frith, etc. I don't think the newer 'noise' stuff is as cool, the bands I've seen seem to all sound the same! I guess that means I'm old! henry on "electro acoustic" http://andrymi.com/community/topic/electro-acoustic#post-609 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:33:24 +0000 henry 609@http://andrymi.com/community/ Is this anything resembling the "Noise" genre? My friend David Félix, who I think will join us here one day, is a Portuguese musician and Noise fan. He introduced me to it. Wacky stuff. Alot of high pitched nearly-inaudible stuff flooded my ears and gave me the heeby-jeebies. Then some rumbling gave me the chills. Etc, etc. It really interested me some, because it was the artform at its most basic. Inciting an emotional response with inorganic noise. Like a genetically modified organism. Breakfastime on "electro acoustic" http://andrymi.com/community/topic/electro-acoustic#post-605 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:09:16 +0000 Breakfastime 605@http://andrymi.com/community/ I've listened to a lot of this stuff over the years, there used to be a show on KPFT in Houston that played a lot of that stuff. I'm no expert but I have heard a lot of the stuff, I remember thee tape loops stuff you're talking about, etc... So now Ionisation by Varese is qued up in my computer...(currently playing Trio of Doom) Somewhere I have tapes of that old radio show, it introduced me to that whole thing. vardi on "electro acoustic" http://andrymi.com/community/topic/electro-acoustic#post-600 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:22:12 +0000 vardi 600@http://andrymi.com/community/ i'm getting really heavily into electro acoustic music. the genre hails back to the beginning of the history of electronic music. john cage did a lot of work with cut up tapes. one of his works is called williams mix, and was premiered in 1958. there actually exists a score to that piece, showing how 8 individual tapes should be spliced and stuck together. back then he had been hanging out in paris, where pierre shaeffer had been making a lot of music by writing stuff on to records, and letting them spin in a 'loop'. john cage was the new york school along with morton feldman, david tudor, earl brown. and our own magnús blöndal jóhannesson, was in iceland at the same time cutting sinus waves on a tape. it's just so amazing what those people could do with the primitive technique that existed then, basically just tape, and sine wave generators, a long with vinyl records.