This is perfect. I am 'realizing' a Stockhausen composition for my
undergraduate seinor project. It's called Studie II and from what I hear
it is the first piece of western 'classical' electronic music ever
published (1954). Instead of using tape like Karl did, I'm using the
Csound synthesis language (I know it's not the most up to date but
neither is my computer). The measurement of time is very precise, going
to four decimal places (Miliseconds I think). So...I don't really know
how the final product will sound but I'm pretty sure it won't be very
grid like at all. And the best part is the score written on paper is an
extremely tight grid. The images are quite facinating.
If there is still interest, I'll post the final realization (with images
of the paper score) on my web site and we can compare Eno's grid of tape
to Stockhausen's grid of digits. I should be done with this by the end of
the month. It might be fun...
as ever homies,
lee azzarello
quoted 1 line martin wheeler wrote this on 1/16/45 6:31 PM>martin wheeler wrote this on 1/16/45 6:31 PMquoted 17 lines Getting back to Mr Eno's remarks, IMHO one of the best things he ever did>Getting back to Mr Eno's remarks, IMHO one of the best things he ever did
>is 'Music for Airports.'
>Do the 'muscular actions' involved in cutting up different length tape
>loops of singing and playing and then letting them phase against each
>other really 'mean something' more than doing the same sort of thing with
>an audio sequencer, or with a MIDI sequencer plus sampler ? I don't see
>it myself.
>Any half-way serious sequencer can make loops of like 45 bars, 3 beats
>and 137 clicks phasing against 33 bars, 1 beat and 29 clicks against 9
>bars, 0 beats, 1 click or whatever, and that with _very_ little muscular
>action ;-)
>Whilst this is definitely a 'grid' of sorts, it is no more a grid, and is
>certainly just as complex a one as that defining Mr Eno's so very
>evocative tape loops ...
>
>These are certainly very interesting questions indeed, but i think the
>whole thing is way, way more complex than that.
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