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I've recently been commissioned by the Media Arts Committee (Vancouver, BC) to write/record a soundscape piece exploring the topic of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Although I have first hand experience regarding what happens to the mind, body, spirit during weeks/months without sunlight, I am interested in other's experiences with the same. tell me... tanya pea suddenly 20Hz to 20kHz is an insufficient fix. now i need my THz.

When I think seasonal affective disorder in relation to tunes, I think Autechre's Amber. More specifically, Foil. Some Cliff Martinez type work would be appropriate as well. For such a depressing task it sounds like a lot of fun. tanya pea <tanyapea@gmail.com> wrote: I've recently been commissioned by the Media Arts Committee (Vancouver, BC) to write/record a soundscape piece exploring the topic of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Although I have first hand experience regarding what happens to the mind, body, spirit during weeks/months without sunlight, I am interested in other's experiences with the same. tell me... tanya pea suddenly 20Hz to 20kHz is an insufficient fix. now i need my THz. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

where's burton? he must know something about SAD.... t

On 3/22/06, tanya pea <tanyapea@gmail.com> wrote:

quoted 2 lines where's burton? he must know something about SAD....

> where's burton? he must know something about SAD.... > t

hey, what are you trying to say? haha well, i think that SAD is a bit different out here in regina than it would be in vancouver. vancouver SAD is more due to the gloom and rain over the winter months leading to a depression...here it's almost always sunny in the winter so you don't get that 'haven't seen the sky in years' feeling, but it gets damn cold and you can't leave the house, so you get a bit more of a cabin fever sort of thing. um, musically, i can't really say...i've kinda cured my depression feelings that i used to have, so i'm kinda always in the same sort of neutral mood all the time that isn't really effected by seasons, weather, or general out of body occurances that happen around me. maybe it just comes with age, i dunno. anyways, i don't really know much about such things, unless computers are effected by it ;-) -- burton samograd kruhft@gmail.com kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'... Is what's being asked for here not people's *experience* of SAD, and not their musical associations for it. Ms Pea will presumably be the one who mediates such experience into music through her own semiotic associations. I would say that a musician who seeks input to assist in writing a piece of music doesn't want to hear about other bits of music that people associate with their experience of SAD, but rather aboiut the experience itself. Then they do the articulation. From my (second-hand) understanding of this disorder, what stands out is a description of a feeling of stasis, of lowness of spirit - a disinclination to move or do anything that requires mental or physical energy. Torpor is the word. alan

quoted 35 lines tanya pea <tanyapea@gmail.com> wrote: I've recently been

> > tanya pea <tanyapea@gmail.com> wrote: I've recently been > commissioned > > by the Media Arts Committee (Vancouver, BC) > > to write/record a soundscape piece exploring the topic of Seasonal > > > Affective > > Disorder. Although I have first hand experience regarding what > happens > > to > > the mind, body, spirit during weeks/months without sunlight, I am > > interested > > in other's experiences with the same. > > > > tell me... > > tanya pea > > suddenly 20Hz to 20kHz is an insufficient fix. now i need my THz. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Yahoo! Mail > > Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. > The Hertz wave theory of wireless transmission maybe kept up for a > while, but I do not hesitate to say that in a short time it will be > recognized as one of the most remarkable and inexplicable abberations > of > the scientific mind which has ever been recorded in history. > > -Nikola Tesla > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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i don't mind the reference points. torpor is good too.... tanya pea On 3/22/06, Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

quoted 20 lines Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'...

> > > Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'... > Is what's being asked for here not people's *experience* of SAD, and > not their musical associations for it. Ms Pea will presumably be the > one who mediates such experience into music through her own semiotic > associations. I would say that a musician who seeks input to assist in > writing a piece of music doesn't want to hear about other bits of music > that people associate with their experience of SAD, but rather aboiut > the experience itself. Then they do the articulation. > > From my (second-hand) understanding of this disorder, what stands out > is a description of a feeling of stasis, of lowness of spirit - a > disinclination to move or do anything that requires mental or physical > energy. Torpor is the word. > > alan > > >

Maybe a wee bit "non-idm" to suggest this but what of the much lauded Tired Sounds of The Stars of The Lid album ??? It's listening duration is almost as long as one of our typical Irish winters (from September to May fact fans) and it has a thoroughly jaded, lethargic, melancholic and, at times, delirious atmos to it that shouldn't fail to be enhanced after one has imbibed a bottle (or 2) of cough syrup. Or what of the Lid lads' solo offerings - The Dead Texan album and Brian McBride's "When The Detail Lost....... (I'm sorry, but my frickin iPod won't scroll the albums full title across the screen - gee swizz). Eluvium also sound similarly seasonally affected, if a little less nuanced than SoTL. Even, dare we utter his name aonce more on idm-l, parts of AT's SAW2...... although it could be argued that those pieces of SAW2 are probably more expressive interpretations of the frigid and scorched "landscape" (of winter), and sleep deprivation, than of the actual psychological torpor and gloom associated with that of a SAD-ist. Goodly luck with the tune Tanya, and do please let us all know how it develops. |---------+----------------------------> | | tanya pea | | | <tanyapea@gmail.c| | | om> | | | | | | 23/03/2006 14:24 | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: idm@hyperreal.org | | cc: | | Subject: Re: [idm] SAD input | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| i don't mind the reference points. torpor is good too.... tanya pea On 3/22/06, Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

quoted 20 lines Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'...

> > > Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'... > Is what's being asked for here not people's *experience* of SAD, and > not their musical associations for it. Ms Pea will presumably be the > one who mediates such experience into music through her own semiotic > associations. I would say that a musician who seeks input to assist in > writing a piece of music doesn't want to hear about other bits of music > that people associate with their experience of SAD, but rather aboiut > the experience itself. Then they do the articulation. > > From my (second-hand) understanding of this disorder, what stands out > is a description of a feeling of stasis, of lowness of spirit - a > disinclination to move or do anything that requires mental or physical > energy. Torpor is the word. > > alan > > >

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 Brian.Power@cso.ie wrote:

quoted 5 lines It's listening duration is almost as long as one of our typical Irish

> It's listening duration is almost as long as one of our typical Irish > winters (from September to May fact fans) and it has a thoroughly jaded, > lethargic, melancholic and, at times, delirious atmos to it that shouldn't > fail to be enhanced after one has imbibed a bottle (or 2) of cough > syrup.

Brian -- i desperately want to get you and Alan lockett in a room together, flip through fifty or sixty albums and tape-record the subsequent back-and-forth. If either of you are even half as mordant and wonderful in person as you are in email i reckon i could go around forcing random reviewers and record shop employees to listen the resultant audio as a cautionary tale : "This is the par, bub -- measure up or shut up" Thanks -- - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://eric.explosive.net - - Personal colo with a professional touch - http://www.explosive.net - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Thanks Eric. That's very flattering. But the truth of the matter is far less grand than all that. I'm a public servant - this is what I'm, ahem, paid to do..cough cough... Otherwise my days would be spent almost entirely at home, alone, peering out a rain flecked window pane from behind mildewed net curtains, playing endless rewinds of isolationist "hits", re-re-reading Beckett's "Waiting For Godot", while occasionally wandering out of doors into the awaiting maelstrom of wind, rain and inflation, to stock up on CD's, medicines and magazines. np - booka shade "mandarine girl" |---------+----------------------------> | | Eric Sorenson | | | <eric@explosive.n| | | et> | | | | | | 24/03/2006 07:14 | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Brian.Power@cso.ie | | cc: idm@hyperreal.org | | Subject: Re: [idm] SAD input | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 Brian.Power@cso.ie wrote:

quoted 3 lines It's listening duration is almost as long as one of our typical Irish

> It's listening duration is almost as long as one of our typical Irish > winters (from September to May fact fans) and it has a thoroughly jaded, > lethargic, melancholic and, at times, delirious atmos to it that

shouldn't

quoted 2 lines fail to be enhanced after one has imbibed a bottle (or 2) of cough

> fail to be enhanced after one has imbibed a bottle (or 2) of cough > syrup.

Brian -- i desperately want to get you and Alan lockett in a room together, flip through fifty or sixty albums and tape-record the subsequent back-and-forth. If either of you are even half as mordant and wonderful in person as you are in email i reckon i could go around forcing random reviewers and record shop employees to listen the resultant audio as a cautionary tale : "This is the par, bub -- measure up or shut up" Thanks -- - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://eric.explosive.net - - Personal colo with a professional touch - http://www.explosive.net -

On 3/23/06, aaronas@yahoo.com <aaronas@yahoo.com> wrote:

quoted 3 lines What would you like to know?

> > What would you like to know? >

research. set rules for myself - conceptually and technologically. produce. abosrb. refine. release. research. a few have contacted me off the list. rules. SAD is treated with UV light. THz. tiny waves. SAD like oppression. the heavy trapped sensation i feel from the buzz of a tv or a substation. skytrain. produce. field recordings. this weekend. it's raining and the wires are sizzling. software. pick one. tanya pea