Truly, I was going to practice accordion today but what do I do? I sit and write processing the moment I get home from tango. And before tango, too. Its a problem!
On the good side, I have proof-of-concept for my blowing wind piece coded.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
not enough time in the day
So, today I have gone to work and practiced accordion. That's it! It's 10:42pm and I still have accordionizing left. I had the thought I would work on some video stuff but that is clearly not in the cards. Well, unless I decide sleeping is only somewhat optional.
I took like, an hour and a half break or something after work before I started music work. I'm regretting that now. Breaks are for FOOLS.
Tomorrow is tango day. I will bring my laptop to work on stuff during the window after work and before class. Then, I'll do more accordionizing post-tango. Hopefully.
First video workshop was yesterday. It was interesting. I hope I can sell people on my wind/blowing idea. It is NEATz. I wanted to show my broom piece for next class but I think he wants me to show something with a score. Le sigh. I suppose I could show "in which" but we see. I wanted to perform the broom piece but I think that's impractical since I'll have to lug my accordion + music stand too and MY GOD that day is gonna be crazeh.
ETA: So I did a TINY bit with processing so I know how to get and show sound. I don't think its that much further to put the bare-bones of my idea into place. I just thought of an idea... like, an expanding circle... BUT it only stays expanded if you have hit a particular width in the circle. It goes down to nothing (or, the next rung down) when you are not blowing. So it becomes dynamic then. Well, at least *I* know what I mean.
ALSO for entrance of 2nd performer... when SHE blows, the video gets 'healed'. But then there's a change in the music/timbre and she destroys the video, too. Then, they destroy the image together.
ETA2: OK. Processing is SO COOL!!!!! Damn it is cool!
I took like, an hour and a half break or something after work before I started music work. I'm regretting that now. Breaks are for FOOLS.
Tomorrow is tango day. I will bring my laptop to work on stuff during the window after work and before class. Then, I'll do more accordionizing post-tango. Hopefully.
First video workshop was yesterday. It was interesting. I hope I can sell people on my wind/blowing idea. It is NEATz. I wanted to show my broom piece for next class but I think he wants me to show something with a score. Le sigh. I suppose I could show "in which" but we see. I wanted to perform the broom piece but I think that's impractical since I'll have to lug my accordion + music stand too and MY GOD that day is gonna be crazeh.
ETA: So I did a TINY bit with processing so I know how to get and show sound. I don't think its that much further to put the bare-bones of my idea into place. I just thought of an idea... like, an expanding circle... BUT it only stays expanded if you have hit a particular width in the circle. It goes down to nothing (or, the next rung down) when you are not blowing. So it becomes dynamic then. Well, at least *I* know what I mean.
ALSO for entrance of 2nd performer... when SHE blows, the video gets 'healed'. But then there's a change in the music/timbre and she destroys the video, too. Then, they destroy the image together.
ETA2: OK. Processing is SO COOL!!!!! Damn it is cool!
Friday, June 11, 2010
accountability for self post
So, I was able to do items 1 & 4 on my list...which seems pitiful but re-editing my score was a bitch. I suck at proof-reading, by the way. Like, I kept on printing to pdf then looking one last time... THEN I find another stupid thing I did! I'm incredibly careless about notation sometimes, argh!
I was going to devote tonight to working, but then I saw William Basinkski was performing at IPR for *free* which is like... literally a few blocks from my apt. and... I want to GO! Its at 9pm. I could work before and after! I should do 1, 2, 3 tonight, though.
But! I kinda want to work on processing/video and/or choir piece shiz. Still, I think 1,2,3 are priority. Also, emails. Damn those emails I need to send.
Oh, 9. I should def. work on 9 this weekend. Not having a functional website for a month is BAD.
I was going to devote tonight to working, but then I saw William Basinkski was performing at IPR for *free* which is like... literally a few blocks from my apt. and... I want to GO! Its at 9pm. I could work before and after! I should do 1, 2, 3 tonight, though.
But! I kinda want to work on processing/video and/or choir piece shiz. Still, I think 1,2,3 are priority. Also, emails. Damn those emails I need to send.
Oh, 9. I should def. work on 9 this weekend. Not having a functional website for a month is BAD.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
boring stressed out things to do post.
1. practice/run though "In C" on accordion
2. start on minimal composition for pepe collab.
3. practice folding some more for convention coming up
4. look over "I will grow teeth" AGAIN and submit to Boston New Music thingy
5. email plz
6. go to JC Dance Jam this Sunday?
7. sign up for movement research class?
8. tango or concert on sat?
9. email eamusic about my damn server space / point url to somethingfurry for now
10. work on processing video stuff
11. think about choir piece... think. haha.
12. should go to that 'share' thing at IPR
2. start on minimal composition for pepe collab.
3. practice folding some more for convention coming up
4. look over "I will grow teeth" AGAIN and submit to Boston New Music thingy
5. email plz
6. go to JC Dance Jam this Sunday?
7. sign up for movement research class?
8. tango or concert on sat?
9. email eamusic about my damn server space / point url to somethingfurry for now
10. work on processing video stuff
11. think about choir piece... think. haha.
12. should go to that 'share' thing at IPR
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
just refined my video idea
the wind! idea.
title: "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow this house down"
piece starts out with one performer, and standing next to her projection
then, she starts blowing into a microphone (rhythmically)
when she blows (& the harder she does) she starts distorting/burning/destrying the projection of herself, in relation to how hard she blows
As the piece goes on, she becomes more physical with how she is blowing air, etc.
Her body flails, her fists clench, her frame inflates and then collapses.
3/4 or 1/2 way through she is joined by a 2nd performer
when this performer enters, *she* also blows into a second microphone. her breath also destroys the image but also creates strange, wistful sounds
they continue until the images are unrecognizable
the end.
title: "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow this house down"
piece starts out with one performer, and standing next to her projection
then, she starts blowing into a microphone (rhythmically)
when she blows (& the harder she does) she starts distorting/burning/destrying the projection of herself, in relation to how hard she blows
As the piece goes on, she becomes more physical with how she is blowing air, etc.
Her body flails, her fists clench, her frame inflates and then collapses.
3/4 or 1/2 way through she is joined by a 2nd performer
when this performer enters, *she* also blows into a second microphone. her breath also destroys the image but also creates strange, wistful sounds
they continue until the images are unrecognizable
the end.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
processing is cool shit
I almost posted this video to facebook, then I realized that might be... overboard. Still, not bad for one night. I like my video idea... though clearly I should have stayed still in the middle for much much longer before moving the hand back... haha... maybe I re-shoot tomorrow when its not 1:30am (work is tomorrow double BLAH)
Anyways, here is my VERY FIRST video piece I did after learning processing for a few hours when I got home after work. BTW, this is TOTALLY productive since I'm in a video workshop starting this Monday, y'all.
I think the thing that I like is the weird framerate and the angle / framing of it... more than the crazy filter crap I put on it via processing. BUT man, is it fun building your own crazy filter crap and then playing with it using your laptop camera. Just sayin. FUN.
I had this idea right before I left work of using breath to control video. I was thinking in terms of an electronic wind instrument, but controlling video. I looked up air pressure sensors but then realized the 'build my own wind controller YAY!' idea might be a bit grandiose for my first video project. I thought about microphones and using hissing sounds & vocalizations instead. Stilllllll thinking. Anyways, I was gonna write a very rhythmically complex piece for duo videoist breathers sort of based on the Cage-ish hierarchical structure thing. I'd mainly use musical notation, at least for the rhythm.... somehow I think the workshop pplz want original video notation... BUT I want rhythm and tempo..... Brakhage-ish tempo-structures: wee!
Yes, it is ridiculous.
ETA: I just had the idea of grayscaling the whole thing but dunno. Also, I feel as though these 9 seconds could be seizure-inducing...
Anyways, here is my VERY FIRST video piece I did after learning processing for a few hours when I got home after work. BTW, this is TOTALLY productive since I'm in a video workshop starting this Monday, y'all.
I think the thing that I like is the weird framerate and the angle / framing of it... more than the crazy filter crap I put on it via processing. BUT man, is it fun building your own crazy filter crap and then playing with it using your laptop camera. Just sayin. FUN.
I had this idea right before I left work of using breath to control video. I was thinking in terms of an electronic wind instrument, but controlling video. I looked up air pressure sensors but then realized the 'build my own wind controller YAY!' idea might be a bit grandiose for my first video project. I thought about microphones and using hissing sounds & vocalizations instead. Stilllllll thinking. Anyways, I was gonna write a very rhythmically complex piece for duo videoist breathers sort of based on the Cage-ish hierarchical structure thing. I'd mainly use musical notation, at least for the rhythm.... somehow I think the workshop pplz want original video notation... BUT I want rhythm and tempo..... Brakhage-ish tempo-structures: wee!
Yes, it is ridiculous.
ETA: I just had the idea of grayscaling the whole thing but dunno. Also, I feel as though these 9 seconds could be seizure-inducing...
Monday, June 7, 2010
thoughts and notes in the beginning of June
1. Turned in a score ("I will grow teeth") to North/South Consonance.... A few days afterward I realize I wrote a chord (played 3 times in succession) that is impossible for the violin. ARGH. (I look through my printed score, and then I'm liiiiike oh wait....) Then, a few hours later, I realized I put in a double barline somewhere randomly accidentally. ARGH again. Why is it I only see some errors after I've turned something in???
2. Starting an electronic music project with Pepe. Prob. going to book performance in Raleigh & NYC in October sometime.
3. I realized that I really need to start organizing my incognito choir piece. I am thinking of applying to the JFund grant for this... need to find a choir who wants to do it first, though. I'm pretty excited about it... I've thought more about the details of the piece. I need to think of how many movements of the requiem I am going to write. I should also contact transit & park people...
4. Starting the VCW workshop @ Diapason Gallery pretty soon. Realized that one session conflicts with my make music ny concert. Argh! Hopefully I can just come late to the workshop.
5. STILL need to book a show for Sept. Should be 'in which we become familiar', plus origami piece (maybe), plus 'Sound. Picture. Coif' (maybe), OR book all dance pieces... dunno.
6. Probably submitting 2 pieces to the Boston New Music initiative thingy. "I will grow teeth" plus maybe that string quartet I wrote a couple years ago...
2. Starting an electronic music project with Pepe. Prob. going to book performance in Raleigh & NYC in October sometime.
3. I realized that I really need to start organizing my incognito choir piece. I am thinking of applying to the JFund grant for this... need to find a choir who wants to do it first, though. I'm pretty excited about it... I've thought more about the details of the piece. I need to think of how many movements of the requiem I am going to write. I should also contact transit & park people...
4. Starting the VCW workshop @ Diapason Gallery pretty soon. Realized that one session conflicts with my make music ny concert. Argh! Hopefully I can just come late to the workshop.
5. STILL need to book a show for Sept. Should be 'in which we become familiar', plus origami piece (maybe), plus 'Sound. Picture. Coif' (maybe), OR book all dance pieces... dunno.
6. Probably submitting 2 pieces to the Boston New Music initiative thingy. "I will grow teeth" plus maybe that string quartet I wrote a couple years ago...
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