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"Drum Machine": Notes for my lecture/performance tonight, Friday, May 19, 8:00 pm, at artMovingProjects, Williamsburg

In the '80s the Roland TR-808 and TB-303, failed drum machine and bass genie, were scarfed up cheap by kids and "acid house" was born.

"People's music" - affordable tech for credible psychedelic party - Dionysian, anti-"control system" - different view of Modernism - apolitical vs opting out - "who controls the pleasure?" (The Man or the kids?)

Current soundmaking tech divides functions of the Drum Machine:

--sound generation is mechanical (voltages or digital signal processing is "sculpted" to make percussive noises)

---composition/sound design is done in the Sequencer
* Grids of MIDI notes - musical Mondrian
* editing of waveforms
Both are visual. Visual artists have a "home court advantage" (ear also helps)

"Drum Machine" video. (May describe, not show--it's a bit somber)
Doubly ironic:
--all sounds are "bent" from conventional drum sounds - spacy, not realistic
--visual elements *do not correspond* to sounds - problematized, anti-MTV

Live performance of 5 demo songs played with a sequencer (on laptop) controlling Vermona drum machine (subbing for TR-909) and Sidstation (subbing for TB-303):

Clip City
Godhopper
Protest Song Variation
Suite 6
ArtMoving (new, composed this week)

Increasing interest in creating sound/image combos. Play the following videos:
--End Notes (w jimpunk)
--Sensor Readings
--Ninja Elements

- tom moody 5-19-2006 10:00 pm [link] [2 comments]



808 Columbus

Detail of architectural rendering for 808 Columbus development, via Curbed. This is pretty how much how most of the New York metropolitan area is looking to me these days. I moved (back) here from Dallas 11 years ago this month, and that city followed me up here. One question I have is, how can New York City have so many banks? Every time a family-owned deli or hardware store closes it is replaced by a bank. My theory, without doing the research, is that the banks are buying the real estate (a la Starbucks), and those people sitting at desks behind the glass windows trying to look busy are just props.

- tom moody 5-19-2006 9:30 pm [link] [3 comments]