Berichte/Features

Woche 42 / 16.10.-22.10.06 - Woche 46 / 13.11.-19.11.06

The Projects " Kraanerg" and "Riddim Warfare"
by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in New York. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. Millerâs first collection of essays, Rhythm Science, was published by MIT Press in April 2004, and was included in several year-end lists of the best books of 2004, including the Guardian (UK) and Publishers Weekly. In 2005, Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on sound art and multi-media by contemporary cultural theorists will follow Rhythm Science. More: http://www.djspooky.com/hype.html

Play list:

KRAANERG by Iannis Xenakis
ST-X Ensemble, conductor: Charles Zacharie Bornstein
Tape, quadraphonic ADAT: Paul D. Miller
Live recording of the concert in New York City on November 12th, 1998
Duration: 74 min.

RIDDIM WARFARE
CD (OPRD-30031) track 1 to 11
Duration: 42 min.

1 Pandemonium
2 Synchronic Disjecta
3 Object Unknown
4 It«s Nice Not to Lose Your Mind
5 Dialectical Transformation I (A Parallax View)
6 Post-Human Sophistry
7 Quilombo Ex Optico
8 Rekonstruction
9 Scientifik
10 A Conversation
11 Peace in Zaire

Informationen zu KRANEERG:

Iannis Xenakis "Kraanerg" (1968/69)
Ballettmusik für 4-Spur-Tonband und Orchester
geschrieben im Auftrag des National Ballett Guide of Canada
UA 1969 Ottawa
Mitschnitt vom 12.11.1996 N.Y. City, Great Hall in Cooper Union
ST-X Ensemble, Leitung: Charles Zacharie Bornstein
Paul D. Miller, 4-Kanal ADAT
Die Aufführung fand konzertant statt und wurde mit Iannis Xenakis einstudiert. Paul D. Miller, der die elektroakustische Seite dieser Aufführung betreute, ist Konzeptkünstler, Schriftsteller, Musiker und Initiator dieses Projektes. Seine Bewunderung gilt vor allem den visionären Aspekten des interdisziplinären Denkens Innais Xenakis. Xenakis, für den die Disziplinen Wissenschaft, Architektur, Philosophie und Kunst in einer engen Verbindung standen, hat mit seinen stochastischen Kompositionstechniken Neuschöpfungen musikalischer Ausdrucksformen generiert.

"I originated in 1954 a music constructed from the principle of indeterminism: two years later I named it "Stochastic music". The laws of the calculus of probabilities entered composition through musical necessity·But other paths also led to the same stochastic crossroads ö first of all, natural events such as the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sound; this multitude of sounds, seen as a totality, is a new sonic event."
Iannis Xenakis, "Formalized Music", 1955

DJ Spooky on Xenakis: www.furious.com/PERFECT/ohm/xenakis.html

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