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Doing It Wrong--Douglas Repetto
Doing It Wrong--Douglas Repetto
Pages 47-50
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Hindsight gives the illusion of purposeful movement, of considered progress toward a desired result, and renown or endurance are often mistaken for markers of creative fitness. 1Although this paper focuses on experimental music making, the ideas are equally applicable to other creative pursuits, such as visual art, dance, and writing.
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More explicit contemporary engagement with these ideas leads one to the concept of creative research, of music making with goals and priorities that are different from those of their traditional precursors -- perhaps sonic friction, in addition to ear-pleasing consonances, for example, or "let's see what happens" rather than "I'm going to tell you a story." The spirit of "let's see what happens" pervades much contemporary experimental music-making. Here's a very small, personal sample of works I find compelling in the context of musical research, of deviating from the norm, of "doing it wrong." +++++ "I am sitting in a room" by Alvin Lucier (1990)
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For almost 30 years, Polansky has been playing with the idea of "morphological mutation functions," techniques for smoothly changing musical parameters. In "51 Melodies," a 12-minute composition for two guitars and rhythm section, vari ous flavors of mutation have been applied to the two guitar melodies to bring them in and out of harmonic and rhythmic sync as they move from a source melody in unison at the beginning of the piece to a target melody in unison at the very end.
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Manabe has been exploring using electrical musical signals to stimulate facial muscles, facial muscle signals to create musical signals, and the transfer of facial gestures between performers via electrical stimulation. If your six-year-old is doing this, you are one lucky parent!
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