Re: [microsound] Noise Circle

["Jachin Boaz" <Jachin.Boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

whats noise circle?like a load of people jamming with sounds?one at a time
or all together?we used to do
a similar kind of thing a few years ago , like 5-8 of us ,
with a  room full of guitars , synths , feedback loops/fx , tape machines
....all sorts and just let rip.....not really in any circular fashion , most
time  people ended up not
knowing who was making what which was very funny.
Most would last for 4-6 hours with very short breaks
(that would happen in this spooky way....everyone would just stop at the
same moment sometimes.....)was the closest i came to telepathy......great
fun.....one time we blew a huge guitar amp half way through and it was
shorting out making this horrendous noise.We actually carried on for 4 hours
all thinking it was someone else
making the noise deliberately.Wasnt until we all stopped that we realised
the amp was improvising all on its own....
very funny....we never manged to limit the levels though
and so it would end up like a wall of noise....

jack

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Erin Dinehart" <erindinehart@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <guitarristo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: [microsound] Noise Circle

>
> That is a fantastic idea. It really speaks to a history of art and
artisits that tried to create a "total art", Gesamtkunstwerk, one which is
the embodiement and therein amplification of all forms of media. The "Noise
Circle" scenario would be hoping for spontaneous acts of creativitity to
bring about the arts at their purest form. The idea was originally coined by
Richard Wagner although his vision was for the stage. The "Noise Circle"
sounds kinda like Allan Kaprow's "Happenings". I'm reading this great book
right now, "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality" by Randall Packer,
it is really blowing my mind and giving me creative fire. There is a great
site check it out if your interested
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/index.html
> "German opera composer Richard Wagner believed that the future of music,
music theater, and all the arts, lay in an embrace of Gesamtkunstwerk or
total artwork, a fusion of the arts that had not been attempted on this
scale since the classic Greeks. In 1849, Wagner wrote the essay, The
Art-work of the Future, defining the synthesis of the arts in which opera
served as a vehicle for the unification of all the arts into a single medium
of artistic expression."
>
> "Allan Kaprow coined the term Happening in the late 1950s, and led the
movement into the bright lights of popular culture that characterized the
1960s. Happenings are notoriously difficult to describe, in part because
each was a unique event shaped by the actions of the audience that
participated on any given performance. Simply put, Happenings, such as
Household from 1964, were held in physical environments - loft spaces,
abandoned factories, buses, parks, etc. - and brought people, objects, and
events in surprising juxtaposition to one another. Kaprow views art as a
vehicle for expanding our awareness of life by prompting unexpected,
provocative interactions. For Kaprow, art is a continual work-in-progress,
with an unfolding narrative that is realized through the active
participation of the audience."
>
> Elisha if you ever want to try out a Noise Circle and I'll do my best to
help in anyway I can.
>
>
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