Re: [microsound] Noise Circle, bleeding edge

[ross birdwise <rbirdwise@xxxxxxxxx>]

I want to thank everybody for their replies to my post
about the bleeding edge......

I was involved in a noise circle as part of a class
assignment.  The professor had all the students build
their own instruments (no matter how simple or
complex) over a two year period.  We brought them to
school and jammed for around 20 minutes.  At first
people were shy and reluctant to play, but eventually
people became less self conscious.  

I was also involved in a 24 hour improvised drone at a
local artist run center.  Perhaps a noise circle will
be next?
--- Stephen Erin Dinehart <erindinehart@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> 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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