[microsound] music and/including nature in its manner of operation
Renato Fabbri
renato.fabbri at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 19:22:49 EDT 2010
lots of francois bayle's works sounds like imitations of natural
soundscapes (with birds, insects, water, etc). i dont recall which
works are like these the best, but i think there are even some music
with flower names.
best,
rf
2010/6/2 Brendan Landis <brendan at brendanlandis.com>:
> Mamoru Fujieda has a series called Patterns of Plants. There are a couple
> discs out on Tzadik. From their web site:
> "Generating melodic material through the micro-changes of surface-electric
> potential on leaves, Mamoru Fujieda's second Tzadik release was composed
> completely based on data taken from plants. "
> He also wrote an essay about the series and his process, which is published
> in the most recent volume of the Arcana series. (The music is also very
> pretty.)
>
> cheers,
> Brendan
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>
> On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Simon Roy Christensen wrote:
>
> hello hello
> I'm about to write a music-historical paper/essay on music including nature,
> or maybe rather the acting of nature. Here I'm thinking of examples like
> some of Max Eastley's sound sculptures, Paul Panhuysen and Céleste
> Boursier-Mougenot use of birds, the sounds of fungi and plants made audible
> by Michael Prime or John Cage's "Atlas Eclipticalis" (notation derived from
> the position of stars), for instance.
> If any of you have recommendations to artists, works or literature or
> something else that spring to mind which might have some kind of relevance
> to this, it would be very nice to hear!
> thank you,
> simon
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