Below is the concert order for Saturday. Please let me know immediately if there are any required changes or if your name does not appear on this list. I will post a rehearsal schedule soon as a comment to this post. As of now there are very few names on this list. please reply to let me know if you would like to have a slot, any time between 11:30 and 2:30.

FIrst Half	Second Half
Kevin Kinsella: The Story	Maurice Chammah: In Preparation
Bahram Atefi: Cancion Di Argentina/Black Orpheus	Khaliq Gant: Confident
David Kiferbaum: Meter Maid	Ryan Malec: There is a Wolf
Avi Aisenberg: Just the Tip	Yaowei Yeo: Video Game Music (Sonic)
Ke Liu: Evolution	Petko Nikolov: Acid
Ricardo Arribas: Untitled	Alix Dorfman: Outside In
Michael Tedesco: A Day in the College Life	Griffin Dorman and Bobby Miller: Top Gear Remix
Karen Lin and Joanne Kong: You Remind Me of Him	David Markowitz: Untitled
Sara Martinez: 4 Corner Sound Sandwich	Nick Principe: The Shallows
Ethan Russell: Ease my mind	Navid Farnia: Southern Roots
Kristen Gaudion: Streetbeat	Dan Goldstein: Accio Hip Hop
Jehhal Liu: Five	Karel Sedlacek: Untitled
Heesung Yun: Chronology	Alex Lee: Minor Distractions
Keisuke Irie: Yoru	Greg Weisbrod: Working Title
David Waks, Aakash Choksi, and Alex Kresovich: Drankin' Stories + Cigiface	Dana Lipperman: Breathe Me

As you know, our final concert, Sound Art Forum, is this weekend, Saturday the 1st at 3pm in Room B20 (across the hall from our normal lecture space).  As we have discussed, I would like you to produce a short piece for performance/showcase.  This can be an expansion of another track from the semester, or an entirely new one.  Adapting a studio piece to live performance can be a nice to to breath new life into it, literally.

On Thursday I will want to know what equipment you need for your performance.  This could be anything from CD or laptop playback of a premixed track to a specific piece of gear or software.  This will help us organize the concert and execute your piece more smoothly.

In addition, I would ask that you supply me with a title for the piece for the "program" (we can talk more about what I have in mind on Thursday).  I will ask each of you to introduce your piece briefly (!!) at the concert just before it is played.  This is instead of a printed program note and makes the performance more personal and interactive.

If you have any questions or concerns, technical or artistic, please let me know as soon as you can.  The concert poster is attached (11x17 and 8.5x11)!  I will be making copies but if you have the means, feel free to print and post them around campus.

P.S.  Following the concert I will have pizza for everyone (Nines?).  We will make the order during an intermission.  I hope you will be able to stay briefly after the show to eat and talk to your colleagues about their work.

In lecture today we discussed repetition broadly and I introduced you to several pieces, including Eric Satie's (in)famous Vexations.  I have attached a Reason "performance" of this piece, all 840 repeats ready to play.  Notice that the file is very small, under 1 MB.  If I exported all 3360 measures as audio, it would fill a small hard drive ;) 

I invite each of you to experience this piece for yourself,  the whole thing takes around 20 hours.  You can also export the MIDI file and play it on your home system (with notably bland General MIDI sounds).  For other non-piano versions of the piece, including several remixes and re-imaginings, see ubuweb here:

http://www.ubu.com
(for those who saw guitarist Alan Licht when he performed here last month, be sure to catch his guitar and voice rendition found about half way down the page)

A manuscript of the score can be found here:

Vexations manuscript

I have also attached a PDF score .

And, of course, John Cage's description of the performance:

Cage Letters on Vexations perfromance

The course signup site appears to be down.  CIT has been made aware of this and is working to correct the problem.  I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. 

In the mean time please be courteous to student trying to access the studios, the honor's system prevails in situations like this.  If you had signed up for times you can still attend your slot.  If you had not, you may be out of luck until the server is back online.  You are, as always, welcome to stop by CEMC with the intention of finding an empty studio but preference is given to students who signed had already out the timeslot.  Here too, the honors system is required.

Thanks for your help.

As an aside to Eric's format request I wanted to point out another small issue students have had with web attachments.  There are several ways to attach files to a blog entry, the two main ones being "Attach audio files" and "File attachments" (see below).  The former is for audio formats such as wav or mp3 (these will show up with a little play button).  The latter is for everything else, anything you want to see listed at the bottom of your message as a downloadable file (.rns, .doc, .pdf, etc)...in other words just like email.

This image shows how they appear when you are creating a new entry:

A full description of Project One (Due 10/2) is now online.  I welcome your questions and am available for discussion of your creative ideas.

For first project examples from previous semesters visit the audio section and listen to Nathan Ward's "Alone" or Noah Sturken's "Waiting" or Beck Sopchak's setting of D.H. Lawrence (attached).

http://www.bartleby.com/127/29.html

I have had several questions relating to one of the pieces from lecture, Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youth).  For further information (a nice read, very informative) please see this PDF:

History and Analysis of "Gesange..."

The article is by John Smalley from 2000.  Enjoy!

Due to a technical difficulty, the network drive mentioned for assignment hand-in will not be available until tomorrow or Saturday.  For those who complete the assignment (now online) before this, please keep the finished file in your personal "snd" folder until after the drive is back online.  I will post here again when that is so.

KE

First, if you wish to have a new title or a note/description listed for your piece, please send that information to me ASAP, either via email or here as a comment.  I will be sending an email request as well.

Here is the concert order for Tuesday with your rehearsal time in parenthesis.  Everything happens in Lincoln B20 (the large rehearsal space):

Equipment pickup and setup, 9am to 11:30.

- Brian Roberts (11:40)
- Brian I, Shuja, Sheyen, and Normon (12:20)
- John, Chelsea, Ramya (1:00)
- Steve G, Matt Rung (1:20)
- Crystal and Peter (1:40)
- Fabian, Misha, and Dave (2:00)

 -- Short Concert Intermission -- (and a short rehearsal break)

- Andrew (3:00)
- Brandon and Saidu (3:40)
- Jake Lee and John N. (4:00)
- Saul (4:20)
- Melanie (4:40)
- Danny and Adam (5:00)

5:30 Pizza Arrives (thanks to Andrew!)

Concert starts at 8pm.  Students must be there by 7:45...7:30 if you have any remaining setup or adjustments.