Below is the rehearsal schedule for tomorrow. If you need to make an adjustment, please let me know. If for any reason you are not on this list and would like time to rehearse, feel free to stop by and we will fit you into the mix.

11 - Harold Yang

11:20 - Murat Keyder

11:40 - Sarah Brown

12 - Ross Anderson

12:20 - Brian Han and Steve Jordan

12:40 - Ricardo, Cameron, and Henryck

1:00 - Evan Markel

1:40 - Stephen Moseson

2:00 - Ariel Perez

2:20 - Ethan Russell

3 - David Kiferbaum

3:30 - Avi Aisenberg

4 - David Kaplan

4:30 - Ryan Malec (moved from 2:20)

5:30 - Nick and Jack

6 - John Papaioannou

PIZZA!!! (roughly 6 - 6:30)

I'm looking for somebody to work with for the 2nd performance. I
thought the projects presented with the vocoder were interesting so I wanted to create a pd patch that could act as a vocoder in real time with a guitar or keyboard with additional effects that I have yet to come up with. I also play a lot of bass and violin so I could help out with anyone who would want to work with those instruments. I eventually want to work on modulating tones, applying effects, and mapping these things to controls on an electric guitar i.e. pickups, knobs etc while utilizing a pd patch obviously. Thanks to anyone who responds.

I needed to find a way to amuse myself after spending 7 hours in the studio and I came up with this.

http://weblog.404creative.com/index.php/2007/06/03/auditory-illusions-holophonic-recordings/
 
Professor Ernste briefly talked about binaural recordings and I've been interested in it and found this today.  I've only tried the virtual haircut and that was enough.  The depth perception in terms of hearing is really interesting because it seems so pinpoint and accurate.  Anyways, I won't waste your time with more descriptions, just hear it for yourself if you have a few minutes and I suggest you use decent headphones.

One of the great composers of our time, a man as strange and wonderful as he was influential and masterful, Karlheinz Stockhausen has died at age 79.  The official dedications can be found on his homepage:

Stockhausen Passed Away

I have also attached a recent remix/improvisation on his one of his most famous works,Gesang der Jünglinge ("Song of the Youths"), composed in 1956.  This performance was done here at CEMC in 2006.

Masterpieces of the 20th Century, Gesang der Junglinge

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.

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

This is a temporary upload of a loop that will be transformed into a train in an upcoming piece entitled locomotion. It is the "tighten up" drum break looped using a granular synthesizer in Jeskola Buzz.

Feel free to use in any way.

My fourth assignment, put a backing track behind with a matrix pattern repeating and some word play taken from my first assignment.

Using the vocoder and subtractor to put Paul Verlaine's Chanson d'Automne in the proper mood.

I like the vocoder.

Todays lecture reminded me of a song by Imogen Heap called Hide and Seek. A significant portion of this song was created using a vocoder and a harmonizer.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5cpSv2mNhhc