A sound artist is Laurie Anderson. We listened to one of her pieces where she described her living situation in California. She incorporated sounds, her own voice and another voice- a male voice. The piece was about how her apartment was not sound proof, and she talked to an ouija board and how it told her that she was a raccoon, a bird and a hat in her past lifetimes. She spoke about how she asked the ouija board to show itself in another form and it responded "lurk" and from then on she continued to glance over her shoulder from then on.
A sound artist is Laurie Anderson. We listened to one of her pieces where she described her living situation in California. She incorporated sounds, her own voice and another voice- a male voice. The piece was about how her apartment was not sound proof, and she talked to an ouija board and how it told her that she was a raccoon, a bird and a hat in her past lifetimes. She spoke about how she asked the ouija board to show itself in another form and it responded "lurk" and from then on she continued to glance over her shoulder from then on.Samantha Sergi
"The Ouija Board" by Leanne Anderson had a eerie yet deep sound to it. Leanne Anderson used her voice in a variety of ways to portray different feelings such as surprise and mystery. At first I was a little creeped out by the piece, and would still be rather scared if I were to listen to it in the dark, but as an art, I can appreciate the dynamic of the piece.
I really responded to Laurie Anderson's 'Ouiji Board' because it was the piece that I felt most successfully transported me, the listener, to another place and time. I feel like this was partially due to the way the piece was meticulously crafted by the artist, and partially due to the fact that I personally tend to find words more evocative than sounds on their own. It was incredibly interesting to listen to because she created a sense of suspense both by her choice of words and with the way that she used her voice. It created some kind of crescendo without music. This piece was heavily reliant on Anderson's usage of her own voice and the voice of a male with a deep, resonant voice, which both helped establish the eerie mood of the piece that I appreciated and was intrigued by. The also made use of echoing effects to make it sound like she was in a small room in addition to making the male voice sound more ethereal and otherworldly.
One piece that particularly struck me from lecture yesterday was Laurie Anderson's "The Ouija Board." Anderson manipulated her voice, a drum beat, and other sound effects to create a sense of atmosphere, which is what I loved about the piece. I felt very much a part of this eerie, mysterious setting. For me, this piece illuminated the power of story telling through vocals and music.
Laurie Anderson's piece about the Ouiji board struck me. Anderson chose to use two voices in her piece, one of a woman, presumably herself, and one of the phantom Ouiji board. I believe that the contrast between the male and female voice gave the piece a greater amount of depth than it would have had if the only voice was female. Also, I appreciated how the piece had a majestic feel, but listeners still were able to take the speaker seriously. Her words could easily have been interpreted as childish if they were not spoken with such a serious tone. The piece, in my opinion, was incredibly successful.
Robert Rauschenberg created a wonderful piece intersecting ideas of technology and it's relativity to life. His performance piece, Open Score, utilized real life experiences, like tennis, to allude to the many sounds and visuals that one would not usually expect from such a mundane activity. However, through Rauschenberg's use of wired rackets, real life music and dramatic lighting was ignited through each hit of the tennis ball. My interest in the piece is certainly the notion of invisibility. Tennis is an incredibly usual sport and does not take much thought or task to complete. It's benefits seem shallowly artistic, vapid at its root. However, Rauschenberg found beauty in the mundane, eliciting sound and visual beauty from a stereotypical usual act.
The Ouija Board: I didn't really enjoy this piece but it intrigued me. I thought it was strange they way her voice trailed off at the end in a type of whisper. I thought it was also funny they way she described the people that lived around her like the hula dancing. It was really easy to picture what she was describing because of the sound like the rustling for the skirts and music that was in the distance. The tone of her voice also made the overall piece feel calm but creepy because she spoke with long smooth words. Then it felt creepy when she started talking with jumpy tones when she was describing what the board was doing. It was also strange how she talked about all the lives she lived. The pauses between sentences caused a dramatic effect that made me want to keep listening. It also made me feel like I was in a physically dark place. -Natasha Janardan
I responded to Luigi Russolo's work because I liked how he created his own noise devices. He experimented and created his own futurist concerts which I thought was a revolutionary idea in the world of sound. The sounds were a missmash of sounds all coming together into a piece. I was personally intrigued by his work because it was like nothing I had ever heard before. The fact that his work was visual and audio really resonated with me because it brought in more than one of my senses to his work.
Luigi Russolo's piece "Art of Noises," was particularly intriguing to me. Debuting in 1913, the piece centered around the Industrial Revolution. Russolo states that the Industrial Revolution was a time responsible for new human understanding- giving us a greater capacity for complex sound in everyday life. Through out his piece, it is evident from which his inspiration comes. Rough sounds of engines, spokes, and machines come together, roaring and humming into the airwaves to form an intriguing but fluid chaos.
One of the audio pieces that struck me was the lyrical repetition titled 'You Are Beautiful'. In the whole length of the audio recording, the man repeats the line 'You are beautiful' in many different variations. Besides the man's voice fluctuating from louder to softer tones and high to real low notes, which were overlapped with the same audio but a fraction of a second apart giving an eerie vibe, the background sounds consisted of high bell-like tones, which gave the whole piece a cheery, giddy tone. The piece caught my attention because of the odd structure in which it was put together. The man's fluctuating voice, the overlap, and the cheery bell tones were too erratic and disconnected to flow in a harmonic way.
The work called "Thunder" stood out to me the most. Although it had seemed very simple with only what seemed to be whistling and the sound of thunder, I felt that the sounds had a strong resonance. When the Stamps auditorium was quiet, the sounds were very clear. The whistling seemed to go along with the sound of the thunder yet it seemed like the thunder was also far away in the background. At the beginning, the sound of the thunder was like a slight hum but when I began to pay closer attention to it, the sound of the whistling went up and down. There was a part, closer to the end, where the sounds were more intense (like a climax). What interested me in the piece was that the two sounds seemed to be so simple but it almost had a story and required the audience to pay close attention to their senses.
Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score was such an intriguing performance/sound art. In this piece, two tennis players took up positions in the court and passed the ball back and forth to each other. The racket however, was wired up and whenever a ball hit the racket, it produced sounds of “ging” and “gong” (almost the sound of a bell). In addition, the racket triggered and compacted the light to change and go off. This piece was such an interesting piece because it was a clever idea to invent sounds in our daily lives (sports). This work combined three significant components of light, sound, and movement (vibrations) all together and created a beautiful piece.
I watched a John Cage performance here at Michigan last year preformed by the San Francisco Orchestra. I don't recall the exact name of it because it was titled as a John Cage performance, however it was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. They used blenders, barked like dogs, and kicked newspapers. The sounds I found very interesting-they had some radiator drumming that I thought was comparable to the Blue Man Groups pipes, but watching it in person rather than just hearing it was kind of disturbing. They actually looked insane. I was extremely turned off by it visually but I was really interested in that radiator
One piece that interested me the most was Kurt Schwitters’ “The Ursonate” (1922-32). It is a sound poetry piece that resembles a classical sonata. Schwitters also incorporated in snippets of voices that constantly repeat lines from traditional romantic poems to the piece. “The Ursonate” intrigued me the most due to the voices. The endless repetition of different kinds of voices drew my ears and completely enamored me. I found myself trying to make out what each of the voices were saying. If the piece was just a plain symphony music, "The Ursonate" would not have captured my attention to such extent.
A sound artist is Laurie Anderson. We listened to one of her pieces where she described her living situation in California. She incorporated sounds, her own voice and another voice- a male voice. The piece was about how her apartment was not sound proof, and she talked to an ouija board and how it told her that she was a raccoon, a bird and a hat in her past lifetimes. She spoke about how she asked the ouija board to show itself in another form and it responded "lurk" and from then on she continued to glance over her shoulder from then on.
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A sound artist is Laurie Anderson. We listened to one of her pieces where she described her living situation in California. She incorporated sounds, her own voice and another voice- a male voice. The piece was about how her apartment was not sound proof, and she talked to an ouija board and how it told her that she was a raccoon, a bird and a hat in her past lifetimes. She spoke about how she asked the ouija board to show itself in another form and it responded "lurk" and from then on she continued to glance over her shoulder from then on.Samantha Sergi
ReplyDelete"The Ouija Board" by Leanne Anderson had a eerie yet deep sound to it. Leanne Anderson used her voice in a variety of ways to portray different feelings such as surprise and mystery. At first I was a little creeped out by the piece, and would still be rather scared if I were to listen to it in the dark, but as an art, I can appreciate the dynamic of the piece.
ReplyDeleteI really responded to Laurie Anderson's 'Ouiji Board' because it was the piece that I felt most successfully transported me, the listener, to another place and time. I feel like this was partially due to the way the piece was meticulously crafted by the artist, and partially due to the fact that I personally tend to find words more evocative than sounds on their own. It was incredibly interesting to listen to because she created a sense of suspense both by her choice of words and with the way that she used her voice. It created some kind of crescendo without music. This piece was heavily reliant on Anderson's usage of her own voice and the voice of a male with a deep, resonant voice, which both helped establish the eerie mood of the piece that I appreciated and was intrigued by. The also made use of echoing effects to make it sound like she was in a small room in addition to making the male voice sound more ethereal and otherworldly.
ReplyDeleteOne piece that particularly struck me from lecture yesterday was Laurie Anderson's "The Ouija Board." Anderson manipulated her voice, a drum beat, and other sound effects to create a sense of atmosphere, which is what I loved about the piece. I felt very much a part of this eerie, mysterious setting. For me, this piece illuminated the power of story telling through vocals and music.
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Laurie Anderson's piece about the Ouiji board struck me. Anderson chose to use two voices in her piece, one of a woman, presumably herself, and one of the phantom Ouiji board. I believe that the contrast between the male and female voice gave the piece a greater amount of depth than it would have had if the only voice was female. Also, I appreciated how the piece had a majestic feel, but listeners still were able to take the speaker seriously. Her words could easily have been interpreted as childish if they were not spoken with such a serious tone. The piece, in my opinion, was incredibly successful.
ReplyDeleteRobert Rauschenberg created a wonderful piece intersecting ideas of technology and it's relativity to life. His performance piece, Open Score, utilized real life experiences, like tennis, to allude to the many sounds and visuals that one would not usually expect from such a mundane activity. However, through Rauschenberg's use of wired rackets, real life music and dramatic lighting was ignited through each hit of the tennis ball. My interest in the piece is certainly the notion of invisibility. Tennis is an incredibly usual sport and does not take much thought or task to complete. It's benefits seem shallowly artistic, vapid at its root. However, Rauschenberg found beauty in the mundane, eliciting sound and visual beauty from a stereotypical usual act.
ReplyDeleteThe Ouija Board: I didn't really enjoy this piece but it intrigued me. I thought it was strange they way her voice trailed off at the end in a type of whisper. I thought it was also funny they way she described the people that lived around her like the hula dancing. It was really easy to picture what she was describing because of the sound like the rustling for the skirts and music that was in the distance. The tone of her voice also made the overall piece feel calm but creepy because she spoke with long smooth words. Then it felt creepy when she started talking with jumpy tones when she was describing what the board was doing. It was also strange how she talked about all the lives she lived. The pauses between sentences caused a dramatic effect that made me want to keep listening. It also made me feel like I was in a physically dark place.
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I responded to Luigi Russolo's work because I liked how he created his own noise devices. He experimented and created his own futurist concerts which I thought was a revolutionary idea in the world of sound. The sounds were a missmash of sounds all coming together into a piece. I was personally intrigued by his work because it was like nothing I had ever heard before. The fact that his work was visual and audio really resonated with me because it brought in more than one of my senses to his work.
ReplyDeleteLuigi Russolo's piece "Art of Noises," was particularly intriguing to me. Debuting in 1913, the piece centered around the Industrial Revolution. Russolo states that the Industrial Revolution was a time responsible for new human understanding- giving us a greater capacity for complex sound in everyday life. Through out his piece, it is evident from which his inspiration comes. Rough sounds of engines, spokes, and machines come together, roaring and humming into the airwaves to form an intriguing but fluid chaos.
ReplyDeleteOne of the audio pieces that struck me was the lyrical repetition titled 'You Are Beautiful'. In the whole length of the audio recording, the man repeats the line 'You are beautiful' in many different variations. Besides the man's voice fluctuating from louder to softer tones and high to real low notes, which were overlapped with the same audio but a fraction of a second apart giving an eerie vibe, the background sounds consisted of high bell-like tones, which gave the whole piece a cheery, giddy tone. The piece caught my attention because of the odd structure in which it was put together. The man's fluctuating voice, the overlap, and the cheery bell tones were too erratic and disconnected to flow in a harmonic way.
ReplyDeleteThe work called "Thunder" stood out to me the most. Although it had seemed very simple with only what seemed to be whistling and the sound of thunder, I felt that the sounds had a strong resonance. When the Stamps auditorium was quiet, the sounds were very clear. The whistling seemed to go along with the sound of the thunder yet it seemed like the thunder was also far away in the background. At the beginning, the sound of the thunder was like a slight hum but when I began to pay closer attention to it, the sound of the whistling went up and down. There was a part, closer to the end, where the sounds were more intense (like a climax). What interested me in the piece was that the two sounds seemed to be so simple but it almost had a story and required the audience to pay close attention to their senses.
ReplyDeleteRobert Rauschenberg’s Open Score was such an intriguing performance/sound art. In this piece, two tennis players took up positions in the court and passed the ball back and forth to each other. The racket however, was wired up and whenever a ball hit the racket, it produced sounds of “ging” and “gong” (almost the sound of a bell). In addition, the racket triggered and compacted the light to change and go off. This piece was such an interesting piece because it was a clever idea to invent sounds in our daily lives (sports). This work combined three significant components of light, sound, and movement (vibrations) all together and created a beautiful piece.
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I watched a John Cage performance here at Michigan last year preformed by the San Francisco Orchestra. I don't recall the exact name of it because it was titled as a John Cage performance, however it was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. They used blenders, barked like dogs, and kicked newspapers. The sounds I found very interesting-they had some radiator drumming that I thought was comparable to the Blue Man Groups pipes, but watching it in person rather than just hearing it was kind of disturbing. They actually looked insane. I was extremely turned off by it visually but I was really interested in that radiator
ReplyDeleteOne piece that interested me the most was Kurt Schwitters’ “The Ursonate” (1922-32). It is a sound poetry piece that resembles a classical sonata. Schwitters also incorporated in snippets of voices that constantly repeat lines from traditional romantic poems to the piece. “The Ursonate” intrigued me the most due to the voices. The endless repetition of different kinds of voices drew my ears and completely enamored me. I found myself trying to make out what each of the voices were saying. If the piece was just a plain symphony music, "The Ursonate" would not have captured my attention to such extent.
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