2projects....schoenberg...stockhausen

• 2projects to do. we have to do a found sound project. we will need a portable recorder, an mbox, a laptop and we will be recording in mono.
• we have to choose a paradigm of one composer we have learned from so far
• we have to note the it is composed
• the limitation process: mic to laptop, it has to be in the fort ord campus or within 10 feet. it can be in buildings, we can be in a wide open space
• it has to be significant
• each samples combined have to be a total of 4min for the project
• they have to be person made objects
• for the narrative part we have to compare the limitations to the composers limitations
• 2nd project will be an in class presentation on a pre apporoved electronic subject. 10 min including a 1min audio sample
• it has to be related to class
• there are 4limitations to follow:1.living elements, voices, and animal sounds.2.noises.3.modifies or prepared instruments.4. conventional instruments(non traditional manners)
• developed 7values:1.mass-organization of sounding spectral dimension, high frequency where it lies.2.dynamics-measurable values.3.tone quality and timbre(tone).4. melodic profile-temporal evolution of tonal spectrum of sound.5.profile mass-" " spectral components of a high mass. 6.grain-analysis and irregularities. 7. pace-loud or soft it goes, analysis of the amplitude in time
• broader application, taking what we know about melody
• schaeffer had 3plans: harmonic plan-20---20k. dynamic plan-effected envelope (attack decay sustain release). melodic plan-pitch and tone
• there were to types of composition to electronic music. french and German: french were more organic and German were serial-ism, 12 tone music
• arnold shoenberg (1874-1951) inventor of 12tone music. he would take all chromatic pitches but doesnt repeat. it lead in certain direction. it has a strong sense of rhythm. 5 general rules for the rows of 12 tone music:pitches are organized in a definite order or row. no note can be played until all notes are played. row can be organized in a diff manner. one note is no more important than another note. each row can be inverted or reversed.
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) german composer, most important and controversial composer of 20th century
• etude 1952 first piece
• tape deck as unified time domain. in composition he felt he could manipulate time. duration can be controlled and manipulated. serialized composition, applied mathematical analysis of tones to generation, shape and deiting of the tape recorded sounds. tone generator and tape. sign waves (pure tone no harmonics)
• 1,920 hz frequency range of human voice (average) calculated frequencies and recombined individual pitches through calculations.
• studie2 1954 was the first composition for sign waves.
• stockhausen had a 4process method: unified time structure. splitting sound. multilayering spatial composition. equality of tone and noise. 
• we saw a clip of stockhausens helicopter string quartet....crazy and insane!