The Lake Experiment Music Project
This a Project that was look into the Art Concept of Converting Images into Musical Compositions. Through the use of RGB Music Lab. These Pictures where taken in the summer of 2010 at Sprague Lake in Washington.
The Butterfly
http://www.associatedcontent.com/audio/19328/butterfly.html?cat=33
The Grass Track
http://www.associatedcontent.com/audio/19330/grass.html?cat=33
The Lake Weed
http://www.associatedcontent.com/audio/19332/lakeweed.html?cat=33
The Images used for each track of this experimental Project Can Be Viewed Here.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/56728/the_lake_experiences.html?cat=2
Thanks For Listen and please share with anyone you feel would benefit from this listening experience.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Text to Music Concept Paper..
This is a short article I just published on the music and concept of text to music.
Please give it a read and share your thoughts on it..
Text to Music Article
Please give it a read and share your thoughts on it..
Text to Music Article
Monday, July 5, 2010
2 different collections of Fractal Art Released
Hello Everyone,
I have Designed two series of fractal art one is a mix of different ideas I was playing with and the other in a more minimalistic view of the patterns that are found in fractal art.
Fractal Collection Number 1
Fractal Collection Number 2
Please feel free to share your thoughts on this..
I have Designed two series of fractal art one is a mix of different ideas I was playing with and the other in a more minimalistic view of the patterns that are found in fractal art.
Fractal Collection Number 1
Fractal Collection Number 2
Please feel free to share your thoughts on this..
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Fratcal Music Shows - of - Alphacore
Hello Everyone I'd Like to announce that I'm working on setup a several Live performance show at Follow Alphacore on Justin.tv
where I'll play 2-3 hour sets of Experimental Sounds created through the use
of Fractal music , Text to Music and Other forms of Algorithmic Music the First show is set for aug-13th-2010
A facebook Announcement will be posted soon for this event So feel free to follow me at
Follow Alphacore on Facebook
or at
Follow Alphacore on Justin.tv
Thanks, Alphacore
Friday, June 18, 2010
One Hand Clapping The experimental film collaboration
One Hand Clapping
"Often when he collaborated with John Cage, Cunningham would create a dance and Cage would compose the music — separately. Cunningham made no attempt to fit the dancers' movements to the music. Sometimes the performance was the first time they heard the music.
"Given a certain length of time, let’s say 10 minutes, I could make a dance which would take up 10 minutes and John Cage could make a piece of music that occupied the same amount of time, and we could put them together," Cage recalls.
"When Cage would play the piece, there would be moments when in the other way of working, I would have thought there should be a sound, but his sound would come perhaps just after what I had done. And it was like opening your mind again to another possibility. As John Cage said once, 'He does what he does, and I do what I do and for your convenience, we put it together.' I thought that was a remarkable way of thinking about it.""
from "Merce Cunningham: Dance at the Edge," an article by Renee Montagne on NPR found here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6692356
Two autopoetic* systems: my short film, Alphacore's music score, without any reference to each other as we separately created them. Each of our autopoetic systems closed from each other, selectively referring to their own environments. Mine, abstracted footage of a tree at dusk when the light dims and the camera acts like the retinal cells, the rods, seeing essentially in black and white. Alphacore's a slow, simple, quiet, meditative piano solo with a dim voice in the background whose words we cannot quite hear - or is it dogs or a bird call? To my ear the background chant sounds like 'help me.' The letters falling like rain in my film do, in the slow roll of credits, line up momentarily as SOS. An accidental correlation in two separate creations brought together.
I titled our collaboration, without hearing the music, One Hand Clapping, since, I, in Toronto, and Alphacore, in Seattle, each creating our component to an agreed on time span, were like the clapping of one hand - the famous Zen koan meant to sent the logical mind into an impossible spin.
Our final product, the mix, matches in the way all aspects of the universe correlate, by accident. Only this is a designed accident.
And it doesn't match in the way each of us might have originally envisioned.
My video is uncharacteristic of my work thus far - it is abstract rather than figurative; a natural black and white rather than colour; the speed is slowed down to just above frame-by-frame and thus a little jerky while the letters fall so quickly as to be almost in fast-forward; and the letters in One Hand Clapping fall continuously carrying random meanings, unlike my usual work with whole poems or sections of poems.
Alphacore's music is usually the product of computer-generated transformations of text or images into sound - they are sonic landscapes of various sounds and instruments that form unusual experimental and av-ant guard abstract soundscapes - in One Hand Clapping he plays the piano meditatively note by note, a scale ascending and partially descending, we hear the touch of fingers. While we can't see him, he is more of an embodied musician than his more usual 'Deleuzian machine' music. Deleuze writes, in Anti-Oedipus, "A machine may be defined as a system of interruptions or breaks," and this is how I might describe Alphacore's music on the whole. He creates tracks where there is no subject or object, where the sounds interact with each other in nodes, in a series of interruptions that create a syncopated flow in a minimalist space, like the famous metaphor of rhizomes we associate with Deleuzian philosophy.
In the final product of our collaboration, One Hand Clapping, a film with music/music with a film, we have two self-referential autopoetic systems, visual and auditory, interacting. How the viewer perceives this deliberately accidental pairing will refer to yet another autopoetic system whereby the collaboration of two artists becomes one experience.
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* A defnition of autopoesis: "The generic term denoting the organization characterizing autopoietic machines / systems. The term "... simply means processes interlaced in the specific form of a network of productions of components which realizing the network that produced them constitute it as a unity." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 80)"
"Often when he collaborated with John Cage, Cunningham would create a dance and Cage would compose the music — separately. Cunningham made no attempt to fit the dancers' movements to the music. Sometimes the performance was the first time they heard the music.
"Given a certain length of time, let’s say 10 minutes, I could make a dance which would take up 10 minutes and John Cage could make a piece of music that occupied the same amount of time, and we could put them together," Cage recalls.
"When Cage would play the piece, there would be moments when in the other way of working, I would have thought there should be a sound, but his sound would come perhaps just after what I had done. And it was like opening your mind again to another possibility. As John Cage said once, 'He does what he does, and I do what I do and for your convenience, we put it together.' I thought that was a remarkable way of thinking about it.""
from "Merce Cunningham: Dance at the Edge," an article by Renee Montagne on NPR found here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6692356
Two autopoetic* systems: my short film, Alphacore's music score, without any reference to each other as we separately created them. Each of our autopoetic systems closed from each other, selectively referring to their own environments. Mine, abstracted footage of a tree at dusk when the light dims and the camera acts like the retinal cells, the rods, seeing essentially in black and white. Alphacore's a slow, simple, quiet, meditative piano solo with a dim voice in the background whose words we cannot quite hear - or is it dogs or a bird call? To my ear the background chant sounds like 'help me.' The letters falling like rain in my film do, in the slow roll of credits, line up momentarily as SOS. An accidental correlation in two separate creations brought together.
I titled our collaboration, without hearing the music, One Hand Clapping, since, I, in Toronto, and Alphacore, in Seattle, each creating our component to an agreed on time span, were like the clapping of one hand - the famous Zen koan meant to sent the logical mind into an impossible spin.
Our final product, the mix, matches in the way all aspects of the universe correlate, by accident. Only this is a designed accident.
And it doesn't match in the way each of us might have originally envisioned.
My video is uncharacteristic of my work thus far - it is abstract rather than figurative; a natural black and white rather than colour; the speed is slowed down to just above frame-by-frame and thus a little jerky while the letters fall so quickly as to be almost in fast-forward; and the letters in One Hand Clapping fall continuously carrying random meanings, unlike my usual work with whole poems or sections of poems.
Alphacore's music is usually the product of computer-generated transformations of text or images into sound - they are sonic landscapes of various sounds and instruments that form unusual experimental and av-ant guard abstract soundscapes - in One Hand Clapping he plays the piano meditatively note by note, a scale ascending and partially descending, we hear the touch of fingers. While we can't see him, he is more of an embodied musician than his more usual 'Deleuzian machine' music. Deleuze writes, in Anti-Oedipus, "A machine may be defined as a system of interruptions or breaks," and this is how I might describe Alphacore's music on the whole. He creates tracks where there is no subject or object, where the sounds interact with each other in nodes, in a series of interruptions that create a syncopated flow in a minimalist space, like the famous metaphor of rhizomes we associate with Deleuzian philosophy.
In the final product of our collaboration, One Hand Clapping, a film with music/music with a film, we have two self-referential autopoetic systems, visual and auditory, interacting. How the viewer perceives this deliberately accidental pairing will refer to yet another autopoetic system whereby the collaboration of two artists becomes one experience.
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* A defnition of autopoesis: "The generic term denoting the organization characterizing autopoietic machines / systems. The term "... simply means processes interlaced in the specific form of a network of productions of components which realizing the network that produced them constitute it as a unity." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 80)"
Friday, June 11, 2010
A google Group on Experimental Sounds and electronic
The Experimental Electronic Music makers Group is now 131 Strong and is looking for new members to talk about and share there Ideas from fractal Music,Text to music & the hardware you use to produce the music that we all enjoy to explore..
Experimental Electronic Music
please join this group and share with others and let all collaborate and produce Experimental Sounds Together..
Experimental Electronic Music
please join this group and share with others and let all collaborate and produce Experimental Sounds Together..
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