Technology in context

Technology in performance largely emerged with Fluxus and Gutai two international 1960s avant Garde movements that explored non traditional relationships with sound,dance,chance,and performance. At this time,with the growing impact of technology on human life(television was still a rather recent invention),many performance artists focused on "feedback" between the body and technology (feedback was a central concern for cybernetics the study of the man /machine interface that informed the development of personal computing and other technological devices). More recently,artists have gained inspiration from DJ techniques and sound-mixing in real time.

One of the best known works of technology-based performance art is Electric Dress (1956) by Gutai artist Atsuko Tanaka.It was a wearable sculpture consisting of electrical wires and lit up, colored light bulbs that she wore to various art openings. The work was inspired both by neon lights of a commercial advertisement and by the analogous relationship of electrical and biological circuitry.

Nam June Paik, an artist associated with Fluxus,developed TV cello (1971) for his longtime collaborator Charlotte Moorman. The piece mixed live musical performance with pre-recorded broadcast ( or live broadcast), playing with issues of simultaneity,mediation,and mass media. Three televisions made up the body of the cello,and displayed a direct feed of the performance itself,a video collage of other cellists, and an intercepted broadcast.

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Sampling

https://plus.google.com/117879285261463035507/posts/57Y6QmaDWWC
Sampling,is when you generally take a pre existing piece and you can put them in your own music.

Innovative open source technologies:-

New technologies in development often start out as open source(freely available to all) so that they can be further developed and built upon.

Gestural music ware by Imogen Heap:-

The Gloves are a cutting experimental gestural music ware being developed today for the purpose of Imogen Heap's studio and stage work.

Using a unique gestural vocabulary,motion data-capture systems, and user interfaces to parameter functions developed by Imogen Heap and her team,artists and other users will be able to use their motion to guide computer -based digital creations. The Musical Gloves are both an instrument and a controller effect,designed to connect the user fluidly with gear performers usually use,such as Ableton-think minorityreport for musicians brought to you by the DIY/maker revolution.

How might I develop or if I am to use these type of technologies in my own music is that in my band practices to prepare for upcoming performances,I will pay attention and learn how to use and take a picture of the equipment I am using and practice it a lot and GT better and better.Similarly,when we learn new things in Life.

In general,the musical features approach is found in many different schools and locations,both nationally and internationally and so there is evidence that it basic principles are replicable and also adaptable.At Morpeth ,the programme is not genre specific and works across all age phrases,as well as with technology.Harrogate regards the approach as good music teaching and has first-hand evidence of the positive impact of the approach,including the encouragement of teachers to act as musicians with their pupils," Music teachers shouldn't be afraid to sing or play for students".Steyning reports that the approaches with older pupils are replicable in other settings,suggesting that,in more challenging schools,it could be simpler to set the different types of vocational and academic qualifications as separate options.

List of Moog synthesiser players:-

Damon Albarn- Blur

Walter-Producer

Adam Young-Owl City/Producer/Engineer,Owatonna MN


Andy Whitmore Record Producer/Keyboard Player,London UK

ABBA- a mini log and polymoog played by Benny Andersson

Alicia Keys

Air

Don Airey

The Anniversary

 Berzerk

Arandel

Arjen Lucassen

Army of Freshmen

Ales so.

Technology in performance largely emerged with Fluxus and Gutai two international 1960s avant Garde movements that explored non traditional relationships with sound,dance,chance,and performance. At this time,with the growing impact of technology on human life(television was still a rather recent invention),many performance artists focused on "feedback" between the body and technology (feedback was a central concern for cybernetics the study of the man /machine interface that informed the development of personal computing and other technological devices). More recently,artists have gained inspiration from DJ techniques and sound-mixing in real time.

One of the best known works of technology-based performance art is Electric Dress (1956) by Gutai artist Atsuko Tanaka.It was a wearable sculpture consisting of electrical wires and lit up, colored light bulbs that she wore to various art openings. The work was inspired both by neon lights of a commercial advertisement and by the analogous relationship of electrical and biological circuitry.

Nam June Paik, an artist associated with Fluxus,developed TV cello (1971) for his longtime collaborator Charlotte Moorman. The piece mixed live musical performance with pre-recorded broadcast ( or live broadcast), playing with issues of simultaneity,mediation,and mass media. Three televisions made up the body of the cello,and displayed a direct feed of the performance itself,a video collage of other cellists, and an intercepted broadcast.


Examples of equipments which are used in music performances and which productionists use:-

Sampling:-

Sampling is when you take a pre existing or an old piece of music from an old album and putting into you're own track.

Music production controllers:-
Akai MPCs (originally MIDI Production Center, nowMusic Production Controller) are a popular series of electronic musical instruments originally designed by Roger Linn and produced by the Japanese company Akai from 1988 onward. Intended to function as a powerful kind of drum machine,the MPCs drew on design ideas from machines such as the Sequential Circuits Inc. Studio 440 and the Linn's own Linn 9000, combining a powerful MIDI sequencer with the ability to sample one's own sound.

Masculine is a hybrid hardware/software digital audio workstation developed by Native Instruments. Maschine consists of a controller that connects to the included sequencing software,which can be installed on any compatible computer or laptop.

The software is primarily based on drum sequencing and designed for use with the Maschine line of hardware controllers. Users assign drum kits ,instruments and sounds from the included library,to each of the controller's 16 pads,and can manipulate sounds further by applying effects and plugins.

Maschine was first released on April 1,2009, in a package that contained the original iteration of the hardware controller and Maschine software 1.0.

Abelton AG is a Berlin-based music software company that produces and distributes the production
and performance program Abelton Live and a collection of related instruments and sample libraries,as well as their own software controller Ableton Push.

Ableton was founded in 1999 by Gerhard Behles,Robert Henke of Monolake and Bernd Roggendorf.

Akai's products included reel-to-reel audiotape recorders(such as the GX series),tuners(top level AT,mid level TR and TT series).

If I create a video teaser myself,then whatever came into my mind,I would create that while making my own track in logic as I am right now working as a music producer.Hence it is interesting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKOHAsuBdZQ
Video teaser
Looping:-
https://plus.google.com/117879285261463035507/posts/En44GCpTuUF
https://plus.google.com/117879285261463035507/posts/L1bdXCSvWE8
This gives a description of looping of various kinds and posted by Jeff  clienen.You make beat boxing sounds and if you did one beat boxing you do another one.You basically record some of your parts of your performing on stage in a looping system of input and output etc.then you can sing or play a musical instrument.This is talking about playing a guitar.
https://plus.google.com/117879285261463035507/posts/cmPU3Bsp6kS
This talks about that when a person is performing using a loop,How exciting it would be when he/she starts engaging the stage.


The art of noise:how music recording has changed over decades:-

Technology provides crystal clear recordings of all the music in the world,at little or no cost.But,as a

historical audio installation opens at the science Musuem,composer Christopher Fox asks why we won't let go ofkour musical past.

History of sound recording:-

Experiments in capturing sound on a recording medium for preservation and reproduction began in earnest during the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s. Many pioneering attempts to record and reproduce sound were made during the latter half of the 19th century-notably Scott's Phonautograph of 1857 - and these efforts culminated in the invention of the phonograph,patented by Thomas Edison in 1877.

The history of sound recording- which has progressed in waves,driven by the invention and commercial introduction of new technologies-can be roughly divided into four main periods:-


the " Acoustic". era,1877 to 1925

the "Electrical" era, 1877 to 1925(including sound on film)

the "Magnetic" era,1945 to 1975

the " Digital" Era,1975 to the present day.

Effect of Errors and Delays in Inventory Reporting on Production System Performance:-

Abstract:-

A discrete linear control has been used by the authors to examine the performance of multi-level,multi-product production control systems operating in an environment where system errors are expected. The basic method was reported in and it's use to examine system structures and system implementation sequences was discussed in (2). Production control systems operate in an uncertain
environment.Besides the commonly considered uncertainties in demand,yield,quality and delivery times,errors frequently exist in basic data such as bills of materials and occur in stock records as a result of incorrect or late transaction recording. This paper presents the basic discrete linear control representation of MRP and ROC systems,shows how these representations may be modified to include certain types of internal system error, before examining the effects of delays in stock recoding and of recording errors on the performance of the system.Performance measures include the effects on schedules,planned stock and delivery performance.

Live looping:-

Live looping is the recording and playback of a piece of music in real-time using either dedicated hardware devices,called loopers or phrase samplers,or software running on a computer with an audio interface. Musicians can loop with either laptop software or loop pedals which are sold for tabletop and floor-based use.

Notable artists:-

In a 2012-13 poll of 1000 singers,11 percent stated that they used live looping while 51 percent did not know what live looping was. Artists known for their use or advocacy of the technique include:-

Ed  Sheeran:-
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By now,we've all heard his radio hits,from "The A Team" to"Photograph" and "Thinking Out Load".He basically is on fire. What you may not know that he is a great looper artist.


Don't (Capital Session)
Published on 24 July 2014. Ed Sheeran came by the Capital FM live studio to sing us a few of his new tracks. This is a stripped-back,acoustic version of his new track Don't.

I knew Top 40 artist Sheeran started out looping but I had assumed he picked up a full band once he got famous.Apparently he still tours solo with looper.Cool.

Dub FX:-

Dub FX,stylised also Dub Fx and DubFx,(real name Benjamen Stanford) is a worldwide street performer and studio recording artist from St Kilda,Melbourne,Australia. At the start of his career he was singing in a local alternative rock and rapcore band initially known as Twitch,which would later change its name 2004 they released a debut and the only album Exeunt Omnes.

Dub FX is completely independent, using only live performance, word of mouth,Internet social networking, and a number of easily accessible free.

Dub FX started off with a Boss GT-6 multi-effects pedal which he then traded up for the GT -8,and now uses a Boss GT-10B bass guitar effects pedal for nearly all the effects used over his voice.

One of the earliest mega-breakthrough YouTube looping stars,famous for his solo work,how looping with a full band.

http://www.voicecouncil.com/10-looping-artists-you-need-to-know-about/


Equipment which I use for my band.Voice transformer which is used for singers for tuning the parts into vocoder a etc for the voices to be reflected.

Minibrute keyboard which is used for playing instruments like bass etc.It is smaller and slightly different to the normal keyboard and piano.In Minibrute keyboards we can tune to wave sounds as well.

Ampere is a main extension chords which are added to the equipment.

Along with the equipment,There are other wires which are connected to the speakers so that it can be loud enough while playing and performing on stage.

Whenever,I am connecting the Minibrute Keyboard to the output where it is supposed to be,I don't have any problem and I know how to tune it and play the bass in it which I am supposed to play in our band.The vocal transformer and Minibrute keyboard are new to me for this funky junk project.