fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Magister Perotinus / Pérotin

"musica assoluta" (novembre 2022)

Work-In-Progress

Anders8

SARAH TERRAL - LE MENISQUE ORIGINAL
LP, digital
27 août 2021

https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/le-m-nisque-original

Un pique-nique de fou

Long-time collaborator Marco Lucchi provides sublime, longform pieces (most 15+ minutes), which Henrik has carefully imbued with his cello.

ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva

Featuring artwork from Luca Lionello, it touches on ancient mystic ideas and sentiment, attempting the impossible task of touching the sublime through art.

Suggestiva

CD & Download

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Lectio Magistralis (Streaming Edit)

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Il Regno E Il Giardino (Streaming Edit)

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Elektronische Meditationen (Streaming Edit)

Day Off Me

Recorded practice session 23/11/2022
Fragments from 
Linda Catlin Smith: Galanthus
Ihlara McIndoe: Ushuaia Fragments

Work-In-Progress, Practice Diary 1

Work-In-Progress, Practice Diary 2

Paradise (lush sensitivity digitally designed) was specially conceived for sheng player Li Li-Chin (TW) as part of her project Autour du Sheng à Paris.
Special thanks to my friend Heng Cheng, without him, non of this would ever happened.

This piece is going to have its Taiwanese premiered in Dec 24th, 2022 at C-Lab in Taipei, and it's going to be extended as part of a new project in 2023, commissioned by C-Lab and Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.

Paradise (lush sensitivity digitally designed)

from Viola Torros, released September 10, 2019 on Another Timbre

Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble:
Wakana Ikeda, flute
Yoko Ikeda, violin
Masahiko Okura, clarinet
Taku Sugimoto, electric guitar
Aya Tanaka, bassoon
Johnny Chang, viola
Samuel Dunscombe, bass clarinet
Michiko Ogawa, clarinet

Johnny Chang - Citaric Melodies III

INSIDE

トークンを挿入したその瞬間からゲームセッションは始まり、プレーヤーは一気にいくつもの「ライフ」を持つ。これらのゲームの中では、「ライフ」要素を勝ち増やす事もでき、それらはスクリーンの端に小さなアイコンとして蓄積される。
プレーヤーはゲームが終わるまでに何度も失敗することができることから、この機能は陽性強化としてプレーヤーに働く。Pier Luigi Cappucci教授は自身の本、"Il corpo tecnologico"にて次のような現象を説明する：人は常に「バーチャル」構図（構成）を創造してきており、物理的且つ直接的な現象界の体験（経験）から距離を置く事を学ぶ。(…）モデル（模型）や物（作り物、芸術品、人工物）を使う事によりその関係を調節（仲介）し、置換えているのだ。
この要求の重要な証明となるのは神話や伝説における口承、または影絵やマリオネットといった形での再解釈などにある。様々なアニメーション（命を吹き込むという意味で）技術、バトンの使用、ワイアートリック（仕掛け）、手袋や目の錯覚を引き起こす様々な方法、それらは現在の進歩したと言えるであろう「バーチャル」なデジタルイメージを操作（コントロール）する技術と遠くではあるが同じラインをたどっているのである。ナイジェリアの宗教的習慣とし扱われる儀式的スペクタクルGledé人形劇を例にとろう。操り人形師はパペットマスクを身に付ける。それは彼らのダンス（動き）と操り糸を通して動きが調和され、唯一動きを持つオブジェとなる。それは人形師と人形とのハイブリッド、マジックと幻想を展開させる神々しい者となるのだ。70年代末から80年代にかけて日本ではOVA、オリジナルビデオアニメーションというものが続々と造られた。その中では人間のキャラクター、主にティーンエイジャーが彼らの体の機械的な感覚の延長かのように大きなロボットの内部を操作する。
1979から80年の機動戦士ガンダムでのモビルスーツ、1985年、強殖装甲ガイバーでの共生有機デバイスなどといった、ある人物に宿る人間のポテンシャルを拡大させる科学技術などが例としてある。
2006年にはシングルプレーヤー向けにガンダム世界のシミュレーションとして先進的なアーケードゲームがいくつか造られた。これらの新しいゲームカプセルにはパノラミック・オプティカル・ディスプレイ（半球スクリーン）を搭載され、アーケードシステムを再起動させ、しばらくの間、日本国内外で大きな反響をよんだ。From the moment that you insert the token and the gaming session starts up, the player suddenly has multiple lives. During these games, you can win additional “life” elements, which accumulate as little icons around the edges of the screen.

This function creates a positive reinforcement in the player; they have the possibility to fail many times without the game finishing. Professor Pier Luigi Cappucci, in a paragraph of his book "Il corpo tecnologico" descibes to us this phenomenom: Man has always created “virtual” constructs, learning to distance himself from the physical and direct experience of the phenomenal world.(..) mediating and substituting this relationship through the use of models and artifacts.


An important attestation of this desire are the myths and legends of the oral tradition, a version of which we can also see reinterpreted in shadow puppet or marionette shows. The different animation techniques, the use of batons, wire tricks, gloves and other ways of deceiving the eye, trace a line, though long, towards the current, more or less advanced, techniques for controlling “virtual” digital images.

Let's take the example of the Nigerian Gledé puppet theater, a ceremonial theatre which serves as a religious rite. The puppeteer wears a puppet mask, a single object which moves unison with their dance by means of the puppet strings. It is a kind of hybrid between a puppeteer and a puppet, a divine being who deploys magic and illusionism.

At the end of the 70s and throughout the 80s in Japan, a series of OVA, or original video animation, were created, in which the human characters, usually teenagers, had internal control over giant robots, as if they were mechanical sensory extensions of their own bodies.

Take the example of the Gundam Mobile Suit 1979-80 or The Symbiotic Organic device of Guyver, 1985, a technology which amplifies the human potential of the people that it hosts. I

n 2006 some advanced arcade game were created as simulation for a single player of the Gundam universe. These new game capsules, with a panoramic optical display, have relaunched the arcade system which has been all the rage for a while, in Japan and elsewhere. Divinity, mythological figures, ties with tradition and historical events, have often been the starting point for the creation of scenes and characters for games and video games, often fused together in a bizarre and entertaining manner. 

Capogiro degli Dei (EBM(T) mot Tokyo)

I've been kicked out of FB !!  
An atmospheric, guitar and synth piece of music.

Echoes Of The Forgotten

Composer-performer JOHNNY CHANG engages in extended explorations surrounding the relationships of sound/listening and the in-between areas of improvisation, composition and performance. Based in Berlin for more than 10 years, Chang relocated to his home country,  New Zealand in 2020.

Johnny is part of the Wandelweiser composers collective and in 2018, initiated a new framework for the presentation of creative research and performances, "Partitions & Resonances", aimed at encouraging collaborations between the varied disciplines of composition, musicology, historical research and performance.  Since early 2021, “Partitions & Resonances” has taken the form of a monthly listening series of compositions by Wandelweiser and related composers/artists/sound artists hosted by Audio Foundation, Auckland.

He currently collaborates with: Peter Ablinger, Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Sam Dunscombe, Keir GoGwilt, Catherine Lamb, Klaus Lang, Mike Majkowski, Phill Niblock, Michael Pisaro, Derek Shirley, Germaine Sijstermans, Taku Sugimoto, Eric Wong.

As composer and performer, his articulated performances have been featured in: Staatsoper/ OperaLab//DAAD Mikromusik/MaerzMusik (Berlin), Donaueschingen Musiktage, Edition Festival (Stockholm), Sonic Acts Festival/Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Gaudeamus (Utrecht), Cafe OTO (London), Riverrun Festival (Albi), Q-O2 workspace (Brussels), Wandelweiser Klangraum (Düsseldorf), Minimal Jukebox (Los Angeles Philharmonic), Audio Foundation/Pyramid Club (NZ).

Work-In-Progress, Practice Diary 1

Johnny Chang | 張釗漢