UTAS SOUND 2012

Once Upon a Time in the West - Opening sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opg4VGvyi3M

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - OLIVIA - Subject: Nomad Studio/ Nancy Mauro-Flude. Synopsis: Opened with intensely interwoven narrative A/V piece collab between Nomad studio/PLaFon, moved onto an exploratory interest in the live sound and performance works of Nancy Mauro-Flude, showed clips from works ranging 6 years, talked about the qualities and mixes of media/content and ideas that are in the work, the movement between and of electronics, bodies, light, theatricality.

also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avalanches

also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GX_Jupitter-Larsen

Synopsis: Background to long-running noise project and band, The Haters. Short web clips chronologically show the concerns of the work: entropy, post-industrialism, the machine-aesthetic, harsh noise, spectacle. Discussed tropes/recurrent themes in the work. Branched out to collaborations and wrapped up with 'Aerosol' a collaborative work that fuses the concerns together artists concerns. Masked A/V Impro Havoc 

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - DARCY - Subject: The Avalanches. Synopsis: Insightful brief background to group, why it was of interest, how it related to re-mix/mash-up/sampling. Cool isolation of samples used in 'Frontier Psychiatrist' (groups breakthrough track) compared with Section of finished track. Discussed placement within whole album, isolation as 'radio hit'. Lineage of some samples/legal issues.

MIDI - Basic MIDI kb rundown, Evolution.

break time - the keen record diggers. This discarded crate held a few gems - old research records on oceanography.  1st rule of crate digging - get in first! Nearby black shoulder is manipulating turntable.

NEXT WEEK - Analogue / IRL Hardware - knobs, sliders, leads, black boxes, feedback