TBM Final Project

Moment forming and MOMENTE by Stockhausen

A moment in music is when characteristics like the speed of the sound and the region of a sound are constant. When these characteristics change it creates a new moment. Music is almost like the interactions of people in a room. There is a mood and a quality to the people that may change with a sudden event or change slowly as people enter and leave. The degree of change in music can be composed and it is also a characteristic of music that actually changes. Stockhausen composed a piece called MOMENTE that focused in on the changes in moments with a controlled randomness. There are 3 main kinds of moments: M moments which are melodic creating Heterphony sound, K moments creating Homophonic music and is made of male voices in the choir in combination with precission instruments and D moments which is the duration creating silence and polyphony which is made of female voices and is melodic. These three moments can mix in countless different combinations to create a feeling of randomness. The fourth moment is the I moment which serves to neutralize the other moments.
It is strange to think that something that sounds so random like music can of ten resemble, is actually created with a formula beyond notes. Instead it is made of moments strung together. Each moment is crafted and each moment creates a series of moments which is music. Controlled randomness of distribution creates atmospheres within a musical piece.

SOOOOOO..... Critique today!!!! I am excited to see everyone's reaction to my groups interpretation of our theme :) HEHEHEHEHE! I feel evil.

Fluxus group Project

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Group Project

What I was thinking of doing was getting the sheet music for old hymns in both spanish and english because not only do I not know the words well , but I cant read music. Maybe our groups theme can be about being lost and how we deal with confusion? Hymnals are things of the past and a lot of churches don't use them anymore. Its also about traditions and how this one will not be passed down to the next generation. I dont know. Just a thought. Im also bringing my sketchbook.

The Birth of Fluxus

Rene Block coined the term fluxism to refer to the idea of eternal transition and the core philosophy that animates fluxus. Fluxus, appropriately emerged during the era of electronic music and video around 1962. This was a shifting point of world views. Fluxus is constructive and founded on the principles of creation and transformation and its central methodseeks new ways to build.In Europe, Japan and the United Statesseveral artists had been working in parallel art forms and pursuing many of thee same ideas in therir artwork. there was an art show called the Fluxus Festival and the participants in the festival came tio be known as the Fluxus group. John Cage was a professor teaching at New School in the late 1950sand early 1960s and influeced his students in the ideas of Fluxus. there are 12 criteria for Fluxus : Globalism, Unioty of art and life, intermedia, experimentalism, Research orientation, chance, playfulness, simplicity, implicativeness, exemplativism, and specificity. Most fluxus work is ephemeral as an analysis of time. Musicality refers to the favct that many nfluxus works are designed as scores, with exact instructions of how to do the art piece second by second. George Maciunas is central to Fluxus but thinkning of him as the central figure in fluxus is a mistake. George was the central organizerand sometimes the chairman of fluxus but loosened the idea of central control and was more interested in spreading Fluxus as an artistic action rather than determining the terms of fluxus. What is unique about the Fluxus movement wwa that it was named that by members of the group and not an outsider like an art critic. Fluxus has happened and continues to happen.
The most interesting part of Fluxus is its relation to real life. However, life is not controlledand mapped out. My understanding of fluxus is that it is a manipulate version of life taht iws minultly observed. Fluxus has a way of understanding our mortality and human time in segments rather than time as a large abstract concept. The idea of controling time is one tha thumna beings have chased since the beggining of time and Fluxus, though seemingly unusual, does not seem to deviate very far from this human longing.

Stop motion results

I finished my video I am not happy with it because I cant figure out what kind of music to put to it because there are so many different feelings all going on in one video. There really isn't a good "theme song" I guess. Its about several stories that are made up by looking at the stars. Its called Constellation and I am happy with it other than the sound part.