Forum Week 6

There is an asumption that we like this musique concrete stuff or at least a hope that we will eventually cave in and love it. As I alluded to in last weeks blog, the only ‘real’ future for this type of music is in psychoacoustics. Perhaps as a form of torture even. Now, I hear the lecturers and a few third years say “we must appreciate the history” and “we wouldn’t be here without these pioneers” and that is all well and fine but Burke and Wills were pioneers and yet we don’t get carted around in a horse and carriage around Uni every day or be expected to trek to Uni for four days when we can use an automobile of some kind to get here. There is more to electronic music than musique concrete and it’s sleep inducing derivatives. AND THIS WEEK I MISSED IT!!! BAH!! If what I interpret from other people’s blogs as correct, then I love the sort of thing that was presented. Manipulating sound and pictures to represent some sort of ‘wonkiness’ or to create the sensation that something isn’t quite right is where I want to go. Apparently David presented a video with out of synch sound. I’m not sure of the content of the video, but yes I find it completely annoying when a video drifts out of synch by even half a second throughout. Damn lazy people that cannot convert 29.97 non drop to 25 fps properly and think no one will notice. From an artistic viewpoint though, the creation of psychoacoustical phenomena of visual and audio ‘nervousness and uneasyness’ is definitely an area of interest.

Whittington, Steven. 2008. “Forum.” Seminar presented at the University of Adelaide, 10th April.
Harris, David. 2008. “Forum.” Seminar presented at the University of Adelaide, 10th April.