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Notes on LMJ30 audio tracks Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Zachary James Watkins,Davia Spain,Raven Chacon,Leroy F. Moore,Juba Kalamka,Ava Mendoza,Star Amerasu,Sharmi Basu,Chella Coleman,Maya Sage,Mateas,Morgan Craft
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Introduction to Special Section: Sound as Evidence Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Morten Søndergaard
As witnessed by Walter Benjamin in the early twentieth century, the “state of emergency” in which we still live is not the exception but the rule. In 2018, a research project called Lyden af Danmark (The Sound of Denmark) was launched, aiming at collecting sounds recorded by people living in Denmark. Of 155 recordings and 294 individual sounds uploaded, birds singing and lawnmowers seem to dominate
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Sonic Commentary: Who The Hell Do You Think You Are? Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Andy Meyerson
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Listening Geopolitics and the Anthropocene Contact zones of the Bali and Georgia Strait Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Freya Zinovieff, Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Building on Pratt and Haraway's ideas of the contact zone, we examine the soundscape in two maritime boundaries: the Bali Strait and the Strait of Georgia. Both places, imbued with colonial histories, are rich in ecological diversity and signify different degrees of violence perpetuated against those who attempt to cross their geopolitical boundary zones. Using practices taken from sensory, multispecies
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Stowaway City: An Immersive Audio Experience for Multiple Tracked Listeners in a Hybrid Listening Environment Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Michael McKnight
Stowaway City is an immersive audio experience that combines electroacoustic composition and storytelling with extended reality. The piece was designed to accommodate multiple listeners in a shared auditory virtual environment. Each listener, based on their tracked position and rotation in space, wirelessly receives an individual binaurally decoded sonic perspective via open-back headphones. The sounds
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Music gesture and the correspondence of lines in a multimodal compositional practice Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Daniel Portelli
Music Gesture can be thought of as being made up of dynamic, multisensorial lines. From this, the author draws from Ingold's “correspondence of lines” as a conception of music and a transformative compositional process, informing gestural line expressions and the development of notation systems for the body. The author outlines the technology he has developed for two compositions, involving a video
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Interspecies Bodies and Watery Sonospheres: Listening in the Lab, the Archives and the Field Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Janna Holmstedt
In this text, the author brings together scientific interspecies communication experiments, artistic practice and feminist posthumanities to inquire into the transformative role of sound and listening. Departing from an archive with recordings of human-dolphin language experiments, this research attends to sound as evidence and listening as a situated knowledge practice, with ethico-political implications
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Musicking with Music-Generation Software in Virtutes Occultae Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Taylor Brook
This article explores concepts of compositional meaning that arise from cocreative composing with music-generation software. Drawing from an analysis of the 2017 electroacoustic composition Virtutes Occultae, the composer discusses the implications of computer-generated music for the role of the composer. After an overview of how the music-generation software he developed contributed to the creation
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Now I'm Digital, Where Is My Ritual? Exploring Postdigital Performance Objects as Totems for Agency and Ritual Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Neal Spowage
The author argues that significant aspects of electronic music performance have been diminished in the rush to incorporate the latest, often discreet (as in intentionally unobtrusive) technologies. He identifies these aspects as agency, ritual and, to a lesser extent, serendipity and mess. Using references to his own work, he suggests that applying an understanding of how actors create totems to present
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A Conflux of Musical Logics: Memory, History, and the Improvisative Music of SLANT Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Dave Wilson
The author discusses SLANT, an improvisation-based project he coconceived, recorded and performed on tenor saxophone in duo with pianist and new music specialist Richard Valitutto. The project deconstructs sound worlds such as late nineteenth-century Romanticism, avant-garde/free jazz, microtonal spectralism and southeast European rural music. Drawing on George Lewis's systems of improvisative musicality
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Active Imaginative Reading…and Listening Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 David Rosenboom
active imaginative one during which we synthesize multidimensional, endogenous environments in which memory tracings form and are inscribed, making personal times with histories, nows and futures. Plentiful invitations for rich explorations await the reader of this LMJ issue. And, profoundly so, this one challenges us to listen hard—listen to sounds, yes, and also listen to challenging ideas and points
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Sounding Time: Explorations in Audio Time-Lapse and Temporal Layering in Interdisciplinary Collaboration Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Evelyn Ficarra
In this article, Evelyn Ficarra considers her compositional practice, giving particular emphasis to the techniques and aesthetics of using time-lapse media and other temporal manipulations in interdisciplinary contexts. Foregrounding her collaboration with media artist Ian Winters on the large-scale interdisciplinary installation/performance Summer, Winter, Spring, Ficarra describes her attempt to
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Tactical Soundwalking in the City: A Feminist Turn from Eye to Ear Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Stephanie Loveless
This article investigates a turn from eye to ear in the literature and practice of walking-as-art. Arguing for listening as a feminist and ecologically oriented mode of engaging with the world, the author examines the practice of soundwalking (Westerkamp) and Deep Listening (Oliveros), placing them in conversation with the work of Michel de Certeau, and concludes with a discussion of the creative projects
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Beat Machine: Embracing the Creative Limitations and Opportunities of Low-Cost Computers Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Andrew R. Brown, John R. Ferguson
The Beat Machine is a handheld music synthesizer and sequencer. The authors discuss the development of the Beat Machine and how creative constraints and opportunities were introduced by the particularities of low-cost microprocessors and associated electronics. The discussion is framed as an exemplar of Kåre Poulsgaard's concept of enactive individuation, a framework for relating material engagement
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The Hearing Test: Evidence of a Vegetal Entity Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Laura Beloff
The author's artistic experiment The Hearing Test focuses on detection of high frequency clicking sounds that are emitted by the tips of plants' roots. Scientists have claimed that plants' roots produce high frequency clicks between 20 and 300 kHz by bursting air bubbles. But while the phenomenon has been described, its cause remains unexplained. This lack of knowledge opens up possibilities for multiple
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Music as Epistemic Construct: From Sonic Experience to Musical Sense-Making Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Mark Reybrouck
Taking an epistemological stance towards music in a real-time listening situation entails a definition of music as a temporal and sounding art. This means that music cannot be described in abstract and detached terms as something “out there” in a virtual space but rather as something that impinges upon our senses in an actual “here and now.” Musical sense-making, therefore, should be considered a kind
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The Presence of a Mysterious Black Silhouette: From a Print to a New Form of Usage of Guitar Multiphonics Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Rita Torres
The author recounts how she came to carry out artistic research on guitar multiphonics when composing a piece for solo guitar. She explains how the investigation gave rise to a new form of usage of that unconventional technique.
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A generative sound mural: The Whole Inside. Sounding the body. Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Olivia Louvel
The author discusses her approach in conceiving The Whole Inside, a generative sound mural combining artificial and human voices. Using nine Visaton speakers, Pure Data and data projection, the author confronts femininity and violent misogyny, by which the body is being depersonalized, leading to subsequent dissociation as a defense mechanism to cope with traumatic events. The work is based on a graphically
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Sociosonic Interventions: Distributed Authorship in Socially Engaged Sound Practices Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Tullis Rennie
How do creative sound practices function in the context of socially engaged art? Toward developing a practical methodology, this paper focuses on sound-led projects that stage socially engaged art practice in community settings, including some involving the author. Aesthetics, ethics and politics are employed as interrogative lenses for distributed creative processes. Methods for collaborative art-making
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Topology of Networks in Generalized Musical Spaces Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
The abstraction of musical structures as mathematical objects in a geometrical space is one of the major accomplishments of contemporary music theory. The author generalizes the concept of musical spaces as networks and derives compositional design principles via network topology analysis. This approach provides a framework for analysis and quantification of similarity of musical objects and structures
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Deep Listening to the Amazon Rainforest through Sonic Architectures Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Luca Forcucci
De Rerum Natura is an electroacoustic composition by the author, based on field recordings from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. The piece is part of wider research from the author that explores the act of listening, associated visual mental imagery and dynamic subjective links between the composer's experience of listening to/recording experience of the original material and the audience's perception
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Minding the Gap: Conceptualizing “Perceptualized” Timbre in Music Analysis Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Nora Engebretsen
In the past decade, a growing music-analytic practice has emerged around timbre, a parameter long considered either irrelevant to musical structure or too unwieldy to tackle. This new practice centers on an understanding of timbre as a perceptual rather than physical (acoustical) attribute and privileges timbre as a bearer of musical meaning. Through a focused survey of scholarship on timbre from the
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Transductive Wind Music: Sharing the Danish Landscape with Wind Turbines Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Marie Højlund, Morten Riis
In this article the authors present their sound art project Nephew vs. Overheard as an exploration of a messy, fragile and incoherent local approach to public ecological art, an approach that aims at creating links of affectivity with technological creatures, such as large wind turbines, with which we share our landscape. Supplementing, as well as challenging, the dominant global strategy of ecological
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Microbial Sensing: Constructing Perception through Technological Layers Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Louise Mackenzie
The author introduces the concept of looking without seeing to describe the layered use of technology required to experience microorganisms during the making of The Stars Beneath Our Feet: an audiovisual installation for Lumiere Durham, a four-day international light festival produced by Artichoke in the U.K. First, the author describes the experience of technological layering when attempting to perceive
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Exploring the Nexus of Holography and Holophony in Visual Music Composition Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Michael Rhoades
In this article the author explores the idea that, owing to their shared three-dimensional nature, holophons and virtual holograms are well suited as mediums for visual music composition. This union is ripe with creative opportunity and fraught with challenges in the areas of aesthetics and technical implementation. Squarely situated upon the bleeding edge of phenomenological research and creative
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Study in three phases: An Adaptive Sound Installation Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Claudio Panariello
Study in three phases is an adaptive site-specific sound installation that includes 22 solenoids placed on metallic arches that surround visitors and react to environmental perturbations, creating a self-regulating soundscape of metallic hits that serves to renew the visitors’ acoustic perspective. Adaptivity is a crucial aspect of the work: Similar perturbations will not generally cause similar reactions
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Sonic Commentary: LMJ29 Audio Tracklist Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Andrew C. Smith
There’s The kind of language we expect to hear in music—poetic, constructed and, perhaps, sung to an angular melody—and then there’s everything else. All this day-to-day linguistic activity comes across as natural and maybe a bit worthless because of it. Prose lacks preciousness, because it lacks the construction of poetry. But what does our day-to-day prosaic language actually do? And where does it
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Sound Structures Experienced Underwater Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Jürgen Claus
the 1960s. The path I followed to turn the idea into reality is described briefly here. Like many other artists I had rebuffed the art market; I focused instead on reworking my book Expansion of Art [1]. But by 1969, I had finished a blueprint for my Submarine Center, which was composed of three sections: an audiovisual center, a center for theory and research, and an experimental diving center. Like
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Algorithmic Spatialization Using Object-Based Audio and Indoor Positioning System Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Yuan-Yi Fan
The author presents a novel compositional framework to guide designing interplay between moving listeners and sound objects in space. Demonstrated by a case study of interactive octophonic installation, the presented framework offers new ways to articulate and analyze artistic interplay using real-world location context as a spatial composition canvas.
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Respire: Virtual Reality Art with Musical Agent Guided by Respiratory Interaction Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Kıvanç Tatar, Mirjana Prpa, Philippe Pasquier
Respire is an immersive art piece that brings together three components: an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment, embodied interaction (via a breathing sensor) and a musical agent system to generate unique experiences of augmented breathing. The breathing sensor controls the user’s vertical elevation of the point of view under and over the virtual ocean. The frequency and patterns of breathing
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Flow Vertical: Composing and Improvising Original Music Inspired by Bodily Sound Vibrations Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Jasna Jovicevic
This text analyzes the process of composing and improvising the musical experiment Flow Vertical. This artistic exploration for chamber orchestra responds to a theory of biosignals, incorporating a putative sonic mapping of “inaudible” sound vibration of the author’s biofield as understood to be measured by an SCIO device. The interpretation and represent ation of measured frequencies influenced the
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Sonic Commentary Audio Series Volume 29 Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Manfred Werder, Casey Anderson, Travis Just, Kara Feely, Natacha Diels, John (Jack) Callahan, Carolyn Chen, Sarah Hennies
20160 consists of 3 rolls of semitransparent paper, each sized 10cm × 22m, trisected from a found paper roll. Since January 2016 I have been inscribing the first roll with typewriters found on site. The first performative presentation took place in Ciudad de México on 9 February 2016. I’ve been tracing the world onto the roll—words and text found in poetry, philosophy and the world. In the act of writing
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Sound Appropriation and Musical Borrowing as a Compositional Tool in New Electroacoustic Music Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Juan Carlos Vasquez
This text presents a compact historical survey of musical borrowing and sound appropriation from medieval chant through the latest digital experiments outside popular music involving extensive use of sampling. It then describes two artistic research projects consisting of a series of pieces that digitally reimagine selected works from the classical music repertoire, including thoughts about the contemporary
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A Computational System for Violin: Synthesis and Dissolution in Windowless Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Seth Dominicus Thorn
This article provides an overview of a real-time, hybrid computational system for the violin, Windowless. The system uses a custom sensor glove, the alto.glove, to track the violinist’s movements and drive a panoply of unique digital sound processing effects. The author describes the operations of the system in terms of a broad notion of synthesis, consis-tency, microintervallic motions and molecular
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Sounding Dispersal as a Route to Empathy with the Changing Arctic Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Kat Austen
This article elaborates on the new media musical project The Matter of the Soul: its background, theoretical approach, methods and realization. The Matter of the Soul is a musical, sculptural and performance work. It aims to engender empathy in humans with the process of dispersal and transformation in the Arctic amid the climate crisis. The work draws an analogy between human migration, the movement
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Reducing the Effect of Imperfect Microphone and Speaker in Audio Feedback Systems Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Lilac Atassi
An audio feedback system that iteratively uses a room as a sound filter can be an artistic medium generating fascinating sounds. In this system, the room is not the only component acting as a filter. The sound system component, i.e. the speaker and microphone, also can have a sizeable impact on the sound in each iteration. To make sure the relative influence of the room on the sound is revealed and
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The Musical Geometry of Genes: Generating Rhythms from DNA Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Alvaro Yanez
DNA encodes all sorts of information that makes us human, but, aside from encoding genes, could DNA also encode for a mapping of musical rhythms in a very abstract way? This project sought to generate rhythms out of DNA and compose a musical piece out of a gene's rhythmic sequence. Computational rules inspired by geometric analyses of rhythms guided the mapping of DNA's molecular structure into rhythmic
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Enacting Sonic-Cyborg Performance through the Hybrid Body in Teka-Mori and Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin? Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Aurie Hsu, Steven Kemper
In “A Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway explores implications of the increasing hybridization of humans and machines. While society has long been concerned with the encroachment of technology onto human activity, Haraway challenges this concern, suggesting instead a kinship between organism and machine, a hybrid body. A sonic-cyborg performance realizes this understanding of the human-machine hybrid
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Mimesis, Murakami and Multimedia Art: Parallel Worlds in Performance Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Chaz Underriner
The artistic techniques of mimesis—the representation of reality in art—make it possible to “render the unreal familiar or the real strangely unfamiliar.” The author, a composer and intermedia artist, uses mimetic techniques in acoustic composition, video art and field recording to reimagine everyday experience, as in his multimedia piece Landscape: Home. The author analyzes passages from the novel
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3D Notations and the Immersive Score Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 David Kim-Boyle
The author discusses his use of generative three-dimensional notations for representing musical forms. Several key works, programmed in the Max/OpenGL platform, are described in detail, and the author discusses current development with Microsoft’s HoloLens. The author argues that such immersive technology promotes a physical engagement with the score in which the work is an emergent property of an
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Hyperreal Instruments: Bridging VR and Digital Fabrication to Facilitate New Forms of Musical Expression Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Anıl Çamcı, John Granzow
Virtual Reality (VR) and digital fabrication technologies today are ushering in a new wave of opportunities in instrument design; the marriage of these two domains, seemingly at odds with each other, can bring impossible instruments to life. In this article, the authors first sample such instruments throughout history. The authors also look at how technology has facilitated the materialization of impossible
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Nam June Paik’s Unpublished Korean Article and His Interactive Musique Concrète Projects Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Byeongwon Ha
Nam June Paik was a pioneering creator of interactive sound art before he became a cult figure in the field of video art. While Paik gradually developed interactive sound art in West Germany, he wrote several articles about contemporary music in Europe. Specifically, a musique concrète article for Korean readers is significant as a seed of his interactive projects. This study examines the content of
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The Rhythmotron Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 John R. Taylor, Andrew J. Milne
This paper describes the Rhythmotron: a percussion-centered robotic orchestrion, commissioned for the CoLABS festival in Sydney in 2017. The authors describe how they electronically reimagined the mechanical components of a cylinder piano by using a variant of the XronoMorph software, and they consider the synergy between algorithmically generated rhythms in a digital environment alongside its analogous
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Application of Musical Computing to Creating a Dynamic Reconfigurable Multilayered Chamber Orchestra Composition Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Alexis Kirke
With increasing virtualization and the recognition that today’s virtual computers are faster than hardware computers of 10 years ago, modes of computation are now limited only by the imagination. Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing (PMAP) is an unconventional computation protocol that makes affective computation more human-friendly by making it audible. Data sounds like the emotion it carries. PMAP
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Summerland: Exploring the Intersection of Spiritualism and Technology at the Dawn of the Electrical Age Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Matthew Ostrowski
The author describes Summerland, a generative installation for 24 computer-controlled telegraph sounders. This work uses texts from Samuel F.B. Morse and his contemporary, the Spiritualist medium Kate Fox, as source material, driving the sounders through both linguistic and spectral encoding of their words.
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Sonic Commentary: Audio Series Volume 29 Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Manfred Werder, Casey Anderson, Travis Just, Kara Feely, Natacha Diels, John (Jack) Callahan, Carolyn Chen, Sarah Hennies
20160 consists of 3 rolls of semitransparent paper, each sized 10 cm × 22 m, trisected from a found paper roll. Since January 2016 I have been inscribing the first roll with typewriters found on site. The first performative presentation took place in Ciudad de México on 9 February 2016. I’ve been tracing the world onto the roll—words and text found in poetry, philosophy and the world. In the act of
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The Music of the Trees: The Blued Trees Symphony and Opera as Environmental Research and Legal Activism Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Aviva Rahmani
The Blued Trees project is a transdisciplinary thought experiment, physically manifested across miles of the North American continent. It melds ideas about music, acoustics, art and environmental policy. Hundreds of GPS-located individual trees in the path of proposed natural gas pipelines were painted with a sine wave sigil. Each “treenote” contributed to an aerially perceivable composition employing
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The Loom Machines of Boott Mill (Lowell): A Composition from the New England Soundscape Project Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Daniel A. Walzer
The author reports on the development of an original piece, Boott Mill (Lowell), in which he takes field recordings of loom machines from the Boott Mill Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, and uses the recordings as the foundation for a fully realized composition featuring percussion, strings, keyboards and assorted musical textures.
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Introduction Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Eduardo R. Miranda
thematic issues for over 20 years. This is the second time in a row that this journal has been published without an overarching theme. I confess that I was not entirely convinced that nonthematic issues would be as exciting as the thematic ones had been. But I must admit: I am not at all disappointed. The previous one worked just fine. And the present one works really well too. Our former editor-in-chief
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Approaches to Composition in Visual Music: An Artist’s Reflection on Three Original Pieces Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Dave Payling
This article discusses the author’s visual music compositional practice in the context of similar work in this field. It specifically examines three pieces created between 2015 and 2017 that fused digital animation techniques with electronic sound. This approach contrasted with the author’s earlier compositions, which featured electroacoustic music and video concrète.
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Not For Tourists - The Publicness of Public Art - The Public Utteraton Machines Record What People Think of Other Public Art in New York City Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Rebecca Hackemann
In 2015/16 interactive public art works were installed on the sidewalks in Brooklyn and Queens by Rebecca Hackemann using ordinary city permits. The locations were chosen in order to counteract the dominant locations for public art in New York, which tend to be in Manhattan and/or in tourist concentrated areas. The works are entitled The Public Utteraton Machines and enable passersby to utter their
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Collaboration and Consensus in Listening Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Anna Barney, Salomé Voegelin
This article adapts a conversation on a network project, Listening across Disciplines, which brought together artists, musicians, scientists, technologists and social scientists to discuss the use, value and application of listening as a shared methodology of inquiry and communication. The discussion focuses on one of the key issues emerging from this network: the question of consensus and collaboration
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Translating Historically Reflexive Perceiving from Visual to Sonic Art Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Camille Robinson
This article discusses making Within History, an artwork that translates a commentary on historically situated perceiving from the visual realm to the sonic.
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Leonardo Volume 51 and Leonardo Music Journal Volume 28 Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Editors
s 2017,” Leonardo 51, No. 5 (2018).
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The Music of Human Hormones Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Tsvetana Ivanova, Leandar Litov, Rositza Marinova, Todor Ivanov, Mihail Iossifov, Agnieshka Deynovitch
In this study, the authors take on the challenge to translate biological form (science) into musical form (art). Through scientifically developed methodology, the authors link two aspects of human experience that influence human emotions: hormones, from the inside, and music, from the outside. The authors develop an original algorithm, which they use to represent the properties and the effects of the
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Heavy Metal: An Interactive Environmental Art Installation Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Nigel Helyer, John Potts, Mark Patrick Taylor
This article discusses Heavy Metal, an interactive installation work by Nigel Helyer. The authors situate this work within the context of a collaboration among environmental science, art and media theory, a three-year research project entitled When Science Meets Art: An Environmental Portrait of the Shoalhaven River Valley.
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Experimental Sound Mixing for “The Well”, a Short Film Made for Tablets Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Karen Collins, Ruth Dockwray
This article presents an overview of the use of binaural recording and experimental headphone mixing for a short film. Drawing loosely on theories of proxemics, the article illustrates how sound mixing can be used to create a unique subjective perspective. In particular, the authors sought to experiment with and to use the peculiarities of stereo headphone mixing and binaural sound to reinforce visual
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Listening to Wetland Soundscapes Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Felipe Otondo
The author introduces a soundscape project involving wetland field recordings and an original sound time-lapse method used as the basis for the design and implementation of a sound installation.
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Figures of Speech: Oral History as an Agent of Form in Electroacoustic Music Leonardo Music Journal Pub Date : 2018-12-01 John Young
This article reflects on how the author’s use of oral history recordings as source material in three electroacoustic works suggests ways in which complementary threads of storytelling and recorded memory can be shaped into purposefully directed forms.