term definitions for visa 2b07

Term definition review

Accidental Poetry• Tristan Tzara• Instructions on how to do this are in his

“Manifesto of Feeble and Bitter Love” (1920)• Shows how chance is used to produce a text-

you’re not creating conciously/sub-conciously• The use of nonsense; artist as creator is an

obsolete idea, re-definition of what is art, rational, enlightened world that created a world can only be countered by the noise and chaos of dada

• More death of the author/artist as creative genius

Optophonetical poetry

Optophonetical poetry

• Haussmann’s invention• poetry that presented random sequences

of letters as phonetic sounds • Graphically it’s like a musical score-the

fonts and sizes chosen randomly though by an outside typesetter-death of authorship

• First ready-made poems for the above reason

“The Art of Noises”

• Written in 1913 by Luigi Russolo

• Is a Futurist manifesto

• Six Categories of noise-sound: • 1) Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Hissing roars, Bangs, Booms

• 2) Whistling, Hissing, Puffing • 3) Whispers, Murmurs, Mumbling, Muttering, Gurgling • 4) Screeching, Creaking, Rustling, Buzzing, Crackling, Scraping • 5) Noises obtained by beating on metals, woods, skins, stones, pottery, etc.

• 6) Voices of animals and people, Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails, Hoots, Howls, Death rattles, Sobs

• Sought to change music to reflect the reality of the machine age-something that the Futurists totally

supported

Musique Concrete

• Sound being manipulated-looping, sampling, slowing down, sound collage

• Musique concrete begins with the concrete-the raw sound material, and uses the above techniques, and turned into a composition

• Not using traditional instruments, following traditional rules for music

• Acousmatic situation: listen to something without the knowledge of where it’s coming from, or what produced it (instruments/perfomers)

• “Pure acoustic world”-beyond our habits and conventions

“I am sitting in a room”

• Alvin Lucier, 1970• Opens up the domain of conceptual art

(where the idea is more important than the end product)

• The room is playing the role of an instrument; the architecture of the room is a type of technology

• Interaction of the words he’s saying (text) and the room (space)

Psychoacoustics: or what is sound if no one hears it?

• The listener’s body completes the work

• We have a subjective response to everything that we hear; what we hear depends on how it’s presented to us

• What is the relationship between what we hear (sound), what our brain does with what we hear and how we psychologically deal with what we hear

Plunderphonics

• John Oswald• Hyper-sampling• Culture-jamming• Appropriate not only sounds but their

contexts-so he’s playing with everything you’ll remember when you hear a particular song, using those memories as artistic media

Paranoic-critical method• Dali’s own words for his own technique• A concrete image of a completely irrational

reality; painting with precision (as if it were real…) something that you actually dreamed

• Materializing concrete irrationality

• Subconcious appears just like the exterior (normal) world does

• Make the subconcious world just as real/valuable/important as the rest of the world