WEEK 6 - Forum - Collaborations Wrap

"George Lewis (born Chicago, Illinois, 1952) is active as a composer, performer, and computer/installation artist. A 20-year member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, he studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM School of Music and trombone with Dean Hey. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Yale College."

'George Lewis', Other Minds - http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Lewis.shtml - accessed 7/4/07

Luke: 'The 9:13' - Collaboration on a Short film with Matthew Phipps (director) Florian, Brian. June, 2002. 'Learning from History: Cinema Sound and EQ Curves', Home Theatre High Fidelity , accessed 6/4/07, http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_9_2/feature-article-curves-6-2002.html

Unfortunate we didn't have time to watch all of 'The 9:13'. Luke's sound supported the building tension. 1/ People, 2/ machines, 3/ environment - just about puts it in a nutshell!

David: Collaborations with Pamela Rataj


Levin,Golan. MIT Media Laboratory, 1998-2000. 'An Audiovisual Environment Suite', accessed 6/4/07 - http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/aves/

I think writing too much about David and Rataj's work would be defeating the purpose of their open, flowing approach to interactive, sensory, environmental events. Enjoyed the brief peek into David's collaborative and compositional background and thoughts on the forum topic.

Poppi & Betty: Behind the Door

Enchanting blend of animation, sound and intent. Wistful. The language barrier perhaps conducive to a result closer to the original aural and visual imagery and pure thought, avoiding the need for codification into spoken word.

A separate entity, it takes on life of its own. Like a dream. Strange to see the stills without the sound, and they evoke the atmosphere created by both. I think Yisheng (Betty) summed up the result when she said of melding the skills of these two creative artists, "I think it's perfectly."
Me too.
Stills from the animated film "Behind the Door" by Yisheng Qian and Poppi Doser, 2006 - 'January 2007: Student's digital animation featured in Federation Square exhibition', (19/03/2007), Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, accessed 6/4/07
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/professions/news/photos/
Yisheng 'Betty' Qian. 2007 - "Behind the Door", Music Technology Forum presentation, EMU Space, University of Adelaide. 4th April, 2007.


Stephen: The Final Word

Collaborating with the dead and thinking pianos? I'll ponder that -

Giving something of yourself as you interpret some improvisational music and jazz is a necessity. And as they say, the more you put in ...

I like the idea of productive resistance. A collaboration with machines and people. I don't think I play guitar like I play bass or piano - and I think that's got something to do with the productive resistance of the individual machine I am manipulating.

- but ponder this as we farewell 'Collaborations 2007':

"I don’t care if you’re Bob Dylan — nothing comes out of your own head and into life without the influence of others, whether living or dead. (Every time you pick up a guitar, you’re collaborating with the dead.)"

Brown, Glenn Otis. April 3rd, 2005. 'Dream Job', Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5376 - accessed 7/4/07

*Spooky Stuff*
Guffey, Robert.1999. 'Collaborating with the Dead', - accessed 6/4/07
http://www.csulb.edu/~ctsuyuki/likewaterburning/excerpt_guffey.htm

"In Lyotard's (1984) philosophy, the term "paralogy" means a flood of good ideas that are inspired by conversation. Postmoderns, he tells us, have a quest for "paralogy," a hunger for stimulating conversation and ideas that work in a satisfying way. To get those ideas paralogists often share an irreverent attitude towards well accepted theories, breaking them up and recombining them in revolutionary new ways. The point of paralogy is to help us shake ourselves loose of stultifying traditional frameworks that we have come to take for granted in order to enhance our spontaneous creativity."

Shawver, Lois. 'Lyotard's Concept of Paralogy', accessed 10/4/2007
http://users.california.com/~rathbone/paralog2.htm

"In other words, paralogy is a "creative and productive resistance to totalizing metanarratives" ... The local as paralogy contests the metanarrative that it is relevant only to the extent that nodes can be inscribed within it. Lyotard's critique of digital technology applies to the network insofar as informational availability has been equated with knowledge, and the efficiency with which information is exchanged has been adopted as the ultimate measure of relevancy. According to Gane's reading of Lyotard, “the emergence of new media has changed the form and status of knowledge, which is now judged less by its intrinsic value than by its performance, or rather by how economically valuable, efficient and programmable it is” (Gane, 2003, p.5)."

Ulises. Feb 27 2007. 'The Local as a Paralogy', Networked Proximity - Section 6, IDEANT, 2007

http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2007/02/networked_proxi_2.html