Date: April 11th, 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: Any 35-minute slot within 12pm-2pm. Last "admission" is 1.15pm.
Location: Accolade East Building, York University, Toronto.
For my 4th-year self-directed study "Sound and Music: Beyond Categories", I'm presenting this soundwalk project which incorporates installations, performances, and interactive moments. It will be about slowing down your footsteps, taking your time to experience different perspectives, and, of course, having FUN. My supervisors are Marc Couroux and Casey Sokol.
The main objective of this project is to create an interesting mobile listening experience for the participants to discover in-depth and opened perspectives about sound and music. What are the relationships between sound and music? What makes them different and what makes them similar? What happens when sound becomes musical, and music becomes sound?
Please come to the lobby (first floor, you will see a wide space) of ACE building with your mobile listening devices (with earbuds) loaded with given tracks. You can download the tracks here. When you're at the reception desk at the lobby, you will be given a handout with instructions, then you're set!
The walk is 35 minutes. Suggested duration is 40-45 minutes, because I would love everyone to take their time and slowly experience. Come anytime between 12pm-2pm, latest 1.15pm so that you can finish the walk on time.
Please look forward to some beautiful soundscapes, vocal improvisation performance by me, classical piano performance by Dandan Mao, expressive music, pop stuff, jazz groove, and more!
Don't forget to download the tracks, load them onto your device, and bring them along (with earbuds!)!!
Comment if you have any questions/concerns. Hope to see you all there! Come and have fun listening and walking!
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LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS.
I need at least 5 volunteers to help me setting up and taking care of the installations. Set up time is 11am-12pm. Lunch and drink/snacks will be provided. Please email maychookmusic@gmail.com if you're willing to help out! Appreciate!
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Not a recital
"You're in your final year, so are you going to have a year-end recital? Jazz voice?"
Sorry, no. Firstly, I'm not a performance nor jazz nor voice major. Secondly, what I'm interested in is more than jazz and singing and the combination of both.
So I'm doing an independent project exploring sound and music. Yes, I'm climbing onto the sound art fence.
Course title
Sound and Music: Beyond Categories
Statement of aims
This interdisciplinary study aims to explore the categories of sound art and music and the boundaries that both distinguish and unite them.
Description
In the context of this study, I will undertake to explore the possibilities and limitations within the domains of sound and music. A combination of readings, journaling, listening and practical experiments will lead to a final year-end project that will incorporate techniques from both sound art and music (e.g. field recording, sound editing, sound sculptures, installation, performance, composition, computer music, and improvisation). The final project will consider concepts proper to both mediums, and those that characterize and distinguish each medium, e.g.: noise and silence, melody, rhythm and harmony, speech, language and conversation, modes of listening, site vs. stage, soundscape vs. arrangement etc. These concepts are non-exhaustive and can be applied across categories, which is the point of this study.
During this study, I will apply (and combine) the expertise I have acquired over my music degree: jazz performance (piano and vocal), composition and improvisation, digital music, music history, film music, and avant-garde music. I will also apply skills and concepts studied in digital media and community arts, which were my in-faculty/out-of-major courses.
50% - Journaling, listening reports, reading reports, phenomenal experiments, phenomenal observations
50% - Final Project
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So far, I plan my final project to be site specific. It can be a performance or installation or the combination of both. I'm pretty ambitious, but I need to consider the limitations (individual skills, time, technical equipment, etc.) and embrace them too. No fun being too ambitious then everything falls apart eventually. Knock on wood.
My final semester will be a good one. I love my life :D
*Marc Couroux was my sound art professor last term. That was one of the courses that I felt the most passion in throughout my degree. I was extremely curious about and interested in many concepts in sound art, and I feel a great [dis]connection with it as a [non-]musician.
*Casey Sokol is one of the most inspiring mentors in my life. I'm taking piano and voice improvisation class with him. His class allows me to explore how to be myself myself and a professional musician at the same time. That balance between emotions and skills becomes so beautifully (and sometimes vulnerably) embraced in my musical life.
Sorry, no. Firstly, I'm not a performance nor jazz nor voice major. Secondly, what I'm interested in is more than jazz and singing and the combination of both.
So I'm doing an independent project exploring sound and music. Yes, I'm climbing onto the sound art fence.
Course title
Sound and Music: Beyond Categories
Statement of aims
This interdisciplinary study aims to explore the categories of sound art and music and the boundaries that both distinguish and unite them.
Description
In the context of this study, I will undertake to explore the possibilities and limitations within the domains of sound and music. A combination of readings, journaling, listening and practical experiments will lead to a final year-end project that will incorporate techniques from both sound art and music (e.g. field recording, sound editing, sound sculptures, installation, performance, composition, computer music, and improvisation). The final project will consider concepts proper to both mediums, and those that characterize and distinguish each medium, e.g.: noise and silence, melody, rhythm and harmony, speech, language and conversation, modes of listening, site vs. stage, soundscape vs. arrangement etc. These concepts are non-exhaustive and can be applied across categories, which is the point of this study.
During this study, I will apply (and combine) the expertise I have acquired over my music degree: jazz performance (piano and vocal), composition and improvisation, digital music, music history, film music, and avant-garde music. I will also apply skills and concepts studied in digital media and community arts, which were my in-faculty/out-of-major courses.
50% - Journaling, listening reports, reading reports, phenomenal experiments, phenomenal observations
50% - Final Project
--------
So far, I plan my final project to be site specific. It can be a performance or installation or the combination of both. I'm pretty ambitious, but I need to consider the limitations (individual skills, time, technical equipment, etc.) and embrace them too. No fun being too ambitious then everything falls apart eventually. Knock on wood.
My final semester will be a good one. I love my life :D
*Marc Couroux was my sound art professor last term. That was one of the courses that I felt the most passion in throughout my degree. I was extremely curious about and interested in many concepts in sound art, and I feel a great [dis]connection with it as a [non-]musician.
*Casey Sokol is one of the most inspiring mentors in my life. I'm taking piano and voice improvisation class with him. His class allows me to explore how to be myself myself and a professional musician at the same time. That balance between emotions and skills becomes so beautifully (and sometimes vulnerably) embraced in my musical life.
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