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Day 3

Brandon L, Gabriel V, Jori Ketten, Liam H, Process, Sofie L, what's new

Today was Halloween. We – as a Media Lab Experimental Music Division – were delighted to take this occasion and explore spooky sound making. Our featured instrument was theremin.

Today’s listening inspirations were clara rockmore, the soundtrack from  “the day the earth stood still”, “free music No.1 (for four theremins)” by Percy Grainger and Jimmy Page’s theremin solo in Led Zeppelin’s “whole lotta love”. After listening, we built a simple theremin from a theremin kit (big thanks to Hopkins family for generously letting us play with this!):

building theremin kit

We took that theremin outside with 2 other mini theremins to make sound effects for our trick or treating!

trick or treating

Accompanied by the sounds of theremins, we walked around the Armory neighborhood, passing and greeting other ghosts and ghouls on the street. We visited houses, got a bunch of candy, and then went back to the Lab.

 

Holiday Mix

10-11: Sara's Leonids, 10-11: Sara's Lyras, 10-11: Sara's Orions, 10-11: Sara's Perseids, 11-12: Sara's Lyrids, Anthony D, Anthony T, Frankie P, Galo V, Iris C, Jakai W, Jayson R, Karl O, Lizbeth M, Malachy H, Process, Ruby E, Sara Stalnaker, Sienna M, Thomas R

Our Holiday Mix will be performed at the Skillz Hour on Dec 16th, and around town on Dec 17th!

Carol of the Bells

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Carol-of-the-Bells.mp3|titles=Carol of the Bells]

Deck the Halls

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Deck-the-Halls.mp3|titles=Deck the Halls]

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/We-Wish-you-a-Merry-Christmas.mp3|titles=We Wish you a Merry Christmas]

Day 2

Aiden S, Brandon L, Gabriel V, Jori Ketten, Liam H, Malachy H, Process, Sofie L

At the beginning of our experimental music lab this week, we watched a couple of different videos featuring an early electronic instrument theremin. After watching Léon Theremin playing his own instrument theremin & the Octopus Project, we talked briefly about how sound occurs and watched a video of the physics experiment Ruben’s Tube.

Then we continued to work on our music individually, using our field recordings from last week, as well as new recordings of instruments & voices we made today in the lab.

Our next class is on Halloween and we have some great ideas for Trick or Treating…

 

 

 

Day 1

Aiden S, Brandon L, Gabriel V, Jori Ketten, Liam H, Malachy H, Process, Sofie L, what's new,

We started our Experimental Music class this week working with Sakiko Mori, a local composer and performer, and are very excited for a semester of experimentation!

At our first class, we listened to some field recordings of animals in the wild by Chris Watson and some recordings on the Sublime Frequencies label. We also listened to The Books and Matmos. We also listened to Trevor Wishart’s album Machine.

We then learned how to use audio recorders and went outside to do some field recording of our own. After exploring the neighborhood we came back into the Media Lab and transferred our files to the computers. We are excited to start making music with our recordings next week!

 

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