VSL // Music From Death, Silence & Destruction

VSL // Music From Death, Silence & Destruction

* The earliest example we have of a complete, notated musical score happens to have been chiseled on a tombstone sometime around the first century C.E. in present-day Turkey. The so-called Seikilos Epitaph sings to you across millennia here. [1 of 3]

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culture 27 Oct 2014

Composer John Supko is on the faculty at Duke University, where he teaches subjects ranging from 16th century counterpoint to electronic music and multimedia. His newest album s_traits , a collaboration with media artist Bill Seaman, was created with bearings_traits , a generative music engine designed for the project. s_traits comes out on November 4.

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* Fifty-five years before John Cage scandalized a concert audience with the premiere of 4’33”, which plunged them into the stuffy “silence” of their own environment, the French writer Alphonse Allais published his Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (1897). [2 of 3]

* The brainchild of Japanese musician and visual artist Yamataka Eye, noise band Hanatarash (“snot-nosed”) became infamous in the 1980’s for destroying the venues of their performances, and incorporating the sounds of real-time demolition into their music. This technique reached its ecstatic zenith in a 1985 concert, when Eye introduced a bulldozer into the proceedings by driving it through a wall and onto the stage. Here is an ear-laceratingly beautiful performance from 1996. [3 of 3]

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