MUSIC 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pauline Oliveros, Sophie Gengembre Anderson
How does music speak?
● Music speaks through the body
● Audience’s bodies and performer’s bodies
Phenomenology of Perception (1945)
● Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
● Father of embodiment philosophy
○ Critique of Cartesian (Descartes) mind-body split
○ Inter-sensory experience of the world
■ The senses are intermingled--can’t be separated
Inter-corporeality
● How do we understand each other?
● Underlying our understanding of each other is our understanding of each other as bodily
beings
● Relevant to music
Synaesthesia Playground (March 2nd, 7:30PM in Schoenberg Hall)
● (Synaesthesia:intermingling of the senses)
● Using bio-, gestural, mobile technologies, explore the tenets
● Features 2 visual installations one in each half
● Music is a bodily form of art
○ Explores the idea of intercorporeality
● Format: Journey from the exterior to the interior
○ 1st half of recital: Piano’s ‘exteriority’
■ Toccata and Bruise by Celeste Oram (skin): touch
● Touching the epidermis of the piano, not just the keys but all the
surface
■ Iyalamai by Anna Sophie Anderson (voice of feminist struggle): voice
● Ho stands up from the keyboard and speaks of feminist struggle in
native tongue
■ Missa di Glossa by Sidney Boquiren (Core: spiritual ecstacy): core
● Movement written entirely for the pedal
● pedal=soul of the piano
○ 2nd half of recital: Pianist’s ‘interiority’
■ Love Spiral by Andrew Batt-Rawden (playing to own heartbeat)
● Fiber optic dress pulsates with heartbeat; bringing the internal to
the external
■ Lux Venit (pianist’s breath dictate live electronics)One of the most impo
■ Sheng by Jocelyn Ho (mobile phone gesture interaction)
● Sheng is chinese for life or life force
○ Interacts with audience’s mobile phones
● Game (involvement) vs. Performance (spectatorship)
● Afterthoughts
○ Game vs. performance?
○ How did it affect how you listen to music?
More participation= better music
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Document Summary
Underlying our understanding of each other is our understanding of each other as bodily beings. Synaesthesia playground (march 2nd, 7:30pm in schoenberg hall) (synaesthesia:intermingling of the senses) Using bio-, gestural, mobile technologies, explore the tenets. Features 2 visual installations one in each half. Music is a bodily form of art. Format: journey from the exterior to the interior. Toccata and bruise by celeste oram (skin): touch. Touching the epidermis of the piano, not just the keys but all the surface. Iyalamai by anna sophie anderson (voice of feminist struggle): voice. Ho stands up from the keyboard and speaks of feminist struggle in native tongue. Missa di glossa by sidney boquiren (core: spiritual ecstacy): core. Love spiral by andrew batt-rawden (playing to own heartbeat) Fiber optic dress pulsates with heartbeat; bringing the internal to the external. Lux venit (pianist"s breath dictate live electronics)one of the most impo. Sheng by jocelyn ho (mobile phone gesture interaction)
