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Hymn for the Weekend by Coldplay (remixed by Seeb)

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Hymn for the Weekend by Coldplay (remixed by Seeb)

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This piece connects with the philosophies of Edgar Varèse, in that it utilizes the electronic medium of instrumentation which Varèse believed brought about “endless possibilities” for composers to express themselves. In this song written by Coldplay and remixed by Seeb, the freedom that Varèse found so enticing about the capabilities of electronic music is definitely a part of why the song was able to be created and recorded. However, I wonder if the current demands of pop music have prevented artists and bands like Coldplay from exploring the full realms of possibilities for electronic music.

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Excerpts from "history of the entire world, i guess" - bill wurtz (Jacob M yall)

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Excerpts from "history of the entire world, i guess" - bill wurtz (Jacob M yall)

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This is an odd addition, particularly because the music itself, though short and semi-nonsensical, is generally diatonic throughout. The connection here is between Cage's inspirations and the inspirations seen both in the visuals of these excerpts and (partly) the music itself. One of the listed lineages of Cage's iconic sound is the Dada movement of the post-WWI era Europe. I feel this is where the connection between Wurtz and Cage is most seen. Wurtz's rapid-fire pace throughout both the original video and the excerpts listed below along with the quite silly presentation and non-nonsensical visuals that accompany them could quite reasonably be called Dada-ist.

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All jingles from History of the Entire World

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Crystallize by Lindsey Stirling is a piece of electronic music. She named it bases off of how the human body is made up. "When we surround ourselves eternally with positivity and we create healthy and positive environments and we do good things for people and ourselves, we're made up of 70 percent water so the crystals in your body create actual literal inner beauty. That's what "Crystallize" is about.” Varese gave many of his pieces more scientific titles.

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Lindsey Stirling - Crystallize (Dubstep Violin Original Song)

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Milton Rabbit - Ensembles for Synthesizer

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Milton Rabbit - Ensembles for Synthesizer

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I chose to use this piece as an example of electronic music because it reminded me a lot of John Cage's philosophy. Rather than using conventional music that is pleasing to the ear, the composer of this work decided to use non-musical sounds in a "random" and "unplanned" fashion. There is no true tonal center or form to this piece, which is also similar to how Varèse described music in the first essay. Not every piece will fit into the same box, it's all about being unique. This piece, personally, gives music a new meaning and definition because of the technicality that the composer used and the uniqueness in sounds used.

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Milton Babbitt - Ensembles for Synthesizer (1964)

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I just learned that Milton Byron Babbitt passed away last Saturday, January 29, 2011 at the age of 94. This is one of my favorite pieces of electronic music. This work actually took two years to complete; he had started developing it in 1962, and it was finally realized at the Columbia University Electronic Music Center in 1964.

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Vapor wave is apart of a sub-genre of electronic music called Utopian virtual. Utopian Virtual is chasing perfection, recording instruments, and making them sounds as clean and clear as possible creating a “perfect sound”. This Genre also includes images that correspond to the music. The images are clean cut perfect images of a utopian society, or an “aesthetically pleasing” setting. I think this genre corresponds with Cage and Varese because This genre is often criticized in some of the same ways that they were. People who create Utopian Virtual music follows Cage and Varese philosophies because it is created out side the confines of what is considered traditional composing.

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Remember summer days ( Vaporwave - futurefunk - electronic mix )

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0:00 driver - the eye of truth 2:28 Flamingosis - Flight of The Flamingo 5:25 waterfront dining - miami wicked 9:00 Night Tempo - If You Love Me 12:06 悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ - Remember Summer Days 14:33 Ichi no yoru - The City Lights Are So Beautiful 18:52 ROMAN - When I'm With You 20:57 DELTA金TOPCO - BAMBINO 23:52 ローマンRoman - Let's Boogie!

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I chose to use “The Dharma at Big Sur” by John Adams because it uses and displays the philosophies of both Varese and Cage, but does so in a more pleasing way that is easier to take in. The piece calls for electronic violin, harp, piano, orchestra and samples. The ways I see the piece reflect Varese’s philosophies is by form and rhythm. There is a form to the piece but it is hard to hear plainly and point out. There is also rhythm that connects the whole piece together, but they are complex and not in a meter. That description would make the piece seem chaotic, but Adams has written it and used such a strong process of developing the material that even with the loose form and rhythms there is quite a bit of familiarity for the listener to grab onto and not feel lost. The way I see the piece reflecting Cage’s philosophies is by how it uses and represents sound. By having the samples, harp, and piano play out of equal temperament the overall sound becomes purer. It allows the pitches and tones to speak for themselves and not be in a key as much. Also the freedom and almost improvisatory sounding violin playing matches that of Cage’s ideas of freedom toward music.

Casey

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The Dharma at Big Sur: Pt. I - A New Day

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Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Kontakte” is an example of electronic music that most closely follows Varèse’s compositional philosophy. Notable musical aspects that are shared between the two composers are the random collection of ordinary sounds, the reliance on rhythm to guide the piece rather than the melody or harmony, and the sheer abstractness of the piece and its exploration of otherworldly ideas that were developing in other disciplines such as math or science. The piece really explores the scientific and irrational aspect of music and creates a new or alternative definition of it that listeners may not have previously been exposed to.

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Oscillations by Silver Apples (Experimental)

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Oscillations by Silver Apples (Experimental)

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This music connects to Cage's philosophy because it uses noises other than conventional musical instruments to make the piece of music. There are several random sounds in this piece that remind me a lot of Cage's works. It differs a little bit though because of how the sounds are incorporated into an actual tonal piece of music.

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"Secret room" from Metroid  by Hirokazu Tanaka   (Riley W)

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"Secret room" from Metroid  by Hirokazu Tanaka   (Riley W)

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This piece connects to Cage's philosophy because it is similar to Tanaka's philosophy. The piece itself is very different from other videogame tracks of the time because it isn't a heroic theme or a melodic tune, instead it is an odd and eerie piece with a purpose in mind. all but one of the tracks in Metroid are like this one because Tanaka strived to make music that was a perfect unity of music and sound effect. He purposefully went against what his peers were doing in order to redefine the art of videogame music.

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I chose this piece because even though the piece is relatively new, the use of the electronics are coupled with the instrumental-ish sounds we are used to. There is a type of tonality that leads to a key. It connects with Varese. Varese wanted people to see that electronic music adds to the what is available. This song incorporates tone and electronics.

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"Bacchus" - Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez (Kassie D.)

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"Bacchus" - Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez (Kassie D.)

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The piece connects to John Cage’s philosophy that anything can be music. One would not think that the conduction of electricity through the use of wine would be music, but by triggering different sounds (from a high pitched-siren like sound to a rumble similar to that of a motorcycle engine), one finds a way to express themself. Like many pieces by Cage, the piece is aleatoric and completely controlled by the performer. The performer can move the wine box wherever they desire for whatever length of time they desire to express whatever it is they wish to express. There is no specified length of time.

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Miguel Álvarez-Fernández plays "Bacchus",  A Sound Installation by DissoNoiSex

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The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas (Amanda B)

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The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas (Amanda B)

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I think this piece relates to the philosophy of John Cage. This piece was written by Eugene Allen Kurtz for Bertram Turetzky and his wife. Just as a lot of Cage’s music sounds, this music seems to have a lot of “random” sounds and noise thrown together. This definitely tests what the common image of music composed in this time is. I believe that this piece, just like many of Cage’s pieces, was composed just to be listened to and to be transformed by, not to be analyzed.

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"Billie" by JacobTV is an electronic piece for alto saxophone, piano, and a soundtrack. The piano plays a bluesy ostinato while the saxophone plays along with a soundtrack of interviews completed by jazz singer Billie Holiday. The saxophone part performs pitches and rhythms that are assigned to Holiday's speaking voice. Composed 44 years after Holiday's death in 1959, the piece closely follows Varese's compositional philosophy as JacobTV takes the non-singing voice of a notable jazz singer and creates music around it. As Varese took untraditional sounds and organized them, this piece finds music in the unexpected medium of Holiday's speaking voice.

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This experimental work is similar to the ideas presented by John Cage, in that it is aleatoric, with the performers providing the broader sounds, and there are only distinctions of what timbres are to happen at certain moments. In this work, Xenakis allows the sounds of the different instruments to be fully actualized on the performer's accords, rather than specifically notating the specific notes and rhythms to be played.

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The reason I chose this particular one is because of the concept behind creating it. I would lean this particular creative tune towards Varese because of the belief that electronic music has access to more sounds/ noises that can be used heighten the experience and enter a level of expression in which one would not think is possible.

- Shaq

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Dead By Daylight | Chase Music (Wraith) | Fan made

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This is one of my favorite pieces from this album. It's Daft Punk so of course, all electronic. This song is very rhythmic and I think, like Varèse, the rhythms create the form. I'm not really thinking about the beat when I listen to it. Also, it incorporates many modern examples of "sounds" rather than traditional music, with a section that sounds like an underwater soundscape (whale noise included)

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Daft Punk - Motherboard (Official Audio)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs&feature=emb_logo
Step aside Holst, turns out the stars were already doing their own thing. This connects with Varese because it its a result of natural scientific laws. It connects with Cage because the sounds that stars create are not predetermined by human composer. However humans have made the motion of the stars audible and can manipulate it afterwards, they do not create the sound.

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Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our galaxy to create sounds for a national recording artist.

Over the years, researchers in Georgia Tech's Sonification Lab (SonLab) have converted numerical data into sounds to analyze stock market prices, election results and weather data. When the reggae/rock band Echo Movement called wanting to turn the movements of celestial bodies into music, SonLab looked to the heavens.

"The Sonification Lab receives a lot of requests to convert scientific data into sound, but this one was truly unique," said School of Psychology Professor Bruce Walker. "It's not often that we have a chance to help an actual star compose music."

Although pitches, tempos and rhythms could be created and tweaked, the band insisted that the finished product remain true to all data and feature a musically appealing, "heavenly" sound. With those restrictions in place, the musicians and Walker's team of students went to work with existing data gathered by NASA's Kepler telescope. Focused on a binary star (Kepler 4665989), Kepler recorded its brightness levels for more than a year. The star dimmed and brightened each time its companion star crossed its path, providing varying brightness measurements.

"Those numerical values were loaded into our Sonification Sandbox software to create sequences of sonified musical pitches," said Riley Winton, a psychology student and leader of the project. "The process put us on the right track. When the band reviewed it and requested timbres instead of pitches, we audified the data.

In other words, the team played the varying brightness levels as waveforms to create a different sound. The lab then cleaned the signal and removed some of the ambient sound before sending audio pitches to the band. Echo Movement looped the sounds and composed them into a four-part harmony.

For the final step, the students used a different binary star (Kepler 10291683) to adjust the timbre even further by adding a tremolo effect. This created a shuddered, natural sound rather than a flat, computerized noise.

The final result is a melody that will be used in the intro of Echo Movement's song "Love and the Human Outreach," which will be released in September.

"People have made music with space sounds before, but largely using pulsars and space events that can be recorded in the radio spectrum. We wanted something completely off the chart," said band member David Fowler, who was encouraged by Edna DeVore at the SETI Institute to look at the Kepler Mission. "Discovering planets around other stars is a relatively new science worthy of everyone's attention and digs deep at the core of humanity's most basic quest to orient itself in reality," he said.

The Georgia Tech team will present the sonification process at the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) in Atlanta June 18 -- 21, 2012.

The project's goal, to create an authentic, aesthetic sound, was a success. The melody is further proof that sonification can be a valuable tool when working with large data sets.

"Sound is the best pattern recognition tool we have," said Walker. "Instead of visually scanning through a long list of numbers, looking for patterns or random occurrences, sometimes it's easier to create an audio file and listen for them. Very interesting patterns can often be discovered by using sound."

Georgia Tech Melody: http://www.gatech.edu/inc/hgFile.php?fname=4-melody.wav

Song intro, Love and the Human Outreach: http://www.gatech.edu/inc/hgFile.php?fname=lho_introsamplemedia.mp3

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stars; astronomy; space exploration; space telescopes; nasa; extrasolar planets; galaxies; space missions

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Making music with real stars: Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody

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Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our galaxy to create sounds for a national recording artist.

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This is a song by Bon Iver, whose music is defined as "Indie-Folk." A lot of his music is very popular. In his latest music from his past two albums released ("22, A Million" and "i,i") he includes more and more electronic "sounds" (as Varese would say) in his music. This song is an example of music that uses electronic "noises" or "sounds," reflected from Varese and Cage's philosophies of music.

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Clay Preston : Sungazer - Bird on the Wing

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Clay Preston : Sungazer - Bird on the Wing

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This is an Electrojazz group that I’ve been following since 2015 due to their unique uses of electronic sounds and samples to completely re-imagine what we think of as jazz. They combine both physical instruments and electronic elements to create something unique. I feel like they have realized what Varèse talks about when it comes to new ideas and taking the tradition and building on it in order to arrive at something different and unique using the unique characteristics of electronic music. They have in no way denounced the jazz genre, but instead offer something new and fresh for the genre that comes at no expense of its tradition.

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It's Gonna Rain by Steve Reich (electronic)

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It's Gonna Rain by Steve Reich (electronic)

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This minimalist work incorporates elements of sampling and environmental sounds, specifically that of repeated text clips and static tape delays, utilizing two tape recorders (with the same recording). Though the devices were intended to align at the halfway point, the imprecise nature of such an idea resulted in a new development: phase shifting, in which the two tracks looped over each other before coming back into sync, and distancing themselves again. Varese focused on industrial sounds, but this element of using electronic "noise" to create "organized sound" holds true in the decade after Poeme Electronique.

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Steve Reich, "Music for 18 Musicians" - FULL PERFORMANCE with eighth blackbird

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Feed the Animals by Girl Talk (electronic) EXPLICIT DG

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Feed the Animals by Girl Talk (electronic) EXPLICIT DG

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In this album's 14 tracks, Girl Talk uses over 300 samples of music by other musicians. Varese adopted a similar approach with Poeme Electronique, although he primarily sampled environmental/industrial sounds (musique concrete) instead of music samples.

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Girl Talk - Feed The Animals (Full Album)

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For Cage there was no distinction between sound and silence, music and non-music, humanity and nature. While Beethoven probably would not have considered whale sounds music, Cage probably would. This video has over 5 million hits, more than most 21st century composers with channels on YouTube. :)

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8 Hours of Whale Sounds Deep Underwater for Sleep and Relaxation