Tag: noise melody

in Music, a melody is typically a succession of single pitches of equal or varying durations. a Noise Melody is a fragmented audible stream that can contain musical tones, but it is better defined as a succession of Audible Moments of all kinds, one after another after another. In a Noise Melody my preference is to string together Audibles of mild to extreme contrast in order to excite the mind to use memory as a tool for understanding and discerning the differences between them. media artist Barron Sherer applies this technique effectively to a sequence of photographic stills collected from diverse archival sources and displays them one, two, three frames in duration at the time. in sound i find that the duration of each Audible is established by the Audible itself, which is arrived at essentially by ear. although it sounds like a departure from music, i still deem this process a typical compositional activity

  • Orange graphic bearing the words Tilde Tilde above two geometric forms containing a white tilde and a black acute accent.

    (˜) Tilde (´) Tilde

    A portrait and spatial soundscape of Little Havana, created from voices recorded in people’s homes and the audible life of the surrounding neighborhood during a ten-month residency.

  • Black-and-white portrait of composer and Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros resting her head on one hand.

    Eighty Five Audible Moments for Pauline Oliveros

    Created from 85 audibles drawn from a lifelong archive and arranged within 85 seconds, this noise melody was dedicated to Pauline Oliveros. Its later spatial realizations give each audible its own position or movement while preserving the original composition.

  • Walk-through installation of suspended black-and-white square panels in a dark gallery, illuminated from above and fitted with small sound exciters.

    Memory Study
    for Surrounded Space
    MemoryLab

    A fifteen-point walk-through installation in which a Noise Melody assembled from archival fragments of Miami and Florida traveled across suspended sounding panels over a continuous environmental sound field.

  • Long covered walkway at FIU’s School of Architecture containing Gustavo Matamoros and Shahreyar Ataie’s sixty-speaker Breezeway installation.

    Breezeway

    A permanent sixty-speaker installation sends two counter-moving piano noise melodies through a 180-foot walkway while stationary tones reveal the resonant architecture of FIU’s School of Architecture.