Music #1

    The teacher wants us to choose 5 different music “movements” from the ones listed above and add one group/musician/performer to that category, especially related to the usage of technology. For the ELECTRO - CLASH music movement, I chose The M Machine. The M Machine is an American electronic music duo consisting of Ben Swardlick and Eric Luttrell from San Francisco, CA, because this group design, built, and performs its own live visuals in the form of a massive LED version of their iconic "M". It is this eclectic and all-encompassing approach towards their craft that has distinguished The M Machine as something very unique in the world of electronic music. The group achieved initial viral success with a teaser video for their two-part album Metropolis. Inspired by Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 film Metropolis, the group created an entire mythology for the release, each song telling part of the story of the dystopian city of Metropolis. Here the teaser video of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zfVItUev8

   

A&T News

    The teacher wanted us to search for some news relating to art and technology, so I searched on the internet and I found a news article relating Google DeepDream. DeepDream is a computer visualization tool that was developed at Google's Zurich office (at Zurich, Switzerland) and it was released to the world during the summer of 2014. It's a style of computing inspired by the brain and nervous systems to not only help us learn to recognize shapes in pictures but understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned. So a network is comprised of sets of ‘neurons’ that are all interconnected and will communicate with each other when given an input (usually a high number of inputs) in order to determine what the correct output might be. They’re used most notably in speech recognition and image classification.

       I found this video that shows a journey trough all the layers of a artificial neural network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCE-QeDfXtA

Origins #4

   I read  Art Vs Design, you know lots of art students always ask themselves which is a great career choice for you; being an artist or being a graphic designer; 50% of people want to be artists, either because they would be free to do whatever they want or being able to express yourself through the enjoyment of the creativity of art, and the other 50% of people want to be graphic designers either because they would be able design something on a computer, it pays more money and it'll make you rich, being recognized by the media of an amazing design you made, or being able to design something for a major company like business cards, menus, poster, postcards, flyers, billboard ads, etc.

Performance Art #2.3

    Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including: collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming and performance, to form an altogether new field. He's best known for his visually stunning collages housed in custom frames, Newsomes' work is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice and abstraction. Newsome's works opposes cultural essentialisms. They lead us into a realm of uncertainty, in which the symbols presented transform, but are nonetheless made tangible

 In one of his recent performance arrangements, Newsmen used a hacked Nintento Wii controller to mix sounds in real-time in conjunction with a chorus of live performers (Shade Compositions); in Five, he used motion-tracking software to produce drawings of vogueing dancers.

    Nam Juin Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Rashaad Newsmen are both performance artists and they use technology in order to document their work; for those who actively incorporate technology into their performance practice.

Performance Art #2.2

    Laurie Anderson is an american performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores an extraordinary area of media and subject matter. In order to get support for her work in performance art, Anderson worked as a freelance interviewer and art critic for ARTnews and Artforum. By 1974, she received several grants that gave her more freedom to pursue her artistic explorations. Anderson is one of the most well-known performance artists who continues to not only use but make technology for her performance pieces. Anderson “hacked” traditional instruments by, for example, replacing the catgut strings of a violin with magnetic tape; she consistently uses voice modulators during her live performances to create different, often unsettling, vocal effects.

    Also, Laurie Anderson created a massive four-part multimedia extravaganza, United States I–IV. It combined music, photography, film, drawings, and animation with text and consisted of 78 segments organized into four sections: Transportation, Politics, Money, and Love. Here's the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZVz_M2oSM&t=1195s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzcy-ryRdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2xwqkdN2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGS_9xa28Y

Performance Art #2.1

Three of my favorite performance artists are Nam Juin Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Rashaad Newsmen. Nam Juin Paik was a performance artist, composer and visionary, but he's best known as the creator of Video Art. He transformed a video into an artist’s medium with his media-based art that challenged and changed our understanding of visual culture. He also developed TV Cello in 1971 for his longtime collaborator Charlotte Moorman. The piece mixed live musical performance with pre-recorded broadcast (or live broadcast), playing with issues of simultaneity, mediation, and mass media. Three televisions made up the body of the cello, and displayed a direct feed of the performance itself, a video collage of other cellists, and an intercepted broadcast. 

TV Cello

Electronics #1

      The teacher wanted us to choose a 21st century technology and write about this technology, and what influenced it, so I searched on the internet and I found a news article relating Google DeepDream. DeepDream is a computer visualization tool that was developed at Google's Zurich office (at Zurich, Switzerland) and it was released to the world during the summer of 2014. It's a style of computing inspired by the brain and nervous systems to not only help us learn to recognize shapes in pictures but understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned. So a network is comprised of sets of ‘neurons’ that are all interconnected and will communicate with each other when given an input (usually a high number of inputs) in order to determine what the correct output might be. They’re used most notably in speech recognition and image classification.

       In this article I found, https://www.inverse.com/article/14608-princeton-undergrad-creates-google-deep-dream-inspired-deepjazz-a-i-music-maker, it talks about a 20-year-old Princeton computer science sophomore named Ji-Sung Kim. It took him 36 hours to complete deepjazz during his first hackathon, HackPrinceton, held on April 1-3 at the university. After finishing a marathon of coding, he created a website for deepjazz, and posted the source code on GitHub. Much to Kim's surprise Deepjazz is steadily trending on Python and GitHub — reaching as high as the top seventh program on GitHub overall. Also, it was featured on the front page of HackerNews and is still generating a lively discussion. Kim repurposed an existing music generator optimized for jazz music that his friend Evan Chow developed called JazzML, using the code to get relevant data but transforming it into a binary matrix that is compatible with the two deep learning libraries Keras and Theano.