Month: February 2022

Music and Musicking

What is music? Music is

What is musiking? The act of performing and listening to music.

“uniting them in their common purpose of buying and selling”

“isolating him from his surroundings. Inside his head is an infnite space charged with music that only he can hear”

uniting and isolating are opposites that music manages to

“There is no such thing as music. Music is not a thing ar all but an activity, something that people do. The apparent thing “music” is a figment, an abstraction of the action, whose reality vanishes as soon as we examine it at all closely.“

“What is the meaning of music?” becomes the more manageable ‘What is the meaning of this work (or these works) of music?”- Which is not the same question at all.”

“The presumed autonomous “thingness” of works of music is, of course, only part of the prevailing modern philosophy of art in general. What is valued is not the action of art, not the act of creating, and even less that of perceiving and responding, but the created art object itself.”

The medium is who perceives and responds to the musiking

What are the relationships between those taking part and the physical setting?

What are the relationships among those taking part?

What are the relationships between the sounds that are being made?

Music is structural and sonic is free from structure

Glossary –

Anodyne = inoffensive, dull.

Reification = when you treat something immaterial as a material thing

Yan Jun – Visting Practitioner

hand made machines, electricity and social more professional in other countries, when playing gin China he realised there was no ground with the electricity to protect his sound/him, sound is swung and dirty without ground, the feedback with grow overwhelmingly 80% of his sound will be based off that one 50hz sound, the venue needs to have ground otherwise he won’t have the “perfect noise”. his noise is a phenomenon of the social, he lives in a. country of noise, the noise controls the environment, everything in china is more professional, he almost never plays electronic music in china.

he is using his physical gestures to control the sound, the sound of the photographers is the music, if he moves fast they will take more photos, if he stays still they will take time to take photos.

Pro Tools – Mixing and creating a bounce

1. What term is used to describe an audio patch point that applies a signal processor directly into the signal path on a track? How many of these patch points does Pro Tools provide on each track?

Inserts are the audio patch points and there are 10 on each track.


2. What term is used to describe a signal path carrying a mix output of one or more tracks routed for parallel processing? How can this signal be returned to the sending device?

The signal paths are called sends and they can be returned to the sending device with the aux input track.


3. What menu would you use to display or hide the Mix window? What keyboard shortcut can you use to toggle between the Mix and Edit windows?

The window menu, the shortcut is command (+) =


4. What menu command can you use to display or hide an Inserts or Sends view area in the Mix window?

The view menu


5. What type of plug-in provides real-time processing? What type provides non-real-time processing?


6. What are some commonly used plug-in options for EQ and dynamics processing in Pro Tools?


7. Which Pro Tools automation mode discussed in this lesson records changes to track controls in real time when playing back the session?


8. What is the difference between Read mode and Off mode? Which mode allows you to play back existing automation on the track?


9. What track control can you use to display an automation playlist? What window are automation playlists displayed in?

10. What tool can you use to add, move, or delete automation breakpoints? What modifier can you use to delete a breakpoint by clicking on it?


11. Why is it important to back up your Pro Tools sessions? What are some ways in which your Pro Tools work can be lost accidentally?

12. How is the Save Copy In command different from the Save As command, in terms of the files that are saved?


13. Which session will be open after completing a Save Copy In operation: the original or the copy? How is this different from the Save As operation?

14. What command can you use to save a session with a different sample rate or bit depth?

15.What are some considerations for bouncing audio in Pro Tools? How is the bounce affected by soloed or muted tracks? How is it affected by the active selection?


16. What command lets you mix your entire session directly to a stereo file? What file types are supported for the bounce file with this command?

17. What bit depth and sample rate should you use when bouncing if you plan to burn the file to CD without further processing?


18. How can you add audio files to iTunes for use in burning a CD??

Cut-Up Research

Audio cut-up to make new stories out of old ones.

“For first you write a sentence,
And then you chop it small;
Then mix the bits, and sort them out
Just as they chance to fall:
The order of the phrases makes
No difference at all.”

Bowie describes cut-up as a sort of western tarot

Created by the poet Tristan Tzara, ‘cut up’ is the deconstruction of a primary text using the random cutting up of words and phrases to form new sentences and thus a new piece of writing. It is a process of extraction and reconstruction of a new meaning of language, based on chaotic intuition and the free creative flow.

Kurt Cobain, who had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with Burroughs, was one of the maximum exponents in the 1990s of cut-up literature, declaring that his lyrics were the result of his cut up poems. Later, Thom Yorke would imitate the form that was supposedly first used by the surrealists, pulling cut up words out of a hat to write the entire Kid A album.