A Lecture by Johannes Kretz

Descriptiption of content (20 minutes/4 pages)
The European concept of representing music with notes in a score is only one possibility among many. Computer music on one hand (especially when inspired by Ethnomusicological sources) and contemporary experimental DJing on the other hand both suggest the extension of those concepts and affect the way, how music is performed both, on stage and also connected over the Internet.

Abstract:
This paper will present the authors experiences with developing new computer models of sound articulation partly by analyzing field recordings of the ritual songs of Taiwanese aborigines, partly by integrating contemporary experimental DJing techniques. In his composition “Kopfjägergesänge” (”head hunter songs”) for piano, DJ and 2 laptop performers the author created a musical language connecting these musical worlds by focussing on questions of sound articulation. Furthermore tools (developed in MaxMSP) for capturing sound articulation from field recordings and applying the captured parameters on other sound material will be presented as well as a software, which allows DJing over internet in the frame of Georg Hajdu’s Quintet.net environment.

Sound articulation – from Taiwanese aborigines to DJing over internet. Paper by Johannes Kretz.