<nettime-ann> Hz #21

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THE BODY AS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

by ATAU TANAKA and MARCO DONNARUMMA

Atau Tanaka and Marco Donnarumma build upon phenomenology and body theory to consider the human body as musical instrument. This paper presents a history of gestural musical instruments and looks at musical works using physiological signals, including seminal works of Lucier and Rosenboom. The body as instrument is discussed as schemata and configurations of body and technology.

BETWEEN SCREEN AND PROJECTOR: ’LIVE’ IN LIVE MEDIA

by DAVID FODEL

This essay describes a way of looking at live media performance practice that questions the notion of the screen as final destination for the content of a performance. Using a systems aesthetic, it examines a set of entangled elements that give an audience an alternate means to decode the liveness of a performance based on embodied action, transcoding, and intermedia narrative.

GRAPHIC NOTATION, INDETERMINANCY AND IMPROVISATION: IMPLEMENTING CHOICE WITHIN A COMPOSITIONAL FRAMEWORK

by LARS BRÖNDUM

The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of graphic notation in relation to improvisation and indeterminacy in practice. Along with terms and ideas pioneered by composers in the 20th century, the techniques the author used in his own compositions are discussed and examined, including informal interviews with four musicians, in regarding graphic notation as a bridge over improvisation and notated music.

LANDSCAPES OF ABSENCE

by BRANDON BAUER

The project Landscapes of Absence explores the ethical issues around the use of ISIS propaganda within broadcast media. The project uses images drawn from eight beheading incidents disseminated by ISIS, these images are digitally erased, leaving only the landscape and the absence of the dehumanized image as a metaphor for the larger issue of the absence of reliable reporting from this region.

IT IS AS IF YOU WERE DOING WORK — A (MIS)READING

MIHAI BACARAN

Through a (mis)reading of Pippin Barr's game It is as if you were doing work (2017), this essay explores the relationship between bodies, labour, and entertainment. It speculatively argues that performing useless labour seems to be essential for maintaining the illusion that our(?) bodies are still 'human.'

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Sachiko Hayashi/Hz

Hz is published by Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has through the years made major contributions to introducing yet-to-be-established art forms to the Swedish audience. For more information on Fylkingen and Hz, please visit: http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html (Fylkingen) and http://www.hz-journal.org/n19/hayashi.html (Hz)

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