{"id":649,"date":"2008-03-23T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=649"},"modified":"2010-01-02T19:57:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:57:47","slug":"sweding-stockhausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/03\/sweding-stockhausen.html","title":{"rendered":"Sweding Stockhausen"},"content":{"rendered":"
A.O. Scott’s review of Be Kind Rewind<\/span> in The New York Times<\/span> (found via Greg Sandow’s blog<\/a>) praises the movie’s understanding of how people relate to popular culture<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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It treats movies as found objects, as material to be messed around with, explored and reimagined<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Sandow cites this review to show that people are not passive recipients of corporate cultural artifacts, but have an active relationship with them. “Classical music lives in a bubble” he writes<\/a>, meaning that the cultural elite often lives in ignorance of how popular culture works in society, but also raising the question of whether capital-A Art enjoys the same lively, engaged response from its audience as popular movies and songs.<\/div>\n
Having just seen some DIY Stockhausen<\/a> last week, it’s great to see a perfect example of Sweded<\/a> Stockhausen. Sequenza21 has posted a link<\/a> to the Digital Music Ensemble, University of Michigan’s wondrous small-stage interpretation of the composer’s most notorious work, Helicopter String Quartet<\/span><\/a>. (An excerpt of the Stockhausen original is on YouTube<\/a>.)<\/div>\n

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Helikopter-Streichquartett<\/span> has been performed only three times in its original form. A full-scale production requires four large helicopters, each with a pilot, a live musician, and a sound technician inside, as well as an elaborate communications and audio-visual transmission apparatus.<\/div>\n
Faced with the daunting task of mounting a performance of even one scene of this huge work, the Digital Music Ensemble decided to stage its own interpretation of the piece<\/a>. Thus we are using model helicopters instead of full-scale ones, a quartet of electric guitarists in place of a string quartet, and we’re adding a live video processing dimension.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Two Quicktime movies (hi-fi and lo-fi) show the reimagined composition in all its glory<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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A.O. Scott’s review of Be Kind Rewind in The New York Times (found via Greg Sandow’s blog) praises the movie’s understanding of how people relate to popular culture: It treats movies as found objects, as material to be messed around with, explored and reimagined. Sandow cites this review to show that people are not passive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}