Welcome
Welcome to the Performance in a Mediatised Culture blog, 2009. This is a space for you to share images, ideas and experiences throughout the course.
IMPORTANT!! CLASS EXCURSION WEEK 6:
Contrary to what your course outline says, please meet at 9.30am in the usual classroom for the week 6 excursion. We will go from there.
ALSO: AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Selected works that we have watched are now with Iain Murray at the Level 3 Webster desk and are available for you to borrow and watch on campus. You can use these for your essay preparation:
Level 3 desk:
- ‘Cesena’ and ‘Brussels’ in Tragedia Endogonidia by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
- Chunky Move Mortal Engine or Glow
- Blast Theory Uncle Roy All Around You and Can You See Me Now?
- The Wooster Group Route 1 & 9 (The Last Act)
- Granular Synthesis Modell 5
unsw LIBRARY:
- Einstein on the beach[videorecording] :the changing image of opera /
- The Builders Association [videorecording] : Show excerpts and trailers, 1994-2007
Bill Viola documentaries (COFA):
- I do not know what it is that I am like[videorecording] /
- The passing[videorecording]
- Selected works[videorecording] /
Granular Synthesis
So after a bit of research it turns out that Granular Synthesis is a musical concept devised by some C20 composers, including
Iannis Xenakis. The idea is that a sound is split up into grains, which are really small slices of the sound (around 10ms) which are then repeated and altered to create new sounds. It seems that the group Granular Synthesis have taken this idea and applied it to video as well. As the image oscilates between grains of video. Pretty Cool.
http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/gran.html
http://www.granularsynthesis.com/
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