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Making Meaning In Musical Mixes, Kyle D. Stedman
Making Meaning In Musical Mixes, Kyle D. Stedman
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
SIDE A
Growing Meanings :: From Arrangement... :: ...To Development :: This Project :: My Mix
SIDE B
Developing Sounds :: Developing Expectations :: Digital Tools :: Developing Moods :: Transitions Developing Ideas/Voices :: The Self as Audience :: Fulfilling Promises :: Conclusions for Mix-Makers :: Credits
This piece explores the musical rhetorics at work in a mix CD I created for two (at times contrasting) purposes: as a gift for friends, and as an accompaniment in the car as I moved across the country. I suggest that in a linear, musical mix, the term "development" as used in music …
Two Sound Pieces, Keith Dorwick
Two Sound Pieces, Keith Dorwick
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
These two sound works gathered here ("At the Edge of Sleep" and "For Voices, No Longer Human") were assembled out of ordinary, even mundane sounds. In each, I slowed down the tempo of the original sound cues such as a cat eating kibbles or a voice uttering nonsense. Further manipulation of the sounds to make entirely new pieces created abstract sound landscapes, if you will, that take on (I hope) a mythic quality far removed from their original sources. In the case of "For Voices, No Longer Human," Harlot's review process resulted in a whole new (and much stronger) work, …