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Christie Benker, The University of Sydney, 2022 - CAEL 5035
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CAEL 5035 - HANDMADE INSTRUMENT - FINAL PROJECT
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Plastic Seeds (Ceramic Petals) (2022)
I’m Busy, Sorry (2022)
Treasure Hunt (Find a Little Prince) (2022)
Netting (2022)
Bundles (2022)
Baby’s Breath (2022)
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Within the series I playfully explore human relationships with contradictory feelings, that develop during relationships in a tongue and cheek manner. The concepts of age, misperception, feelings of being trapped, and relationships with consumption are played with.
A series of handmade instruments were experimented with, that engage the ideas of false flags, consideration of role play before actual action, and darkly humorous combinations of materials. A dog filled with wood pieces, that is cop, is posed alongside fake rape blossoms, with a red star and Christmas bells. The wood that rattles in the head of the kids toy, plays with an idea of what turns a person on being misinterpreted as dangerous and sick. The toy rabbit, tied inside of a tin can, is filled with beads that appear like sand. This plays with the idea, of people freaking out, slowly being lulled to sleep by a sound that like a tv put on the fuzz, despite feeling trapped by the screaming. This plays with feelings of sexuality, harassment and appeasement visually and sonically. As the symbolically playful reference to the female, being trapped, but then lulled into a rhythmic tranquility that is musical.
Within Plastic Seeds (Ceramic Petals), wandering and eventually figuring out where things are going, within a train of thought, introduces the series.
Within I’m Busy, Sorry, the concept of being too busy, studying and dating, to attend events, is playfully approached regarding why she secretly prefers a particular type of meat, making a phallic reference as a pun.
In Treasure Hunt (Find a Little Prince), the idea of wanting to get feelings absorbed by males out of a person, not being appealing, to the person engaged, is then explored as the regions criticized as being in need to liposuction become fetishized in private, with the critic being a false flag of needing help. In reality, the critic turns into solutions of motive to remove feelings of sorrow and depression, that psychically playfully results in cutting away, allowing continuous relationships, that are not approved of entirely due to rational causes of conflicts, but they are interesting nonetheless. The title references the little emperor syndrome to little prince, dealing with cross cultural issues between French and Asian cultures, and sexuality, with political puns connected being visually evident. This deals with differences in cultural backgrounds, bodies and feelings, and rationality, within relationships.
Netted, plays with pop birth control, in a fun and playful manner. Concluding the feelings about what is being made, what keeps things fun, and contradictory feelings that develop from resentment, that then are what make things brilliant and fun.
Bundles and Baby’s Breath, visually link with feelings about sexually, accidents, and what repeats as a pattern, where tranquility is eventually found. With the dot pattern of a menthol slap on, being the reverse of that of a pop pill container, both protecting and addressing the same area of a body, and “sports” injuries.
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Le Macerie di Babilonia by Giovanni Napolano
https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/le-macerie-di-babilonia
sferic - Manchester, UK
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Experimenting with pedals....
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Rattlesnake in bowl
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The sound reminds me of a firehose. The firehouse shape is like the whirly ......
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pop.
Saint Etienne - Lose That Girl
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Acoustic, synthpop, alt rock, indie pop
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Meet Me By The Water
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Indie pop
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Whirly Tube
Through the Air ⋆Whirly tube⋆
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Whirly Tube Composition 1 in A
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These make me think of cars and hospitals. cool sound. Like I crashed my car and went to the hospital, and then broke home a tube from the experience, and am spinning it around. I have had this sound in my head for two semesters, now.
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Waterphone
Percussion Plethora: WATERPHONE (a.k.a. "Ocean Harp"), bowed on a LAZY SUSAN
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Waterphone Demo: Waters-Hubbert
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music dance / planned and unrehearsed
Improvisation dance movements are formed during experimentation. This allows for dancers to get away from stagnation.
This is also evident with music.
This can accompany and happen at the same time, or occur in separate spaces and then be linked together.
This allows a separation from obedience to militant thought construction, chanting, or a sonic thesis, that is soon to be out of date, but once was considered to be very important. How?
No more chorus, for a period of time. Allowing diversion.
Within this though, organization is then again important. Because of rhythmic, and walking having a pace. As a result, what musically then repeats, matches with this, and is not just a scrambled mix mash of nonsense, to shut off decoding information that is not mean to be perceived with that much time given to it.
This mirrors with jazz, and the improvisation that diverts from pre rehearsed maqam that creates an outline.
K-Pop dance, ballet, Egyptian Bellydance style, Odissi, and Bollywood routines are organized in a different way, that is rehearsed. What immediately pulls out of people with improvisation, is performance art influenced often, and includes ATS Bellydance and Butoh.
Within post-colonial and post-militant thought construction, what makes improvisation experimentation, abstracted the dance movements of ballet and belly dance, into rehearsed contemporary movements, diverges with movement and form from dependency and stripping of use due to conflicts connected to prior research.
What does this with sound, visuals, and dance, may research as well traditions and then diverge from them, and after doing a world tour in their head, during research. What then is described with abstract universal language, using words that are descriptive for movement and sound, allows access to all.
I think this really interesting for identifying what to rehearse, why to experiment, and what pays off experimenting with, in relation to dance, and other activities people do listening to music.
Some considerations as a result:
What is outside of a system, and brilliant? Why, does what organized itself, without a teacher have a different beauty? And what about what is organized by those outsides of schools, but instructed and organized culturally? Then compared to what is within organized forums connected to general education and arts? Who keeps and explores more from doing something on their own, in residency afterwards or before? What depends on groups to do? Why?
Improv / dance / music / performance : body created formed and discussed different ways as a result / time periods and phases
What amount of what?
What when repeated makes what?
What is trained by repeating what?
What is lost by having only chants or no chants, to support self?
Some things to consider.
#improv#rehearsed#structure#development#amount of what type of sound#when it is the time for what#how much of what types of sounds and when#dance and movement#music and dance#music and body in movement#music as singular#music as a group#types of organized sound#experimentation with sound#concepts for creative generation
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Musical Wrist Band
Been playing around with songs constructed around this melody
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Simple Melodies
Fun. Suggestive for melody construction.
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More empty spaces.... to imagine playing something inside of
Mulan.... I thought about this one for months. I said alot to me, about different forms of love, and the beauty of art, libraries, and being kind. Avoiding sad endings.
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Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Dhrupad - Raga Yaman
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Musical Patterns / Melody Drawings
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