Project Directors
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD gklindgren@uwb.edu
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD kkochhar@uwb.edu
Student Researchers
Abbey Baxter
Kathy Hashbarger
Aime Mello
Description
We have been working on a paper that was presented at the May 2007 Events Structure Conference, hosted by the Danish School of Design in Copenhagen, Denmark, and organized by Ken Friedman and Owen Smith. In the piece, we examine the art of garbage via the actions of the "scratch" and the "score." We use the Halprin RSVP cycles of design, the Scratch Orchestra, visual artists' incisions in paint and other surfaces, and the turntablism of scratch DJs to create an index for how recycling works for a variety of cultural production, how the logic of exclusion produces possibilities for "remediation" (including that of "real" garbage), and how these experimental artistic practices create spaces for the renewal of waste. The article form of the presentation will appear in a volume edited by Friedman and Smith and then be incorporated into a book and art project that will continue to explore the research themes.
The following is a very small sample of the results of the students' research.
I. Examples of Recent Fluxus Performances
Walter Cianciusi: http://www.waltercianciusi.com/
Koninck Performance, by Fluxus Heidelberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLPAqr0qzk4
II. RSVP Cycle, Lawrence and Anna Halprin
<http://redseven.wordpress.com/rsvp-cycles-lawrence-halprin/ September 18, 2007>
III. Computers and Music
Matthew Burtner: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~mburtner/ September 17, 2007.
Pierre Schaeffer: Etudes aux Chemins de Fer:
http://www.emfmedia.org/mp3s/em114/EtudeAuxCheminsDeFer.mp3 September 17, 2007.
Bibliography available from Computers in Musicology