Lesson 2

1)Automatic writing in Group of 6 (automatism)

-process-oriented

-->with narrative logic

-->turn whatever you write to a story

-->lastly, step out, tell you more about the story

-->not really a full circle

SURPRISES AND AMAZEMENT

*Interactive between different materials

*not isolated

*multiplying what you already have **Gaming important!

Many different selves, not only one

-always there -unconscious mind

John Cage - "4 minutes 33 seconds"

-Silence? What music is?

-Silence is also a form of sound, "anxiety of audience"

-Empty sound?Constructed Silence?

INITIAL STEP!

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

-childhood drawing

Presentation:

John Cage

*Pushing the boundaries

Divergent of thinking

*Ursonate Kurt Schwitters

*Open work

**27 sound manufactured in a kitchen

**Water Walk

Comments:

After watching John Cage's Videos,

-What is the different between sound and music?

-Although it is impossible to perform perfect silence, we can feel and experience silence... then is silence a kind of music?

Fluxus

-to flow

-international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s.

-Intermedia [Dick Higgins]

-Valued simplicity over complexity

-Strong current of anti-commercialism and anti-art sensibility

-Work with whatever materials were at hand

Event scores

-performances

-brief and simple

-attitude

-fun, humor have always been an important event and element

NAM JUNE PAIK

JOHN CAGE

Da-da

-cultural movement began in Zürich 

-anti-art

-non-sensial word

MY PRESENTATION

-find linkage between image(still) and sound

-Can sound be captured within an limited boundary?

-Can we feel sound if we are not really hearing them?

-mood board: emphasize what feeling I want to express