Andrew Monks amonks

On "You're Nogood" and its relationship with Hip Hop

Andrew Monks

October 14, 2015

History of Sonic Art

Terry Riley recorded "You're Nogood" in 1967 or 1968, but it was lost and unreleased until Organ of Corti / The Cortical Foundation put it out on CD in 2000, along with a new extract cut from the Poppy Nogood (and the Phantom Band All Night Flight) performance. The founder of a Philadelphia 'experimental nightclub' attended Riley's All Night Flight concert, described in the liner notes as, "A form of happening where Terry improvised on soprano saxophone and tape-delay feed-back system, otherwise known as the "time-lag accumulator"¹ The founder was so excited by Riley's music that he commissioned Riley to make a theme for the nightclub. The result was "You're Nogood". The track incorporates synthesized audio along with tape samples of "You're No Good", by Harvey Averne on Atlantic Records. Writing for AllMusic, Brian

Pre- Term Paper Project Assignment // Andrew Monks

This isn't exactly a

pre-approved performance,
video/DVD with music, or a
score or performance plan

But, if it's acceptable, I'd like to build an informative website about Musique Concrète, focused around Pierre Schaeffer. I'll use Musique Concrète as a lens through which to examine the politics of the mid 20th century, and the music that has developed since then.

Laptop Orchestra, Fluxus, and the Standard Object

The Laptop Orchestra was a movement (or perhaps a trend) that in the mid-naughts seemed ripe to take the world of Sonic Art by storm. Since then, the form has largely dwindled. In an unpublished essay, Nicolas Collins describes laptop orchestras as, "lost opportunities--technologies and genres that, like the hologram just haven’t lived up to their promise or hype." But what hype is that? I seek to partially answer that question here. Although they are separated by decades, technology, and media, contemporary Laptop Orchestra works continue a discussion started by Fluxus.

Formally, contemporary laptop orchestra continues the practice of prose scores. Rather than focusing on musical qualities like harmony or rhythm, the event scores of Laptop Orchestra and Fluxus draw attention to the conceptual gesture, then that attention can be directed towards the trappings of performance (What is music? Do we need instruments? What does it mean to play an instrument

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am amonks on github.
I am amonks (https://keybase.io/amonks) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is A078 66C0 DE7D AA83 4952 839C 2123 4567 7E94 6B0A

To claim this, I am signing this object:

set editor to sublime text

git config --global core.editor "/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl -n -w"

set editor to nano

git config --global core.editor "nano"

using github pages

github pages is free website hosting from github.

Here's the gist: if you have a github repository with a branch called "gh-pages" (instead of the usual "master"), it'll get hosted at http://yourname.github.io/repository. (If you hear the word "branch" and you're like "uh oh", don't worry).

For example, the file 404.html in this repository: https://github.com/amonks/404

is hosted at this url: http://amonks.github.io/404/404.html

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	// Make sure that floor tile has a collider and a rigidbody.
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	using UnityEngine;
	using System.Collections;

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	// see here: http://javascript.crockford.com/private.html

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	// this function is private
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