https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/9d9fhj
Sounds “chimeras” using vinyl records in a different way (scratching with nails etc.). Evicshen mentiones how fascinating is to go through the records from different periods of time and see how the production methods, volume, presence of bass etc were changing through the years.
Evicshen talks about eluding the cultural baggage of sound through the modernist approach to her work, which is an abstract electronic and acoustic. Interestingly, evoking the performance aspect of her work, she claims that ultimately, modernist mission fails because all value is derived contextually, “it could go in one eye and go out another or it could be worth something based on some arbitrary factor which is like some institution assigns value to it or some kind of cultural capital gets described to it (…) so how can we use things that are super full meaning, I call it “the landfill of meaning” use that in some kind of tactical way. I try and create this interface between non-meaning that which is noise in that which is overfilled with meaning and then take that interface that line and mine that for I don’t know different conclusions as to how we derive our sense of value what is aesthetically pleasing how we position ourselves in the face of just stimulus or in the moment and I think like in my live performance like my point ultimately is to bring someone to the present and experience things either just completely like pre-linguistically or like so overwhelmed with meaning that they short circuit.”
Amorphous (shapeless and formless) sound – we process pretty much everything visually apart from sound. If the sound is not familiar, uneasy or uncanny then it is called noise.
Discomfort in modern art – Baudriliard’s Theory of Simulacrum. https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudrillardsimulation.html Example of the Disneyland – people are convinced that the real world is outside of the D., which is a fantasy world, but in realisty the rules of the “real” world are also arbitrary. This can be discussed in relation to noise music (or language), and any music that is not “Western” because this confusion is happening between the different cultures.
WHAT IS LIBERATING? There are no rules in music.
References:
*Linguistics : Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis : how the grammar language will shapes ones understanding of the world: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis
*Conway’s game of life:
*Conlon Nancarrow:
*Aaron Dilloway:
* Jessica Rylan:
* Raven Chacon
* George E. Lewis
Performance by Evicshen talks about improvisation, the physicality of her performance, HYPERSPECIFICITY (everyone is in the specific moment which is achievable by adding the element of danger or similar), improvisation, and position of possible failure.