Research Sample-Experimental Composition in 1960’s San Francisco

There are a number of ways of going about doing and organizing web-based research.  For this sample, I essentially took a theme, experimental composition in 1960’s San Francisco, and spent two hours straight at the computer following links.  Instead of just bookmarking and categorizing like I have here, one could produce results in chronological format to show the process itself more coherently.  It also might help to make intermittent comments to indicate what mental process is going on while the research takes place.  It is always helpful to agglomerate as much information possible, but we need to figure out how to present it for the time being (i.e. pre-website) so that it is the most helpful for the class and its’ projects.  Note that this one is especially confusing due to the addition of Lauren Norby’s brief research on the origin of interdisciplinary collaboration and my own personal browsing habits.

It would be nice to embed especially significant videos directly into the blog.

{youtube=webaddress}, {googlevideo=webaddress} or {vimeo=webaddress}

This is done simply by putting the video’s address where I wrote webaddress (duh), and changing the curly brackets to these [ type of brackets.

Example:

Please don’t do this for every video, just ones that you found especially significant.

Here’s the sample list, not a perfect model by any means:

Archives (web):

New American Radio (experimental sound): http://somewhere.org

Artists:

Moholy-Nagy, Early Light Work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9f7gL4ny3A
Dan Graham, “Sound as Material”: http://www.scribd.com/doc/353200/Dan-Graham-Sound-Is-Material
Cloud Eye Control (LA, former UCSB student): http://www.cloudeyecontrol.com/
Tony Martin: http://www.tonymartin.us/chronology/chronology2.html

Books:

The Soundscape, Murray Schafer
Talking Music, Conversations with John Cage etc.
Experimental Music, Cage and Beyond, Michael Nyman
Noise, Water, Meat, Douglas Kahn
Background Noise, Perspectives on Sound Art, Brandon Labelle
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-garde, David W. Bernstein
Audio Culture, Readings in Modern Music, Christopher Cox
Silence, John Cage

Art + Music Collectives/organizations:

George Maciunas (fluxus): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Maciunas
Fluxus: http://www.fluxus.org/
San Francisco Tape Music Center (1960’s): http://o-art.org/history/50s%26_60s/TapeCenter/SFTMC.html
Center for Land Use Interpretation: http://www.clui.org/
sfSound: http://www.sfsound.org
Outsound: http://www.outsound.org
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
Dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org

Composers:

Karlheinz Stockhausen: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/stockhausen-im-kugelauditorium/ , http://www.stockhausen.org/ , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BWF1YBFKw&feature=related
Terry Riley: http://www.terryriley.com/ (lol)
Morton Subotnick: http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/
Ramon Sender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Sender
Pauline Oliveros: http://paulineoliveros.us/
Steve Reich: http://www.stevereich.com/
La Monte Young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monte_Young
John Cage: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-cage/about-the-composer/471/
Brian Eno: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno
John Zorn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn

Events/festivals (historical):

Trips Festival (1966): http://www.tripsfestival.com/

Events/festivals (current):

Digital Fringe Festival:
Images Festival: http://www.imagesfestival.com/2009/
San Francisco Tape Music Festival: http://www.sfsound.org/tape/
Outsound New Music Summit: http://www.outsound.org/summit/

Film Collectives:

Canyon Cinema: http://www.canyoncinema.com/contents.html

Filmmakers:

Stan Brakhage: http://www.fredcamper.com/Film/BrakhageS.html
Bruce Conner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Conner , http://bushofghosts.wmg.com/watch_video.php

Record Labels:

Tzadik: http://www.tzadik.com/

Schools:

Black Mountain College: http://www.bmcproject.org/
Black Mountain College wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College
Carnegie-Mellon: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/collaboration/index.shtml
MIT Media Lab: http://www.media.mit.edu/

Social movements:

Situationist International (texts): http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
Viennese Actionism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese_Actionism
Gran Fury: http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/GranFury/GFGllry.html

Terms:

Gesamtkunstwerk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk
Serialism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism

Websites:

Eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org
We-make-money-not-art: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com
VVORK: http://www.vvork.com
Media Art Net: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/concept/