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Scream(Recorded Live, Rolle, Switzerland 6/83) - Sonic Youth

http://www.ubu.com/sound/sonicyouth.html

This audio clip is about the screams, or more specifically screams from Sonic Youth. The screams are arranged by the group in alternating tone and pitch at specific times. The string of screams is reminiscent to a melody or a song, just in a different form. Listening to this audio with headphones on is ideal in that you can hear the alternating screams from your left ear to your right and then centered - it makes for a more saturating piece. The piece itself has a primeval and savage quality to it due to the screams. Scream is a form of acapella, except with a lot of shouting.

Back to Roulette on Ubuweb Film - Digits 2005 by Neil Rolnick (BMI) - performed by Kathleen Supove

http://www.ubu.com/film/roulette_supove.html

Watch this video! Amazing performances and awesome composed pieces. There are three performances in this video with an added interview at the end of this video. Out of the three musical pieces, "Digits" performed by Kathleen Supove brings out the ridiculous rigors of human skill amplified by a computer digital processing of sound from the piano. This is the only performance in the video that she actually needs aid in turning the pages of the musical notes because the piece needs all her focus.

"Digits" refers to the fingers that we use to operate the piano and computers. This piece was composed specifically for Kathleen Supove in mind, which "exploits her incredible technique to play a bit more than is humanly possible." This piece is a great conceptual example of digital art through performance and music.

Video is supposedly used during this performance but is not shown in the video, in a way that her fingers are displayed on a "screen inside or above the piano" and enhances the effect of the piece in which it seems like the piano itself is "bent out of shape, amplified, and multiplied." Supove's fingers are shown directly to the audience in some of these performances and are "manipulated to complement the music."

During her interview, Supove stated that she has had interest with piano and electronics, or computers, for about 10 years. She reflected on when one hears a piano playing, it brings one back into 19th century context, and by her mixing piano with electronics, it's a way of her bringing that context from the 19th century into this century.