The final Segment of Paul D Miller's book Rhythm Science, is broken up into five sections
1)Rhythmic Cinema: "Whenever you look at an image or listen to a sound, there's a ruthless logic of selection that you have to go through to simply create a order" (p. 81). People perceive things differently, in the case of music when one hears all of the sounds he or she picks out certain order in which the person is absorbing the data. Any slight shift or remixing of the sound can alter the listeners order the data that they are listening to.
2)Rhythm Space: "We live in a world so utterly infused with my digitally that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web." (p. 89). Living in a web 2.0 culture we all live somewhat in a community where any one action can be accessed by a larger community. Take for example someone can post a video that they made on youtube. Anyone can access that video and relay that to anyone else.
3)Errata Erratum: "The Duchamp response would be 'why not?'" (p. 93). In this section Miller relates DJing to the Avant-Garde of its time. Miller discribes a project he did where he remixed Duchamp which in itself is ironic because Duchamp was in a way a remixing master himself.
4)The Future is Here: "It's truly exciting to travel around just checking out how strange it all is"(p. 103). Miller describes different cultures having different cultural norms. He DJ'd in Iceland where they were a mix of several cultures, after being in immersed in the culture Miller decided to cut of his long dread locks.
5) The Prostitute: "The music and art I create is an end result of a life lived in an environment where almost all aspects of urban life circumscribed by the coded terrains" (p. 108). Miller speaks on the idea that all of his art is created is based off all of the experiences that he has had in his life.
The some I chose was Iyaz "solo" with Janet Jackson's "again". This relates to what Miller has been talking about in the last section of his book because Iyaz has grown up in remix culture through web 2.0. All of his experiences in Iyaz's life has altered the music that he creates.
Nice job on your connections of Miller's work to Web 2.0. If it wasn't for instruments founded, created or developed using tools of Web 2.0 his work along many that do his style of work would not exist.
ReplyDeleteI like the quotes you used, and how you explained your understanding. I also like the connection you made between the songs you picked and Miller. Nice post.
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