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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Music / Visual Art Goodiepal for Free Today

Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Overheard in the office: He has hair all around his head!

Overheard in the office: 'He has hair all around his head!'

Lawrimore Project has just announced a last-minute event today at the gallery at 3:

Radical Computer Music is a performance and talk by Goodiepal, a renowned yet controversial Scandinavian electronic musician and professor of music composition. Goodiepal is currently touring the states, spreading his new theories.

Time:
3:00-4:00pm

Place:
Lawrimore Project
831 Airport Way S
(between 5th and 6th in the International District)

Cost:
Free and open to the public.

GOODIEPAL
A former teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, Goodiepal left his position when they refused to support his radical ideas about modern music. He declared war on the Academy and the stupidity of modern media art in general by opening his own free alternative school, first in London and more recently out of a castle in Norway.

The term Radical Computer Music was coined by Goodiepal in relation to his Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra compositional game scenario. It promotes an expanded dialogue between human beings and artificial and alternative intelligences as a way to transgress a condition of stagnation which, according to Goodiepal, is prevailing in contemporary computer music and media art. The game scenario is an exercise in the creation of musical scores to challenge the mindset of “other” intelligences, considering issues such as utopia, time, notation techniques, language, levels of unscannability, and the role of the composer.

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this sounds pretty cool, wish i could make it. thanks for the heads up.

Posted by dnt trust me on November 24, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Hm. Dude should probably lay off the reef.

I had a composition prof (won't name names) that was really into computer-aided composition and loved to base melodies and motifs on mathematical extrapolations of audio like crowd noise, or visuals like the shape of a skyline or mountain range. He was kind of nutty to the point where he discouraged compositions that were formed "in one's head" because he was convinced they were by extension based on or stolen from some previous work left in your subconscious.

Posted by w7ngman

on November 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM

I was in attendance and was pleasantly baffled by the scandihoovian
glossolalia. The theories were fast and furious, one should have been
taking notes, or as one person, recording the proceedings on his
i-phone. Let me just say it was a very dense experience, and I was
laughing most of the time. Most others were not laughing. I was really
intrigued with his pulling up the carpet tiles to draw schizophrenic
diagrams. I was intrigued by his high-water pants and very expensive
shoes. His excellent mustachio. I was intrigued by a perfectly
dilapitated folding table bestrewn with a trove of chestnuts,
chapbooks and small (two inches long) handpainted toothpick
sculptures. How beautifully, beautifully weird. Bravo. After I
congratulated him on his lecture/performance, he saluted me exactly
like Benny Hill. Huzzah!

Posted by Paul Pauper on November 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM