"The 3D Printed Flute" by Amit Zoran at MIT

"The 3D Printed Flute" by Amit Zoran at MIT.  In The Journal of New Music Research

http://www.amitz.co/ewExternalFiles/JNMR_3DPrintedFlute.pdf

See more 3D printed instruments at this Sound Morphology article

http://soundmorphology.blogspot.com/2014/01/3d-printing-of-musical-instruments.html

"A Xen (Zen) Gallery : Visualizing Xenakis"

Clichès Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Pithoprakta

Iannis Xenakis, Study for Metastaseis, 1954

Xenakis "Sketch Book"

"Polytopes Concept Sketch"

"The Curve"

Xenakis Sketch Book

Study for Metastaseis

"Polytope de Montreal"

Xenakis' "Polytope"

Being Forced To Drop Out

"Being Forced to Drop Out" (2010-2013)

Bil Smith Composer

A Work Commissioned by InterPublic Group (IPG) for piano, modified piano, toy piano, piano annointe, and tape.

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/being-forced-to-drop-out-2010

"Bil Smith's work was ultimately an investigation into the essence of modern life, distilled through notions of synchronicity and dynamism. At the heart of his synaesthetic credo, sound is an aspect of the vibrational continuum; hence no difference is made between music and noise emanating from the intonarumori.

He (Smith) relentlessly cross-references sources, suggests unexpected associations and unearths exceptional archival material."

- Olga Bloom, Founder of Barge Music

Shouting?

Transparency.  I am writing transparently.  Richard Barrett owns the notes...all of the notes.

How I use choose notation systems is supposed to be invisible to you so that you can follow what I am composing.

If instead, I was to compose in the equivalent of ALL CAPS, I move to the material or oblique.

You would first notice the way it looked, then --- noting that CAPS generally connote SHOUTING --- it's tone, and last, it's message.  

In day-to-day life we rarely notice the material properties of composition and music except for when, say, we encounter a 'stutter' or a music with a heavy accent towards the unknown.

We first notice how this music is presented, second we decode what we are hearing.

When we listen to an opera in a language we do not understand, we push language's formal properties to the front -- its cadences and rhythms---choosing sound over sense.

If we further choose to invert the transparency of notation, we can hear the sounds or see them as shapes.

Bil

“Partitions: Cambics Alive in Sensient Amplules” Recording by the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project

“Partitions: Cambics Alive in Sensient Amplules”

for String Quartet, Flute, Vibraphone and Bass. Bil Smith Composer.

Score length: 5900+Pages.

The performance ensemble Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (CMOP), led by Renee Baker, is a definitive statement of the ‘next music’, embracing elements of radical improvisational techniques with the precision and acuity of the finest new music classical practitioners in the world. 

To learn more about this work and performance, please visit the expanded article on Medium.

https://medium.com/@bilsmithlnm/672e111303c3

The Recording on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/partitions-cambics-alive-in-sensient-amplules-bil-smith-composer

Additional Images from the score:

The Recording on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/partitions-cambics-alive-in-sensient-amplules-bil-smith-composer

"Drunk On The MiniBar". A Distinct Colloboration with Iggy Azalea.

"Drunk On The MiniBar"

A distinct colloboration with Iggy Azalea.

Iggy Azalea + Bil Smith Composer

RECORDING  On SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/drunk-on-the-minibar

About her name. Iggy took her stage name from the name of her childhood dog, Iggy, and the street she grew up on, Azalea Street, where her family lives to this day in Australia.

IG's career began to flourish when her first official music video, for a song titled "Pu$$y", was uploaded on her YouTube channel.

On 27 September 2011, IG (my nickname for her) released her first full-length project, a mixtape titled Ignorant Art, saying she made it "with the intent to make people question and redefine old ideals".

And there...that last phrase caught my interest. Saying she made it “with the intent to make people question and redefine old ideals".

IG commented ... "It's supposed to have like, all the ridiculousness of a big-budget '90s video, but then chopped and screwed"

To define Iggy's aesthetic, non­-philosophy, by way of musical contrast, frees thought from every end. By curtailing music's specular narcissism, non-music(s) untethers thought from every decisional telos.

Iggy

Further Thoughts on Back to School? "Being Forced to Drop Out" (2010-2013) - Bil Smith Composer

"Being Forced to Drop Out - Stage Set"

Further Thoughts on Back to School? "Being Forced to Drop Out" (2010-2013) - Bil Smith Composer

ON SoundCloud  

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/being-forced-to-drop-out-2010

Performance Group at Columbia University Library

Our attendant global culture encourages us as listeners/observers/composers to be stupid, or at least passively, intellectually conformist.
As composers we should consider ourselves as a playful torturer of those who think they know “what’s going on”.   Role Play:  i.e. 'A self-deprecating, intellectual, feminist neurotic.'

Danise (Cast)

For instance, I may see in myself as an unstable mixture of the Physics and Pedagogy, but as far as any of us today would like to be known, we would prefer to have opportunistically included a music review than have treated another human as subhuman. Today we are morally better people, despite the blindness of contemporary scientistic apotheosis.  Hence, music.


"The purpose of composing is “not to solve problems, but to redefine problems.” 


True problems don’t need composers or compositions, yet this shows us that in ‘normal thinking... ideas, thoughtfulness, profundity and fully free expression wither away thanks to a culturally-nourished expectation that these things are not worth considering.