B-flat Sonorium

From Andrew Garton's wiki

Don't Touch The Art: Sonorium in B-flat minor, by Andrew Garton, is an on site performance for Arts Birthday, 17 January 2009, in collaboration with KunstRadio and performed at the Magical Soundmachines exhibition, Kulturfabrik, Hainburg, Austria.

Description

B-flat minor

It is said that a child's first sound is often in the key of B-flat minor. Some say the tone that resonates across and through the planet is in B-flat minor. A black hole 250 million late years away is said to emit a tone 57 octoaves below middle C and its known pitch is B-flat!

If at art's birth, its first sound were B-flat, it is fitting that at this auspicious year, when the earliest of electric sound machines are present, at the turn of a new phase in human industrial history, that a sonnet in B-flat is performed on site at the Kulturfabrik Hainburg.

Garton will perform Don't Touch The Art: Sonorium in B-flat minor for Ondes Martenot33, solo voice, makam (Turkish melodic formulas similar to Western scales / modes) chord generator and hard curve saturation.

Included in the work will be a "sampling" of open licensed sounds and recordings in the key of B-flat, or B-flat minor. As open licensed content is inherently a gift to all within the public commons, so it will come to pass that a compilation of such works will be, in 2009, a gift to Art.

The Ondes Martenot was the 1928 creation of Maurice Martenot. It was inspired in part by Lew S. Thermen, inventor of the Theremin, whom Martenot had met in 1923.

The Ondes Martenot33 is exhibited at Magical Soundmachines, Kulturfabrik, Hainburg, Austria.

Text

Yer sweet n bright n funny, a lovin honey bunny
Take me out of Fitzroy, but don't touch the art

When all is said and done and you hold yer head up high
kiss me in the shadows, but don't touch the art

Send me pretty sonnets and yer plunder phonics
write me till yer breathless, but don't touch the art

Share me all yer secrets, I'll ease you through the night
yer humble servant, sir, just don't touch the art

Don't touch the art
Don't touch the art
Will I liberate if I don't touch the art

Find a city map, keep yer eye on it
buy a franchise coffee and walk along with-the art

Join me in Sau Paulo, we'll samba in Brazil
a carnival for the mobile, just don't ruffle the art

Don't touch the art
Don't touch the art
What's the point of waitin if I can't touch the art

The way you hear it, is the way you'll wanna sing it
read my didactics, you can't touch the art

I'm a girl with pearl earrings, you're my crown of the Pharaoh's
You're a boy with no candles caught touching the art

A black hole may sing, pitched in b-flat
Listen to yer Diva and stand clear of the art

It may amuse you that I daren't abuse you,
I may be your salvation, but don't touch the art

Don't touch the art
Don't touch the art
I'm so curious honey wanna bathe with the art

Don't touch the art
Don't touch the art
Nothin means nothing if I can't touch the art

Requirements

Preparation time (approx 2-3 hours minimum)
Contact microphone + cables
Vocal microphone + stand + cables
Four channel mixer
Small table, bench for laptop and mixer

About the artist

Garton's association with such sound machines as the Ondes Martenot began in his early childhood. With the crystal set and valve radios at his disposal he would manufacture tones and amplify spectrum frequencies from them, not surprisingly entering the world of electronic synthesis and community broadcasting in his teens. He has since performed with the International Theremin Orchestra and had been a Fairlight CMI programmer in the early 1980s. For more information on Andrew Garton and his various media art works and compositions: http://agarton.org/about/

References

Acknowledgements

Andrew Garton's appearances in Austria would not have been possible without the financial, logistical and infrastructure support of ESC im Labor, Graz.

In addition, Garton's ongoing stay in Austria has been made possible by the personal support provided by Reni Hofmueller (ESC im Labor), Jogi Hofmueller (mur.at) Doris Carstensen (University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz), Elisabeth Zimmerman (KunstRadio) and Grant McHerron (apc.au, Australia).

For information about Andrew Garton, projects and background: http://agarton.org/

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