Electronic Music Resources Response

Regarding the music resource articles, I chose "Notes on Place and Moment" and the article on "Josephine Bosma."

I thought the "Notes on Place and Moment" article helped to understand the experience, process, and some of the excitement behind creating sound projects. Max Neuhaus, from this article, mentions that he is interested in sound to be the foundation to bring his sound piece "come to life." He says he wants to impose his creativity and understand what others hear within it, but not what they are experiencing. I am only assuming this statement is because he is more concerned perhaps that his "message" is understood, but whatever the audience gets as a result may be fine with him. So, the article goes on talking about how a sound piece is built by taking each development step by step, yet keeping a solid perspective. In sound, it is apparently better in Neuhaus's perspective to take some time away from creating a sound piece in order to differ what parts are best to refine. He wants the audience involved to explore than to initially recognize what his pieces may be about. Neuhaus also liked the idea of finding what happened when sounds were taken away. Overall, I thought it was interesting to learn more about another person's process.

Within the article "Josephine Bosma" it was interesting to have this article setup as an interview to learn more about this cross media artist. She has been working with sound as a medium for about ten years. I learned that she enjoys collecting information via antenna to learn more about the relationships of how vibrating objects activate another objects. And then she explains how sound is a type of movement, since changes in air pressure actually creates physical effects on all objects, including people. Regarding this article, she used antennas to collect sounds and based her works on experimentation. Some of her works include "Aeriology" where she considers an antenna as an alternative power source and "Electrical storms" where it is more about gathering information about energy and analyzing that information. And she was also working on a project where she collaborated with her partner David Haines to utilize transmissions from the polar earth weather satellites to work on an unique 3D video/animation installation. The article mentioned they will collect and process information in different types of transmission environments.

It was really fascinating to learn what these media artists accomplish. I think in the "Josephine Bosma" article I learned more specifics about her different sound projects, while the "Notes on Place and Moment" was focused on the general process of sound. Both articles were great to learn more about the unique possibilities regarding sound as a medium.