no.e

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* "noetic" refers to the intentional act of consciousness--noesis (believing, willing and loving...)

* the phenomena at which it is directed is the noemata

* "noematic" refers to the object or content--noema-- which appears in the noetic acts (respectively the believed, wanted and loved ...)

Meditation on My Predominant Form of Musical Expression-- Live Performance of the Looped Sample

Two types of change that articulate my expression of music are that of the change of shape of a sampled sound source mediated through the duration of a live performance of it. Let us begin with the original sample. It helps to think of the raw audio sample at this point as having the shape of a straight line. Visualize taking a snippet out of a cassette tape. Now think of the snippet being taped together at both ends-- forming a "loop". Now extend this conceptualization of the loop to include a string of data that has been treated in the same manner. This is what is called looping a sample. That sample can then placed into an electronic effect such as delay, changing the shape once again, in an additive manner, thereby taking on the shape of the effect it is processed through as well.

In my musical practice, I like to manipulate the waveform's shape further by manually adjusting certain parameters of the delay, such as the amount of delay that is applied to the sound (commonly referred to as "delay time" which can be measured in both milliseconds and/or various subdivisions of whole notes), as well as the overall mixture between the original sound loop and the effected sound loop. Using this idea of a sample having a shape that can be changed as our starting point, we can then consider the process/act of the sample's shape changing over a particular duration of time (understood here as another manifestation of change of time in a different sense than that of manipulating the "delay time") as a performance of it --what is thought of by me as "playing the loop". That change of shape over change of time can be viewed as a musical performance.

We can observe the piece as a vector between the sample's shape change and the duration it is played ... a kind of free improvisation of shape manipulation over time...

Performance= Change in Shape/Duration

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Gamelan Plesetan featured at the 2008 University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Conference

November 7th performance with directors of UC Riverside Improvisation and Gamelan Ensembles along with members of the UCR Gamelan Club.

From left: Aaron Singer on Saron, Professor Rene Lysloff on Javanese Drum, Julian Lozos on Kenong and Ketuk, Genie Yoo on Javanese Drum, and no.e on Drum Machine and Soundscapes. Not pictured is Renee Coloumbe on Prepared Piano. Photo by Josh Brown.

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:::: DANM MFA Thesis Work ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Gamelan Plesetan ::: electro-gamelan free-improvisation sessions :::: Video Documentation

:::: Experiments in Indonesian Theater+Performance Installation :::: New Media Shadow Play Installation Proposal

:::: PAPERS :::: MFA Thesis on Improvisation :: Myopia Helps Dystopia :: Improper Distance :: Rumah Seni Cemeti :: Activism--Traditional and Contemporary Artforms

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Tunes ::: indosmoke,queensbridge,ufo UltraVioletCave :::: Past Musical Performances

MEDIA MiXXologist :::::: COLLAGE

New Media Textile/Performance :::: JavaneseBatikLecture :::::: BATIK AND FASHION::

INSTALLATION :::::: Age of Consent

LINX :::::: semI pErmanent aUtonomous zOne::: Bantul Java Earthquake Relief Efforts