So I have seen Arvo Pärt today. Himself. Still hard to believe.
Everything seemed so unreal..
He really seems to be from another world…
And many thanks to “Vox Clamantis” choir for amazing performance!
I still have goosebumps…
Stalker VA - Waiting for the morning
A piece for imperfect piano and field
To be listened in silence…
The Speech-to-Song Illusion
The Speech-to-Song Illusion was discovered by Diana Deutsch in 1995, when she was fine-tuning the opening spoken commentary on her CD ‘Musical Illusions and Paradoxes’. She had the phrase ‘Sometimes behave so strangely’ on a loop, and noticed that after a number of repetitions, the phrase sounded as though sung rather than spoken.
In this demonstration, speech is made to be heard as song, and this is achieved without transforming the sounds in any way, or by adding any musical context, but simply by repeating a phrase several times over. The demonstration is based on a sentence at the beginning of the CD Musical Illusions and Paradoxes. When you listen to this sentence in the usual way, it appears to be spoken normally - as indeed it is. However, when you play the phrase that is embedded in it: ‘sometimes behave so strangely’ over and over again, a curious thing happens. At some point, instead of appearing to be spoken, the words appear to be sung.
Here is the full sentence followed by the phrase played repeatedly:
http://philomel.com/asa156th/mp3/Sound_Demo_1.mp3
Now here again is the exact same sentence as you just heard. You will probably find that it begins by sounding as speech, just as before. But when you come to the phrase that had been repeated, it suddenly appears to burst into song.
http://philomel.com/asa156th/mp3/Sound_Demo_2.mp3
The funny thing is that no one actually knows why this happens, there is no conceptual agreement about that.
More here:
http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/pages.php?i=212
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) tonight
Photos taken from the open terrace of my apartment building
On one of them there’s also a strange UFO-like artifact :-)
This composition was first introduced during my performance at “Ambient night 2” in Kiev on February 24
Stalker VA - Ålesund
The spoken words in the beginning is Olav H. Hauge reading his own poem “Katten” (The cat)
Katten sit i tunet når du kjem.
Snakk litt med katten.
Det er han som er varast i garden.
“Train smoke” by Edvard Munch
Munch is primarily known for his “The Scream”, and people who explore his works a little bit deeper also usually become acquainted with a lot of extremely expressionist paintings which have a clear influence of a bipolar disorder, which the artist was struggling with. But he also had some periods in which he created more contemplative paintings, and for some reason I find them particularly interesting. This is one of them.
When we were at the bookstore couple of days ago, after I bought a book about great contemporary classical Ukrainian composer V.Silvestrov, the shop assistant recognized me and said that she remembers my performances. Moreover, it turned out that she knows a lot about ambient and electroacoustic music and sound art as well as a lot of people and places that I know. Somewhat weird :-)
