Experimental music: John Berndt & Neil Feather (THUS) at TEDxBaltimore 2014
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2014
- Neil Feather is an active experimental instrument designer in the U.S. and his collaborator, John Berndt, an intense multi-instrumentalist improviser, is the founder of High Zero festival as well as many other groups. Their chemistry along with the mechanical imperatives of the unusual instruments produces an original sound that is at once otherworldly, funny, and somber.
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Whenever I read comments on any experimental performance like this, I always think It's very interesting how conditioned we are by mainstream culture as to what the definition of 'music' is. Music is creating sound with intention. That's it. Whether you like it or not is another matter, there is no accounting for taste. I personally find experimental music or sound art extremely interesting, not always 'pleasant' but art does not need to be pleasant to be appreciated.
It's definitely an acquired taste. The finer things always are
it's like jazz with weird instruments
I saw these guys in St. Louis back in 2005. My mind was BLOWN! Still is.
it sounds like something from an ancient culture. i just picture a tribe sitting playing something like this
the beauty of music is to break barriers!
The instruments are brilliant. The po faced anomie is something for them to overcome. I would love to hear a joyful performance on Neil's instruments.
"the computer thing will probably go away pretty soon" 😂
Amazing ! Good job :)
love it!!
Can anyone explain me what is experimental music and why some people find this fascinating?
brilliant!!!
I want to have this stuff!
Very cool. Interesting
Johnny Greenwood would love that gear
whoa too cool. suprisingly musical finaly.
Ummagumma 1969
5:40 from here they start to play!!!
Level 5
Fantastic
Clearly scientists, not musicians.
exactly
Agree
Would have liked to have been there.
it sounds like wild music.
I'm going to play my drums stuff with this to give it some rhythm, baby. It will be some mad house music and I will upload it with a link to the original below.
Esplorazione!
I like sound godddddd
This is what comes to my mind when I think about songs aliens compose.
hybrid sounds tend to generate a natural experimental music not a concoction
6:00 Now that's asmr tingles
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Beyoncé needs to hop on this instrumental
ok
Anyone looking to try liquid music
This sounds to me like Scottish Islay Whisky tastes. End of comment.
5:47
pretty much just creating sounds, i wouldnt call it music lol. pretty interesting, but not really something id listen to on my way to work
For this kind of thing I prefer the term "Sound Art" over "Music". It can be a really cool experience listening to stuff like this.
your right, sound isnt music
I agree, I Like to refer to this kind of stuff and the John cage stuff that focuses more on sounds and timbres than melody and specific rhythms like an adventure and even the ones I like I don't really want to hear again unless i forgot it
Problem is, if you criticise this kind of performance you're accused of being ignorant.
A lifetime of work is required to play a conventional instrument with great skill. These guys obviously spend a lot of time devising new instruments - and that's commendable- but the "playing" does not require much of them (maybe that's not the point). Or maybe one could say, anyone could produce a similar performance to this one...
Anyway, I'd prefer the term "soundscape" to "music". But they seem happy enough and there are a few people here that were impressed. Good for you. I find a lot of music uplifting, this I found gloomy...
Each to his own.
Agree. I would call these guys "sound designers". I'm always happy to see people spending their time on Earth on a craft like this though. We should always remember there are people outhere who choose to spend their life perfecting guns for money to kill other human beings more effectively.
Not disagreeing with you, but isn't it a slippery slope when we begin to label sounds as "music" or "soundscape" or whatever based on how proficient the (artist? For lack of any term without connotation) is, or how much time they have spent on their (craft?).
Fwiw I used to find this type of sound and performance a bit ridiculous until I read "experimental music since 1970" by Jennie Gottschalk (with many pauses to search out the artists mentioned).
Now I'm a convert.
Ed Perry I get what you're saying but I don't think something necessarily needs skill to be appreciated or found enjoy in
Um.......okay......
They lost it
Well isn't this guy wasting his life.
definitely....NOT
Yes, of course; they should be in a windowless office doing billing tasks for a living, all for a non-human corporation, and passively watching tv at night while drinking beers to check out. Yes.
Not at all. There's a whole scene of music based around these kind of ideas and sounds. You're just not able to understand it. It's ok, most people don't understand this kind of music.
It's not about 'understanding' it. It's about assigning a value to it AS MUSIC. That's not to say the instruments are necessarily bad (I think they are in this case), but it isn't 'music' in my opinion.
A better musician using these tools could make them into something good. Hand it to Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead and he'll do something good with it.
Music, Art, Cinema, Literature, all this stuff are about DISCOVERING. No, he's now wasting his life
Creating all strange and un pleasant sounds is not a music.