Joshua Baerwald - Particle Castle Bubble Party!
Channel: kriista
Date: 2021-06-16

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Particle Castle Bubble Party! is an offshoot of Gib Gab, which are free lessons/conversations/consultations/mentoring/time/support which I’ve been doing for over five years(!) now. The difference being that these conversations are supplemented with inserts and links, edited by Angela Guyton. The idea behind PCBP! is to take what is normally a temporally and (somewhat) spatially-bound conversation and turn it into a more openly-shareable video, so it will hopefully be of interest to others.

Joshua Baerwald is an artist who uses music, video, and drama to address themes of toxic institutions in our communities, the shift from binaries to spectra, and the power of dedicated imagination. He creates music with the hopes of inspiring social change through these themes and challenging audiences to envision a future more liberating and community-centric. I first met Joshua when he emailed me after initially seeing a video in which I was improvising with Sam Pluta. This sent him down the rabbit hole of my webpage and he then reached out when much of what he saw resonated with him.

In this Particle Castle Bubble Party! we spoke about building an interface for musical thinking, how to come up with new material, and the impact of the social context in which music is made.

Joshua Baerwald:
www.joshuabaerwald.com

For more information:
www.amplifiersandexplosions.com/particle-castle-bubble-party

Produced by Angela Guyton
www.angelaguyton.com
www.patreon.com/amplifiersandexplosions

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Things mentioned in video:

Absolute Music - music that is not explicitly “about” anything:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_music

Acoustic ecology - the study of the relationship between humans and environment through sound:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_ecology

Afrofuturism - cultural philosophy that explores the intersection of African diaspora and technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism

Barry Truax - Canadian composer who was part of the acoustic ecology movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Truax

Ciat-Lonbarde - hardware synths made by Peter Blasser:
http://ciat-lonbarde.net/fyrall/paperz/fourses/index.html

confetti - library of Max for Live devices created by Rodrigo:
https://github.com/rconstanzo/confetti

dfscore - realtime dynamic score system:
https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/dfscore/

E-Prime english - a version of English that excludes all versions of the form ‘to be’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

Flow - a psychological state of being in the zone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

FluCoMa - machine learning and signal decomposition project:
https://www.flucoma.org

Kaizo Snare - performance piece which focuses on 3d printing and turntablism:
https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/2020/08/kaizo-snare/

Markov Chain - a model for creating a sequence of events using chained probabilities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

Morton Feldman - composer who played with notational images (among other things):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Feldman

MIRA - iPad app that lest you create interfaces for Max:
https://cycling74.com/products/mira

One Square Inch of Silence - a noise control project to create the quietest place in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Square_Inch_of_Silence

Opinioning - the act of generating an opinion for the sake of itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay - my PhD supervisor and Max power user:
http://pierrealexandretremblay.com

R. Murray Schafer - Canadian composer and sound ecologist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer

Sam Pluta - composer and improviser:
http://www.sampluta.com
https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8S188KG

Score Following - the process of automatically listening to and following live music:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_following

Sound Imperialism - a term coined by R. Murray Schafer about the impact of manmade sounds on the environment:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Soundscape/R-Murray-Schafer/9780892814558

Speed Cup Stacking - stacking cups in specific patterns competatively:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIdJ0Y6XaMw

Theremin - early electronic musical instrument played with motion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

This is why - blog post on being open and sharing:
https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/2015/05/this-is-why/

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima - composition by Penderecki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima

TouchOSC - app for iOS devices that lets you create OSC-based control surfaces:
https://hexler.net/touchosc

You and Me and Us and Me and You - performance piece for snare and DMX lights:
https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/2019/12/you-me-us-me-you/