Music of the heart

So, as most of you noticed I left class a little early yesterday. I am sorry for the distraction, I felt really sick suddenly. Anyway, music is a big part of my life so I was disappointed I couldn't sit through the lecture. I did look up more videos on the Theremin and I don't know how I have never heard of this instrument before! It's absolutely breath taking how the instrument works like that. I went on youtube, and found this one that is a cover of Gnarles Barkley's "Crazy". I think it is important to connect older influences with newer ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipLBI

The Physic TV - Godstar, seems like video art to me. I wonder if it is considered video art...It is very psychedelic, but just listening without looking at the video sounds like a typical 70s song. I didn't recognize any of the songs from The Physcic TV but I can tell there are influences going on. Then when I clicked the link for Satisfaction, I got really excited. I love this song by the Rolling Stones. Then clearly from watching the other videos, this song has influenced many other bands as well. We have even seen Britney Spears cover this song. We have talked about how we keep re-using the same artistic influences over and over. We really aren't original anymore. We love older songs of different generations and we just re-do them to fit the style of our generation.

The Robots, Kraftwerk, is music I think we are going to see come back around again in the next generation. It is futuristic, and we are going to influences from all different eras and we haven't really had that robotic kind of music yet, techno and electronica have influences but they aren't as main stream anyway.

I don't know where we stopped on the syllabus on Tuesday, but I look forward to hearing more about music on Thursday.

My Performance Art

I wanted to prove that technology is suffocating our voices, our REAL voices. Everything is done over the internet now, and through text messaging. We don't know how to communicate anymore with eachother, and if we do, we don't know if we are sending the right message. I hope you enjoyed this and could relate with it on some level.

Performance Art

Hi Everyone!
You all did amazing today. I thought everyone really stepped it up and become artists. The pictures are posted on Facebook, feel free to tag yourselves and comment! If you arent in my albums it is because my camera died, so Alyssa has them and will either post them or send them to me to post.

<3 have a good weekend

Influences come from everywhere

When I first met "Lady Gaga", (still Stefani at the time), she was as typical as I was. I walked into my uncle's studio in Parsipanny, NJ, he wanted to introduce us to his newest artist. She sat there with her long brown hair, tank top, short athletic shorts, and tube socks. My sister, dad and I sat there listening to her belt her beautiful music while playing the piano. My dad joked that if she ever won a Grammy she would have to thank him. She complied. <--Before her blonde wig and outrageous outfits. my aunts house, livingston nj

Fast-forward 3 years and my sister and I were less than impressed by GaGa's new image. When she first came on the scene and I heard her new single "Just Dance", I hated it! I didn't know where her pureness went, or her piano, or her natural look. She became a character, a person on stage who no longer represented an inspiring artist in a small studio in NJ. But since I heard that first single, it has now all come together. She IS a character, but an amazing one at that. She is changing the way of music, and performing. During class today when we were talking about Klaus Nomi and Leigh Bowery, images of GaGa kept coming to mind. When learning about the history of artists, today's artists make more sense. She isn't just a new pop star that radiates a drag queen persona, or an over the top drama queen, she has taken influences that other artists have been to afraid to pursue. She is changing the way our music is shaped and she is reaching back in history to identify with these performance artists.

Part of new hysteria that goes along with Lady GaGa, is her fashion choices. Did we not discuss the same thing for Leigh Bowery today? Over the top, absolutely out of the ordinary, fashion that becomes who they are.

Trust me, I don't go around saying I know Lady GaGa, I just got really excited making a connection between her performances and what we are learning about. It actually makes me appreciate her more.

These gossip magazines really do have meaning...

I was working out this morning and reading Star magazine, it said The Beat Goes On, "Nice specs, James! Fresh off his star turn in Milk, James Franco suited up for another retro flick in NYC on March 17. This time, he plays famed Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg in the '50s-era biopic Howl."

I just wanted to scan and share it with you all!

Could this be considered a new hobby?

I had so much fun Xeroxing my body parts. It reminded me of when we used only 35mm film and we had to wait for our pictures to get developed. The anticipation and waiting to see what was printed felt the same way as it did back when we use to develop pictures. Anyway, I wanted to do something that incorporated other elements of the class. I wanted to decontextualize the box, and make it mean something, I also wanted to have the viewers become part of the art. I decided to cut out the letters from a magazine and photocopy them to read, "WHO AM I TODAY?", "YOU DECIDE"...The letters give the Dada approach. So then I photocopied different personalities and persona's, so you can decide who you want to be when looking at the art. It will always be changing and can mix and match how the viewer wants it to be. I hope you enjoyed. It's still in the classroom if you want to go play with it! LOL