Fine Noise and Light

Experimental paparrazzi

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:25:05 -0400

Experimental paparrazzi

Seen at the Ale House: Don’t fuck with whomever drives...

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:24:34 -0400

Seen at the Ale House: Don’t fuck with whomever drives this.

Energy...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:39:59 -0400

Energy Vampirism

http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/008/trans008vampireenergy.html

Carmen’s glitch

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:45:39 -0400

Carmen’s glitch

Sound demonstration of the difference between just and equal intonation.

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:58:49 -0400

Sound demonstration of the difference between just and equal intonation.

I’m currently rebuilding my website using Indexhibit. It can be accessed through both my main...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:05:18 -0400

I’m currently rebuilding my website using Indexhibit. It can be accessed through both my main URLs: finenoiseandlight.net and mikebullock.com. I waffle between preferences for them. Anyway, I’ve decided just to work on the site live, rather than developing it offline and then uploading. I’m no longer self-conscious about people seeing my website get dressed and undressed.

One of the few photos salvaged from my iPhone crash - at INA in...

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:55:51 -0400

One of the few photos salvaged from my iPhone crash - at INA in Paris.

I laugh at some strange things

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:11:13 -0400

I laugh at some strange things

Instrumentalization

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:04:02 -0400

Instrumentalization

Sunny Troy

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:01:23 -0400

Sunny Troy

Issue Project Room

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:59:52 -0400

Issue Project Room

©MURAKAMI @ Brooklyn Museum

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:58:53 -0400

©MURAKAMI @ Brooklyn Museum

montague bookmill

Fri, 23 May 2008 19:03:01 -0400

montague bookmill

Sound != music Sorry, Johnny. Say that sound is the physical phenomenon. Sound is something...

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:43:58 -0400

Sound != music
Sorry, Johnny.

Say that sound is the physical phenomenon.
Sound is something that happens to you. (It can happen that you are making sound, but that’s just because the physical phenomenon is resulting from a willful act.)

Sound is your physical perception.
When that perception happens to you, you want to call it something. (You’re a person, and that’s what people do - call something “_________”.)
So you give it a name, and the name carries description, not just designation. (You don’t call it “phenomenon #47.”)

Maybe you call it noise.
Maybe you call it music.

In other words, sound is the name for something that happens to you. Music and noise are names for how you feel about what has happened to you.

What Cage did was not to make music == the set of all sound. Maybe what he did was make music and noise overlap. Or rather, he grew the term music so that it would completely overlap the term noise (without noise cancellation), as well as covering what it already covered.

That being said, never forget that Cage was absolutely a composer, and he definitely had a sense of what he considered noise (the undesired kind). For him, that arose when the means were suspect, perhaps more than the sounds themselves. (E.g. his stated views on improvisation, disregarding his practical relationship to it).

ok, uh… the honeymoon blog didn’t really happen. But the honeymoon sure did! And trust...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:55:36 -0400

ok, uh… the honeymoon blog didn’t really happen. But the honeymoon sure did! And trust us, it was awesome.

Honeymoon blog has moved: http://aubrybullock.blogspot.com

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:36:15 -0500

Honeymoon blog has moved: http://aubrybullock.blogspot.com

First round

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:39:41 -0500

First round

Logan - on our way to Paris (via London).

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:35:51 -0500

Logan - on our way to Paris (via London).

Normal, whatever that is

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:16:00 -0500

I did my comprehensive oral exams at school today. Hard to explain what those are if you haven’t gone throught them. I think my ‘normalcy’ will increase now; by ‘normalcy’ I mean my ability to maintain some sort of balance between ‘business’ and real business. Oh, that could and does mean so many possible things, but I’m too tired for them right now. Maybe later. For now, rabbit rabbit rabbit. ”””””” FineNoiseAndLight.net Fielderblank.tumblr.com ………

Linda’s lunch for me today

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:12:33 -0500

Linda’s lunch for me today