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Luigi Russolo wrote the manifesto ”The Art of Noises” a century ago. A few decades later John Cage picked up this thread where Rusolo left off saying that “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating...” Cage wanted to hear a future music where we “capture and control these sounds, to use them not as sound effects but as musical instruments”. And yes - this future music has been created in the years that followed where noises has been an increasingly important element in contemporary music, and very much so in recent decades.
Reading the program notes for Luigi Marino's composition "Hau: a form of bistability” quoting a text by Tamati Ranaipiri about polynesian gift-giving, made me think of all theese noises from the past century as gifts - good and bad – cycles of gift-giving chains transformed from positive into negative and vice versa. Like an endless numbers of zero-crossing sine-waves pendling from plus to minus creating a spectral multiphony of endless magnitude. I can't think af a better occasion for the classic John Cage greeting: HAPPY NEW EARS!

A Passing On NoisesProgramAcousmatic For The People III

1Jørgen Plaetner - Beta (1962-63) 5′39″
2Bryan Jacobs - La Le en Le (2013)9′01″
3Jakob Riis - On Noises (2014)10′08″
4Jakob Riis - A Passing (2014)8′32″
5Luigi Marino - Hau: a form of bistability (2013)
Part 1 - Establishment16′37″
Part 2 - The giver and the receiver5′32″

Program notes:

Beta (1962-63) - Jørgen Plaetner
Jørgen Plaetner (1930-2002) was a pioneer of electronic music in Denmark. He created most of his 57 electronic works in the period 1960-1974, but his oeuvre also includes works for orchestra and ensembles, piano sonatas and works for children and young people.
Beta is the opening track on the CD Jørgen Plaetner, Electronic Music released by Dacapo records in 2003. In the liner notes by Henrik Marstal and Henriette Moos writes about the piece: "Beta is music that is to be played loud and listened to with the whole body! Beta's sound universe, with the restless intensity of its pent-up energy, speaks its own clear language to a younger generation of listeners and musicians who can hear references to psychedelic rock, heavy metal, house and hardcore techno because of the energetic, distorted, pulsating and insistently repe-titive noise-drones over which a number of completely unpredictable sound scenarios are played out. The work evokes associations with the experimental rock guitarist's noisy inferno of soundscapes.
Beta was thus ahead of not only Jimi Hendrix' psychedelic noise-scapes, but also one of the decades most highly profiled noise works, Steve Reich's Pendulum Music from 1968."

La Le en Le (2013) - Bryan Jacobs.
Le La en Le was created largely from selections of the Luc Ferrari Tape Archive made available from Association Presque Rien.
In addition to Luc Ferrari’s sounds, this work uses recordings made of vocalist Francine Romain during a three-week residency at La Muse en Circuit in 2007. The work I did in Paris during that visit has been immensely important to my development as a composer. This work is a tribute to my time there and Ferrari’s inspirational approach to sound and composition.
Luc Ferrari's music is refreshingly devoid of ego. There are few tricks. Often, he allows the sounds he finds to speak for themselves, naked and exposed. It's clear there is a loving hand behind the microphone but the listener's intended experience is not dictated. Instead, we float from one sound environment to another, at once trying and not trying to fit the sounds into an intelligible narrative.
For this work Bryan Jacobs receives the first prize in the ”Presque Rien Prize 2013”

On Noises (2014) - Jakob Riis.
A composition created at Inter Arts Center in Malmö 2014. Based on sounds created on the Serge modular synthesizer at EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm during a recidency in 2009, and further manipulated in an electronic feedback system.

A Passing (2014) - Jakob Riis.
During three vistits in Vietnam 2009-2013 I found three different pairs of small hand cymbals. This composition is based on recordings of theese instruments and a further manipulation of the recordings in an electronic feedback system.

Hau: a form of bistability (2013) - Luigi Marino

Illustration from: ”Returning the Gift - Uto
in Intergroup Relations” by Joan Metge Part 1 - Establishment
Part 2 - The giver and the receiver
"I shall tell you about hau. Hau is not the wind. Not at all. Suppose you have some particular object (taonga) and you give it to me; you give it to me without a price. We do not bargain over it. Now I give this thing to a third person who after a time decides to give me something in repayment for it (utu), and he makes me a present of something (taonga). Now this taonga I received from him is the spirit (hau) of the taonga I received from you and which I passed on to him. The taonga which I receive on account of the taonga that came from you, I must return to you. It would not be right on my part to keep these taonga whether they were desirable or not. I must give them to you since they are the hau of the taonga which you gave me. If I were to keep this second taonga for myself I might become ill or even die. Such is hau, the hau of personal property, the hau of the taonga, the hau of the forest. Enough on that subject." - Tamati Ranaipiri