Synthphony in I/O

Synthphony in I/O, A Synthphony for Processed Voice, Virtual Percussion and WebBased Audio

©Tavarus Blackmon, 2016

Composition, Improvisation, Arrangement, Voice, Additional Lyrics, Tavarus Blackmonster, 2016

Virtual Percussion, Hydrogen (Freeware), Tavarus Blackmonster, 2016

Synthphony in I/O, Sound Art for Voice, Virtual Percussion and Web-Based Audio, 01:04:43 minutes, 2016 Selected Audio v=SbyAZQ45uww, Published March 27, 2010

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (Official Music Video) ft. Wyclef Jean, https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=DUT5rEU6pqM, Published October 2, 2009

Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Official Audio),https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c, Published June 6, 2013 v=eyCEexG9xjw, Published April 23, 2010

Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (Official Video), https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Real Life - Send Me An Angel ’89, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R6WIbx8ysE, Published September 10, 2008

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Selected Film Audio

Basic Instinct mémoire 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1F27Iv0CLw, Published October 22, 2009 v=VJDgpFLLzOA, Published January 7, 2015

Basic Instinct (MON) (STUDIO CANAL), https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Cruel Intentions - Colorblind (Official Clip), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MlABYTxs,

Published August 13, 2014, v=TphUQcj3szQ,

Final Destination - Ms Lewton's death HD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Published January 24, 2016 v=lcYODA0Cmdk,

The Warriors - Reunion en el parque, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Published February 3, 2019

Eric Monte Interview

Interview with Eric Monte ( the real Preach in Cooley High), https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=hrtjtMoLrX0, Published March 17, 2012

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Synthphony in I/O

By using sound as medium, Music Concrete, each discrete audible notion: written, recorded, published, disseminated, reproduced, uploaded, downloaded, edited, processed and finally, composed, speaks to not only Democratic Media but the power of DIY Musicianship in the hands of Gen X computing and artistry. Reagan era Rock and Roll and New Wave mix audaciously and cacophonously with Filmic dialogue in waves of reverberated, processing. It is a pan-ultimate mix; RE the sound of American discontent via the sounds of American discontentedness. And, each honest and misunderstood reflex is oft one of Self Discovery. The artist’s thought through Sound, is that this discovery is one of Danger, Hope and Romance, much paralleling the themes and currents of contemporary society.

Much like the Visual Spaces created by the artist, this Audio Space deconstructs the idea of appropriation by treating otherwise copy-written material as “medium,” and ultimately, presenting the Synthphony as a free and accessible Educational Resource on Platformed Applications. The true Web and thus true Computer Music utilizes the, not exhaustive, capabilities of computing devices: Research, Downloading, Uploading, Recording, Editing, Processing, Codec Definition and further, Image Rendering, TimeBased Media Rendering and initial and alternate Posting and Publishing. The artist believes through instrumentation, composition, writing, vocals and arrangement, that with the addition of Web-Based Media and Computer Processing, a most sincere and exquisite presentation of Music through Sound is achieved. In whole a Processed Sound, for ideas, images, moods, themes and psychologies that are processed through mental cognition and imagination. Synthphony in I/O, is Tavarus Blackmonster’s first major work for Retro Music, moreover, his premier example of a substantial Computer Music.

Movements within the work transport the listener through Sound Space into an atmosphere of sassy rifs, chattering footsteps, haunting popular melodies, Ars Nova of contemporary improvisational lyricism, interview, a dangerous, sexy and exciting filmic sound purge and closing, the vulnerability of a Black youth left Home Alone with the Internet Passwords. It is so, the artist thinks that in popular terms, this Synthphony may not be considered music. But in his brash and irreverent opinion, “…It is more music than what is not music and, the complete sound is a composition: both popular and idiosyncratic, electronic, arranged and notated with formal and conceptual connections to New Music, Spatial Sound (web-based) and Acousmatic traditions”

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The Concrete nature of the work puts the artist in a most objective perspective. Through metaphorical and formal connections, instruments (Sound(s)) are material for inclusion within the composition. And, the artist’s interpretation of the media and further development of the work has put him in the position of writing large for myriad sounds (Instruments) including his own voice and improvisation. The work is raw, sincere, vulnerable and affirmative in the triumphantism of Sound. But finally, though New Music was never the intention of the artist, but for delicious audio and conceptual rigor, the Noise of music, voices and languages make Synthphony in I/O a work of codices, experimentation and feeling. The Synthphony in I/ O has been published online and is also made available for exhibition as an acousmatic projection through loud speakers. In promoting the large work, the artist has created a video available online which links web browsers directly to the audio file, further extending the Visual/Audio Space.

©Tavarus Blackmon, 2019

©Tavarus Blackmon, 2019

Synthphony Video, Full High Definition Video for Synthphony in I/O, https://vimeo.com/360842495

Synthphony in I/O, Soundcloud, https://soundcloud.com/blackaudiomonster/synthphony-in-i-o? in=blackaudiomonster/sets/redlight-greenlight

Synthphony Video, Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/360842495

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