Its eroticism allows us to rediscover our bodies as

Its eroticism allows us to rediscover our bodies as part of this experience
of
materiality
and the possibility of change.
II.
Class
A. Funk
1. Dancing in the Street. classic groove of rock in 1960s. Backbeat. Motown. 2
and 4.
2. James Brown: Changed. More subtle. on the One.
3. Superbad: Hi-hat pattern. 2:3+2 on large scale. interlocking.only on the down
beat that all the beat come together. //-rhythm guitar reinforces 3-3-2 cross-
rhythm of snare drum.
4. Zone of funkiness where:…
a)
rhythm of 3 and rhythm of 4
b)
The One as only point of stability in chaos
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
// // // //
x o x x x o x x x o x x x o x x
2 2 2 2 2 2
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5. Ricky Vincent, Funk:Pulsing waves of drumbeats designed to suspend the
listener on a breast of percolating tension compelled one to dance/ **it
ventilated around the one**/** a locked happening rhythm brings everybody
together grouping as one—> ONE as a kind of mindset // Come together,
united with the funk, on the rhythm of the ONE. // Everyone on this world and
beyond
6. Mark Dery, “Black to the Future: Afrofuturim” 1995
a) The descendants of alien abductees
b) Technology is too often brought to bear on black bodies.
c)
The parelle with slavery
d) Afrofuturim: technology+ prosthetically enhanced future
7. Geroge Clinton
a) Comic book
(1) Cartoon superheroers—>white defending the white world
(2)
Black superheroes defend the ONE using rhythm…-> and technology
(3) Dr.Funkenstein:Afro-futuristic.
(4) P-funk(the actual comic book with funk concept albums)
(5) —>> lots of African elements/ technology/ space/ universe/ sci-fi
(6) P-funk: Mothership Connection
b)
Deadmau5 is not that different
8.
Ricky Vincent’s history of African American popular music: All merge into
Funk in 70s
a) Genealogy of dance styles: differentiation
9.
Rickey Vincent on “the disco void” of the later 1970s
a) Disco Vanquished thru the power of the ONE
10. Soul—>Disco
a) White owned record labels and radio chains
b) soul less machines and studio technology
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c) and homosexual
d) Got criticized by funk people (Like house by Hip Hop): It’s separating
blacks from their past and their culture it’s upwardly mobile
e)
contradictions between two kinds of african american ideology
11. Image
a) Saturday night fever—> white?
b) Marvin Gaye “Ain’t no mountain high enough”
(1) Gospel
(2) Drive
(3) this side is being hated by funk people. nothing white.(Motown?)
c) 1970: become popular
12. In defense of Disco:
a) Cultural production under capitalism is necessarily contradictory…at its
strongest
13. The Temptations, “The law of the land”
a) soul music
b) space for listeners in the middle of the song
c) funky break
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Circuits, Loops, and Ambience Tuesday, October 13, 2015
I. preliminary reading
A. Noises:
1.
Art of noises
a)
Musical development trend: Harmony- noise
b) There’re noises everywhere. Futurist try to bring harmony to these noises.