Aesthetics, Chance and Music

Remko Scha

Workshop at San Francisco State University, Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Arts. April 1985.

READINGS:

Part I. AESTHETICS

John Dewey: Art as Experience (1934). Chapter I: The Live Creature.

Gregory Bateson: "Style, Grace and Information in Primitive Art." (1967)
In: Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972.

Marcel Duchamp: "Apropos of 'Readymades' " (1961) In: Art and Artists, 1, 4 (1966).

Walter de Maria: "On the Importance of Natural Disasters." (1960)
In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963.

Herman de Vries: "My Poetry is the World."


Part II. SYSTEMS AND CHANCE

George Brecht: Chance-Imagery. New York: Something Else Press, 1957/1966.

Stephen Wolfram: Computer Software in Science and Mathematics.
Scientific American 251, 3 (September 1984), pp. 188 - 203.

Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature. (1904)

Harold Cohen: "What is an Image?" Proceedings International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, 1979, pp. 1028 - 1057.

Remko Scha: Machine Drawings. (1980-1983)


Part III. RHYTHM AND SOUND

La Monte Young: Composition 1960 # 7. In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963.

P.G. Adrian: Réflections sur l'Univers Sonore. Paris: Richard-Masse, 1954.

John Dewey: Art as Experience. (1934) Chapter VII: The Natural History of Form.

Roland Barthes: "Rasch." (1975) In: The Responsibility of Forms. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.

Guy Murchie: Music of the Spheres. (1961) Chapter 11: "Of Waves and Music."

Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 5. Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere. Program Notes, October 1984.

Dane Rudhyar: The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music. (1982) Chapter 11: "Dissonant Harmony, Pleromas of Sound, and the Principle of Holistic Resonance." Boulder: Shambhala, 1982.

Bill Davenport: "Interview with Remko Scha." Unsound 1, 4 (July 1984)

Remko  Scha: "The Machines." (1984) Ear Magazine 9, 1 (May/June 1984).