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  Organum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Organum (pronounced /ˈɔɹgənəm/, though the stress is now sometimes incorrectly put on the second syllable) is a technique of singing developed in the Middle Ages, and is an early form of polyphonic music.
Organum was originally improvised; while one singer performed a notated melody (the vox principalis), another singer—singing "by ear"—provided the unnotated second melody (the vox organalis).
Organum as a musical genre reached its peak in the twelfth century with the development of two very different schools of organum composition: the St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organum   (880 words)

  
 Organum - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Organum, first development of plainsong in early music from chant into a form of polyphony.
By the end of the 12th century, organum was being written in three and four voice parts, forming long works that could fill the vast spaces of Gothic...
Because organum itself had evolved as a decoration of the solo sections of plainsong Introits and Graduals, it is logical to assume that it too was...
au.encarta.msn.com /Organum.html   (137 words)

  
 IDN Bands: Nick Organum
Organum consists of Nick and Kate who happen to be siblings.
Organum plays live shows consisting of Nick on vocals and acoustic guitar and Kate on back up vocals and hand drum.
Organum plays mostly original music with a mandatory homeage to Ween by playing a random rotation of their songs at the end of each set.
www.idnmusic.com /bands/organum.html   (265 words)

  
 Organum | the game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Organum is a collaborative multi-player journey through the human body from lung to tongue.
Organum, represents the culmination of a three year art project that began with an idea to connect the two meanings of organ, the part of the body, and organ, the instrument, with Organum, the medieval composition method.
The original inspiration for Organum, namely, that organs are collaborating according to a pattern orchestrated much like a music score, and that it is the pattern of the score rather than the organs of the body, alone which define existence, now is an interactive system, complete only when played.
www.sims.berkeley.edu /~dperkel/organum   (497 words)

  
 Organum/David Jackman Discography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This track was the first ever Organum studio recording (from 1984) and had remained unreleased for 10 years.
The type-face style used in the Organum text is similar to that employed on the sleeve of the Pulp 7" (see entry 1.1).
And the metallic scraping found in most of the Organum tracks is a direct result of hearing and liking the squealing brakes of trains at night when I was 14.
www.brainwashed.com /organum/disco.txt   (8798 words)

  
 CMT.com : Organum/Eddie Prevost : Biography
Organum is the project of elusive composer and visual artist David Jackman.
Jackman's work as Organum was documented on limited-edition vinyl LPs in the '80s, and in the '90s he released numerous CDs.
Many Organum recordings were made as location specific happenings, taking advantage of unusual reverberant spaces to enhance the music performance, such as tunnels, caves, and a highway overpass, as well as many outdoor natural environments.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/organum/bio.jhtml   (298 words)

  
 Music 326/526
· The Scholica also describes how organum is used: voices begin in unison, principalis continues with Gregorian melody, organalis stays behind until they are a 4th or 5th apart; then they travel in parallel motion until they approach a cadence, when organalis rejoins principalis.
Organum was first found in sacred music, both in Mass and Offices.
Reputed to be choir master at church of Notre Dame, greatest composer of organum.
www.uwsp.edu /music/pholland/326/Organum.htm   (505 words)

  
 Organum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The four–part score is based on the medieval music form, the organum.
In Latin, the term organum has two meanings; it either refers to the organ or to the polyphonic Gregorian chant.
The polyphonic form of organum came to its height in 12th century Paris, with composers associated with the Notre Dame Cathedral.
www.harmonies.com /releases/11074.htm   (273 words)

  
 Dorlands Medical Dictionary
They include the area postrema, median eminence, subcommissural organ, subfornical organ, and organum vasculosum of lamina terminalis.
of organum organ] any of the membrane-bound organized cytoplasmic structures of distinctive morphology and function present in all eukaryotic cells, including such structures as the nucleus, mitochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes, Golgi apparatus, and endoplasmic reticulum, as well as chloroplasts in plants and cilia, flagella, and the cytopharynx in protozoa.
Detail of the organum spirale (spiral organ) in the cochlear duct in the inner ear.
www.mercksource.com /pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_o_06zPzhtm   (3333 words)

  
 Organum-seura ry.
Founded in 1964, the Organum Society is an organization dedicated to the support and foster, promote and develop all forms of organ art in Finland.
The Organum Society is open to all lovers of organ art, and, according to its by-laws, has no religious or political ties.
Members of the Society receive the quarterly journal Organum, which contains articles on a wide range of current themes in organ music, building, and performance.
www.organum.fi /index.php?id=19   (149 words)

  
 KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Organum Mathematicum
The Organum was invented by Father Athanasius Kircher, the Jesuit polymath, and described in detail by Kircher’s disciple and associate, Kaspar Schott, in a 1668 book named after the device.
There are 10 sets of rods in the Organum, and the 10th and final set of rods allow non-musicians to compose music for church services.
A few of these Organums still exist, including this beautiful late 18th century model in the History of Science Museum in Florence.
www.krazydad.com /blog/2006/04/02/organum-mathematicum   (1213 words)

  
 organum hellman
Organum, initially conceived as a movie, is becoming interactive thanks to support from the F.Warren Hellman Family Fund.
A working group of graduate and undergraduate students, together with Greg Niemeyer and Chris Chafe, are currently working on prototyping the Organum game on PD and Unreal Tournament at the Berkeley Institute of Design (BID), located in UC Berkeley's Hearst Mining Building.
Results from observations and conversations during the Organum Game demonstration provided interesting insights for the next phase of designing the Organum Game.
art.berkeley.edu /niemeyer/stories/hellman-organum.htm   (425 words)

  
 New Langton Arts
Organum is an interactive week of programs exploring the human voice through sound, image and technology.
Organum: The Game is a collaborative video game in which three or more players sing into different microphones to control the three axes of movement (x, y, and z) on the game screen.
An informal brown bag lunch with the artist/programmers is planned from noon to 3 pm, and the public is invited to an evening reception celebration from 6 to 8 pm.
newlangtonarts.org /view_event.php?category=Network&archive=&&eventId=258   (287 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: ORGANUM
Most of the recordings on these two CD's show the more contemplative side of the Organum sound, the main characteristic being Jackman's playing of various types of bamboo flutes some of which were actually made by David Jackman.
Collection of recent tracks, recorded by the Organum core of David Jackman, Michael Prime, Dinah Jane Rowe and Jim O'Rourke; further mastering of sound cluster presentation and development.
Right from the cascading shifts and interwoven percussion streams of the opening track, 'Aurora', the spacious landscape that is Organum emerges with a sinuous rupture of textural flares.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/organum.html   (1110 words)

  
 Jane McGonigal
Organum: The Game is an experiment in collaborative, harmonic play.
It is a project of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media and the Berkeley Institute of Design.
ORGANUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM: Gregory Niemeyer, Adam Gray, Christine Liu, Jane McGonigal, Dan Perkel, Ryan Shaw, Lorenzo Wang (for the BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF DESIGN).
www.avantgame.com /organum.htm   (314 words)

  
 organum models
Organum features models of anticipated adaptations and evolutions which creatures may face as they expand and redefine the boundaries of inhabitable space.
At the same time we maintain that social and biological relations between creatures are more stable than the bodily forms which define them.
All models we generated for Organum are available here as zipped Maya models.
art.berkeley.edu /organum/models/index.htm   (188 words)

  
 organum - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Organum, in music, a form of early medieval harmony in which voices move in parallel fourths or fifths.
English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon’s philosophical treatise, Novum Organum (1620), is regarded as an important contribution to...
- musical piece: a piece of music in the organum style
ca.encarta.msn.com /organum.html   (79 words)

  
 Organum Playtest » Blog Archive » Organum Playtest 0.1
On May 14, 2004, the Berkeley Institute of Design held an open house for the general public, and the Organum Playtest 0.1 was conducted.
After players successfully hit a few targets, a three-dimensional image of a seal and the amount of time taken to finish the game appears on the screen.
This entry was posted on Friday, May 14th, 2004 at 9:58 pm and is filed under Playtests.
groups.sims.berkeley.edu /organum/wordpress/?p=2   (332 words)

  
 Ad organum Faciendum, traité d'organum de MIlan
Organum est vox sequens praecedentem sub celeritate diapente et diatessaron; quarum videlicet praecedentis et subsequentis fit copula aliqua decenti consonantia.
Cum autem cantus praestolatur organum, copulatio fit quolibet modo; et ita, cum quatuor voces tantum subsequentes sint, una organalis dicitur; nam prima quandoque jungitur, secunda semper disjungitur; tertia intuens praestolantem, ut habilem copulam tribuat quartae voci cum qualibet consonantia.
Sed cum erit altera, tum sextum sonat organum.
www.musicologie.org /Biographies/a/ad_organum.html   (813 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Organum: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Tertium Organum: Or, The Third Canon of Thought and a Key to the Enigmas of the World by P. Ouspensky and Claude Bragdon (Hardcover - May 30, 2004)
Tertium Organum the Third Canon of Thoug by P D Ouspensky (Paperback)
Organum Deitatis: Die Christologie Des Thomas De Vio Cajetan (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) by Marcel Nieden (Hardcover - Jun 1997)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Organum&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (468 words)

  
 Organum | Dan Perkel
Organum to appear at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, April 19-23, 2005.
Released as an animated movie as part of BAM/PFA’s Gene(sis) exhibition in 2003, Organum featured a cast of singing, social creatures who are forced to adapt and survive with the introduction of strange new technology into their world.
Not only does Organum require the collaboration by its audience, it has required collaboration by a team from multiple academic disciplines.
www.sims.berkeley.edu /~dperkel/projects/organum.html   (464 words)

  
 Organum - Vacant Lights/Rara Avis - Review - Stylus Magazine
Many of the tracks he recorded as Organum were recorded in real time in particular locations, in order to make use of the acoustic space of each location.
For this re-release, Die Stadt have included a second work by Organum, Rara Avis, which is a collection of five pieces, three of which have been released as singles and one of which (the title track) has been reworked for this collection.
It sounds weird to say it, but I consider these works to be more in line with what I consider "experimental music" to be.
www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/organum/vacant-lightsrara-avis.htm   (598 words)

  
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Next is the title track 'Die Hennen Zähne,' a joyful noise not unlike some of the TNB/Organum material including the sound of broken glass and Tibetan horns, best to be experienced LOUD.
'Maus' is the centre piece of this mini album and typical 'old school' Organum.
Composed in the spirit of the early Organum material, David Jackman has resurrected the droned-based, percussive turbulence of earlier years with a distinct new form of compositional systems.
www.soleilmoon.com /store/searchresults.lasso?ArtistName=ORGANUM   (401 words)

  
 Organum Association Ukraine
Since 1993 till now in Sumy, Ukraine, 27 festivals has been held: 13 International festivals of organ and chamber music Organum, 2 festivals of jazz music — Jazz-fest, 10 International festivals of Bach’s music — Bach-fest, International Festival of Chamber Music in Shostka, Sumy region and International Festival of Organ Music — Livadia-fest.
To get the money for the artists journey from their countries I am cooperating with the Embassies of Austria, The Netherlads and Poland, as well as with the Goethe-Institute and the Institut Francais d’Ukraine.
From 1995 year the Association "Organum" won five grants at the contests of the cultural programs of the International Soros Foundation.
www.organum.sumy.ua   (284 words)

  
 PLAYFUL VOICES
Called Organum, the event calls on the resources of a radically disparate trio of singers to navigate a high-tech video game through a model of a human voice box -- or the guts that go into making human vocalization.
The game, called Organum Play Test, was created by UC Berkeley new media professor Greg Niemeyer, with assistance from graduate student assistants Dan Perkel and Ryan Shaw.
They, plus Niemeyer and his Organum crew, will be at the gallery beginning at noon to mingle with visitors.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/17/PKGRTC736K1.DTL   (991 words)

  
 MUSL 242: Perotin and Notre Dame Organum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He is known for expanding organum duplum (two voice organum) to organum triplum and quadruplum (three and four voice organum).
There are three styles of Notre Dame Organum, each differing in its use of measured or unmeasured rhythm: organum purum, where both voices have unmeasured rhythms; copula, where the upper voice or organalis has a measured rhythm while the vox pricipalis is unmeasured; and discant, where both the upper and lower voiced have measured rhythms.
Development of Polyphony Polyphonic development of organum from the early 9th century up to the repertory of Notre Dame Organum.
www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/perotin.htm   (546 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Organum: biography, discography, reviews, links
Organum e` il progetto di David Jackman, a veteran of Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra, spesso coadiuvato da Steve Stapleton (con cui collabora nei Nurse With Wound) e altri guru della musica industriale britannica.
Rasa, la suite di Organum sullo split A Missing Sense (United Dairies, 1987), e l'album (doppio EP o cassetta) Ikon(Aeroplane, 1987 - DOM, 1989) sancirono la maturazione di Organum.
Organum, that had not released an album since 1994, and whose only non-single released has been the EP Kammer (1997), returned with Birds' Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies (Die Stadt, 1999), in the same collage style of his "war albums".
www.scaruffi.com /vol4/organum.html   (674 words)

  
 Organum News
Organum 7" in three years, entitled "Feldzug" (DS33).
The latest Organum archival release is out on Robot Records, a CD re-issuing of the cassette
between Organum and The New Blockaders following the release of the legendary 'Pulp' 7" in 1983.
www.qserve.net /~wrr/Organum/news.html   (1079 words)

  
 Organum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Term referring to the earliest kind of polyphonic music.
Organum developed from the practice of adding voices above a plainchant (cantus firmus); these added voices at first ran parallel to the plainchant at an interval of a fourth or fifth.
Organum was in use from about the 12th through the 13th centuries.
www.music.vt.edu /MUSICDICTIONARY/texto/Organum.html   (68 words)

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