Holly Herndon on Self-Sampling and Emotions Through Music

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Holly Herndon on Self-Sampling and Emotions Through Music | Red Bull Music Academy

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In this talk at the 2014 Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo she discusses self-sampling, growing up in the Bible Belt and the never-ending quest to express honest, real-time emotions through music and lyrics.
TOPICS:
9:40 - Laptop Performance
25:29 - Movement
51:37 - Chorus
1:00:31 - Akihiko Taniguchi
1:12:56 - Metahaven
MUSIC:
21:03 - Holly Herndon - Improvisation
26:36 - Holly Herndon - "Interlude"
30:04 - Holly Herndon - "Breathe" • Holly Herndon - Breathe
48:05 - The Vinyl Factory and Conrad Shawcross present The ADA Project • The Vinyl Factory and ...
53:37 - Holly Herndon "Chorus" • Holly Herndon - Chorus...
1:41:36 - Holly Herndon - "Home" • Holly Herndon - Home [...
Whether studying for her PhD at Stanford or spending all night in a Berlin techno party, Holly Herndon is obsessed with the intersection between mind and body and beat and technology. On releases like 2012's Movement and 2014's *Chorus*, she tackles her complicated relationship with the internet, the NSA, Max/MSP software, and her own voice. In the process she creates a unique brand of cyber-pop that is equally beautiful and frightening, academic and dancefloor-ready.

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@Myworldimagined 7 жыл бұрын

This woman conducts the best interviews for RBMA lectures.

@t.c.bramblett617 9 жыл бұрын

Amazing, really good to know people are pushing the envelope while building on the sound experiments of those who came before. She's brilliant and she's applying her intelligence into realms far beyond the usual EDM and "pop" experimental music scenes.

@robertsyrett1992 8 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I feel like her life's ambition is to be a talking head in a documentary about the history of electronic music in the early 21st century. She goes out of her way to use silly buzzwords and then immediately explains them. Needing to complicate your musical ideas JUST so you can explain it to people isn't necessarily intelligent. But her music is super enjoyable so I won't complain too much.

@callum6224 5 жыл бұрын

Robert Syrett what, she was invited to give a lecture and the interviewer was asking her from the very start what she meant, to a very unnecessary degree. But yeah, sure, not sure who wants to be known for their internet talks in like 2019, weird thing to suggest that that’s her ‘motive’ for giving these talks.

@jayblummer146 7 жыл бұрын

15:06 'moving back to the pre-corporate era of the web' at the Red Bull Music Academy...

@miejexie9924 9 жыл бұрын

This interviewer does a really, really great job.

@tomking4714 9 жыл бұрын

she really is an incredible human being

@stockholmsyndrome420 8 жыл бұрын

+OtherSideOfTheVoid Lol why so angry? Do I detect a hint of jealousy?

@LaymensLament 8 жыл бұрын

this interviewer is excellent!

@blindianajones 2 жыл бұрын

No one will probably read this comment given the age of the video; however, I appreciate the interviewer asking about terms. Whats unfortunate is when someone just throws out words to describe what they do and have no idea what the words mean.

@eselsdistel 9 жыл бұрын

Funny enough, Holly's work reminded me since the very first listen to Paul Lansky's "Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion" VERY MUCH. Besides, I find it very funny that a self-confessed introvert that runs away from affect can have such transparent and expressive face/eyes.

@murphy7407 9 жыл бұрын

btw guys, holy was right. musique concrete was in 1940s.

@SlyHikari03 3 жыл бұрын

Net Concrete needs to be a thing in the near future. I wanna sample/play my laptop. That would be a cool production tool,

@martinreid2352 5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The music Holly talks about in he minute or two after 1:04:20 has a name, and is called “algorave”

@cowboycatranch 5 жыл бұрын

What a fantastic interviewer!

@Kriskazam 8 жыл бұрын

I am totally on the board with a lot of what Holly Herndon has to say and after listening to this can really appreciate how much her music comes from a line of hardwork and experience accompanied by her own musical intuition, but for some reason her academic (yeah sorry, i'm being that guy) and technologically positive attitude makes me slightly uncomfortable. Like, I wonder if she ever thinks about technological innovation and how it impacts people of different cultures and socioeconomic classes. Technological change doesn't come without a price from the meek. Maybe i'm just projecting my own insecurities, because from my personal experience, social media and smartphones have been a smack in the face and have carried both positives and negatives. It's hard to adapt so quickly I don't know how people do it in a way that's heathy. I just feel left behind. Maybe I'm taking too much from a single lecture but I feel kind of jealous that she seems to embrace technology so openly and doesn't see it as a burden at all. I feel like those that can embrace changing technology in a healthy and not toxic way are those who are living harmoniously with the modern world, are strong, and have a healthy positive outlook on life.

@sentimental7167 8 жыл бұрын

Really like a lot of her music but ... maybe just a little naïve, no distance to her subject. And weird keywords she's coming back to, like, Sound of Now, Escapism - uh, shiver! Her Music should politically matter - now that's a holy wish and an ambigous thing, as you never know what people of "the Future Now" will use it for.

@Kriskazam 8 жыл бұрын

Senti mental when she brings up those points of the sound of now, criticizing escapism in music, and wanting her music to politically matter in a way, those are exactly the points that i can click with her on. But the criticism that I'm making is that her ambition and her perspective on those previously mentioned concepts stem from a more privileged place associated with western academia. Idk, it's a vibe that i could call "meritechnocratic" if that makes sense. Like, is an indigenous tribe deep in the jungles of Borneo not considered a part of "the sound of now"? I'm not against "progress" (whatever that means) but people's ideas of what progress is varies and some can be pretty fucked up even without intention.

@Kriskazam 8 жыл бұрын

Senti mental Those concepts (sound of now, etc) form an established and agreed upon room of thought which only houses it's own internal debate.

@Kriskazam 8 жыл бұрын

i don't think she's naive at all from the way you're saying it though. don't equate ambition with naivete

@sentimental7167 8 жыл бұрын

Maybe - but if I may say that even on sounding arrogant, from what I hear here I have read more books and heard more music, so to me at least she is naïve - ambitious - of course! But really, c'mon, Sound of Now - that could be the name of a sixties record compilation for musak or actually anything. To me this kind of branding is just chauvinistic by nature. And this choir stuff is far from the Sound of Now to my ears. Music that politically matters, sure sounds nice, but what is that anyway? This could be a sentence from Goebbels ( now don't get me wrong, I do by no means compare her or her attitudes to those of Goebbels, I'm just stressing the -empty - concept). Also Celine Dions music "matters political", probably more so, as there are more people listening to that. And so does lecturing in Stanford matter politically too. What I wanted to say is that it does not completley depend on us what happens to our music, and that is also something positive. I wouldn't want to be a dictator telling people how to read my music, speaking for myself... Apart from that and her choir music (which matters most to her probably as a turning point) I rather listen to her music than hear her talking.

@Haussmannization 8 жыл бұрын

daniel lopatin collab when

@joevargo2777 6 жыл бұрын

It already happened, look up "instrumental tourist"

@jameslindsay9500 5 жыл бұрын

@@joevargo2777 That was Tim Hecker

@birberking6999 5 жыл бұрын

Lol the interviewer's face during interlude

@PretoProdutora 5 жыл бұрын

Very Nice! Fron Brazil!

@seth4766 5 жыл бұрын

man she is very lovely

@martinstundl6965 9 жыл бұрын

she is just awesome

@davidpape1160 9 жыл бұрын

53:35 YESSSSSSSS

@EvilGeniusWithGuns 9 жыл бұрын

anyone know where the sweater is from ?

@guy3578 9 жыл бұрын

looks a bit like ava catherside not sure thoo

@aspirine999 6 жыл бұрын

FROM GOD

@CartanMcLiam 9 жыл бұрын

wooooah 1:55:20 is that Zebra fucking katz?

@WHOAM1894 2 жыл бұрын

Herndon is surprisingly normal on the outside looking in. Her music and persona makes her seem like such a strange person. In this interview she comes across as very level headed, cerebral and sane.

@jonathanpatrick9373 9 жыл бұрын

Who designed those couched?

@oldwaitekauri 9 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Patrick Just make them yourself...

@jonathanpatrick9373 9 жыл бұрын

oh great, thanks...

@johnhansenbristow2900 9 жыл бұрын

The kind of person that just makes you want to soak up so much knowledge. So spacey. Also, I think she was right in saying that Musique Concrete came about in the 40's?

@CalDesmondPearsonDithreabhach 9 жыл бұрын

John Hansen Bristow Pierre Schaeffer first used term in 1949 if I recall correctly.

@xpez9694 6 жыл бұрын

music concrete coincided with the development of the tape recorder. People could record their surroundings and splice the audio into compositions. This is another way music was informed by modernity and modernism..

@aspirine999 6 жыл бұрын

HOLLY EVERYONE WANTS YOU TO TALK ON HOW TO MAKE MUSIC 🎶 ONLINE COURSES 🎶 MORE MUSIC 🎶 YOU ARE AMAZING 🎶

@boredsilly3 6 жыл бұрын

This lecture was great also that mc has huge hands

@krakou2 9 жыл бұрын

super interesting

@DJSTOEK 5 жыл бұрын

💘

@boredsilly3 6 жыл бұрын

An english spoken lecture in Tokyo Subtitles or CC would be nice

@SlyHikari03 3 жыл бұрын

I actually kinda like it.

@garyrun3833 8 жыл бұрын

is she supporting radiohead at the moment during their tour

@PoetryJesusY2K 8 жыл бұрын

Yup

@TheStooge92 9 жыл бұрын

palms trax at 1:22:12?

@Stefanune 6 жыл бұрын

Pleease automatic subs in all lectures, please

@rakdurrre 9 жыл бұрын

What is the design group she refers to at 1:12:50?

@olivermatich2818 9 жыл бұрын

Burt Alexis metahaven

@rakdurrre 9 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Thanks Oliver Matich

@colombiankid72 9 жыл бұрын

i disagree i really want my car to sound like a spaceship

@boredsilly3 6 жыл бұрын

1:12:17 the curve is non linear LOL

@EricMazariegos 9 жыл бұрын

her music reminds me of anything on R Plus 7

@SlyHikari03 3 жыл бұрын

Same, why hasn’t she collaborated with Daniel Lopatin.

@pedroalvarado6713 3 жыл бұрын

She obviously loves mark fisher

@Auzlove1 8 жыл бұрын

great interview! who's the beautiful lady interviewing holly?

@_CoasterNinja 8 жыл бұрын

Who's the interviewer?

@cosmictricycle9910 8 жыл бұрын

+CoasterNinja emma warren

@CorpseTongji 5 жыл бұрын

WE ARE NEVER BOOKING YOU AGAIN

@diegoalcantar7516 6 жыл бұрын

You guys human nature is all about to protect us against Holly and friends music

@xpez9694 6 жыл бұрын

when you rely on technology to define the aesthetic of your music you actually limit the sense of timelessness of the sound...No matter how you think otherwise technology continues to evolve and develop and those whom rely on that technology are trapped in its mannerisms. I am not knocking it but maybe a little weary of all the "new" sounds and techniques.. simply because if you lived in the 90s the electronic scene was intense.. and now a lot of those sounds and music is simply obsolete dated and kind of feels naive..

@Alex-tw4ld 4 жыл бұрын

all music relies on technology

@xpez9694 4 жыл бұрын

@@Alex-tw4ld yes, you are correct, I was assuming everyone understood we were talking about digital technology.

@Alex-tw4ld 4 жыл бұрын

@@xpez9694 that is a pointless distinction to make in regards to the subject

@futurfry 3 жыл бұрын

Retro-fetishism also just creatively dilutes the music with recycled creations

@kris5645 9 жыл бұрын

That instrument sounds out of tune.

@SlyHikari03 3 жыл бұрын

Knowing holly, they are probably supposed to be like that.

@MorphOrchid 7 жыл бұрын

that mr beans girlfriend doin the interview

@zero_earth 9 жыл бұрын

bbbzzzzzrr

@mementomatrix 4 жыл бұрын

26:44 she's farting?

@louiswilkinson6663 9 жыл бұрын

Pierre Schaeffer was 10 years old in 1920 how could he be experimenting with sound??LOL

@sfvacid 9 жыл бұрын

eewww

@grmachin 8 жыл бұрын

anyone else noticing some major tension between interviewer and holly?

@africanpublicholiday3989 7 жыл бұрын

Dont see it?

@CONCEPT_RXCH 2 жыл бұрын

Lol i noticed!

@mementomatrix 4 жыл бұрын

sound fake af

@GalacticEgg 4 жыл бұрын

seems insecure, weird interview

@MaryLouLord1 9 жыл бұрын

What about SONGS without all the bullshit? um...Just wondering if any of this is hummable. and will be remembered in not just 50 years from now...but even 10. Holy shit. really? machine. machine. machine. Paint me a horse. and stop fiddling with gadgets. Sorry to be an ass hole..but how about you play a melody, and something simple, timeless, on something that does not require electricity.

@LMW87MMA 8 жыл бұрын

+Mary Lou Lord some people like different things than you. I checked out your single on your KZfaq page and it was alright but I found it boring, derivative, safe, etc. and prefer music that tries new things. Holly's gained some popularity and recognition so she's certainly tapped into something that people find interesting.