Re: [microsound] AC and other sounds

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

>i don't normally use sampled site recordings.. but i have tried at points
>to create sounds that appear to me to have the same sense/"aural aesthetic"
>that i get from the original... yet remain non-referential..

this is interesting. as i understand it, the latest fennesz cd on touch is
titled after the coordinates of the location where it was recorded
(fennesz' garden), and jon wozencroft's pictures in the accompanying
booklet are meant to provide a sort of contrast to the "artificiality" of
the sounds (the pictures are of natural environments which have in one way
or another been "adapted" to human uses, but still somehow retain a wild,
uncultivated feel). wozencroft did the same thing with rehberg&bauer's
"fasst" and "ballt." it's of course hard to know if this is just the Touch
aesthetic at work (many Touch and Touch-related releases [such as mark van
hoen's "playing with time" on apollo, which also features wozencroft's
photography] present a similar dynamic between natural and artificial), or
if the musicians were also "in on it."

come to think of it, the first fennesz cd (on mego) also featured a
landscape of sorts on the cover (albeit tweaked and fractured by tina
frank)...

sc