RE: [microsound] AC and other sounds

[Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

wasn't there a similar release in the past few months -- a site-specific
recording made somewhere in a landscape underneath a web of power lines -- a
sort of document of environmental magnetic hum?

p.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sean Cooper [SMTP:scooper@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, November 05, 1999 6:03 PM
> To:	microsound
> Subject:	Re: [microsound] AC and other sounds
> 
> >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
> 
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