Re: [microsound] space, the audience & performer

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just finished a run with a very modest "4 CD players
on infinite random play" setup in a very humble kind of
room (used sometimes as a classroom. Low ceiling, old
wooden "school" chairs set up in "discussion" circles).
It turned out that, except for a very few cases, the
whole deal was unbearable with the volume cranked up
(as the person who set it up had mistakenly done), since
the chairs were the kind of thing that didn't make you
want to stay. But it was my experience that at very low
volumes, the listener's time scale was more or less
affected by something else for reasons I couldn't
exactly figure out; people seemed to come and stay for
15 or 20 minutes as though it were some kind of waiting
room. While I'd like to clap myself on the back for
making some kind of drift that'd be worth bearing a
sort of uncomfortable chair for more than 3 minutes, I'm
unconvinced that that's what was going on. I realized
driving home how much I envy people like Johnny - those
handsome enough to pass before the public eye and 
avoid this kind of odd problem. I can only imagine how
it must be for those of you who work all the time in
rooms you're never in until the piece is up. While the
experience was salutary overall, how *does* one generally
approach installation by remote control during the 
creation portion of the process (where one must imagine
the mix of things Johnny has so aptly described)?

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