Re: [microsound] synchronous_source

[Steven Taylor <kung.funk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Id definitely be interested in this Mitchell.
Let me know when you have more details.
Steve

mitchell whitelaw wrote:

> a proposal for all microsound makers, particularly those interested in
> working with acoustic / environmental source material:
>
> synchronous_source
>
> * at some arbitrary point in time (sometime relatively soon), a bunch of
> people in different places each make a stereo recording of a certain
> length (i'm thinking short, c. 1 minute). each recording is simply the
> ambient sound in a particular spot: that spot might be indoors,
> outdoors, quiet, noisy, whatever.
>
> * the specific location is unimportant. the idea is that these
> recordings be made synchronously... together they form a distributed
> recording of a specific chunk of time.
>
> * after the recordings are made, each person in the group gets access to
> all the recordings... we could distribute them as high-quality mp3s, or
> CDRs via post.
>
> * what happens then? any number of things... source material to do what
> you like with. while i have a specific project in mind (part of fällt's
> invalidObject series) i'd be open to taking the material, and the
> collective, further... it would make an interesting base for a
> collaboration / compilation.
>
> email me offlist if you're interested...
>
> & btw, would the lowercasesound list be up for something like this?
> anyone who knows that list better than i, feel free to fwd this proposal.
>
> mitchell whitelaw ::::::: http://www.spin.net.au/~mitchellw
>
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