Re: [microsound] Music and architecture

[Dale Lloyd <dkl37@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Sean, actually I've not looked into M. Amacher. Will do. I have
the Site Of  Sound and I am quite fond of it. I've asked Michael Harding
@ Touch about a full length of AER and he said that there were no plans.
Perhaps he agrees with you. Thanks, Dale.

On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:14:48 -0700 Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> probably i'm stating the obvious here, but maryanne amacher composes 
> pieces
> that are designed to interact with the specific spaces in which they 
> are
> eventually heard (that is, for which they are composed). she rarely
> releases her music for the expressed purpose that it's so integrally 
> tied
> to these acoustical spaces as to be incomplete without them. 
> nonetheless, a
> cd of her work, "sound characters," was released by tzadik about two 
> years
> ago, and she has contributed tracks to asphodel/sombient's three 
> volume
> "drones" series. the tzadik disc is half music of this sort (adapted 
> for cd
> release) and half "otoacoustic" music (music designed to produce 
> audible
> overtones in the ear of the listener such that the music is a sort 
> of
> collaboration between the tones she produced and those produced in 
> the act
> of hearing)...also, in case you don't know of the book "site of 
> sound: of
> architecture and the ear" (steve roden and brandon labelle, eds) 
> that may
> be worth looking into. it comes with a cd including pieces by achim
> wollscheid, roden and labelle, rlw, the below-named tsunoda, john 
> hudak,
> and others.
> 
> morton feldman's "rothko chapel" also springs to mind, although 
> that's a
> little more along the lines of music as interpreted space rather 
> than music
> as the sounding of space.
> 
> >I've been inspired by some of the work of Toshiya Tsunoda, John
> >Duncan, AER (on the Touch/Ash comps), etc.  Since some of the 
> people on
> >this list have both fields as a background, it would be interesting 
> (for
> >me, at least) to hear some perspectives, ideas, etc regarding this. 
> 
> 
> i've really dug the aer stuff as well. hopefully wozencroft will one 
> day
> release a full-length cd of his music, although i must admit i quite 
> like
> their status as incidental music between other tracks on the various 
> touch
> compilations on which they've appeared.
> 
> sc, still waiting with baited breath for the english-language 
> translation
> of xenakis' "music and architecture"
> 
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