Nice subject! I think you should definitely read the interview with
Fransisco Lopez in this month's Wire. He has some interesting
views on music and environmental sounds, and the distinction
between acousmatic music and acoustic ecology.
A couple of weeks ago we organized a small festival ourselves
where all the performances took place in shipping-containers.
Although not all of the artists used the specific acoustical qualities
of the space, it proved to be a good concept. Especially the
performance by THU20, a Dutch electroacoustic ensemble, was
fascinating, because they used recorded sounds of the space
during their show.
A very interesting artist working in the field of music and
architecture is Janek Schaefer, who is an architect himself. His
upcoming album Comae makes use of architectonic structures
adapted to sound. The result is absolutely impressive.
Jeroen
> I have a comp (The Sound Inside: Music and Architecture)that
> has various people performing music within various structures, but to
> just record the environments themselves would make me a happy listener.
> 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.
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