Re: [microsound] Field improv

[Dale Lloyd <dkl37@xxxxxxxx>]

I triple that emotion, being that Mr. Pimmon did the doubling.

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 05:07:11 EDT Arelar33@xxxxxxx writes:
> With regard to the dialogue concerning improvisation, Id like to add 
> some 
> comments about another form of improvisation which is quite close to 
> my heart.
> Anyone experienced any of the 'soundwalk' recordings of artists such 
> as 
> Hildegaard Westerkamp. Not improvised in the sense that has been 
> referred to 
> so far, but surely a conscious and studied series of aesthetic 
> choices are 
> being made here with regard to what is recorded and when. To explore 
> a sound 
> environment with a recording device, to make selective decisions 
> about what 
> is and what isnt part of the focus of the work...this to me is as 
> much an 
> improvisation as the decision concerning which fader to move, which 
> direction 
> to push the mouse etc when dealing with software improv.
>  Similarly, Scanners trawl thru mobile phone communications are an 
> improv 
> which responds to an external (and to a large extent, unpredictable) 
> world of 
> sound, a world of dial tones and fragments of voices.
> I watched Id Battery perform a similar action with miked up 
> rocks..rubbing 
> and dragging them against one another. This was in a concert setting 
> though, 
> and could be seen to be a performance. 
> Westerkamps work is most often represented by a recording of the 
> soundwalk/improv (often manipulated very sensitively in the studio 
> afterwards). If you doubt the ability of a 'soundwalk' to deal with 
> 'microsound' tho...check out the sounds of barnacles on 'Kits Beach 
> Soundwalk' which is on the CD Transformations (empreintes 
> DIGITALes).
> Just adding another perspective to our dialogue here.
> Cheers 
> Rob
> 
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