richard lerman

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>Lerman's work depends upon his virtuosity with the piezo-electric
>transducer. He has developed a large body of work in which the internal
>sounds of environments are presented audibly. His Audio Transducer Series
>is a CD of recordings made in Newfoundland, South America,
>and various places in the Pacific. His recordings include spruce trees,
>cacti, waterfalls from underneath the water, thatch roofs and a bamboo
>bridge. He has also generated many different sounds by recording normal
>environmental sounds using various pieces of metal and glass as
>microphones.
>
>The bulk of his work is recorded onto tape as electro-acoustic music, and
>his musical sense as a composer comes through in all the recordings.
>His visual and installation work affects his compositional relationship to
>time, however. The pieces tend to be slow processes which reveal the
>musicality of found objects. An essential element of all his work is the
>acknowledgment of the musicality discovered in the sources. In his own
>words: "I would like [the audience] to get in tune with this way of
>thinking about materials, with this way of hearing and seeing together. I
>think
>that's important, to not take things for granted. To think, 'yes, this is
>a soda straw, but listen to what it can do!'" (Van Peer, p. 31)