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The dream house



on 12/2/00 5:30 PM, microsound-digest-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx at
microsound-digest-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <<here the sounds morph, changing pitch and
> frequency, becoming even more complex and interesting. Each
> subsequent room with its independent acoustics provide yet
> another set of sounds. One is able to change the sound by
> walking through the listening area as well as simply
> shifting the listening position. This amazing
> characteristic puts ³Matrix² in a class of it¹s own>>
> 
> again, huh? this is a characteristic common to most pure sine wave/tone-based
> electronic records and is way more evident on Ikeda's earlier work, just to
> name one example. I tried walking around "the listening area", believe me. a
> class of its own? go buy a copy of Xenakis' Legende d'Eer immediately.

Just got back from La Mont Young's dream house. . . shifting indeed (and
just any sine wave will do. . .  you don't need Ryoji to hold your hand)

bye bye,
Vance