Re: [microsound] decay

[Steven Taylor <kung.funk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Sherburne wrote:

> I'd presume that if you dubbed from tape to tape, over and
> over, you'd wind up with a pretty obvious decay of the source material,
> swallowed gradually by tape hiss.  But does digital reproduction really work
> the same way, or is there another process at work in this piece?
>
> I guess the second part of my question:  who else has explored this idea
> (aside from Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" - is this in print, by the
> way? I can't track it down)?

That piece is still available on CD, for example at Forced Exposure.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/lucier.alvin.html

I remember hearing about an artist doing the same thing with a Minidisc player
also... but I cant remember the details (I think they were Japanese?...)

Steve