Re: microsound Digest 2 Jul 2002 17:40:37 -0000 Issue 600

[kevin driscoll <kdriscol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm not sure it's something you'll want.  very grainy tape.  but let me know
and when i'm back from my parents' i'll put it on the computer.

ciao- kevin


>how can i get me an mp3!!!
>
>david
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: kdriscol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kdriscol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10.33a
>To: microsound
>Subject: [microsound] invisibility while recording.
>
>yesterday, i was walking the strip at hampton beach, nh recording little
>bits
>of noise here and there.
>
>a shouting match broke out to my left between a group of men and a group of

>women.  it seems that the men had propositioned the women in someway, only

>to
>discover that they were actually transgendered.
>
>listening back to the recording, i'm struck by the remarks of the men - - "i

>hope your mother is proud of you!"
>
>the remarkable part of this story is that i just stood passively by and
>recorded
>the exchange.  had i been simply walking, i would surely have gotten
>involved,
>if only by shouting something out.  in retrospect, it's as if the act of
>recording
>kept me from feeling as though i were really a PART of the scene unfolding

>before
>me.
>
>;; kevin