Re: [microsound] feild music / not field recordings

[scott allison <lipistal3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i can relate to this it seems that anytime i would try and create something
> from a synthetic source other than drone work, i was never satisfied with
> the outcome. when you use field recordings you have no say in how the sound
> moves and changes.
>
> j.frede


I have also found this to be quite nice.

Chance operation can have interesting results. I once did a video based on 
chance. Around the area of Richmond VA, artist Erin kinght and myself used 
chance to determine where in the city or country we would go, what angle the 
camera has at, how high on the tripod it was positioned, what time of day to 
shoot, and for how long to shot. No editing was done outside the camera.

Depending on the number of decesions one has to make, if one applies chance 
to each of the those desisons, you build more chance into something and 
remove yourself more and more. Cage would create rather elaborte sets of 
operations to remove himself as much as possible.

Did you know Cage was the first Westerner to go into Communist Soviet Union, 
because he was considered the worlds leading expert on mushrooms and the 
Soviets where reeally into mushrooms and had huge conventions about 
mushrooms. There is a funny film about going mushroom hunting with john 
cage.

Forget Silence, lets talk mushrooms.

-Scott





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