Re: [microsound] feild music / not field recordings

[Nelson Provazi <nprovazi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OH MUSHROOMS

> >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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