Re: [microsound] Sound installations

[duncan speakman <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

seeing as there is an installations thread at the moment I thought I'd
repost a question that I put up last week (it kind of got lost in the
excitement over the new 'microsound' music project announcement)

Is it worth trying to document sound installations? In most of my work the
3D acoustic space where its presented is key and IMHO yer average stereo
recording doesn't do it justice (in some cases even injustice). Video helps
to get an idea but doesn't give any sense of time (e.g. some work has a
fairly continuous tonality that is only structured by the listener moving
around in and out of the exhibition space. Does anyone here know of Shawn
Decker ( an amazing sound artist whose work would definitely appeal to the
microsound listers I feel, check him out at www.artic.edu/~sdecke/ ) .I saw
a presentation by him at ISEA last year where he was talking about
completely abandoning the idea of documenting his work because it really
gave people the wrong impression.
So, input, has anyone heard/seen documentation of sound installations that
do them justice, or had difficulty/ease doing it with their own work?

thanks

duncan.

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duncan speakman
http://www.kleindesign.org
living : berlin
listening : John Wall - 'constructions I-IV'
reading : lonely planet(berlin)
making : 1441 paper airplanes

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