Re: [microsound] Sound installations

["jan.l" <jl@xxxxxxx>]

for my personal use i've used photos plus a binaural mic setup recorded to portable DAT which (when using headphones) gives excellent reproduction of an acustic space.

but, sorry!, it is not that useful as a more general method.

>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)
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>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?
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>thanks
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>duncan.
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