Public call for contributions

[carl kruger <goat94@xxxxxxxxx>]

this may be of interest to microsounders>
peace,
carl kruger

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50th Anniversary presentation of John Cage's Williams
Mix , Engine 27
(New York NY)

Public call for contributions towards the 50th
Anniversary presentation of John Cage's Williams Mix

Larry Austin's Williams [re]Mix[...stallation] to be
presented at Engine 27, NYC in March 2003

Engine 27 and composer Larry Austin invite all
composers, musicians and practitioners of
electroacoustic and computer music, sonic art, New
Music, New Media, and sound design to participate, via
the web, in the Williams [re]Mix[...stallation]: a
50th Anniversary Celebration of John Cage's Williams
Mix.

Public call for sounds: city; country; electronic;
manually produced; wind produced; small, which need to
be amplified. Call ends midnight, March 16, 2003.

Saturday, March 22, 2003, marks the 50th anniversary
of the premiere performance of John Cage's Williams
Mix (1951-53) for eight monaural magnetic tapes, the
first octophonic tape music composition in the world,
created and performed with eight speakers surrounding
the audience. To celebrate this historic piece and its
first performance 50 years ago, Austin will create the
Williams [re]Mix[...stallation], a continuously
performing octophonic sound installation to be
installed at Engine 27, implemented with Austin's
recently developed Williams [re]Mix[er] (1997-2001),
an interactive I Ching composing program. The program,
in operation, creates ever-newer versions and
realizations of Cage's original work, calling on a
recorded sound library of hundreds of sounds. The
program's functionality is modeled on the
compositional processes used by Cage to create his
Williams Mix, these processes extrapolated and applied
from Austin's analyses of Cage's 192-page score, his
sketches, and the eight monaural, analog tapes for the
piece.

Since first starting the project, Austin has continued
to collect sounds for the recorded library of sounds
(ranging from 20 to 120 seconds each) according to
Cage's six sound categories of city (A), country (B),
electronic (C), manually produced (D), wind produced
(E), and small sounds (F).

>From February 14 to March 16, 2003, everyone is
invited to upload soundfiles, via the web for
inclusion in the library to be used during the new
multiple Williams [re]Mix[ed] realizations to be
played during the installation.

Guidelines for contributing sounds

1. Sounds should be contributed as stereo, 44.1K,
16bit, aiff or wave format soundfiles.
2. Sounds should be from 20 to 120 seconds in
duration.
3. Each soundfile sent should be labeled by the
contributor and placed in the correct folder or
directory according to Cage's categories of city (A),
country (B), electronic (C), manually produced (D),
wind produced (E), and/or small sounds, which need to
be ampified (F) and include the author's name or 'tag'
and a number signifying how many files you've
contributed to the category. The contributor decides
which category the sound(s) belong(s) in. 4. Go to:
http://engine27.org/williamsmix.html

Engine 27's Williams [re]Mix[...stallation]
presentation dates: Saturday & Sunday, 2-8pm, March
22, 23, 29, 30 opening reception: Saturday, March 22,
6-8pm, address: 173 Franklin St. (btwn. Hudson &
Greenwich)

Much more information at http://engine27.org

Go to http://engine27.org/williamsmix.html

to upload your sound files, for more information and
for a brief history of Williams Mix.

-- 

kelly cooper
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school of the art institute of chicago
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chicago, il 60601
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