The 50th Anniversary presentation of John Cage's Williams Mix (fwd)

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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. Go to
<http://engine27.org/williamsmix.html> to upload your sound
files, for more information and for a brief history of
Williams Mix. 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/> Please forward this announcement to
all who might be interested. To be added or removed from
Engine 27's email list please go to:
<http://64.247.23.2/mailman/listinfo/events_engine27.org>

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