Re: [microsound] 'City of the Future'

["s'agita recordings" <mothra@xxxxxxxxx>]

... and we made a little mess, too, damn !
could anyone with the pwer to do so rename the 'interiors.mp3' file in the
logoplasm dropbox folder into 'logoplasm_interiors.mp3' ??
thanks a lot and sorry,
p&l

----- Original Message -----
From: "s'agita recordings" <mothra@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 2:01 AM
Subject: [microsound] 'City of the Future'

> hello,
> we just upped logoplasm track to the server ... an untagged anonymous mp3
> that goes by the " interiors " title, in the logoplasm dropbox ...
> accompanying notes reads :
>
> i grew up in the seventies, perennially fascinated with the concept of
> future city, actually holding in my heart visions of shiny silver
> skyscrapers and flying cars. since reaching adulthood never delighted me
> with the fulfilling of such naive expectations, i felt a bit doubtful
about
> the way we could approach this project : first things that came up, while
we
> discussed this, had little to do with our current expectations of a future
> city, but surely brought to mind something interesting about our
perception
> of current ones. we thought that, say, one hundred years ago, nobody in
> their right mind would have considered as normal and household the, say,
> peculiar noise coming from an inkjet printing, yet today most of the time
> this goes by unnoticed.
> departing from that, the following step came simple - and we decided to
go,
> and do something as conceptually straight and direct as an imaginary field
> recordings collage of future cities interior architecture. so we sliced
and
> isolated and proverbially hunted, in the source soundfile that kim posted
,
> an array of unthinkable machinery hummings and cycles, perhaps too thin to
> catch the listener's ear in the original, or more probably dreamed there
> into existence by our deluded perceptions :-)
> sliced, isolated, magnified, as if close-miking them, as we always do with
> our surroundings in the present, overdubbed and collaged together in a
> crackle : the environmental background noise of tomorrow.
>
>
> thanks for the opportuniy of participation,
> and have a nice day,
>
> paolo & laura
>
>
> www.logoplasm.org
>
>
>
>
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