Re: [microsound] Introduction

[Andrew Jones <liminal18@xxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 12:49 PM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:

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>> High remix material here although the recordings themselves seem bland
> musically on the surface.
> Good luck in your studies, mind if I steal some of your specimens for
> source in a track?
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> Thanks,
> A<
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> Dear A,
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> I must admit that for about the last ten years I have been deliberately
> sort of  amusical and even "anti-musical"  within my own personal 
> research
> realm so as not to be too influenced by the constraints of esthetics.

I have plenty of respect for this research and think some of these 
recording do have interesting
patterns in them that with the right tweaks might make some cool sounds.

> But
> now I am reopening to the possibility of music.

Hey good. what's science with out fun?

>
> If you listen to the forward scatter specimens you might note there 
> could
> be William Burroughs-esque poetic cut-up potentials in the reflected FM
> transmitter receptions.

Yup, i was planning on using those as the cuts between my hardcore 4 on 
the floor
house tracks. I am of course kidding, but does that interfere with your 
results?
the fm reflections are those actual radio signals leaving earth your 
catching or are
they relfecting from the bodies your studying and hence carry some 
aspect
the body they bounced off of with them? This method of recording could 
be used for chance composition,
fluxus.

> But I have even opted away from that sort of
> pattern recognition because it streams with esthetics and I have been
> mostly into aspects like ionosation properties and layers of sound in 
> the
> hopes of discovering something new.

I understand and that's fascinating. You never know what ways
data can be transferred or what it can tell you about where it came 
from.
On the other end there's folks making music using
physics software now. Not to mention NASA's symphony of the planets
recordings.

>
> Mostly I am looking for a way to trip with the sound which might 
> require
> defeating intellectual musicality modes  in deference to what the 
> central
> nervous system may desire.   Not sure.\

I'm not trying to impose on you in anyway to differ from that. Although 
I'm
sure after hours of listening to these recordings you become atuned to 
the patterns
in the waveforms, begin to hear aesthetics in the noise.

>
> Yes, you can remix my stuff  and I would like to hear anything that is
> done.

I'm not that good, especially compared to the folks on this list, but
you never know what my meager scripts can yield.

Thanks,
Andrew

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