[microsound] Dust to Dust

[Phil Thomson <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Not really thinking of submitting this for the .microsound project, but
this seven seconds thing got me thinking. And I tried this:

http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson/PhilThomson_DustToDust.mp3

A digital readymade: I took project founder Kim Cascone's entire "Dust
Theories" CD (about an hour of music) and time-compressed it into seven
seconds. What's surprising is how fidelitous it is to the original,
both, I think, in terms of both aesthetics and concept: a piece made as
a kind of aural theory of sonic dust is itself electroacoustically
"pulverized", reduced back into its constituent element. The result can
be thought of as either a synopsis, or the basis for a new aural
"theory", perhaps now according to a fractal logic of recursive
self-similarity: make a new piece from this "dust", "pulverize" it, make
a new piece, etc., so that the whole resembles the part on multiple
levels.

Just a theory. :-)

Phil


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Phil Thomson 
http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson/
http://centibel.vze.com/ 
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