Re: [microsound] Dr. Max Matthews (was our first .microsound poll )

[ian stewart <artsonics@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I guess for me the impact Cage had, aside from the whole silence thing... 
> was his idea that uisng stock sound, much like stock photographry and using 
> tape based recording and editing techology, one could create compsitons 
> without instruments or musicians in a non-liner fashion

Schaeffer was there first with his Etudes de Bruits in '48. Cage met up with 
Schaeffer in Paris in '49, but I don't think he used any recorded sounds to 
make a piece until 1952 (although he had used phonograph test tones on 
varispeed turntables in the 1939 Imaginary Landscape no. 1). The German 
filmmaker Walter Ruttman made a sound collage to a film strip in 1930 
(Weekend) made up of the sounds of Berlin, but that appears to have been an 
isolated thing.

best,
Ian

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