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

[kimberly howie <kimhowie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In addition to Bell Lab's impact on electronic sound innovations, they 
also own Lucent Technologies, which is interesting considering the 
prominence of cell phones and their ring tones holding both social and 
"compositional" qualities.

Cage's expressed excitement in the limitless possibilities of sound 
when borrowed from environment is appealing. When referred to as "stock 
sound", I think of Corbis... boring ol' search engine of images that 
are passe, not exciting. Perhaps this is why only a handful of shows I 
have seen lately have sparked something personally... There is a 
passive quality of something similar, some fashion that is being 
utilized instead of exploring new terrain. Plus, Cage had a light 
hearted wit that provided a playfulness that is divine.

In an off comment though, the debate tonite kicked Bush ass!

Yours,
K




While Cage
On Sep 30, 2004, at 4:50 PM, ian stewart wrote:

> > 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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