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

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:50 PM +0000 9/30/04, ian stewart wrote:

> 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

Williams Mix was created during 1952-53. Many of the sound sources 
were taken from sound effects records. The structure and process of 
the composition were based on chance operations. It was an eight 
channel piece, initially with eight mono tapes played on eight 
separate tape decks. Many of the source materials were manipulated 
according to basic musique concrete procedures, though most seem to 
be unaltered. The primary technical procedure in composing the tapes 
was splicing. Amplitude envelopes were created by using various 
lengths of diagonal splices. Many of the sound segments were quite 
short, so that some passages are certainly "micro" in their sonic 
structure.
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