Re: [microsound] Unintentional sound

[andrew benson <cloudmachine99@xxxxxxxxx>]

I like the idea of improvising with Market St. on
backup.  I'm curious about your approach.

andrew

--- Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Fwiw I find "unintentional" is a distinction
> that only meaningfully
> > > adheres to human-produced sound; that it's a
> category error
> > > (irrelevant) to call weather-sound (say)
> intentional or un-.
> >
> > i was at a Phil Dadson concert (legendary NZ
> improviser/artist) last
> > night, and at one point he was making music that
> merged with noises the
> > air conditioning in the room was making, made you
> /aware/ of the sound
> > of it even. at what point does the unintentional
> become the intentional?
> 
> For me that's an easy one -- the A/C was of course
> unintentional at a
> casual level of description, but Dadson was
> intentionally integrating it
> (based on your description) into the "authorized"
> soundscape... I'm pretty
> sure I remember perceiving Richard Chartier doing
> that with the rattle of
> the HVAC at CEAIT a couple years ago, but it could
> have been "active
> perception" on my part. :)
> 
> I may have said before on the list ~ for me the
> moments I have most valued
> as a performer are *exactly* those moments when I
> can encourage things
> like this -- a breakdown between the categories of
> desired and undesired
> sound -- between those phenomena we award our
> attention to and attend to,
> and those we reject as... "noise."
> 
> Harmonizing with the 60 cycle hum in the house PA,
> always nice. Live
> miking the audience or live processing local
> environmental sound is
> something people have done numerous times at the
> Field Effets shows I've
> hosted. The Infrasound collaboration between Scott
> Arford and Randy Yau
> was memorable for the way they intentionally used
> very low frequency sound
> (not true infrasound incidentally) to "reify" the
> architecture of our
> building -- by making different loose window panes
> etc rattle and
> rustle at their various resonant frequenciees.
> 
> For me some of my best moments have happened
> presenting work at the
> Luggage Store here in SF, which is perched above a
> noisy section of
> "sketchy" Market Street -- the whistles,
> above-ground rail, subway, crazy
> people, pimps, sirens, etc. inevitably integrate
> into whatever I'm doing
> and several times I've been able to blend the
> boundaries enough to provoke
> people to talk with me about afterwards.
> 
> If someone momentarily forgets what they're
> "supposed" to be listening to
> and hears everything in their environment naively...
> I consider my work
> done. :)
> 
>  best,
>   aaron
> 
>   ghede@xxxxxxxx
>   http://www.quietamerican.org
> 
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> 
> 
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Andrew Benson
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