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Record your soundscape please!!!!!!!!
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I really need your help guys! I'm working on a project to submit at link but for doing it i need the collaboration of lot of people, otherwise the project will fail and i'll be really really sad...
Anyway, i need you to get your mics and record not less than 5mins out of your window. I need a field recordings of the very place where you live togheter with a short reflection about a particular sound that your memory associates with the place you live in.
read the text below, it's the really first writing of the idea so please sorry about it, it's probably row and needs better english but you can already understand what i need those field recordings for.
thanks in advance.
send everything to bluermutt AT NOSPAM gmail.com
'for everywhere but not here' it's a generative work that aims to be a reflection on the emotional side of distance, the perception i have of the places where i'm not, the obsessive desire of escape from territorial addiction.
I mean, home?
How can a piece of software help me to go deeper in to what i feel as a culturally constructed perception?
How can sound be emplied to estabilish a relationship with distant places and the people in there?
I've asked to many web friends to collect the sounds out of their window and then to send me a field recording togheter with a reflection about a particular sound that they strongly associate with the place where they live.
Then a software i wrote a software in Max/MSP that randomly plays these sound files one after the other wihout ever repeating the same file twice in a row. While the sound plays it is digitally processed and the amount of dsp on it is defined by the distance between the place where that recording comes from the place of the one that played before.
So, the more a sound is distant to one that preceded it the more it's original form is lost for being transformed in something new.
Moreover, while this happens, the texts about the sounds are displayed in accordance to what is playing. | |
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07/18/06
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Bluermutt
thanks evilcad, i knew that site but haven't been there for a while, good you're reminding me of its existance.
07/18/06
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evilcad
Bluermutt said: "thanks evilcad, i knew that site but haven't been there for a while, good you're reminding me of its existance."
You bet. 
I'm going out of town tomorrow, but I'll attempt to get you a recording of Colorado with some thoughts of mine.
07/18/06
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Bluermutt
cheers man!
07/20/06
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energygiant
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im sorry..........................i didnt reflect.
07/24/06
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lematt
mmmmh
you will have one from me too !
but... critically: why are the farest sounds are the most altered ?
The closest things are often the ones that we think we know perfectly although they can surprise us !
I don't know if it's understandable...
07/24/06
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leafcutter
Nice idea Bluermutt,
I'll record some sound for you tomorrow, i should be getting a 70's Grundig stereo mic in the post, it'll sound great on this.
best wishes,
john.
07/25/06
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Bluermutt
lematt said: "but... critically: why are the farest sounds are the most altered ?
The closest things are often the ones that we think we know perfectly although they can surprise us !"
What you say it's true, but i think there are reasons and possible meanings for both actions, depends what's the idea beneath it. I mean, i decided to alter the most the 'distant sounds' because of the fact that in a way this project starts from the fact that i want to be somewhere else, really, is something i desire every day and the fact of workin on it for an exibition that, if I'm lucky, will be in a place were i won't be (California) just reminded me more how I perceive distance: i love distance cause i love difference, i need something completly different and probably that's what i live for and what i make music for. so, distance as difference, clean sound as the place where you are, different sound as a place seen as different from another. Obviously i know that far doesn't exactly mean different but in part it is true.
This is why i decided to alter more the farest sounds. Hope i menaged to explain it....
07/26/06
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lematt
mmmh ...
it's perfectly explained.
I understand the "statement"
07/27/06
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mixedtape
is it too late to do this? i've been so busy lately but wanted to help out.
08/13/06
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Unknownforce
me too, i finally recorded something if you want to use it?
08/24/06
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quip
will look now
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