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Study members* and invited participants |
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PMusic: Open Compositions |
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| 'The
Sound of the Field' |
| indeterminate
Mail Art Sound Art project |
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Field Study is a Mail Art group - postal address: Field Study, c/o
David Dellafiora, P.O. Box 1838, Geelong, Vic 3220, Australia |
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'The
Sound of the Field' features sounds sent by Field
Study members (and invited participants). The
brief was an open one - participants were asked to
'send something that's an aural snapshot from your life'.
Twenty eight people - ranging from composers to non-musicians
- responded to this project, leading to the assembly of
sixty sounds (or 'Sons')
in total. Sounds were posted (as CDs), emailed or phoned.
The TSOTF notes contain
further information.
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this Parallel Music (PMusic)
piece, five channels of the randomly-chosen Sons are performed
for a duration of approximately one minute; the volume
of each Son and its pan (stereo position) are also determined
by random processes. The result is lively, anarchic, wayward,
often raucous and occasionally sublime - very much, I
feel, in the spirit of mail
art. PR |
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envelope >
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if
you would like to take part
in a similar project
please visit Consemble
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| Many
thanks to all contributors (listed
in order of sounds received):
John Alexander Stevens; David Barker; Pauline Chee-A-Nam;
Saul Mapray; John Matthias; Phillip Ramsay; Tom Stevenson;
Geoff Stocker & Lisa Katzenstein; Nomi; Kevin Harper;
Simone Lemmon; Jem Finer; David Prior, Martha Aitchison,
Phil Wyatt, David Dellafiora & Sue
Hartigan;
Max Eastley; Siobhan
McKeown; Kate Marr; Peter Cusack; Eileen Bonner; Jack
Hubert; Eleanor Carr; Shane Jarvis; Wayne Stefano - see
the full details here. Also: mail art salutations
to David Dellafiora for sound help with communication,
design and project ethos. |
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