[Af_List] Ambience

[Andrew Clifford]

Hello, I've been away for a while so am now catching up on some old posts...

I know the anecdote you mention and thought it was from some liner notes but can't find the specific example so must have read it in one of Toop's books too - I'm thinking it's on Ocean. Nevertheless, Brian contributes some good thoughts on the structure of field recordings in the liner notes of Ambient 4: On Land.

I used to have a recording of 4'33" on something. Can't remember what comp it was on but I once played it on a 95bFM edition of Art on Air back when I was doing regular stuff there. I'm sure it was an actual concert or performance recording as you could here some sort of rustle about 2min in. I'd like to think the re-transmission of the piece contributed some new, 'live' interferences that were consistent with the composer's original intention to highlight context as being part of a composition.

A few years later I read a good article about the BBC arranging to broadcasting 4min33. The Beeb has all manner of automatic technical safeguards in place to prevent what is known in the industry as 'dead air'. These all had to be deactivated for the duration of the broadcast so their equivalent of the Goodnight Kiwi wouldn't come on with some Muzak to keep the station on air. It was quite a major exercise just to play a little bit of 'nothing'!

Has anyone been to see the Ryoji Ikeda thing on at the MIC in Auckland at the moment?

Cheers,
AC
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  From: Andrew Scott 



    >(in fact there's a project that Eno writes about at some stage which was to do just this - record 3:30 of field audio and listen to it >repeatedly, as though it was a pop song. supposedly your brain starts finding all these connections and you start anticipating particular >moments, the way you anticipate the chorus in a pop song you've heard many times..)


  Where can I read  Eno talking about this?  I put out something a couple of years ago with a very similar intentions - all random 2.5 minute edits of barely touched field recordings, put together with the intention of them being listened to as if they were a pop album.  I had no idea I'd stolen it from Eno ;-)

  -Andrew
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