Re: It just goes...

[Tim Nelson <tcn62@ici.net>]

Sounds like that old Erik Satie thing about music written to mingle with
the sounds of the knives and forks... or Eno's comments in the notes to
Discreet Music where he talks about accidentally setting the volume too low
when playing some harp music, and then realizing that the other sounds he
was hearing could be experienced in much the same way as the music; a new
way of listening...

Tim

At 06:52 PM 6/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
... when in a "noisy" environment such as a
>crowded restaurant, an effort can be made to treat all of the various 
>sounds
>(snippets of conversations, clinks of glass and silverware, etc., at 
>various
>frequencies) in a detached or homogeneous way.  The result is a rather 
>smooth
>cacophony that rises and falls with bits of recognizable verbage coming
>occasionlly to the surface.  It takes a little effort to treat all of the
sound
>sources in such an environment as totally equal with no intrinsic meaning 
>in
>terms of language, etc., but the result is a very interesting and somewhat
>exhilarating, "sound collage" experience.