Re: I need 4 more people for a compilation - field recordings

[d mendenhall <scarlettcross@yahoo.com>]

please include me in... i have not read the entire
message but i want in. Lawrence, ks is the town... a
very little-big city in the US. downtown is great. let
me know....

dakota

--- matt davignon <mattdavignon@hotmail.com> wrote:
> (First of all, yes, this is a huge email. Sorry to
> the folks who are not 
> interested, but it is on topic and it is all
> relevant text that I had to get 
> in there.)
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I have another CT-Collective compilation in the
> signup stage right now. The 
> aim is to record field recordings of the city (or
> town, or rural area) you 
> live in, or a similar location that you're visiting,
> then to create music 
> from those field recordings.
> 
> I announced this project to the CT group on
> Wednesday. I was expecting to 
> struggle to get 10 people from different geographic
> areas, and I very 
> quickly got 16. So this project is going to be in 2
> volumes, and I'm now 
> looking for 4 more people to round out Volume 2.
> 
> Very Important: Since I'm specifically aiming to get
> a wide variety of 
> cities in this project, I can't let two people
> represent the same area. 
> People who do not live in North America or Europe
> are especially encouraged! 
> Here are the areas I already have represented:
> 
> San Francisco, California
> Los Angeles, California
> New York City
> Atlanta, Georgia
> Austin, Texas
> Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
> Bloomington, Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul area)
> Lafayette, Indiana
> 
> Mexico City
> Garda Lake, Italy
> Pretty much all of the United Kingdom (we already
> have 3 participants)
> Kuerten, Germany
> Eskilstuna, Sweden
> 
> If you can represent an area other than the ones
> listed, and you'd like to 
> take part in this (for more details, see the rules
> posted below), please 
> email me directly. I imagine there could be a lot of
> demand for this, so 
> it's best to email me soon, and I apologize in
> advance for the people I 
> won't be able to fit, but I can only take 4.
> 
> These next two paragraphs are general facts about
> most CT Projects. 
> Participants will join a seperate email discussion
> list, hosted by 
> Egroups.com. (I'm the moderator of this group, and
> I'm here, so the 4 people 
> I take should have no trouble getting in.) Finished
> tracks can be sent to me 
> by mail in the form of music on a CD-R or tape, or a
> .wav file on CD-R. I 
> can also take .wav files over the internet, but they
> have to be posted 
> somewhere. Sorry, I can't take MiniDisc, DAT, or
> ZIP/Jazz discs.
> 
> We all chip in for the costs of the discs and
> artwork that we'll all 
> recieve. That will most likely be around $8-$10 per
> participant, and you'll 
> recieve both volumes. Why is it so cheap? Well,
> first they'll be on CD-R, 
> probably with very nice black and white artwork.
> Secondly,  you don't have 
> to chip in for extra copies unless you want some.
> When we're done, I will be 
> offering these for sale online for $5 per disc.
> That's pretty much what 
> they'll cost me to make and mail. Since they're
> CD-R's I can make them as I 
> sell them. I've historically been the distributor of
> the CT-Projects, but 
> I'm not greedy. If another participant wants to make
> and sell them the same 
> way I do, we'll figure out a way to make that work.
> In short, these 
> compilations are not for profit. They're a chance to
> collaborate with new 
> people, and to try something most of us probably
> haven't done before. (I 
> certainly haven't done music from field recordings
> before, anyway.)
> 
> Okay, here are the rules for this project in
> particular:
> 
> CT-Location project rules.
> 
> Ok. Here's the idea: I want to get (a total of) 20
> musicians from around the 
> world to represent their various cities or
> geographic locations where they 
> live. These people will go out and record sounds
> from the areas they 
> encounter in their day-to-day life. Then they'll
> construct "music" from 
> these sounds they recorded. The result will be to
> get a survey of 1) the day 
> to day life of different areas around the world, and
> 2) the intuitions, 
> interests, and techniques of the musicians recording
> and "remixing" the 
> sounds.
> 
> Here are the project rules:
> 
> 1) 10 musicians with a time limit of 7 minutes each
> for each disc. Musicians 
> are allowed to divide their time into 2 or more
> pieces of music to represent 
> different aspects of their "cities".
> 2) By "Cities", I'm not limiting this project to
> urban areas. If you live 
> out in the countryside or in a suburb, that's
> perfectly fine. "City" is 
> about the amount of land area I'm looking for.
> 3) Since I'm trying to get a nice variety of
> geographical locations 
> represented, I'm not going to allow 2 people to
> represent the same city.
> 4) However, if two people who live in the same city
> want to join, they can 
> both contribute if one of them is traveling to a
> different location, and 
> wants to represent that other location. For example,
> if two New Yorkers want 
> to join, but one was going to base his music on
> sounds from his vacation 
> spot in Wyoming instead of New York City, that would
> be perfectly fine.
> 5) You must be able to send at least one photograph
> of the area you're 
> representing, and it has to be a photograph taken by
> you or a friend of 
> yours (not taken from a National Geographic, for
> example). I'd like to use 
> these photos somehow in the artwork or the front
> cover. How photos can be 
> submitted will be up to whoever's doing the artwork.
> Hopefully, these 
> photographs will represent the day to day life in
> these areas (not pictures 
> of the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower), but
> I'm not going to set a 
> rule about that last part.
> 6) You can't play your instruments on this one. You
> can't re-record any of 
> your old songs from a stereo, or instruct other
> people to perform on command 
> either. You can record street musicians, music
> playing from passing cars or 
> stores, people humming and singing amongst
> themselves, yourself interacting 
> with your environment (walking, using ATM machines,
> etc.), animals, all 
> sorts of stuff! Most of the performance aspects of
> this are going to be when 
> you re-organize your source recordings to make your
> final pieces of music.
> 7) Of course, your final submissions must be made
> entirely of your field 
> recordings. You can process, loop and rearrange them
> however you want. If 
> the track you send me has nothing to do with, or
> clearly breaks these rules, 
> it's simply not going to be on the compilation. (For
> example, if the track 
> you submit is of you playing guitar, or is your
> latest synth-techno hit.)
> 8) Final submission date: Postmarked by June 1st for
> Volume 2. (I might back 
> this up within the next week.)
> 
> Here are some examples of this kind of music that I
> know about:
> 
> Alejandra and Underwood: "Notebook on Cities and
> Clothes"  - These guys did 
> a tour last year where each performance is created
> entirely from 
> laptop-manipulated sounds of another city. This is a
> disc of these live 
> shows. Most of the music is created by making simple
> loops or playing 
> 
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