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>From: Larry Austin <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Engine 27 public call for sounds
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>Public call for contributions towards
>
>the 50th Anniversary presentation of John Cage's "Williams Mix"
>Larry Austin's "Williams [re]Mix[...stallation]"
>to be presented at Engine 27, NYC in March 2003
>
>
>Engine 27 and composer Larry Austin invite all composers, musicians and
>practitioners of electroacoustic and computer music, sonic art, New Music, New
>Media, and sound design to participate, via the web, in the "Williams
>[re]Mix[...stallation]: a 50th Anniversary Celebration of John
>Cage's 'Williams
>Mix'. "
>
>Public call for sounds: city; country; electronic; manually produced; wind
>produced; small, which need to be
>amplified. Call ends midnight, March 16, 2003.
>
>Go to http://engine27.org/williamsmix.html to upload your sound
>files, for more
>information and for a brief history of "Williams Mix."
>
>Saturday, March 22, 2003, marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere
>performance
>of John Cage's "Williams Mix" (1951-53) for eight monaural magnetic tapes, the
>first octophonic tape music composition in the world, created and
>performed with
>eight speakers surrounding the audience. To celebrate this historic piece and
>its first performance 50 years ago, Austin will create the "Williams
>[re]Mix[...stallation]", a continuously performing octophonic sound
>installation
>to be installed at Engine 27, implemented with Austin's recently developed
>"Williams [re]Mix[er]"
>(1997-2001), an interactive I Ching composing program. The program, in
>operation, creates ever-newer versions and realizations of Cage's
>original work,
>calling on a recorded sound library of hundreds of sounds. The program's
>functionality is modeled on the compositional processes used by Cage to create
>his "Williams Mix", these processes extrapolated and applied from Austin's
>analyses of Cage's 192-page score, his sketches, and the eight
>monaural, analog
>tapes for the piece.
>
>Since first starting the project, Austin has continued to collect
>sounds for the
>recorded library of sounds (ranging from 20 to 120 seconds each) according to
>Cage's six sound categories of city (A), country (B), electronic (C), manually
>produced (D), wind produced (E), and small sounds (F).
>
>From February 14 to March 16, 2003, everyone is invited to upload soundfiles,
>via the web for inclusion in the library to be used during the new multiple
>Williams [re]Mix[ed] realizations to be played during the installation.
>
>Guidelines for contributing sounds
>
>1. Sounds should be contributed as stereo, 44.1K, 16bit, aiff or wave format
>soundfiles.
>2. Sounds should be from 20 to 120 seconds in duration.
>3. Each soundfile sent should be labeled by the contributor and placed in the
>correct folder or directory according to Cage's categories of city
>(A), country
>(B), electronic (C), manually produced (D), wind produced (E), and/or small
>sounds, which need to be ampified (F) and include the author's name
>or 'tag' and
>a number signifying how many files you've contributed to the category. The
>contributor decides which category the sound(s) belong(s) in.
>4. Go to: http://engine27.org/williamsmix.html
>
>
>Engine 27's "Williams [re]Mix[...stallation]" presentation dates: Saturday &
>Sunday, 2-8pm, March 22, 23, 29, 30 opening reception: Saturday, March 22,
>6-8pm, address: 173 Franklin St. (btwn. Hudson & Greenwich). Much more
>information at http://engine27.org
>
>
>Please forward this announcement to all who might be interested.
>
>To be added or removed from Engine 27's email list please go to:
>http://64.247.23.2/mailman/listinfo/events_engine27.org
--
Ian Stonehouse, Studio Manager, Electronic Music Studios,
Music Department, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7643 (direct line+ansafone)
Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7644.
EMS Homepage : http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/
Personal Homepage: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/ianstonehouse/
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