Comments: enviro-embedded album
Coooooool. Let me know when you test it out. It brings to mind(in a free-association way) this piece done semi-annually in NYC called "Unsilent Night". Everyone brings tape players and are given a tape by the composer. You press play at the same time and then everyone walks from Washington Square, all through the East Village, and end up Tompkins Square Park. You can move around in the crowd, or go down another street; the sounds of the music, your environment, and the people around you combine to create a composition that's partially your own, because of your ability to control how you hear it.
Have you taken into account the sounds of the environment that will be added to the groups record? It might be that doing this test at different times of day will produce different results.
Posted by kellee at January 21, 2004 12:49 PM
The USC soundtrack eh? This looks very interesting Will. I would like to know more about your process and how the project is moving forward. Is the music in a particualar key and/or at a certain rythm? Is the scale of the "zones" dictated by a GPS? It would also be interesting to get a "preview" of the song by facing a certain direction (lord knows how you would do that).
Posted by andrew at January 25, 2004 9:26 AM