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(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 passages in stereo slightly out of phase with each other. Christophe Charles: "Undirected 1986-1996" and Oval: "Dok" - Christophe Charles made several recordings of different city sounds - bells, crowds, machinery, traffic, and altered, layered, and rearranged some of it to create kind of spooky minimal 'soundscapes'. Oval then borrowed a lot of Mr. Charles' source recordings and ran them through his trademark digital music-making process to create the CD 'Dok', which sounds quite different. Tetsu Inoue, Charles Uzzell-Edwards, and Daimon Beail: "Audio" - Actually, I just bought this CD, so I'm not sure exactly how they did it, but the music is created entirely from source recordings made at different street corners in San Francisco. Michael Peters: My2k webpage : http://www.mpeters.de/mpeweb/music/my2k/index.htm A lot of Michael Peters' 10 second songs for this project involve source recordings. The Quiet American <http://www.quietamerican.org>. This guy provides his excellent music in streaming mp3 and real audio! He travels to different areas of the world, and makes looped music from his source recordings there. Thanks for your patience! Even though this mail seems strict, I'm sure we're going to have a lot of fun doing this, and I'm confident that it's going to be a nice comp when we're done! Best, Matt Davignon _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com