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I'm in New Orleans. I'll be happy to participate if there is room.
Dan Sumner
d mendenhall <scarlettcross@yahoo.com> wrote:
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
> (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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