From R. Lim Sent Sun, Oct 24th 1999, 21:00
From R. Lim Sent Sun, Oct 24th 1999, 21:00
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Philip Sherburne wrote: > (Carsten Nicolai tells a funny story about Francisco Lopez sending Bernhard > Gunter a tape of some of his material... and Gunter calls him up and says, > "But the tape is blank!!") So much for IDM humor. True story, though. Perhaps Lopez sent a copy of _Paris Hiss_, which contains two works entirely composed of successively overdubbed tape hiss (it exists only on cassette, natch). To quote from the liner notes (because I like them so much): "...Tape hiss, commonly considered as an obnoxious property of analog tapes, is thus enhanced and appreciated here as a delightful virtue. I did a selection and further mix of the recordings for the two pieces of _Paris Hiss_, since this work expresses my anti-Lucier view: the point is not the process but the results; I did what I did not because I'm interested in the procedure (which is a question of recipes), but because I like tape hiss! (which is a question of taste)..." Clearly, Sr. Lopez does not distinguish btwn the good and bad Lucier pieces... his loss, I guess. By the way, I made it through 10 excruciatingly uneventful minutes of the first piece of _Hiss_ before realizing that my Dolby NR was ON. -rob np (in my head)- Alvin Lucier "Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra" (Algen)