On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Philip Sherburne wrote:
quoted 3 lines (Carsten Nicolai tells a funny story about Francisco Lopez sending Bernhard> (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)