Graf Haufen
Description of the Proposal for Conceptual Music:
Equipment: Walkman or other recording unit,stero if possible, a blank cassette of any length.
Recording area: street, small and not busy.
Replay area: street, the same or any other.
Performance: Choose a quiet street for your recording. If you have two microphones, place them as far apart as possible, at points along the street or sidewalk. Record the life-sound of the street for the duration of the tape.
Afterwards, put two speakers (if possible) in the trees (if there are any) along the street, so that passers-by cannot see them (use small speakers.
Replay the recording back into the street at the same volume as the natural noises of the street.
You can now hear cars passing by, kids playing, or whatever you've previously recorded on the tape. However, when you replay the tape, there are no cars passing by. There are no kids playing. There are now two realities. It's up to you to mix them up.
Other possibilities are: a) replay the tape in another street (reality mix 1:1)
b) record more than one tape and play them all back at the same time (reality mix n:1)
c) Use several tape recorders at the same time, placing them in rows and in the street. you can replay them simultaneously (reality mix : panorama).
GH is concerned with the Ende of Muzick and implements a conceptual framework to produce an Anti-Muzick which may or may not produce actual sound.
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