PULSE FIELD Playlist

Title: SOUNDSCAPES

Date: Friday February 7, 2003

Description: SoundWalks, voicings, field recordings and

compositions of the natural world

10:00

· Janet Cardiff ‘Drogan’s Nightmare: The Walk [Pt 1 & 2]’ 2001 (each track 12:00/ 24:00 total)

http://www.ps1.org/cut/press/cardiff.html

· United States of Belt, ‘Sparkle Light Mojave’ 1999 (44:00)

11:10

o River Run Vol.2 SoundScapes (75:00)

o Bill Fontana “Ohrbrucke/ Soundbridge Koln – San Francisco” 1987 (2’57”)

o R. Murray Schafer “The Vancouver Soundscape” 1973/ 1987 (2’22”)

o Marielouise Franke “Metropolis Venedig. Venezia Exaudi” 1987 (2’55”)

o Joan La Barbara “Sound Painting Cologne” 1991 (2’17”)

o Mauricio Kagel “Nah und Fern” 1994 (2’53”)

o Francisco Kropfl “Metropolis Buenos Aires” 1989 (3’13”)

o Michael Riessler “Ji- Virus” 1995 (3’00”)

o Emmanuelle Loubet “Metropolis Tokyo. Im Renneschritt” 1990 (3’06”)

o Bill Fontana “Satelliten- Klangbrucke/ Satellite Sound Bridge Koln – Kyoto” 1993 (2’04”)

o Klarenz Barlow “CCU. Metropolis Calcutta” 1986 (3’21”)

o Richard Kostelanetz “Metropolis New York” 1984 (2’03”)

o Pierre Henry “La Ville. Die Stadt” 1984 (3’35”)

o Richard Ortman/ Raimund Fleiter/ Ralf R. Wassermann “Klanglandschft Ruhrgebiet” 1995 (3’12”)

o Thomas Schultz “Lingua X Tichon order Die Bedeutung des Weges” 1991 (2’50”)

o Peter Pannke “Alles ein atmendes Buch” 1989 (2’38”)

o Douglas Quin “Forests/ Walder” 1997 (1’57”)

o Ronald Steckel “Schweigende Landschaft[Silent Landscape]” 1990 (1’55”)

o Charles Morrow “Arctic – Kristallkar “ 1990(2:08)

o Susan Stone”Virginia Reel” 1997(2:03)

o Randy Thom, “Ear Circus No.1” 1995(3:19)

o Nicola Sani, “Matera Sassi” 1988 (2:40)

o Arsenije Jovanovic “Metropolis Arles” 1993 (3:22)

o Sarah Hopkins “From Our Dreams and Visions” 1993 (2:05)

o Ros Bandt “Mungo” 1992 (2:00)

o Sorrel Hays “Sound Shadows” 1990 2:04

o Frank Corcoran “Sweeney’s Vision” 1997 (2:30)

o Malcom Goldstein “Topography of a Sound Mind” 1994 (3:55

12:35

o Luc Ferrari, ‘Presque Rien’1977 (77:00)

Smugly qualified by Ferrari as a "poor man's concrete music," "Presque Rien" is a brilliant piece of musique concrete that reflects the turbulent psychological landscape of Paris in the late '60s and early '70s. While the liner notes make no reference to participation in or sympathy with the Parisian rebellion of May 1968, Ferrari's "Music Promenade" (which opens the "Presque Rien" album) has a rough-hewn, decentralized quality which appears to refer to the incendiary immediacy of those few weeks. Yet as soon as the "Presque Rien" suites begin, the politically charged references of grim military waltzes, impassioned revolutionary speeches, and whirling factory sounds are done away with, in favor of subtle collages of natural sounds. It is as if Ferrari set up an aesthetic antithesis between the tense, urban sounds on "Music Promenade" and the supposedly placid sounds of nature on the rest of the album, all the while maintaining a firm grip on a psychoanalysis upon the landscape. Like Robert Ashley's ultra creepy "Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon," Ferrari intertwines fragments of various whispered narratives with the

steady buzzings of choral cicadas, as if each narration were that of a voyeur spying upon the intimacy of nature. Upon superficial listens, "Presque Rien" appears somewhat simple; however, do yourself the favor by listening to this attentively (preferably on headphones) to capture the subtle theatrics of Ferrari's composition.

1:55

o Lex Bhagat USA Pulse Field Selected Submission ‘Whitman Death Songs’ 2002 (29:00)

http://cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield/

o Zoe Irvine Scotland, Pulse Field Selected Submission ‘Magnetic Migration: Passport Mix’ (2002); This mix is made of fragments found at the migration bottleneck at the Pas de Calais, the French side of the English Channel, where there are major passenger and freight trains, where the Euro Tunnel terminal is situated and also where until next month the Red Cross for Asylum Seekers is. Soundscapes and conversations with travelers are also included (28:00)

http://cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield/

2:55

o Danny McCarthy Ireland Pulse Field Selected Submission 2001 (47:00)

http://cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield/

3:40

· Dallas Simpson UK Pulse Field Selected Submission ‘The Adoration of Willow [Shelford]’ 2000 (43:02); ‘AquaPump’ 1997 (13:16); ‘abha’ 1995/96 (11:45)

http://cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield/

4:50

· Dallas Simpson UK Pulse Field Selected Submission ‘Eyesore (Barra Improvisation)’ 2002 (41:33); ‘Notes of Dereliction (Radcliffe-on-Trent Improvisation’ 1997 (17:57)

http://cara.gsu.edu/pulsefield/

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