Re: [ARSCLIST] Panorama of Musique Concrete..le Help!

[Nigel Barrett <nigelinseychelles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Know anyone with THE BIG BROADCAST on mp3's to trade other mp3's with them ?
Nigel


On 11/14/07, Steven C. Barr(x) <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Is anyone out there familiar enough with the Ducretet-Thomson
> Panorama of
> > >> Musique Concrete LP to be able to tell me what the hell is actually
> on each
> > >> side? No matter how I count 'em, there are more tracks than
> titles..or
> less,
> > >> depending on how you identify them. One set that could conceivably
> take 3
> cuts
> > >> (Schaeffer's "3 Directions") is either one track, with an orphaned
> cut at
> the
> > >> end of the disc, or DOES run for 3 cuts and then "Musical Box"
> actually
> > > doesn't
> > >> exist. And side 1 has 9 bands, but only 8 possible titles. (Could
> "Musical
> > > Box"
> > >> actually be the last cut on Side 1? This actually makes sense....)
> > >>
> > > A concept now rendered obsolete by digital recording and distribution!
> > > The user without a reliable microscope is forced to accept whatever
> > > his/her/its CD player assumes the "tracks" are...with NO visible
> > > evidence thereunto...?!
> > >
> > > In any case, I would recommend actually PLAYING the dommed thing,
> > > while observing exactly where one's stylus is (on the disc) as
> > > "tracks" begin and end...?!
> > >
> > > It could be worse...think of the hapless deejays who were trying
> > > to play requested tunes on the Sgt. Pepper's LP...?!
> > >
> > > Steven C. Barr
> > >
> > >
> > Nope..played 'em, followed the program notes, but I still have one track
> too
> > many on side one and one too few on side two. I suspect that "Musical
> Box" is
> > somewhere on side one, but it's possible that there's a phantom track on
> S1
> and
> >   other things happening on S2. If you've ever heard "Musique Concrete",
> you'll
> > know that the descriptions of the material could apply to practically
> anything
> > that made a noise and could be amplified, modified, looped (or
> groove-locked
> in
> > earlier days) etc.
> >
> Well, I would have guessed that "Musique Concrete" was:
>
> 1) played on Route 66, and/or other "hard roads"...?
>
> 2) played on poured foundations...?
>
> 3) played on what are usually (and erroneously) called "cinder blocks"...?
>
> 4) played on public sidewalks...?
>
> However, from your description, it would appear to be rather abstract...
> thus generating a significant conflict in description...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>