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collaborative (re)production
Judith's 20 Things site is now live.
"[I]t came together as I lay in bed in the dark . . . I'd invite 19 other people to each make 20 things in 20 days, and send them to me with a SASE and that I'd swap the art and mail everyone back one of each thing."
Judith is the first to position this project within the larger tradition of collaborative mail art projects. I'm also reminded of the related amateur press associations. Members of an APA produce pages for a publication, and send in a certain number of copies of these pages to a "central mailer," who collates the copies and redistributes them back to the contributors. (This history of APAs is interesting, dating them back to the mid-1800s.)
I can't help but feel like these systems are somehow relevant to Scrytch, the loose grouping of textual documents intended to be freely "appropriated, edited, revised, mangled, and perverted."
As I've written about a lot lately, the tools to appropriate, edit, and mangle sounds are becoming more and more readily available. It may now be possible and desirable to create a kind of sonic Scrytch project, similar in spirit to Otomo Yoshihide's Sampling Virus project, where he released a CD of sampled material into the public domain, for purposes of further sampling. (Here's a brief article with more information on the Yoshihide project, which also heads into a "technology and the future of music" direction, discussing microlabels and genre profusion.)
So: APA-style compiling and distribution + scrytch + music production technology = a project, in which individuals contribute sonic material to a central compiler who burns it all to a CD and distributes it to the participants for further reworking.
I may need to do this. Labels: projects |
Saturday, March 30, 2002
11:08 PM
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