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ghosts and machines
My collaborator Chris took a look at that dub production site and consequently suggested we apply some of those techniques to sounds like harpsichords and music boxes, creating a sort of "Victorian dub."
This notion intrigued me, and I set out to do a little web research on early musical automata. Found this page, featuring samples from a restored music box, and then searched upwards from there and found that it was part of a larger collection of sites associated with the Mechanical Music Digest, an e-mail forum dedicated to, well, early musical automata.
Piles of information and strange sounds and weird links on that site. Glorious. Here, once again, is a reminder of why I love the web.
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This also reminds me that when I eventually make it back to San Francisco, I hope to return to the Musee Mecanique to do some field recordings (although actually a little hunting reveals that I could simply buy this CD of sounds from the Musee Mecanique's collections). Labels: music_commentary, technology |
Tuesday, September 03, 2002
10:24 AM
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