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Date: Fri Sep 7, 2012 11:18 am ((PDT))
I don't consider it found art. The choice and placement of microphones, the=
choice of location and time of day, the choice of which direction to face =
the mics etc all add up to a created and in-the-field edited production =97=
art.
Wil Hershberger
Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
Hedgesville, WV
The Songs of Insects
My Blog
On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Kevin Colver wrote:
> Hi Bernie,
> While I've sometimes thought that the recording I do as an art, Cage
> seems to feel it is more of a craft. If my recordings are "found art"
> it doesn't change the joy I find in making those recordings or
> listening to them again and again. It is an honor for me to go out
> into the natural world and find the "found art," even if the artist
> is one higher than myself. I'm pleased if I can be considered a good
> craftsman.
>
> Always great to hear from you. BTW, I'm slow, but I'm carefully
> reading your book and I absolutely love it all. Brilliant
> contribution to the field!
>
> Kevin
> > >>
> > >>> John Cage had views on many issues re sound, music, and our
> > acoustic
> > >>> world. For instance, his take on natural sound recording: In 1989,
> > >>> at
> > >>> a soundscape conference hosted by Skywalker Sound (LucasFilm),
> > Cage
> > >>> was asked for his impressions of those creating "nature" sound
> > >>> albums
> > >>> who claim to be "purists," meaning they assert that they don't
> > edit.
> > >>> Cage thought for a moment, then responded tersely and rather
> > >>> disparagingly, "Found art," he sniffed. "That's because all true
> > >>> artists know that germane to their respective crafts is
> > >>> transformation: the inspired conversion of sound or image from one
> > >>> medium to another, or ideas from mind to page -- ultimate
> > >>> expressions
> > >>> far more resounding than the sources from which they spring. It is
> > >>> through the process of insurgency that art in any medium obliges
> > >>> insight into the numinous and improbable. Transformation is the
> > >>> key to
> > >>> life and [its expression through] art, the real mystery of
> > creative
> > >>> nature. Attempts to replicate or capture aspects of the natural
> > >>> world
> > >>> without amendment speak clearly to a vision of paralysis and
> > death."
> > >>>
> > >>> Bernie Krause
> > >>>
> > >>>
>
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