Re: Suggestion for a good book for novice recordist

[rock_scallop]

Reads like found art depicting a "true artist."   Bernie, I like your puris=
t approach in quoting Cage.=0D
John Hartog=0D
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"Cage thought for moment and said this: =E2=80=9CFound art,=E2=80=9D he sni=
ffed. =E2=80=9CThat=E2=80=99s because all true artists know that germane to=
 their respective crafts is transformation =E2=80=93 the inspired conversio=
n of sound or image from one medium to another, or ideas from mind to page =
=E2=80=93 ultimate expressions far more resounding than the resources from =
which they spring. It  is through the process of insurgency that art in any=
 medium obliges insight into the numinous and improbably. Transformation is=
 the key to life and (its expression through) art, the real mystery of crea=
tive nature. Attempts to replicate or capture aspects of the natural world =
without amendment speak clearly to a vision of paralysis and death.=E2=80=
=9D"