Nervous Transfer ( for City of the Future )

Title nervous transfer
Size 4.58 MB
Length 4m59s

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Statement (d. / 5.15.03) :
1) source sounds were generated from microsound COTF project sample (which was in itself sourced from Tarkovsky's Solaris);
2) an extremely small (TM) microphone was then electromagnetically fastened to the spectral field surrounding a singular semi-melodic sound loop (hereafter represented as sound file-X);
3) sound file-X was then sent to/from a strategically planned A to B point, purposefully routed across a complex pathway along the electrical nervous system of the subject city (precisely located at 42°N+83°W);
4) an audio wire-tap of the mic . signal was put to this file transfer, accurately capturing all friction, deterioration & any mutated responses witnessed during sf-X's high-speed travels;
5) the resulting recording (in its entirety) was given over to the internet for public consumption as a 'composition' by a mentally deficient atonal minority.

About the City of the Future Project

- 41 MP3 tracks created in 2003 by a collection of international sound artists made available exclusively online as free 128kbps 44.1kHz stereo files; more than 2 hours of music has been created for this project.

- all compositions created for this virtual compilation are based entirely on treatments of the sound-palette found in a single sequence from Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' film (1972). Each participant had access to the sound segment appropriated from 'the city of the future' sequence of the film -- as it is titled on the DVD release; the entire scene in question is recorded from the point of view of the astronaut as he drives to the city on the highway. Compositions were limited to a maximum of six minutes in length; no other limitations were expressed.

- this Microsound project was initiated by veteran electronic musician Kim Cascone