Sound sound design
Nice installation:
Music for Parking Lots'This is my favorite part, I call it the Fountainizer,' Livingston says, stopping beneath one speaker to point out the intensified water sounds (recorded from the actual Edgemar fountain) that curve ahead through other speakers for 32 feet (the exact length of the corresponding fountain upstairs). 'I have a collection of trills that people recorded in the studio, along with real fountain sounds, which creates an ongoing warbling.' Here again in the Cageian tradition, reality and its echo, music and noise, are difficult to tell apart. For one week the installation was completely shut off for trouble-shooting, but Livingston kept getting compliments from people who had come to listen to an empty parking garage. He couldn't be happier, and jokes that his next installation will be simply a big sign reading, "Sound Installation," with no sound besides the natural ambience. 'Because it's all music,' he says, 'All I'm doing is focusing people's listening.'
Reminds me of an idea I had to paint the ceilings above subway platforms to depict the street above, maybe attach motion-sensitive LED's to map what the people at street-level are doing.
* Ray, 9/01/2004 02:10:09 PM
