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> Hello,
>
> Recently myself and Reverend John Lillis (Johnny Doobs) were discussing possible antics to
> pull around the college. Most of which involved leaving things for people to
> find around the campus. Mostly just cds of our music.
>
> like any bored twenty-somethings we wanted to develop the idea. So...
> Saw/ heard some of the sound installations around the college and begun to
> consider something that involved interaction with the public.
> Next we realized that V-day is coming up and thought about handing
> romantically perverted stuff out being the lonely souls we are. John decided
> something to do with condoms and red paint. I cant afford condoms I thought,
> and if i could... id probably use them to put microphones into water.
>
> In response to Johns vulger display of artistry I retreated to previous
> ideas.
> About a year ago I concieved my first decent fluxus piece in which the
> directions were; approach a person that you dont think would never dance
> with you but whom you would love to dance with and...
>
> ask them to dance.
> Rules: there must be no music, as close to silence as possible, presentation
> is decided by performer.
>
> I mixed all these ideas together in a cauldron i found at home and I devised
> the piece below. If you want to incorporate the condom and paint by all
> means do.
>
>
>
>
> Record 20+ mins of improvised music. No limits on the music. Whatever you
> want it to be. burn one cd and delete any other copies of the music(make
> sure it is irretreavable). Now make a nice cover. All design must be by
> yourself. Make an inlay page that says a few bits and pieces about the music
> and or whatever else you want. On a seperate piece of paper you must write
> and explain that this is the only copy of that music in the world and that
> whoevers hands it is in is responsible for the life or death of that music.
> Also state that it is copywrite free and for it to prosper relies on being
> copied, borrowed, swapped and distributed. Now you must give it to someone.
> The only stipulation regarding who recieves it is that it must be an
> uncomfortable task to perform. In this instance fear is vital and in my
> opinion the performance is artless without . The fear can be felt in the act
> of presenting it, the thought of them hearing the music or both. Other than
> that the person is completly up to you. Also the manner of your presentation
> is particularly important but is completly decided by you.
>
>
> Date 14/02/08. V-day is a good chance to make this a performance involving
> as many people as possible. So thats the deadline for anyone who wants to be
> involved. Everyone who participates please write something in responce to
> your experience and if i get enough submissions ill publish them and we
> could as a group consider similar future free music performances. Send
> responces or questions to [email protected]
>
>
> tip- Its easy to do a basic recording.
> If your laptop doesnt have a built in mic plug a set of headphones into the
> mic jack of your laptop. This will give you a low enough quality (but grand)
> stereo mic.
> Use Windows Sound Recorder-
>
> To get good quality and more than 60sec recording time - First record 60secs
> of nothing. Click on the effects tab and click decrease Speed. Voila!
> 120secs. Keep doing this untill you have enough time.Dont go too long or the
> system will run out of memory.
>
> Next to up the quality of the recording - Click file then Properties then
> Convert Now and you'll see a tab that say Attributes change this to 48000
> kHz, 16Bit, Stereo 187kb/sec
>
>
> Please pass this mail onto to everyone you think would be interested (even
> non-musicians)
>
> Its especially wonderful when someone you dont think would (especially
> non-musicians)actually comes out with something.
>
> Thanks
> Billy Kemp
>
> Recently myself and Reverend John Lillis (Johnny Doobs) were discussing possible antics to
> pull around the college. Most of which involved leaving things for people to
> find around the campus. Mostly just cds of our music.
>
> like any bored twenty-somethings we wanted to develop the idea. So...
> Saw/ heard some of the sound installations around the college and begun to
> consider something that involved interaction with the public.
> Next we realized that V-day is coming up and thought about handing
> romantically perverted stuff out being the lonely souls we are. John decided
> something to do with condoms and red paint. I cant afford condoms I thought,
> and if i could... id probably use them to put microphones into water.
>
> In response to Johns vulger display of artistry I retreated to previous
> ideas.
> About a year ago I concieved my first decent fluxus piece in which the
> directions were; approach a person that you dont think would never dance
> with you but whom you would love to dance with and...
>
> ask them to dance.
> Rules: there must be no music, as close to silence as possible, presentation
> is decided by performer.
>
> I mixed all these ideas together in a cauldron i found at home and I devised
> the piece below. If you want to incorporate the condom and paint by all
> means do.
>
>
>
>
> Record 20+ mins of improvised music. No limits on the music. Whatever you
> want it to be. burn one cd and delete any other copies of the music(make
> sure it is irretreavable). Now make a nice cover. All design must be by
> yourself. Make an inlay page that says a few bits and pieces about the music
> and or whatever else you want. On a seperate piece of paper you must write
> and explain that this is the only copy of that music in the world and that
> whoevers hands it is in is responsible for the life or death of that music.
> Also state that it is copywrite free and for it to prosper relies on being
> copied, borrowed, swapped and distributed. Now you must give it to someone.
> The only stipulation regarding who recieves it is that it must be an
> uncomfortable task to perform. In this instance fear is vital and in my
> opinion the performance is artless without . The fear can be felt in the act
> of presenting it, the thought of them hearing the music or both. Other than
> that the person is completly up to you. Also the manner of your presentation
> is particularly important but is completly decided by you.
>
>
> Date 14/02/08. V-day is a good chance to make this a performance involving
> as many people as possible. So thats the deadline for anyone who wants to be
> involved. Everyone who participates please write something in responce to
> your experience and if i get enough submissions ill publish them and we
> could as a group consider similar future free music performances. Send
> responces or questions to [email protected]
>
>
> tip- Its easy to do a basic recording.
> If your laptop doesnt have a built in mic plug a set of headphones into the
> mic jack of your laptop. This will give you a low enough quality (but grand)
> stereo mic.
> Use Windows Sound Recorder-
>
> To get good quality and more than 60sec recording time - First record 60secs
> of nothing. Click on the effects tab and click decrease Speed. Voila!
> 120secs. Keep doing this untill you have enough time.Dont go too long or the
> system will run out of memory.
>
> Next to up the quality of the recording - Click file then Properties then
> Convert Now and you'll see a tab that say Attributes change this to 48000
> kHz, 16Bit, Stereo 187kb/sec
>
>
> Please pass this mail onto to everyone you think would be interested (even
> non-musicians)
>
> Its especially wonderful when someone you dont think would (especially
> non-musicians)actually comes out with something.
>
> Thanks
> Billy Kemp
