Call for Ambient Recordings

Archived from groups: rec.audio.pro (More info?)

Call for recordings of environmental sounds for a musical-theatrical
performance based on John Cage's "______Circus on_______" and Jack
Kerouac's "On the Road". The performance will include a mix of recorded
sounds from cities and rural areas Kerouac visited on his road trips
across the U.S. as well as live DJ, jazz musicians, and film excerpts.


TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAGE-KEROUAC PROJECT simply record the sounds
that occur at a location in one of the cities or areas listed at the
end of this message. You can choose a location that you feel is
characteristic of the city or area. Or you can choose a location in the
city or area by chance.

This is not a contest, and sounds don't have to be "interesting." Just
record whatever sounds you find at the location, without knowing
exactly what they will be beforehand. If "nothing happens" that is
ok too. Very sparse and very soft sounds are fine.

Please do NOT send recordings of sounds that you intentionally produce
or cause to occur, recordings with added commentary, or recordings of
music (unless music happens to be a part of the environment).

This project cannot provide monetary remuneration but your
participation will be acknowledged in any publications by the project,
if your recording is used and if you so request (please indicate how
you want your name to appear). Submissions can also be sent
anonymously.

SPECIFICATIONS
Minimum length = 30 seconds, maximum length = 6 minutes. Use any
recording device (tape or dvd recorder for example) but please send
ONLY ONE unedited recording from a single location.
Please send as an AUDIO CD (or audio flash card) LABELED with the NAME
OF LOCATION.

Deadline: May 31, 2005.

Send CD or flashcard to :
Prof. Marc Thorman
Baruch College VC 7-235
New York, NY, 10010

Please record only at the following
LIST OF U.S. CITIES & NON-URBAN AREAS:

ALABAMA: Mobile
ARIZONA: Tucson, Indio, Blythe, Salome, Benson, Flagstaff, Tombstone,
Flagstaff
CALIFORNIA: Los Ageles, San Francisco (Palace Hotel, Alfred's
Steakhouse (659 Merchant St), Golden Gate, Coit Tower, Golden Gate
Racetrack, Navy Yard), Mill City, Sausalito, Hollywood, Sacramento,
Oakland, Truckee, Alcatraz, Richmond, Fresno, Bakersfield, Tracy,
Manteca, Madera, Sabinal, Arcadia, Sonora, Tulare, Palm Springs,
Mojave, Watsonville
COLORADO: Central City,Denver (public library, Windsor Hotel, Ace Hotel
3rd floor SE corner room, hotel room on Glenarm), Longmont, Kremmling,
Steamboat Springs, Sterling (ranch in), Junction, Greely, Canyon City,
Castle Rock , Colorado Springs
DISTRICT OF COUMBIA: Washington, D.C.
FLORIDA: (formerly) Flomaton
GEORGIA: Macon
ILLINOIS: Joliet (Penitentiary), Chicago
INDIANA: Indianapolis, South Bend,Terre Haute (Federal Penitentiary),
Notre Dame
IOWA: Davenport (bus station), Iowa City, Des Moines, Stuart, Adel,
Newton, Ames (U of IA)
KANSAS: Kansas City
KENTUCKY: Ashland
LOUISIANA: Ruston, New Orleans, Algiers, Houma, Gretna, Baton Rouge
(LSU), Port Allen, Natchez, Potash, Venice, Lawtell, Eunice, Kinder,
Dequincey, Starks, Opelousas, Sabine
MARYLAND: Frederick, Baltimore
MASSACHUSETTS: Boston
MICHIGAN: Detroit (Briggs Stadium, now historic Tiger Stadium), Chicago
(YMCA, the Loop, downtown)
MISSISSIPPI: Greenville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Eudora
MISSOURI: St. Louis, Boonville Reformatory
MONTANA: Missoula, Three Forks
NEBRASKA: Omaha, Council Bluffs, Shelton, Gothenburg, North Platte,
Ogallala, Kearney, Grand Island, Columbus
NEVADA: Ely, Reno, Sierra Nevada, Battle Mountain, Elko
NEW JERSEY: Paterson, Hoboken, Newark
NEW MEXICO: Las Cruces, Raton
NEW YORK STATE: NYC, Yonkers (city limits), Newburgh, Long Island City,
Brooklyn
NORTH CAROLINA: Dunn, Fayettesville
NORTH DAKOTA: Medora
OHIO: Columbus, Ashtabula, Cincinnati, Toledo
OKLAHOMA: Cimarron, Camargo
PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh, Harrisburg (Red Cross office (now @ 1804 N
6th St)), Allentown, Philadelphia
SOUTH DAKOTA: Wounded Knee
TENNESSEE: Memphis
TEXAS: Lubbock, Dalhart, Houston, Deweyville, Beaumont, Liberty,
Austin, Fort Worth, old Antone, Sonora, El Paso, Ozona, Van Horn,
Clint, Ysleta, [LosPalmas-]Juarez, Abilene, Laredo (border at),
Amarillo , Childress, Paducah, Guthrie, Coleman, Brady, DIlley, Encino
UTAH: SLC, Ogden, Farmingham
VIRGINIA: Fredericksburg, Testament, Richmond
WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston
WYOMING: Cheyenne (bus station), Creston, Lusk, Larmie, Buffalo


Areas in U.S. Cities
San Francisco: North Beach, the Embarcadero, Chinatown, the Tenderloin,
Fisherman's Wharf, the bay, Divisadero,Oakland Railyards;
Cheyenne railyards; Fresno: south side, "Mextown";
Madera (CA): "Mextown", the "Oregon road"
Chicago: The Loop, downtown; New Orleans: French Quarter,
downtown; Tucson: downtown Testament (VA):
downtown; Davenport: downtown, edges of;
Denver: Mexicantown, Five Points; NYC: Harlem, East Harlem,
Spanish Harlem, Times Square, the Bronx, Jacob's Beach

NON-URBAN LOCATIONS:

ROADS: Route 6, Route 66, intersection of Rtes 6 & 66, Nebraskan
straightaway in Iowa, roadhouse on H'way 99, H'way 301, Nevada road
TOWNS: Oklahoma flat-town, Pennsylvania town, California whistlestop on
the SP, Texas cowtown, Nebraska town, drowsy Illinois towns, Iowa town,
Arizona clifftowns
REGIONS: Oklahoma panhandle, tip of Cape Cod, Salt Lake flats,
Utah/Colorado border
NEW YORK STATE: 40 miles north of NYC, upstate New York, Hudson Valley,
east bank of Hudson River, source of Hudson in Adirondacks
VIRGINIA: Virginia wilderness/wilds, Viginia backroads, black-tar roads

CALIFORNIA: South of Bakersfield, flats outside Bakersfield, vineyard 5
miles out of Sabinal
FIELDS/PRAIRIES: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, East Texas oilfields
TRAILS: Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail
OTHERS: Texas/Louisiana bayou, Louisiana swamps, old Indian ruin,
Pennsylvania farms
PLAINS: Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming, Ohio, Louisiana, Kansas, North
Dakota, east Colorado
STONEWALL JACKSON'S GRAVE: 1) Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery in
Lexington, Virginia 2) cemetery at Lacy Estate at Ellwood, Virginia,
part of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
DESERTS: Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Mojave, Death Valley
MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS: Battle Mountain, Nevada; Pike's Peak; Evans Peak;
Longs Peak (in Estes Park); Estes Mountain; Adirondacks;Bear Mountain;
Great Smoky Mountains; (South) Dakotas; Sierras Mountains (CA); Sierra
Madre Mountains (Mexico); Sierra Madre Oriental; Blue Ridge Mountains,
California; Mexican mountains in the south; Arizona mountains ;
Rockies; Alleghenies; Tarahumare; Catalina range (Arizona); Berthoud
Pass, Colorado; Tehachapi Pass, California; Grapevine Pass, California;
Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado; Stawberry Pass, Utah; Pecos Canyon
RIVERS: Sacramento; Mississippi; Platte; Hudson; Susquehanna;
Appomattox; Sabine; Trinity; Monongahela; dye-dumps & swim-holes &
riversides of Paterson & the Passaic; Potomac; Monocacy; Rio Grande;
Passaic; San Joaquin (valley); Kanawha; Nile; Congo; Brazos; Rio Soto
(near Hidalgo, Mexico); Shenandoah; Moctezuma; Saskatchewan