To the side of this month�s web audio topic I am currently trying to research into meanings of audio archives. What is their wider cultural meaning? Are their any writings from a more anthropological approach? My interest was sparked after working with material from Andy Warhol�s archive.
Art Historian Jean Wainwright, who I was working for has been investigating Warhols tapes for a number of years - Warhol taped everything - dinner parties, phone conversations, car journies etc. What for? Was it his fear of death? His compulsion to work? His desire to be a machine? And did he ever switch from �rec� to �play�? Anyhow the tapes are there all 4000hrs of badly labelled reel to reelness of them. And that got me to think about the phenomena of sound archives. So I'm wondering is if anyone has come across some good writing on the subject or works that deal with a cultural context for their existence. My own thinking tends towards the time bending / capsule / travel aspect of collected and guarded sound - it's not for nothing that the VR trips dealt in 'The Matrix' were on what looked like minidisk surely... thanks Zoe ===== Aeolus Audio Publication Scotland __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
