Zoe (Matt) There are some people I work with at QMUC who research this sort of thing, I'll ask next Monday what texts and journals deal with this. They're bound to have an archive on archives somewhere, probably on minidisk already.
Chris's posting of the Negativeland URL has stimulated me to listen to their show again. Maybe David Wills 'work' might be worth your investigating, though you may already be familiar with it judging from your email address 'cummulonimbus'. He recorded lots of material when he was still a child, including his own weather forecasts. He also appears to have miked up his family's whole house, and now mixes this together in his own and Negativelands work. I've got a lot of similar stuff I recorded when I was wee, not for any 'reason', but because I felt utterly compelled to, since I wasn't yet constrained by concerns about who might be listening, or what it was I was supposed to be saying. Sadly, I couldn't possibly invent the sort of ideas I did then with my current mind. So much of what anyone says now is neatly stated, edited and catogorised, I'm even correcting what I'm writing now. In reality speech is dirty, peoples' feelings and opinions change daily, and often it's not what's being said that's important, but the shared experience of talking. This is the value of such candid archives, because without them all we risk getting is a tidied-up, self-aware, dogma. It would be interesting to hear Warhol off-guard - so much of the formal interviews consist of his deliberately obtuse aphorisms and clever cold-readings of his life's editors. He comes accross in them like one of the cult leaders of the times. Well, as Valerie Solanas said to Andy Warhol, your not the only one wearing a piece. Cavan ------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------
