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Article: Electric readymade.(electronic music)
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- Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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We have always lived in an electric and magnetic world. Electricity is sonorous and acoustic. Recordings of natural sounds exist to remind us of this records of electric storms for example, or of peals of thunder and the sound of lighting flashes as they streak the firmament with their audible and threatening charges (Thunderstorm. Rykodisc. U.S., 1995). There are also those strange natural sounds that emanate from the magnetosphere, sounds that were "first heard on long telephone wire sin the 1880... the first radio signals people ever heard." A sort of acoustic equivalent perhaps of the aurora borealis (Auroral Chorus. Music of the Magnetosphere. VLF Radio Phenomena ...
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