For years, I've written to him many times asking if he had plans on updating his Five Sound Installations CD-ROM - something that I can no longer play even with a 15 year old computer.
He never showed any interest in answering at any time. Now, with this new computer-based installation piece, it seems to fill a desire I've had since talking about this idea since 1974 (and accumulating the 10,000 sound elements since in order to fulfill this desire). I figure that if I haven't done it in 50 years, then maybe I'm not getting around to it at all unless I come across a nearly effortless way of doing it. The closest I've come is being able to replace the sounds of Innesti's "Contemplate" machine. The Chaikin records link is not working for me, so I'll have to do some searching online to see how to get this. Thank you, as usual, for the heads-up on this.
Thanks for sharing, and thank you for pointing out the broken URL. It's been fixed.
Your experience with the DVD-ROM points to another common problem with media arts: preservation. I recall reading somewhere that at some point NASA had to reverse engineer drives to access otherwise unobtainable data from just a few decades earlier. What hope have we? That said, there may be someway to run it on some kind of emulator, but I suspect this sort of thing will continue to be a problem. Will a raspberry pi function in 50 years?
Thanks so much for your thoughtful words on 'Living Room Pieces.' Love the way you've connected attunement and atonement. Kudos!!
For years, I've written to him many times asking if he had plans on updating his Five Sound Installations CD-ROM - something that I can no longer play even with a 15 year old computer.
He never showed any interest in answering at any time. Now, with this new computer-based installation piece, it seems to fill a desire I've had since talking about this idea since 1974 (and accumulating the 10,000 sound elements since in order to fulfill this desire). I figure that if I haven't done it in 50 years, then maybe I'm not getting around to it at all unless I come across a nearly effortless way of doing it. The closest I've come is being able to replace the sounds of Innesti's "Contemplate" machine. The Chaikin records link is not working for me, so I'll have to do some searching online to see how to get this. Thank you, as usual, for the heads-up on this.
Thanks for sharing, and thank you for pointing out the broken URL. It's been fixed.
Your experience with the DVD-ROM points to another common problem with media arts: preservation. I recall reading somewhere that at some point NASA had to reverse engineer drives to access otherwise unobtainable data from just a few decades earlier. What hope have we? That said, there may be someway to run it on some kind of emulator, but I suspect this sort of thing will continue to be a problem. Will a raspberry pi function in 50 years?