Labels:text | paper | font | black and white | document | book OCR: TAP (PART THREE) THE "DRUMMING " SOUND WHICH YOU HAVE HEARD, ARE HEARING, SILL ABAR OR PERHAPS WONT EVER HEAR I MADE BY TAPPING MI FINGERS AGAINST A MICROPHONE WHILE MOVING IT OVER THE TAPE RECORDER 10 MAKE A BIT OF FEEDBACK. I TAEN MADE A LOOP OF A SELECTION FROM THE RESULTING TAPE. THERE IS A LARGE BLOGUP OF A PROTOGRAPA OF THE ABOVE PROCEDURE WHICH YOU MAL HAVE SEN OR WILL SEE ETC. ITS SUPPOSED 20 BE HANGING SOMEWHERE In THIS BULDING. THE TAPE AND TAL PHOTO WERE MADE IN FEBRUARI 1969 AND THIS IS BEING TIPED ON MARCA 14 1969. JOYCE WIALAND SNOW AND I TOCA THE PHOTOS WITH A MIRANDA 35MM. CAMERA, AN 8"x10" BRINE FROM THE SELECTED NEGATIVE WAS MADE BY "MODERNAGE" ON 48ZA STREET AND 25-7684 6' "40" BLOWUP WAS MADE BY "INDEPENDANT" ON 42ND STREET. 12 COST $36-dd. I WANTED TO MAKE A COMPOSITION WHICH WAS DISPERSED, IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS WOULD BE BE COME UPO W IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND WHICH WOU LD CONSIST OF 1. A SOUND, 2. AN IMAGE, 3. 4 TEXT, 4. AN OBJECT, 5. A LINE, WHICH WOULD BE UNIFIED BUT THE PARTS OF WHICH WOULD BE OF INTEREST IN THEMSELVES IF THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEM WERE NOT SEEN (BUT BETTER IF SEEN).ONE OF MADE ADDITIONAL CONSID_ SKATIONS WAS THAT IT BE PARILY TACTILE, BOD: MADS THO USING MACHINES. PIPEWRITING 15 A VERY SIMILAR FINGER TAPPING TO THE WAL TAL TAPE WAS MADE AND I THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS I SHOULD MAKE A COMPLEMENTARY OBJECT BI FINGER TAPPING BUT FINALLY DECID LD TO SHOW THE LOUDSPEAKER AS THE OBJECT, AS A "FOUND" ELEMENT WHICH SPREADS THE "CREATED" ELEMENT. THE SPEAKER IS JUST A CALAP PORTABLE SPEAKER I COT ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO AND I CONSIDERED "INCLUDING" IT HORE BY PAINTING IT, PERHAPS 1 WALL, AT THIS WRITING IT IS DARK BROWN, ITS ORIGINAL COLOR. RATHER THAN CHANGS TES "GIVEN" COLOR OF THE SPEMAEL UR ITS SHAPE I DECIDED TO CONTINUE THE COLOR. THIS AAD THE PHOTO ARE BLACK AND WHITE AND THE WIRE IS BLACK. SINCE THE BROWN SPEAKER "FRAMES"THESOUND I USED THE SAME BROWN IN FRAMING BOTH TAIS AND THE PHOTO. IME FRAMES ARE ALSO RECTANGULAR "LOOPS". THE LINE, WHICH OF COURSE, PROPERLY SPEAKING IS ALSO An OBJECT I DECIDED 10 COMPOSE THROUGH WHATEVER BUILDING THE PIECE IS IN. IT PARTLY "COMPOSES"ITSELF ACCORDING TO ITS OWN NATURE BUT IT EVENTUALLY "DISAPPEARS" TO THE TAPE RECORDER WHICH IS NOW(?) PLALING THE TAPS SO THAT IT ( THE WIRE) HAS A"SPREAD" WHICH IN ITS OWN TERMS HAS SONK SIMILARITY 10 2AL ACOUSTICAL SPACIAL SPREAD OF THE SOUND, EVENTUALLY DISAPPEARING. I DECIDED AGAINST SHOWING THE PLAYBACK TAPE RECORDER BECAUSE THE SOWRC_ OF THE SOUND AT ZAIS TINE ABD HISTORICALLY IS HERE DESCRIBED AND IN THE PHOTO , PICTURED. IN A SENSE THE BLA CK LINE (CARRIER OF THE SOUND) DISAPPEARS TO HERE (TEXT) TO THE PHOTOGRAPH (IMAG E) BOTH OF WHICH ARE "TRACES OF IT AND TO THE ACTUAL (HIDDEN) TAPE R.CORDER. THIS PIECE IS AN ATTEMPT TO, AMONG OTHER THINGS, DO SOMETHING MANIPUL_ ATIVE WITH MEMORY DEVICES: TAPE RECORDER, CAMERA, TYPEWRITER. IT IS NOT a "MIXED_ MEDIA" OR COLLAGE_ASSEMBLAGE PIECE, NOR IS IT THEATRE. AS IS PROPER TO THE USE OF THE ABOVE DEVICES IVE ATTEMPTED TO USE MEMORY AS AN ASPECT OF THE WORK. I HAVE HADE SEPARATED OR "DISPERSED" COMPOSITIONS SINCE 1961 , SOME OF THEM HAVING PARTS On DIFFERENT CONTINENTS BUT ANTH THE EXCEPTION OF CERTAIN PERFORMANCE PI&CES (EU. "RIGHT READER" 1965) AND FILMS (SIMULTANEOUS IN ELEMENTS AND SITE) SHE PARIS #RSS ALWAF ALWAYS IN THE SAME MEDIUM, INVOLVED, IMAGES ONLY (IF THATS POSS IBLE) OR WORKED IN AN IMAGE TO OBJECT SCALE. " TAP" IS A KIND OF STILL SOUND MOVIE #WRP. THE WAYS IN WHICH THE DIFFERE AT ELEMENTS OCCUPY SPACE ARE INTERESTING: THE SOUND FILLING IT, HAVING A SOURCE BUT NO DEFINITE "EDGES", THE LINE , READING BACWARDS, THREADING AND CARRYING THE SOUND AND HAVING AN UNSEEN END, THE IMAGE FLAT , TWO DIMENSIONAL, THIS FLAY, BLACK, LINEAR, SHALL, IN YOUR EYES AND IN YOUR MIND. Michael Suon MICHAEL SHOW
