language removal services
what is this???
an avante guard audio project that removes the intended subject material from recordings and leaves the ambient background sounds. I think.
here is what the la weekly thiks it is :Language Removal Services, which lists a Hollywood address and maintains a Web site at www.languageremoval.com, combines the ambivalent but deadpan institutionality of organizations like CLUI with exciting contemporary sound art. The elaborate rationale — the use of an “ecstatic language engine” to transform “cultures” of “static language” into the wordless condensations that fill their sampler disc, based on the early research of the late Raymond Chronic — makes for fascinating reading. But it is the actual recordings — which extract and discard the pesky verbiage from speeches by Sylvester Stallone, Princess Diana, Noam Chomsky, John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm X, Bob Guccione, David Hockney and a host of others — that convince, with a rainlike pattering of breaths, hesitations and silences that, as Chronic asserted, “to find true inspiration, we only have to remove language and plunge forward into the breathtaking and truly pregnant pause that presents itself.”
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- bill 6-07-2002 3:51 am
what is this???
- anonymous (guest) 8-23-2002 2:14 am [add a comment]
an avante guard audio project that removes the intended subject material from recordings and leaves the ambient background sounds. I think.
here is what the la weekly thiks it is :Language Removal Services, which lists a Hollywood address and maintains a Web site at www.languageremoval.com, combines the ambivalent but deadpan institutionality of organizations like CLUI with exciting contemporary sound art. The elaborate rationale — the use of an “ecstatic language engine” to transform “cultures” of “static language” into the wordless condensations that fill their sampler disc, based on the early research of the late Raymond Chronic — makes for fascinating reading. But it is the actual recordings — which extract and discard the pesky verbiage from speeches by Sylvester Stallone, Princess Diana, Noam Chomsky, John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm X, Bob Guccione, David Hockney and a host of others — that convince, with a rainlike pattering of breaths, hesitations and silences that, as Chronic asserted, “to find true inspiration, we only have to remove language and plunge forward into the breathtaking and truly pregnant pause that presents itself.”
- bill 8-23-2002 9:49 pm [add a comment]