Re: GG: CBC Recordings -- the best possible?

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

Bruce Petherick wrote:

> 
> John's explaination is good and reminds me of a project that I have been working on for a couple of months. One of my favourite recordings at the moment is the live Salzburg recording of the Goldbergs and Sinfonias [There is a really wacky problem in the middle of the Sinfonias where the recording sound changes substantially - it sounds like a set of microphones stopped working, or Glenn poured some butter into the piano in the middle of the performance]. After reading an article about Marcel Duchamp's Gap Music (he is interested in the gap between Art and Noise), I decided to edit the first couple of Goldbergs on the studio hard disk and remove all of the notes. I call the piece "Glenn Gould doesn't play the non-Goldberg Variations not in Salzburg". The new piece is rather nice as one can concentrate on the room ambience, as well as the faint echoes of the piece itself. It did take a long time to do - about 5-10 mins per note attack.

Will we get to hear your experiments?

-Mary Jo