As I write this I am listening to Lockwood's CD, A Sound Map Of The Hudson River. It is an "aural journey" from the source of the river downstream to the Atlantic.
This is the type of representation of place that I wish to avoid. People like Lockwood have made these interesting and representational works already, and even though she talks about recording rivers because they create a "special state of mind and body", it is more document than art work.
What is interesting however are the many non-river sounds on the CD. I find that more appealing actually as I have to listen harder to imagine their source.
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