Field Studies Vol.3, by Glauco Salvo

Field Studies Vol.3

by Glauco Salvo

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	1.	Fontana Mix 09:58
	2.	Fontana Mix 07:06

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Two realizations of John Cage's Fontana Mix

Fontana Mix is a piece by John Cage composed in 1958. The score consists of white sheets with curved lines, transparent sheets with dots, a straight line and a grid, to be superimposed by the player in order to create a structure for a performance or a recorded piece. Cage himself recorded a tape version of the piece in Milan in 1959. The piece has a unique balance between alea and strictness, and these realizations required precision, respect and almost five months of work. As suggested by John Cage in the score instructions sounds were divided into categories (in this particular case: field recordings, dictaphone recordings, electronic sounds, radio interferences, sounds of objects, sounds of objects producing white noise); for each version 40 tracks were used, filtered by different sets of speakers, and processed with different parameters according to the intersections of the lines of the score.

The two versions presented here were realized using original audio material, from my archive and specifically produced for the piece.

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released May 6, 2021

Composed by John Cage
Recorded, edited and mixed by Glauco Salvo
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Graphic project by Giulia Polenta

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2021

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Field Studies is a series of audio releases, conceived as a collection of soundworks and studies on field recording, available on cassette and digital download.

The entire catalogue will be available as long as the project goes on.
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