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Cannon River Wave/Forms (1992)

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Ellen Lease, keyboards, at Sound Station #4 of "Cannon River Wave/Forms" by David Means.

Cannon River Wave/Forms (1992) | Media List

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    Ellen Lease, keyboards, at Sound Station #4 of "Cannon River Wave/Forms" by David Means.



Statement

The footbridge over the Cannon River in Northfield became the focal point of an environmental sound and performance installation created along the Riverfront Commons. Computers and musicians lined both sides of the river and digial recordings of the Mills Waterfalls were manipulated and rerecorded, sampled and processed in real time from four computer sound stations. The audience strolled along both sides of the river (and in small boats on the river) from 8 p.m. to midnight on the longest day of 1992.

Reviews

"Ultimately, David's piece allowed me to look at the possibilities of a closer relationship to the sounds around me. I won't ever be able to listen to the falls again and not think of it as music." (JoAnne Makela in "The Northfield News")
"And you could walk away, too, to chase down a child or chat with a neighbor, or stroll on to the next music station. The four stations, set into the sharp angles of the walls along the Cannon, were far enough apart so that usually you could hear only one, though from the pedestrian bridge where people often lingered, you could hear snatches of all four...And indeed the music, which might be intimidating in a concert hall, was instead intriguing, even relaxing, beside the river." (Kate Gardner in "The Northfield News")