Remembering how to forget

I’m blogging on, “Remembering how to forget: An artist’s Exploration of sound”, by Scanner
It’s pretty cool. It is talking about Using machines that allow us to replicate and duplicate familiar sounds by “sampling” them. And how do we know it is of the present or of the past. Is it real? Scanner recordings started with intercepted cell phone calls and ham wave frequency noise. (Which brings up all kinds of privacy issues), but the waves are there anyway, someone has just figured how to tap into that and record it, which in and of its self is cool. I liked knowing some of scanners inspirations, like Brian Eno and David Byrne, who have done lots of work with randomly mixed voices. I think it’s cool that wave noise like transmission radios comes out through a record amplifier. Many times I have heard other conversations on my own cell phone, and it definitely wasn’t eavesdropping, I didn’t record it though. Sound recordings, phone scans, modem and Net intercepts, all of which became material for multi-layered soundscapes. There are so many sounds above and below the surface. Then he mixed many sounds to images associated with them to bring the relationship between music/sound and images.