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The Fundamentals of Direct Mail - The Murkier News

from 1983​-​2002 by Larry Wendt

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As a text sound word problem, I began to experiment with more extended narrative forms which could exist only as an acoustical expression off the page. I came upon the notion that the construction of third-person news articles as well as various first-person opinions, essays, product endorsements, etcetera one finds in an ordinary, daily, mass-media newspaper of our times could provide some very interesting structural models to attach two contradictory points of view upon. Both internal and external points of view could be held in static tension to one another. Vocalizing such a reading of stories from a newspaper (from an up-and-coming high technology area for this piece for instance) could be expanded sonically to include the shadow of distortion that follows one's speech as it is entered into the various memory agents within the speaker's mind, along with his own internal chatter near the threshold of perception plus the external ambient sounds that are also being internalized simultaneously within the mind as he is speaking aloud. Such a narration with its built-in internal acoustical substrate of contradictions could then be turned inside out and the speaker (along with what is going on in his mind at that instance) could be projected to fit within the confines of a three-dimensional acoustical stereo space. With the equipment which I had been building, the so-called Audio Meat Grinder, I could do something just like that. Basically, I could cut up any sound from the smallest fragment or up to some seconds worth and stick the pieces back together by chance in more or less real-time as well as filter, propagate, and layer the results by tape manipulations. By the use of both first-person and third-person sounds within one's mind, the need to focus on the narrative to understand what is being said would have to be accentuated. In an act of heighten perception, one would have to pay attention to the news better. Could digital technology improve the quality of newspapers in the future as a result?

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from 1983​-​2002, released May 2, 2023

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