i am listening to will's podcast as i write this....thanks for putting this together, sir.
it's true what they say above about your mic-vox.
this piece would be clearly directed toward tfp itself, though.
i would think that something directed outward, as a device for extending the reach of tfp and/or creating a sonic correlate of the community would have to be done differently.
what that would mean is an interesting question: i would think that getting an internally oriented podcast up and running would be the only way to solve it--use it as an ongoing experiment and eventually do a kind of greatest hits compilation or something.
who or what would be "the" voice of tfp?
(strange: when the podcast ended, it spilled into oum kalthoum singing live sometime in egypt...it's kinda cool.)
charlatan: i dont think that good quality recordings are necessary for soundscapes, really---in some ways, it's just as interesting to turn folk loose with whatever technology they have recording stuff from their environment in whatever way they imagine would work---at least that is what i have discovered from teaching courses over a few years that involved making and processing found sound--but i am not terribly committed to the idea that found sound/environmental sound is documentary in any straightforward way.
i would imagine that there are a number of folk who do audio processing, each of whom probably has a different view of how to treat material. it could be cool to initiate a kind of mixing/remixing format--create a webspace on the order of soundtransit (
www.soundtransit.nl) where folk can post clips that can be used to generate pieces built up from them.
podcast the results.
it'd be nice if folk were to take real chances with what they did though, i think---make something potentially whacked out----or interesting and tricky and problematic for themselves: something that is NOT them and NOT variant on who they are in textform on the board, something Other.
there are alot of potentials--it'd be a shame to restrict them within a too-literal understanding of the relation between audio outputs and the textform that tfp deploys across.