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Back in 2009 or 2010, when I was a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University, one of my best friends told me about this guy named LeRoy Stevens and this project he had recently completed, Favorite Recorded Scream. For the project, he visited every record store in Manhattan and asked employees for their favorite scream from recorded music; he then complied the selections – ranging from Black Flag to Björk, from Led Zeppelin to Linkin Park, and from Slayer to Suicide – in the order they were submitted and somehow morphed it into a musique concrète masterpiece. I was completely blown away; it was such an ambitious project without at all being selfish, and it’s like, when does that ever happen?
LeRoy has made a habit of working on these sorts of quirky, elaborate projects over the years, including: giving free, improvised tours around his hometown of Chicago in his Jeep Cherokee; an underground sculpture composed of 75 twenty-foot pieces of rebar buried beneath the ground in…
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Back in 2009 or 2010, when I was a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University, one of my best friends told me about this guy named LeRoy Stevens and this project he had recently completed, Favorite Recorded Scream. For the project, he visited every record store in Manhattan and asked employees for their favorite scream from recorded music; he then complied the selections – ranging from Black Flag to Björk, from Led Zeppelin to Linkin Park, and from Slayer to Suicide – in the order they were submitted and somehow morphed it into a musique concrète masterpiece. I was completely blown away; it was such an ambitious project without at all being selfish, and it’s like, when does that ever happen?
LeRoy has made a habit of working on these sorts of quirky, elaborate projects over the years, including: giving free, improvised tours around his hometown of Chicago in his Jeep Cherokee; an underground sculpture composed of 75 twenty-foot pieces of rebar buried beneath the ground in…
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