<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>-don't know much of Masami Akita (Merzbow) , yet I recall a composition 'Quiet Men - Noisy Animals' (or a very similar title) which may have been inspired by that reportage.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:43 PM, <A href="mailto:jcespinosa@aol.com">jcespinosa@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I want to set this to some din.<BR> <BR> <BR> -----Original Message-----<BR> From: Charles Turner <<A href="mailto:vze26m98@optonline.net">vze26m98@optonline.net</A>><BR> To: <A href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org">microsound@microsound.org</A><BR> Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 3:15 pm<BR> Subject: [microsound] From the NY Times, July 21, 1972<BR> <BR> <DIV id="AOLMsgPart_0_dedc2076-e178-49b5-881b-c82950073ada" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>"Helmut Laudenberg had a farm, on the outskirts of Cologne, West
Germany. And on this farm he had a parrot- and dogs and goats and
donkeys and ducks. Mr. Laudenberg, a thatcher by trade, didn't mind
the sounds his animals made. But Karlheinz Stockhausen, the composer
whose electronic music has been played around the world, was annoyed
by the animals din. He hired two lawyers to help silence it. Then the
parrot was killed by some stranger's dogs and Mr. Laudenberg built
fences and sound barriers. And now things are a lot quieter in that
suburban village, called Kürten."
James F. Clarity
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