Road recordings for Kerouac Project

Hello all. I am a music professor at Baruch College and a composer. I
am collecting sound material for a performance of a musical-theatrical
event based on the classic American novel "On the Road" by Jack
Kerouac, using an idea by composer John Cage. The performance will
include a live DJ, jazz musicians, and audio recordings of sounds from
cities and rural areas Kerouac visited on his road trips across the
U.S. This is a nonprofit project. No funds will be requested or
accepted.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE KEROUAC PROJECT
I am trying to obtain ambient recordings of sounds in the U.S. cities
and rural areas listed at the end of this message. If you wish to
participate in the Kerouac Project, you can simply record the sounds
that occur at a location in one of these cities or areas. It can be at
a location that you feel is characteristic of the city or area. Or you
can choose a location in the city or area by chance.

This is not a contest, and sounds don't have to be "interesting." We
are looking for sounds that are part of the environment at the
location, so just record whatever sounds you find there without knowing
exactly what they will be. If "nothing happens" that is ok too.
Very sparse and very soft sounds are fine.

We are NOT looking for recordings of sounds that you intentionally
produce or cause to occur, recordings with added commentary, or
recordings of people playing music (unless music happens to be a part
of the environment).

This project cannot provide monetary remuneration but your
participation will be acknowledged in any publications by the Project
if your recording is used and if we have your permission in writing.
Submissions can also be sent anonymously. Thank you.

SPECIFICATIONS
Minimum length = 30 seconds, maximum length = 6 minutes. Use any
recording device (tape or dvd recorder for example) but please send
ONLY ONE unedited recording from a single location. Please send as an
AUDIO CD (or audio flash card) LABELED with the NAME OF LOCATION.

Deadline: May 31, 2005.

Send to :
Prof. Marc Thorman
Baruch College VC 7-235
New York, NY, 10010

U.S. CITIES:

ALABAMA: Mobile
ARIZONA: Tucson, Indio, Blythe, Salome, Benson, Flagstaff, Tombstone,
Flagstaff
CALIFORNIA: Los Ageles, San Francisco (Palace Hotel, Alfred's
Steakhouse (659 Merchant St), Golden Gate, Coit Tower, Golden Gate
Racetrack, Navy Yard), Mill City, Sausalito, Hollywood, Sacramento,
Oakland, Truckee, Alcatraz, Richmond, Fresno, Bakersfield, Tracy,
Manteca, Madera, Sabinal, Arcadia, Sonora, Tulare, Palm Springs,
Mojave, Watsonville
COLORADO: Central City,Denver (public library, Windsor Hotel, Ace Hotel
3rd floor SE corner room, hotel room on Glenarm), Longmont, Kremmling,
Steamboat Springs, Sterling (ranch in), Junction, Greely, Canyon City,
Castle Rock , Colorado Springs
DISTRICT OF COUMBIA: Washington, D.C.
FLORIDA: (formerly) Flomaton
GEORGIA: Macon
ILLINOIS: Joliet (Penitentiary), Chicago
INDIANA: Indianapolis, South Bend,Terre Haute (Federal Penitentiary),
Notre Dame
IOWA: Davenport (bus station), Iowa City, Des Moines, Stuart, Adel,
Newton, Ames (U of IA)
KANSAS: Kansas City
KENTUCKY: Ashland
LOUISIANA: Ruston, New Orleans, Algiers, Houma, Gretna, Baton Rouge
(LSU), Port Allen, Natchez, Potash, Venice, Lawtell, Eunice, Kinder,
Dequincey, Starks, Opelousas, Sabine
MARYLAND: Frederick, Baltimore
MASSACHUSETTS: Boston
MICHIGAN: Detroit (Briggs Stadium, now historic Tiger Stadium), Chicago
(YMCA, the Loop, downtown)
MISSISSIPPI: Greenville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Eudora
MISSOURI: St. Louis, Boonville Reformatory
MONTANA: Missoula, Three Forks
NEBRASKA: Omaha, Council Bluffs, Shelton, Gothenburg, North Platte,
Ogallala, Kearney, Grand Island, Columbus
NEVADA: Ely, Reno, Sierra Nevada, Battle Mountain, Elko
NEW JERSEY: Paterson, Hoboken, Newark
NEW MEXICO: Las Cruces, Raton
NEW YORK STATE: NYC, Yonkers (city limits), Newburgh, Long Island City,
Brooklyn
NORTH CAROLINA: Dunn, Fayettesville
NORTH DAKOTA: Medora
OHIO: Columbus, Ashtabula, Cincinnati, Toledo
OKLAHOMA: Cimarron, Camargo
PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh, Harrisburg (Red Cross office (now @ 1804 N
6th St)), Allentown, Philadelphia
SOUTH DAKOTA: Wounded Knee
TENNESSEE: Memphis
TEXAS: Lubbock, Dalhart, Houston, Deweyville, Beaumont, Liberty,
Austin, Fort Worth, old Antone, Sonora, El Paso, Ozona, Van Horn,
Clint, Ysleta, [LosPalmas-]Juarez, Abilene, Laredo (border at),
Amarillo , Childress, Paducah, Guthrie, Coleman, Brady, DIlley, Encino
UTAH: SLC, Ogden, Farmingham
VIRGINIA: Fredericksburg, Testament, Richmond
WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston
WYOMING: Cheyenne (bus station), Creston, Lusk, Larmie, Buffalo


Areas in U.S. Cities
San Francisco: North Beach, the Embarcadero, Chinatown, the Tenderloin,
Fisherman's Wharf, the bay, Divisadero,Oakland Railyards;
Cheyenne railyards; Fresno: south side, "Mextown";
Madera (CA): "Mextown", the "Oregon road"
Chicago: The Loop, downtown; New Orleans: French Quarter,
downtown; Tucson: downtown Testament (VA):
downtown; Davenport: downtown, edges of;
Denver: Mexicantown, Five Points; NYC: Harlem, East Harlem,
Spanish Harlem, Times Square, the Bronx, Jacob's Beach

NON-URBAN LOCATIONS:

ROADS: Route 6, Route 66, intersection of Rtes 6 & 66, Nebraskan
straightaway in Iowa, roadhouse on H'way 99, H'way 301, Nevada road
TOWNS: Oklahoma flat-town, Pennsylvania town, California whistlestop on
the SP, Texas cowtown, Nebraska town, drowsy Illinois towns, Iowa town,
Arizona clifftowns
REGIONS: Oklahoma panhandle, tip of Cape Cod, Salt Lake flats,
Utah/Colorado border
NEW YORK STATE: 40 miles north of NYC, upstate New York, Hudson Valley,
east bank of Hudson River, source of Hudson in Adirondacks
VIRGINIA: Virginia wilderness/wilds, Viginia backroads, black-tar roads

CALIFORNIA: South of Bakersfield, flats outside Bakersfield, vineyard 5
miles out of Sabinal
FIELDS/PRAIRIES: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, East Texas oilfields
TRAILS: Oregon trail, Santa Fe trail
OTHERS: Texas/Louisiana bayou, Louisiana swamps, old Indian ruin,
Pennsylvania farms
PLAINS: Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming, Ohio, Louisiana, Kansas, North
Dakota, east Colorado
STONEWALL JACKSON'S GRAVE: 1) Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery in
Lexington, Virginia 2) cemetery at Lacy Estate at Ellwood, Virginia,
part of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
DESERTS: Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Mojave, Death Valley
MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS: Battle Mountain, Nevada; Pike's Peak; Evans Peak;
Longs Peak (in Estes Park); Estes Mountain; Adirondacks;Bear Mountain;
Great Smoky Mountains; (South) Dakotas; Sierras Mountains (CA); Sierra
Madre Mountains (Mexico); Sierra Madre Oriental; Blue Ridge Mountains,
California; Mexican mountains in the south; Arizona mountains ;
Rockies; Alleghenies; Tarahumare; Catalina range (Arizona); Berthoud
Pass, Colorado; Tehachapi Pass, California; Grapevine Pass, California;
Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado; Stawberry Pass, Utah; Pecos Canyon
RIVERS: Sacramento; Mississippi; Platte; Hudson; Susquehanna;
Appomattox; Sabine; Trinity; Monongahela; dye-dumps & swim-holes &
riversides of Paterson & the Passaic; Potomac; Monocacy; Rio Grande;
Passaic; San Joaquin (valley); Kanawha; Nile; Congo; Brazos; Rio Soto
(near Hidalgo, Mexico); Shenandoah; Moctezuma; Saskatchewan