Sound Artist

Ed Osborn

http://www.roving.net/soundworks/standardploy.html

Standard Ploy is a sound performance piece which finds its life in the fissures that occur between the origins of a sound, the meaning it carries, and the effects upon that meaning it brought about by its transmission through an electronic medium. During the course of the piece, the sounds of a performer gradually become temporally disassociated from the physical actions undertaken to produce them. This perceptual disjuncture is partially offset by a slowly emerging clarity of some musical elements and by the overall lushness of the timbres employed. Standard Ploy serves as a commentary on the process of electronic audio information transfer and the extreme mediating influence that advanced technologies have upon musical performance. 

I found the distortion and change of the sound very odd yet curious.