Call for recordings for Kerouac/Cage project

CAll FOR SOUND RECORDINGS
I am a composer completing a multimedia work based on Kerouac's "On the

Road."
A mix of recordings of ambient sounds from various locations
will be played as part of the performance, which will also include
poetry recitation, a DJ mixing bop records mentioned in the novel, and
live musicians playing music described in the novel. To create this
work I am using John Cage's "Roaratorio" as a model.
I need recordings of ONLY those cities and rural locations listed
below. As per Cage's instructions, "You can simply accept the sounds
which are in the place you go to when you make the recording." Do not
intentionally set out to capture a particular sound unless that sound
is characteristic of the location. Please do not add commentary.

Your cooperation in providing a recording would be acknowledged in
connection with publications.

Format: Audio CD, AIFF, any length between 30 seconds and ten minutes.
The CD must be labeled with your name and the specific location (attach
label or write with marker).
Provide your email address if you wish to be notified of acceptance and
publication information. Thanks in advance to everyone who sends
submissions.

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: LA, SF, 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, Longmont, Kremmling, Steamboat Springs,
Sterling (ranch in), Junction, Greely, Canyon City, Castle Rock ,
Colorado Springs
DISTRICT OF COUMBIA: Washington, D.C.
FLORIDA: Flomaton
GEORGIA: Macon
ILLINOIS: Joliet, Chicago
INDIANA: Indianapolis, South Bend,Terre Haute, Notre Dame
IOWA: Davenport, Iowa City, Des Moines, Stuart, Adel, Newton
KANSAS: Kansas City
KENTUCKY: Ashland
LOUISIANA: Ruston, New Orleans, Algiers, Houma, Gretna, Baton Rouge,
Port Allen, Natchez, Potash, Venice, Lawtell, Eunice, Kinder,
Dequincey, Starks, Opelousa, Sabine
MARYLAND: Frederick, Baltimore
MASSACHUSETTS: Boston
MICHIGAN: Detroit
MISSISSIPPI: Greenville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Eudora
MISSOURI: Three Forks, St. Louis
MONTANA: Missoula, Blufftown
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, Harrisburgh, 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, Creston, Lusk, Larmie, Buffalo

NON-U.S. CITIES: Paris, Marseille, Okinawa, Dakar, Vienna, London,
Moscow, Casbah, Athens, Istanbul, Rome, Liverpool, Hongkong, Cadiz,
Monte Carlo, Menton, Cagnes-sur-mer, Holy Lhasa

MEXICAN CITIES: Mexico City, Sonora, Juarez Chihuahua, Chihuahua,
Tierra del Fuego, Nuevo Laredo, (Old) Monterrey, Sabinas Hidalgo,
Montemorelos, Gregoria, Acapulco, Ciudad Monte, Limon

Sites in Metropolitan Areas

Establishments
LA: park bench at the Plaza, drugstore @ corner of Sunset & Vine, Buick
Motors showroom, New Era laundry , in front of Columbia Pictures in
H'wood
SF: Palace Hotel, Alfred's Steakhouse (659 Merchant St), Golden Gate,
Coit Tower, Golden Gate Racetrack, Navy Yard
Oakland Bay Bridge
NEW YORK CITY: Birdland, Washington Bridge, Columbia campus, Bellevue
Hospital, 34th Street Greyhound Station, 242th St Station on the 7th
Ave subway, Metropolitan opera
SANTA ANITA Racetrack
DENVER: public library, Windsor Hotel, Ace Hotel 3rd floor SE corner
room, hotel room on Glenarm
JOLIET (IL) Penitentiary
CHICAGO YMCA
DAVENPORT bus station
University of Iowa (AMES)
CHEYENNE bus station
Louisiana State University (BATON ROUGE)
BOONVILLE, Missouri Reformatory
HARRISBURG (PA) Red Cross office
DETROIT: Brigg's Stadium
MEXICO CITY College
TERRE HAUTE Federal Penitentiary

Throughways in U.S. Cities
LA: Main Street, south Main Street, Alameda Ave, Central Ave, Hollywood
Ave
SF: Mission & 3rd, Market Street, O'Farrell St, Mission St, Larkin
and Geary, Fillmore, wooden tenement on Liberty St, Folsom St.,
Hollywood Boulevard, Old North Clark Street, (bus station at) Market &
4th
DENVER: Glenarm St, Larimer St, Grant St, Curtis & 15th St, Market &
4th, Grand St,
Curtis St (corners), West Colfax, 17th St.
CHICAGO: North Clark St., South Halstead, Madison St, Lake Shore Drive
WASHINGTON, DC: Pennsylvania Ave
NEW ORLEANS: Canal St
TUCSON: Fort Lowell Road
HARRISBURG (PA): Main Street corners
NEW YORK CITY: 125th St., 3rd Ave, 7th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th Ave, 242th
St.,York Ave, basement apt in west 90s, 14th St, 60th St. slums, 42nd
St, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, parking lot on Madison & 40th ,
coldwater flat in East 80s, 44th & Madison, Madison Ave, coldwater pad
on E. 40th , 50th st., round the corner of 7th Ave.

Areas in U.S. Cities
Poughkeepsie: steamboat landings
Field by the Long Island railyard
LA: Malibu Beach, downtown, back of a H'wood parking lot
SF: North Beach, the Embarcadero, Chinatown, the Tenderloin,
Fisherman's Wharf, the bay, Divisadero,Oakland Railyards
Cheyenne rail)yards
Fresno: south side, Mextown
Madera (CA): Mextown, the "Oregon road"
Chicago: The Loop, downtown
New Orleans: French Quarter, downtown
Tucson: downtown
Testament (VA): downdown
Davenport: downtown, edges of
Denver: Mexicantown, Five Points, sidestreet cottage door, "colored
section"
NYC: Harlem, East Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Times Square, the Bronx,
Jacob's Beach
Acapulco: beach of

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 cornfields/fields, corndales of Iowa, Kansas
fields, Iowa prairie/countryside, lonely crossroads on edge of Iowa
prarie, East Texas oilfields
TRAILS: Oregon trail, Santa Fe trail
OTHERS: Texas/Louisiana bayou, Louisiana swamps, old Indian ruin,
Pennsylvania farms
PLAINS: Nebraska plains, Texas plain, Wyoming high plains, Ohio plain,
Texas: great sage plains, Louisiana plains, Kansas plains, North Dakota
plains, east Colorado plains
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, where
Jackson's left arm is
buried
NON-U.S RURAL AREAS: bottom of South America, Oaxacan heights, Mexican
territory, French roads at night, beginning of Tropic of Cancer going
north-to-south, Tehuantapec Isthmus, English road
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
BODIES: Atlantic Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Lake Michigan; Salt Lake; Split
Rock Pond; Gulf of Mexico; Lake Charles, Louisiana; lake of the Aztec
ISLANDS: Alcatra; Rock Island; Grand Island; Long Island; Manhattan;
Riker's; Gibraltar