A salute to John Cage on the 100th anniversary of his birth, composed for the Ear to the Earth New York Soundscape Project in 2011 as a followup to his commission in 2008, Richard Lainhart's 100 x John 2 is based on field recordings of Manhattan sounds. The recordings he used were a Harlem soundwalk, 125th Street traffic, Morningside Park light rain, 116th Street Shabaaz Market, 116th Street subway, store interiors, and a few more. His technique was to use Kyma, a major sound-production system, to cross-filter the field recorded sounds by playing his guitar. This technique combines the field recordings with the guitar sounds in such a way that you hear the result of the combination rather than the sounds themselves. As Lainhart puts it, "What you hear is the interaction between me and my environment."

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