Reel-to-reel recordings and 15 kilocycle telelinks converge in Maryanne Amacher's telematic installation seriesCity-Links(1967–81). As long-duration recordings of urban sites,City-Linksqueries the musicality of ambient sound on tape, a question of critical importance to many composers of the period. But as expressly telematic tape,City-Linksembeds these recordings within a transforming US telecommunications industry where expanded long-distance dialing relied on the high-tech labour and gendered discipline of telephone operators, enrolling tapes’ ambient sounding in broader questions about the technological mediation of gender, listening and long-distance embodiment duringCity-Linkslate 1960s and 1970s span. An extended reconstruction of oneCity-Links's tape's tactile qualities interprets this complex interimplication as a kind of telematic ‘weave’, with a spatiotemporal warp shuttling between the weft of environmental sounds and their technical traces.

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远程信息处理磁带：Maryanne Amacher 的城市链接笔记（1967-1980）

卷对卷录音和 15 千周期远程链接汇聚在 Maryanne Amacher 的远程信息处理装置系列中城市链接（1967-81）。作为城市遗址的长期记录，城市链接质疑磁带上环境声音的音乐性，这对当时的许多作曲家来说至关重要。但作为明确的远程信息处理磁带，城市链接将这些录音嵌入到正在转型的美国电信行业中，扩大长途拨号依赖于电话接线员的高科技劳动力和性别纪律，将磁带的环境声音纳入关于性别技术中介、听力和长途体现的更广泛问题期间城市链接1960 年代后期和 1970 年代跨度。一个扩展的重建城市链接录音带的触觉特性将这种复杂的相互暗示解释为一种远程信息处理“编织”，时空扭曲在环境声音的纬线和它们的技术痕迹之间穿梭。