VA-Incidental_Amplifications-2006-BCC

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85,64 MB

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2009-01-13

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Artist  : VA
Title   : Incidental Amplifications
Genre   : Electronic
Year    : 2006
Date    : 01/13/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 14
Label   : Room40
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 69:44 min
Size    : 85,6 MB


Tracklist:
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01.Chris Watson - Runway O2E              02:01
02.Domenico Sciajno - Twc                 03:16
03.Le Grand Jeu - Middle Class Guilt      04:57
04.Camilla Hannan - Part 3 (Edit)         04:33
05.Terre Thaemlitz - Millennial Muzak     02:51
06.Joe Musgrove  - Broken In Search       04:17
07.Brandon LaBelle - Off Site             06:42
08.Aaron Ximm - Sales_Pitch_Phase         06:03
09.Dzo - Untitled                         05:21
10.M. R÷sner - May0105                    05:48
11.Daniel Blinkhorn - Resource14          05:07
12.Mathieu Ruhlmann - Rest                11:01
13.Blake Stickland - Brecker              02:23
(For Curd Duca)
14.Thembi Soddell - Watching              05:24
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                                          69:44 min




For most of us, our every waking moment (and even those where
we are unconscious) is surrounded by sound. From the
obnoxiously pitched alarm tone that raises us from slumber to
the muted sounds of night-time traffic that merge with natural
nocturnal transmissions; there is always sound.

As a society we have increasingly sought to augment and indeed
control the environments around us. All manner of tools have
been utilised in this ongoing war against the unfamiliar, the
unexpected and the "undesirable". As well as a variety of
visuals cues, sound is progressively used to colour our
surroundings with a variety of aural hues.

The Twentieth Century brought with it an unparalleled use of
artificial sound in the form of George Squier's Muzak - a
creation designed to enhance (and perhaps determine) amongst
other things our "urban/social/shopping" experience. For
decades, no mall or place of substantial commerce was complete
without the dulcet tones of Muzak. To many it would seem that
there is a world of difference between the bleating high
frequency sounds of an Indian marketplace and multiple channels
of mid-tempo instrumental music filling our shopping malls;
however the ability for sound to draw and focus our attention
is universal and well documented.

But what of the remaining sounds? The incidental sounds that
Muzak tries (and often fails) to mask. It's within these sound
fields that curators Lawrence English + Lloyd Barrett sought to
collect artists who were working with and celebrating these
incidental aspects of our sound world.

http://www.room40.org

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