Artist : VA
Title : Graceful Degradation: Variations
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2008
Date : 02/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : Sourdine
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 61:00 min
Size : 79,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Steinbruechel - Shimmer 10:35
02.Kenneth Kirschner - April 17th, 2006 05:35
03.Heribert Friedl - Rehsa 08:07
04.John Hudak - Snd8 08:55
05.Steve Roden - Gration Degradaceful 05:17
06.Jason Kahn - Am Wasser 05:05
07.Ubeboet - Untitled #305 Variation 17:26
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61:00 min
sd-001: graceful degradation: variations
2.2008
cd edition limited to 500 copies
featuring: heribert friedl, john hudak,
jason kahn, kenneth kirschner, steve
roden, steinbrⁿchel and ubeboet.
the source recording for the
compositions featured on this album
still exist on a single 90 minute
cassette, made by the intermagnetics
corporation from santa monica,
california. there are still some bits of
led zeppelin here and there among my
recordings which haven't been recorded
over, but mostly the tape is full of
recording i made. i remember working
with this tape for several months over
the summer and into fall of 2005, in my
apartment in brooklyn; i would spend
hours going through the material and
trying to find different combinations of
the recordings of the sounds which are
stored on it. after a certain period of
time working with the material i put
together some pieces for an album
release and thought i was done. but in
the end i went back and continued
working, it is the material from this
second period of work which has been
used by the artists featured on this
release.
the concept of graceful degradation in
relation to memory as well as system
failure, seemed quite fitting to the
work i was doing, as well as to the work
of other sound recording artists. there
is a relationship that develops between
our own memories and recordings made and
archived using various data storage and
retrieval technologies which i am very
interested in; i initiated this project
with this interest in mind.
as a continuation of the graceful
degradation of my original recordings i
asked seven artists to use the material
in their own ways to create a new piece.
each artist put the material into their
systems of working with sound and came
up with the results featured on this
album. i am very honored to have their
contributions and pleased to present
them on this first release on sourdine.
(text by asher thal-nir)
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