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Artist:	JLIAT
Title:	Still Life #5: 6 Types of Silence
Label:	EDITION
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	EDITION XI

"This latest installment in the Still Life series trades the brevity and clarity of the previous two (Jazz and Rock and Roll) for a rather enigmatic, lengthy, and potentially destructive silence. 'One of the fascinating things is that given the medium of CD (16 bit 44.1khz) you can have upwards of 65536 types silence - all silent but in all the tracks there is different data. As an artist working in this area I find this weirdness intriguing. The permutations of the data are staggering as are the ideas associated in such very minimal works. For instance, by mixing short lengths of these silences, all the other sounds which you can hear on a CD are produced. Given that CDs are *just* numbers other things arise -- just the first second of a CD has 65536 to the power of 44100 variations -- working through these you have the first second of any/all CDs From 'My Way' to Beethoven's 5th. However this number is quite large -- there are only 10 to the 79 protons in the universe. So although we can 'hold' these CDs in our head -- there is probably insufficient matter and time to make them all. This (Still Life #5) continues the series of works made by writing data directly to a PCM file. In this work there are 6 ten minute pieces made by setting all values in a track to the same binary values. There are 65536 possible values in all -- and so this number (6) of potentially similar tracks. All result in producing silence -- though all these silences are not the same. Pausing the playing of a track will show this to be so, for the data being played is halted and the CD system jumps back to zero -- resulting in a click (if the value 'playing' was not zero or near to it). Interestingly this click is heard but is not actually on the recording -- it physically doesn't exist. It is the interference of the continuous stream of data which causes the sound. Maybe cosmologically things are created out of similar emptiness, or a jump between two nothings. So each continuous set of binary values will be rendered by the CD player as a DC voltage - which could be dangerous to the electronics and speaker systems in some Hi Fi Equipment. This is because playing a silence which is based on a very high or low binary value at high volume will produce a high DC voltage in the system. This could cause overheating of speaker coils and other electronics.' -- James Whitehead

Artist:	JLIAT
Title:	The Grandi Series Still Life # 7 (Ambient)
Label:	EDITION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	EDITION XVI

"It seems that our everyday logic breaks down when applied to the infinite. We must either abandon discussions of infinity, or accept that some questions which seem meaningful for all questions of the finite are meaningless when applied to the infinite. A Thompson lamp is a lamp that is switched on then switched off after 1 second, then switched on again after a half second, then switched off after a quarter second, then switched on after an eighth of a second... and so on. Two seconds after it is first turned on, is it on or off?"Note abut this "conceptual art": "This CD is made from an original source of P.C.M. data @ +1-1+1-1...This will probably not be rendered as sound by a CD player's DAC."

Artist:	BEHRENS, M.
Title:	Transition
Label:	EDITION
Format:	2x3" CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	EDITION XVII

"Two three inch CDs -- one comprising new works and another reworkings of older sounds. Indeed one finds a marked 'transition' in approach to noise-making among the earlier and later material which is heightened by their physical separation. Disc one highlights Behrens' remarkable compositional restraint with slow moving tones and introduction of transient sounds and granular waves into the audio field. Disc two employs an abrupt jump-cut aesthetic and much more primitive sounds in its making: metallic ringing, bursts of low frequencies, voices, and synth-like tones punctuated by sudden dropouts for a jarring overall result. The CDs are carefully packaged in a gatefold plastic sleeve with cards featuring color photographs by the artist. Edition 500."

Artist:	AFFLUX (INFLUX)
Title:	St.Martin-sur-mer, Aizier, Dieppe
Label:	EDITION
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	EDITION XXIII

"Featuring Eric La Casa (processing, contact microphone recording), Eric Cordier (long string recording devices, mixing), and Jean Luc Guionnet (condenser & contact microphone recordings, filtering, processing, mixing). Afflux employs an on-site electroacoustic device in order to work out a set of live interactions with the site. The device connects the three improvisers to the place at the same time. This set of connections creates an infinite interplay of interactions and possibilities. The device is basically founded upon a principle of circulation. The recordings of the environment and devices interacting with the elements: wind, water, etc. are filtered and mixed live by one protagonist. The mix is then broadcast to the other two protagonists (through headphones) who can interact with inflections, altering the course of what is recorded. In this instance the three sites in the Normandy area (each involving a great deal with the water of the sea)find the trio encountering some intermittent heavy weather. Passing rain showers, rising tides, flowing drains, and even communications from a maritime navigation post play heavily into the soundscape, which is a shimmering electroacoustic atmosphere of vibrating strings, rushing water, and crisp, windswept ambience."

Artist:	BEHRENS, M.
Title:	Security vs. Freedom
Label:	EDITION
Format:	2x3" CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	EDITION XXVIII

"The successor to Transition (2001) in the same format -- two mini CDs, six full-colour cards with photographs -- further exploits the idea of the absent transition. Between two poles of music the listener imagines a huge step from one phase of work to another with a distance of nearly seven years in between, or perhaps just one state of mind to another: security and freedom. But does the security lie in the carefully pronounced minimalist compositions of 'The Unknown' on disc 2, or in the dense sound fields of 'Compressed Location 1 and 2' on disc 1 that engulf and embrace the listener? Or vice versa: is freedom expressed in the structurally open, expressive passages of the latter, or in the gap between very low and very high frequencies of 'The Unknown - part 1', in which the noise of the surroundings is framed by sound, but still remaining fully audible -- unsuppressed?" Limited stock, deleted item.

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