IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE (ART 1005, 1990)

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1.	Seven 04:52	buy track
2.	Descartes 04:57	buy track
3.	Canon 05:13	buy track
4.	Moronscape 24 04:42	buy track
5.	A Man or a Baby 03:57	buy track
6.	Black Noise 08:35	buy track
7.	The Thirteenth Player 05:16	buy track
8.	Urban Lake Music 04:56	buy track
9.	Moronscape 5 03:34	buy track
10.	Simple 06:45	buy track
11.	Ivo 05:36	buy track
12.	Cones 05:47	buy track
13.	Brain Monkey 04:23	buy track

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IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE is a series of microcompouter contorlled musical compositions created with the intention of developing a means for continuous computer music installations. While recent versions of the series have been performance, works, the music hardware and software used are prototypes for further, more ambitious installations and compositions. The title is just a statement of two related observations: the first being that any idea, no matter how simple, contains unknown and insurmountable problems when it comes to its implementation, the second being the ability of people to bury the simplest ideas beneath piles of obfuscating rubbish.

All music on this album was created using software written by the composer. Each composition was produced in "real time."

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released January 1, 1990

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Artifact Recordings San Francisco, California

ARTIFACT RECORDINGS is a project of Ubu, Incorporated, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our download and compact disk series is dedicated to representing a living experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments. ... more

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