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I like to think of this piece as unlike any other; it in fact is not a sound recording at all. Most pieces on this disc are recordings of live musical performances. But this piece is just a pattern of digital information, generated by a special purpose signal processing computer I built, transferred to digital tape and then to CD, without ever being a sound until it gets to your speakers. I hope it reveals the immediacy of the physical situation: you have a piece of electrical equipment which is flicking all around a cardboard cone. The speaker is making the sound, and I suggest you listen to the speaker, rather than listening "into" it for the spatial illusion all sound recordings create.

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from ARTIFICIAL HORIZON (ART 1003, 1989), released October 15, 1989
Composer: Tim Perkis
Performer: Tim Perkis

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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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