Tom Cox

This project is the result of a rather extensive collaboration between Key Ransone (small cruel party) and Tom Cox (t.a.c.) that occurred in 1993–1994. In the computer, the materials were symbolized by discrete bits of information that could be stripped down, processed, and then reassembled back into a whole. The system used was limited to working with audio files of a small size, roughly two minutes, and was constrained in the amount of alterations that could be carried out before the system would hang up and necessitate a reboot sequence to free up system resources and available memory. These early computer experiments were done in 22kHz/8 bit/mono resolution, which resulted in a great deal of information being lost from the original analogue form, though not enough to make the tracks unusable or even undesirable. The lengths of these tracks were dictated by restrictions of system memory, computational processing ability, and software functionality.

Tom Cox states: “This allowed for a kind of detachment from the compositional process that I had not experienced before. Given this method I was able to work with the sounds in an almost tangible manner, dealing with the materials in a cohesive whole—just another step in the evolution of the work. This resolution is quite some distance from the more normal 44kHz/16 bit/stereo digital standard, which is in turn some distance from naturally occurring analogue sonic activity.”

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Michael Northam

Michael Northam (aka mnortham) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. He works with both live sound work and installations. Recently, he has presented a series of projects entitled a “slow red, circulating green” in England, Ireland, Italy, and Austria. These current projects are based on a blend between improvised electro-acoustic processes with semi-automated sound devices creating a complex stratification of incidental harmonics and slowly transforming sound fields. This sample for Cabinet, “a sunken lattice” has been excerpted from these sessions. mnortham has released material solo and in collaboration with artists such as Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Ora, John Grzinich, MSBR, and Francisco Lopez on the labels Absurd (Athens), Flenix (Tokyo), Staalplaat and E.R.S. (both Amsterdam), Erewhon (Liège), Dorobo (Victoria, Australia), and Editions... (Atlanta, Georgia). New projects include a live session in Dublin, Ireland with Michael Prime and Fergus Kelly, and a new solo work based on field recordings from and around megalithic sites in Ireland.

Luz Maria Sanchez

Luz Maria Sanchez is an artist based in Guadalajara, Mexico. She works primarily in sound and installation. Recent projects have been exhibited at Centro Cultural Casa Vallarta at the University of Guadalajara, Gran Teatro de La Habana in Cuba, and at Ex Teresa Arte Alternativo in Mexico City.

David and Tim Cunningham

David Cunningham’s CD “Kinosthetic Hobgobblers” is available through
http://www.wcrgrecords.com

Francisco Lopez

Recorded live at CWU (Santa Cruz, CA) on 6 August 1999, Stadtgarten (HEAR.ing 18, Cologne) on 19 September 1999, and Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on 12 October 1999. Mixed and mastered at mobile messor.

Special thanks to Michael Gendreau, Cliff Neighbors, Joe Colley, Thomas Dimuzio (Santa Cruz), Peter Torringen, Michael Rysenberg (Cologne), Erik Minkkinen & Sylvie, Isabelle Piechaczyk, Marc Behrens (Paris), Carsten Nicolai & the raster crew, Stefanie Sembill (Leipzig).

Small Cruel Party

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Illusion of Safety