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PHYSICAL:
Designed by Richard Chartier
4CD (2CD x 2 copies)
30 inserts
custom fold-out box
edition 500
release date: 000229
AUDIO:
CD 1
Roel Meeelkop | 1 (beegee)
Artifical Memory Trace | infover
Bernhard Günter | in her dream/mu is running/autumn moon (haiku for
mu)
Richard Chartier | 3 Particles
Nosei Sakata (*0) | cochler
Jason Lescalleet | needles
Howard Stelzer | bend of fold
Steve Roden/in be tween noise | 8 windows (first version)
Josh Russell | 1000x
Pimmon | finja falso peixes
Brekekekexkoaxkoax | for gerard klauder
Michael Northam | kalpa (an excerpt)
CD2
Taylor Deupree | dopticn
Oren Ambarchi & Matthew Thomas | stratagem (distortus)
Quockenzocker | wonthaggi
Ios Smolders | sequenzen (somehow inspired by kh stockhausen)
Kid606 | done/start
(a)d(r)I(a)n(l)e(e) | (u)n(-)t(i)t(l)e(d)
Warsaw (1921) | sonarchy sounding
Colin Jenkenson & Kevin Schwartz | duolc ecneirepxe
Lt. Caramel | music pour parking payant
Joseph Zitt | mouth.midnight
Ecclesiastical Scaffolding | by winter, it had come to an end
Richard Cochrane | las bas (lower depths)
Dale Anderson | lost velo
Rod Stasick | obeliskrying
Tone Speak | tone shifter
FROM THE LINER NOTES:
‘
lowercase-sound”, a term coined by Steve Roden in an interview in 1998,
is obliquely self-explanatory. lowercase music bears “…a certain
sense of quiet and humility; it doesn’t demand attention, it must be
discovered. The work might imply one thing on the surface but contain other
things beneath. It’s the opposite of capital letters – loud things
which draw attention to themselves. (Morton) Feldman’s work is the
perfect lowercase music; it seems serene, but there is much going on beneath
the quiet exterior.”
This ‘lowercase compilation’ represent artists from across the
world who place committed listening at the top of the creative music process.
It is I this moment of pure attention that one’s sense of self simultaneously
disappears and swells to encompass the surroundings.
By composing for this type of listening (good headphones at high volume
recommended) these artists force the listener to pay focused attention to
sound. After a couple times through the set you may discover for yourself
that compositions are all around you at every moment: the hum of the refrigerator,
the refuge truck backing up in the alley, a plastic bag trapped in the fence
rustling…
“The only thing that is not art is inattention,” said Marcel
Duchamp, and now you too are paying attention.
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