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From: jmg@dolphy.UUCP
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Subject: Artist, CD players and Error Correction
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 09:17:58 EDT
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In NYC an artist, Yosanao Tome, is working with CD's just as other
artists are working with new technologies.  What he does is
attempt to personalize the CD to make it a sound production
device.  He scratches the cd's; he covers areas with reflective foils,
colored films, and translucent material; he globs glue across the
pristine disks.  What you hear is his
music making via the CD and it error correction codes.  Whole
chunks are repeated over and over, then a section of music from
somewhere else in the piece rings in, stops, decays...(etc).
I like this attack on the implicit idea of perfect music that
CD technology operates with.  Just listen to any 'box' on the
street and see how the 'distortion' is not a problem for the listeners.

Jeffrey Greenberg
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