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Release Date: 2019-11-01

Label: Minimal Resource Manipulation

Released in a clear snap case with double-sided j-card with two inner flaps. Yellow cassette with label stickers on both sides.
Comes with download code.

Info about the recording, although not disclosed as such on the physical release:
"In the winter of 2018 I was thinking about the role of control in creating a piece of art or music and wanted to explore what would happen if that control was in some relinquished. I hit upon a process that I wanted to use to create a number of pieces that would come into fruition without my hearing them until they were finished. I recorded the sounds of eight different objects (run of the mill household items) and used these single sound sources as the basis for each piece. I employed the same process with each recording: The sound was pitched down, the result was then pitched down a second time creating three layers of the same recording. Each layer was then randomly cut up using software and re arranged across the screen. Some of the cut up portions were then erased. I only listened to the results once all of the above process had been followed for each one and would then judge whether it had been a success.
Once I had eight pieces I was happy with I sent them to the musicians who appear on this album, one piece per person. Their brief was to respond to the recording in whichever way they wanted; either overdubbing onto it, remixing it or even discarding it and coming up with something else completely. It was important to keep to the theme of chance and random interaction."
(Matt Atkins 2019)