jmg@dolphy.UUCP (04/26/86)
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 -- -- Jeffrey Greenberg - ihnp4!allegra!phri!dolphy!jmg In the middle of that grotesque center of commie liberalism: your basic Puerto Rican, Egyptian, Jewish, Spanish, Haitian, Russian, Irish, Italian, Chinese, Armenian, Japanese neighborhood called New York City.