The album is available as a limited edition, via the normal medium of music distribution — the media file download — with each of the 1000 versions only being sold once and in sequential order. Upon purchase, you become the owner of that unique version.

FFD is encoded as 320 kbps mp3 files, contains no digital rights management software. and will play in any digital music player able to handle mp3 playback.

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In This Infoburst:

(1) Remix competition - remix audio or code to win a Novation Launchpad
(2) CP0×06 -> Kiti le Step vs MCLD Live out now!
(3) CP0×05 -> RissEP out 27th Feb 2012
(4) Chordpunch Live AlgoRave in London UK, 17th March
(5) Chordpunch artists @ LoveBytes Festival, Sheffield UK, 22-24th March
(6) Forthcoming releases

(1) Remix competition - remix audio or code to win a Novation Launchpad: We’re collaborating on a Kiti le Step remix competition together with the Supercollider Symposium and Novation. You can either work directly with the audio, or generative source code, and submit your remix to be judged by a panel of algorithms. The three winners will receive a Novation Launchpad. Full info over on the Supercollider Symposium website.

(2) CP0×06 -> Kiti le Step vs MCLD Live out now!: To celebrate the launch of our remix competition, CP0×06 is released for free download! Kiti le Step went onstage with livecoder MCLD, and this is what resulted: noisy deconstructions of dubstep’s core components, inflicted live on audiences in Strasbourg and Paris. Beats get broken, basslines get turned into feedback howls, humans and algorithms conspire against sound engineers. Listen + download the MP3s here.

(3) CP0×05 -> RissEP out 27th Feb 2012: This ChordPunch E.P. presents five works inspired by the ‘impossible’ pitch and rhythm illusions of computer music pioneer Jean-Claude Risset.Featuring: Shelly Knotts, MCLD, The Duchess of Turing, Fabric Mogini and Mileece. More info here.

(4) Chordpunch Live AlgoRave in London UK, 17th March: We’ll be running some algorithms over your feet, for an evening of the UK’s finest procedural beats. Confirmed: Yeeking, Slub, Sick Lincoln + more including possibly Ideoforms and MCLD-vs-Kiti le Step :: Venue: nnnnn, Unit 73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrew’s Road, London. E8 4QN. Check our Website/Facebook/Twitter/Mailing list for full details nearer the time.

(5) hordpunch artists @ LoveBytes Festival, Sheffield UK, 22-24th March: The LoveBytes weekend is 22-24th March 2012, and involves a few Chordpunch artists performing and presenting, namely MCLD, Daniel Jones and Silicone Bake, plus many Chordpunch friends. It will be a weekend to remember.

(6) Forthcoming releases: CP0×07 - Slub live: Ambient gabba live coded in Paris AND CP0×08 - Squeakyshoecore II: This will be the friendliest generative acid you’ve ever heard.

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Transcript episode #1.1. Continue :: Transcript episode #2.1. Systems :: Transcript episode #3.1. Determinacy and indeterminacy :: Transcript episode #4.1. Time :: Transcript episode #51. Duration

Generative music is a term used to describe music which has been composed using a set of rules or system. This series of seven episodes explores generative approaches (including algorithmic, systems-based, formalised and procedural) to composition and performance primarily in the context of experimental technologies and music practices of the latter part of the twentieth century and examines the use of determinacy and indeterminacy in music and how these relate to issues around control, automation and artistic intention.

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Kris Perry will start each sculpture from an industrial machine that has been taken out of use. I will travel to scrap yards, auctions, and industrial suppliers to seek out machines that have a combination of visual appeal and functionality. Grinders, shakers, lathes, presses, mills, compressors, saws, and specialized machinery will be the starting point for my works

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Conceived and produced by independent curator Julie Lazar, RE:COMPOSITION considers how current compositional practices are enabling artists in a variety of disciplines to re-conceive or reconstitute aspects of their art production. Though no John Cage compositions will be performed during RE:COMPOSITION, the program honors the pioneering role which Cage played in the expansion of visual art and musical compositional practices both internationally and in California during the 20th Century. The new and adapted artworks presented in RE:COMPOSITION are in direct conversation with the work of earlier artists — ranging from Cage to Nan Hoover, and to Oskar Fischinger — as a both a tribute to their legacy and as a point of departure for the younger artists’ evolving creations.

RE:COMPOSITION, which debuts at San Francisco’s Southern Exposure on January 20-21, is the only project in the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative which features state-wide commissioned performances that is traveling between San Francisco and Los Angeles, a journey which references the flow of artistic ideas that have historically moved up and down the coast. Complete video documentation will be posted at http://www.k-pst.org on February 29.

Each performance explores some aspect of change in contemporary art in California from 1945 to the present, including:

Still Movement: Homage to Nan Hoover (2012) by Sandro Dukic. A commissioned performance installation inspired by Hoover’s photographic work from 1980. The title describes the occupation of her interests while the event manifests the contours of her core ideas. A video installation by Nan Hoover is also on view in Exchange and Evolution at the Long Beach Museum of Art (ends February 12).

Bar Hopping (2012) is composed and performed by Joan Jeanrenaud and Paul de Jong. Commissioned music and film that playfully rethinks visual and musical influences in California from the mid-1950s to the present including cello concertos and contemporary experimental composers. This is a remote collaboration between two leading artists residing on both coasts of the U.S.

Evolution (2010-12) by JD Beltran with music by Marc Barrite and technical assistance by Scott Minneman. As an adaptation of AntiMaster, projected digital film is synchronized with live electronic music.. Evolution is inspired by the migration of ideas between San Francisco and Los Angeles from the late 1940s through the 1960s that formed the basis of the Visual Music Movement. Its creative influences include Oskar Fischinger, James and John Whitney, Jordan Belson and Harry Jacobs.

I N T E R R U P T U S (2009-2012) by Joan Retallack and Michael Ives. A procedural lecture for two voices in homage to John Cage’s principle of interpenetraton and non-obstruction. Performed by Michael Ives and Joan Retallack who collaborated on a unique realization of the piece.

ABOUT KALEIDOSCOPE OF PACIFIC STANDARD TIME ( K-PST.org)

K-PST highlights ideas that shape California’s fertile contemporary art landscape through performances and an online source for artworks, interviews and programs by artists and curators from 1945 to the present. RE:COMPOSITION, a K-PST production, inaugurates a series of diverse new artworks to be performed state-wide including at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc) on January 27 and 28th at 8 pm. The website and commissions were made possible by The Getty Foundation, LA>< ART, Wanda Kownacki and John Holton, Joan and Fred Nicholas, Ministarstvo Kulture Republike Hrvatske, CEC ArtsLink, and Sasha and William Anawalt. In-kind services and donations are provided by Montalvo Arts Center, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Southern Exposure, Freewaves, Japanese Cultural and Community Center, EPSON, Miyaho Hotel and Anawalt Lumber.

ABOUT THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & CURATOR:

Marc Barrite created the DJ/production alias Dave Aju as a vehicle for his fresh and expressive take on electronic music. Combining a natural sonic fascination and adventurous approach with a broad palette of musical influences, Dave Aju’s remixes, DJ sets, and live performances are constantly in demand at labels, venues, and festivals across the globe. His debut full-length album Open Wide is still heavily praised by both everyday music-lovers and esteemed colleagues for it’s bold diversity of styles and the conceptual yet effective use of only his mouth and voice as sound sources. Dave Aju currently resides in San Francisco and continues to develop original solo works as well as several new international collaborative ventures.

J.D. Beltran is a conceptual artist, filmmaker, and writer. She received her M.F.A. degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally including at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen Gallery, New York, The Singapore Digital Mediafest, the Biennale for Electronic Arts in Perth, Australia, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has served on the boards of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and SF Camerawork, and currently is on the board of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is faculty in the New Genres, Interdisciplinary Studies, Critical Studies, and Urban Studies Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she is also Chair of the Post-Baccalaureate Program

John Cage (born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died August 12, 1992, New York, New York) was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music and visual art. Cage briefly attended Pomona College and then traveled in Europe for a time. Returning to the United States in 1931, he studied music with Richard Buhlig, Arnold Schoenberg, Adolph Weiss, and Henry Cowell. While teaching in Seattle (1936–38), he began organizing percussion ensembles and experimenting with works for dance in collaboration with his longtime partner, the choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cage’s early compositions were written in the 12-tone method, but by 1939 he had begun to experiment with unorthodox instruments such as the “prepared piano” (a piano modified by objects placed between its strings in order to produce percussive and otherworldly sound effects). Cage also experimented with tape recorders, record players, and radios in his effort to step outside the bounds of conventional Western music.

Later, Cage turned to Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies and concluded that all the activities that make up music must be seen as part of a single natural process. He came to regard all kinds of sounds as musical, and he encouraged audiences to take note of all sonic phenomena, rather than only those elements selected by a composer. To this end he cultivated the principle of indeterminism in his music. He used a number of devices to ensure randomness and thus eliminate any element of personal taste on the part of the performer: unspecified instruments and numbers of performers, freedom of duration of sounds and entire pieces, inexact notation, and sequences of events determined by random means such as by consultation with the Chinese Yijing (I Ching). In his later works he extended these freedoms over other media.

Among Cage’s best-known works are 4:33 (1952), a piece in which the performer or performers remain utterly silent onstage for that amount of time; Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951), for 12 randomly tuned radios, 24 performers, and conductor; the Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48) for prepared piano; Fontana Mix (1958), a piece based on a series of programmed transparent cards that, when superimposed, give a graph for the random selection of electronic sounds; Cheap Imitation (1969), an “impression” of the music of Erik Satie; and Roaratorio (1979), an electronic composition utilizing thousands of words found in James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. In 1992, Cage collaborated with Julie Lazar on creating Rolywholyover A Circus, a visual and multi-media composition, for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Source: 1994-2011 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. and J.L.

Sandro Ðuki was born in 1964 and lives in Zagreb, Croatia. His works – spatial, architectonic and photographic installations and constructed films - move from one medium to another with ease. He studied with Nam June Paik and Nan Hoover at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, and, under Hoover’s mentorship and guidance, has performed or assisted in a number of her artworks. Ðuki has exhibited in Slovenia, Germany, the US, Italy, Serbia, Austria and Croatia. In 1991 he received the Croatian Artist Association Award.

Nan Hoover initially trained in fine arts, worked in video since the early 1970s. Her interests explored how the borders of visibility in the electronic medium are not steered by a technical concept, but rather are grounded in an overall aesthetic approach to the visible world. Hoover worked with macro perspectives of single body parts and folded papers, where the extreme enlargement and unusual perspective positioning of these objects in relation to the camera create effects that appear strange. For example, views of paper and of a hand or arm of her body in a photograph might easily be misrecognized as sand dunes or mountains. Hard contrasts of illuminated fingers create a dynamic where body objects seem to be totally disembodied and appear as free-standing matter in a spatial surrounding that is deliberately undefined. Hoover provoked the observation of the viewer to use his or her imagination in order to recognize what is presented. The viewing process is further challenged through low contrast and sometimes-minimal illumination, as well as through the lack of deep focus in her early videos. For Hoover, video, and later through performances, were opportunities for interplay between light and movement. Source: http://www.fondation-langlois.org

Michael Ives is a writer and musician whose poetry and fiction has appeared in numerous journals in the United States and abroad. He is the author of The External Combustion Engine, a collection of short prose. The language /performance trio, F’loom, which he cofounded, was featured on National Public Radio, on the CBC, and in several international anthologies of sound poetry. He has taught at Bard College since 2003.

Joan Jeanrenaud, Cellist and Composer, has been involved in music for over 40 years. Growing up in Memphis Tennessee she was exposed to the sounds of the blues, Elvis, soul and classical music. She learned to play her instrument from cellists Peter Spurbeck, Fritz Magg and Pierre Fournier, studied jazz with David Baker, Joe Henderson and Hal Stein, worked with Kronos Quartet as cellist for 20 years and now for the past 12 years has been involved with solo and collaborative projects in composition, improvisation, electronics, and multi-disciplinary performance. She has completed more than 50 compositions for cello and small ensembles many of these multi-media works. Recent projects include her installation work ‘ARIA’ with collaborator Alessandro Moruzzi, premiered at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the composition and performance of ‘ODD’ with choreographer Shinichi Iova-Koga and the AXIS dance company. Her CD, ‘Strange Toys’, released on the Talking House label in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy, and her most recent release, ‘Pop-Pop’, appears on her new record label Deconet Records. Go to www.deconetrecords.com and www.jjcello.org for more information.

Julie Lazar directs International Contemporary Arts Network, a San Francisco-based curatorial and arts consultancy firm. She served as founding Curator and Director of Experimental Programs at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Guest Curator at Montalvo Arts Center; and Adjunct Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. In New York, Lazar led development programs at The Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller University, The Hudson River Museum, and PS 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources.

Paul de Jong. Born into a musical family, Paul began studying the cello seriously at the ripe age of five. He took a razorblade to his first audiocassette at age fifteen, moving quickly through feverish periods of teenage experimental band life and absurdist theatre. Concertizing classical repertoire and composing instrumental and electronic music for dance companies through his early thirties. After receiving music degrees in his native Netherlands and having studied at the University of Illinois, he moved to New York City in 1993 to briefly study at the Manhattan School of Music, teaching cello, assisting nonagenarian electronic music pioneer Otto Luening, and becoming the other half of The Books. De Jong is exploring new collaborations, creating music, poetry, and prints in New Lebanon, New York.

Joan Retallack is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar who has authored seven books, including Circumstantial Evidence (1985), Icarus FFFFFalling (1994), A F T E R R I M A G E S (1995), Lannan Foundation for poetry and the National Endowment for the Arts. Retallack currently teaches poetry and poetics and Memnoir (2004). Her awards include an American Award in Belles-Lettres, a Pushcart Prize, and grants from the as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College, where she is a director of the Language and Thinking program.

The fifth episode in the series continues to explore the idea of time in music practice, particularly in relation to duration. The show looks at how music is measured in terms of both micro and macroscopic intervals: through granular synthesis, where sound is constructed from microscopic sonic ‘grains’, to extended works whose duration is measured not in minutes and seconds, but years. Bringing together ideas and theories of the engineer Denis Gabor and composers Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads, this episode examines early tape and computer music works using granular and pulsar synthesis. The show closes with a focus on two recent treatments of time in music by the German artist Hanne Darboven and media producer Terre Thaemlitz.

On January 5th 2012, on RaiTunes, the sounds of Alessio Bertallot meet the hybrid, neo-real worlds of Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico. The language of radio will be contaminated with the language of new media arts, generating novel forms of expression and narratives.

Starting at 11pm and up to 11:40pm, “VersuS, the real time lives of cities” will be showcased in an entirely new version created to interact in real time with the RaiTunes playlist.

This version of the VersuS project will be officially presented during the broadcast, in which listeners will be invited to a realtime voyage into music and the emotions of London, New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Bristol and Milan.

Moving from city to city, Alessio Bertallot will lead the audience through the discovery of the music that originates in those places, expression of concrete and flesh.

Simultaneously, planet earth will revolve towards the cities: a plunging zoom will allow us to experience cities’ chitchat in front of our eyes; the messages which people, in that moment, are exchanging on social networks will be captured, analyzed, and shown over the places in which they originated, in a dynamic, neo-real, visualization, showing in realtime the sensations of the people which live in that city, transforming us into global eyes, in emotional voyeurs of the whole planet.

January 5th, 11pm – 11:40pm, on RaiTunes.

Realtime updates and dialogue with Alessio Bertallot and the creators of VersuS will take place on RaiTunes’ Facebook page.

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