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Kinetix
Possible Forms

Album IT 2002 on Nova Ars Digitandi label
Dance (Minimal, Glitch, Experimental, Sound Art)

Limited edition 100 copies. Liner notes: POSSIBLE FORMS is not a double-CD album, but it’s an audio-set composed by two CDs planned to be played simultaneously. It includes sixteen electronic compositions of identical length [5’.20”] for a total time of 42’.42” for each CD. This work is conceived in order that every track of each record could play as second layer on every track of the other one. For this reason, the tracks hasn’t neither title nor a pre-arranged sequential order. Macrostructure: the Silver CD includes eight tracks with metrical-tonal elements, while the White CD contains eight tracks of only noise drones. Both CDs have the same peak level [0dB], so the listener can choose the respective volume of each of the two CDs. These recordings contain ultra and sub sonic frequencies; for this reason the author advices the listener not to play the CDs at high volumes. Microstructure: all the tracks are obtained from a special combination of forty different audio fragments, previously selected and extracted from various digital sources. The minimal form of the entire work was specifically created to facilitate the listening in combined modality, establishing this way a precise relationship between sign and function. Vertical audio system: using two CD players [or CD-ROM/DVD players] in Random / Shuffle and Repeat modes, both players have to be started simultaneously. So, the two records can be played together ad libitum, generating sounds and sequences in continuous movement. POSSIBLE FORMS uses sound strategies based on the calculation of auditive times and spaces in order to create a different kind of audio-logic design. In this sense this work can be intended as a device able of expanding the ordinary possibilities of domestic listening and it can be presented in the form of audio installation.

Musicians

	Kinetix , IT album by
	*0 , sounds, audio sources
	0/R sounds, audio sources
	Akira Yamamichi g, p, sounds, audio sources
	Alva Noto key, perc, syn, g, *1965 DE sounds, audio sources
	Alvin Lucier voc, *1931 US sounds, audio sources
	Bernhard Günter cl, fl, *1957 DE sounds, audio sources
	Carl Michael Von Hausswolff perc, eg, eb, *1956 SE sounds, audio sources
	Carsten Nicolai sax, voc, fl, dr machine, *1965 DE sounds, audio sources
	Francisco López , *1964 ES sounds, audio sources
	Frank Bretschneider g, voc, key, *1956 DE sounds, audio sources
	Goem , *1996 NL sounds, audio sources
	Iannis Xenakis voc, 1922-2001 RO sounds, audio sources
	Kim Cascone sampler, g, *1955 US sounds, audio sources
	Kozo Inada , JP sounds, audio sources
	Marc Behrens , *1970 DE sounds, audio sources
	Mark Van Hoen alp, syn, *1966 GB sounds, audio sources
	Masami Akita syn, *1956 JP sounds, audio sources
	Merzbow , *1979 JP sounds, audio sources
	Mika Vainio eg, perc, 1963-2017 FI sounds, audio sources
	Morton Subotnick voc, syn, *1933 US sounds, audio sources
	Nosei Sakata , JP sounds, audio sources
	Pauline Oliveros acc, *1932 US sounds, audio sources
	Pita b, *1968 sounds, audio sources
	Ralph Steinbrüchel , *1969 CH sounds, audio sources
	Richard Chartier , *1971 US sounds, audio sources
	Robin Rimbaud g, key, *1964 GB sounds, audio sources
	Roel Meelkop syn, *1963 NL sounds, audio sources
	Ryoji Ikeda dr, *1966 JP sounds, audio sources
	Scanner key, b, *1964 sounds, audio sources
	Steve Roden voc, g, *1964 US sounds, audio sources
	Taylor Deupree syn, *1971 US sounds, audio sources
	Tetsu Inoue , JP sounds, audio sources
	Thomas Brinkmann voc, *1959 DE sounds, audio sources
	Thomas Köner perc, *1965 DE sounds, audio sources

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