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MIMEO
Sight

Album UK 2007 on Cathnor Recordings label
Electronic (Abstract, Experimental, Free Improvisation)

Sight is a project inspired by stories of the American painter Cy Twombly that describe how he took up the occasional practice of drawing and painting blindfolded, creating art despite being unable to use the most obvious sense required for the task. For the sight project each of the eleven members of MIMEO spread across Europe were asked to place approximately five minutes of sound anywhere they chose onto a blank sixty minute CDR. This was done independently of one another, with no communication between the musicians about how or where the music should be distributed on the disc. This process was only completed after the musicians had spent considerable time considering the task at hand, trying to understand what their colleagues may be doing. Finally in late 2006 the finished CDRs were sent to one group member, Marcus Schmickler, who then compiled all eleven discs onto one single CDR, superimposing the eleven pieces of music over each other to create a single work. This task was completed without listening to the music at any stage. Packaged in a 5.5" x 7.5" Digipak.

Musicians

	MIMEO , *1997 album by
	Cor Fuhler p, org, *1964 NL performer
	Fennesz g, *1962 AT performer
	Gert-Jan Prins perc, voc, *1961 NL performer
	Jérôme Noetinger p, syn, rec, *1966 FR performer
	Kaffe Matthews sampler, vn, GB performer
	Keith Rowe g, eg, GB performer
	Marcus Schmickler syn, ep, g, *1968 DE performer
	Peter Rehberg syn, *1982 GB performer
	Phil Durrant vn, *1957 GB performer
	Rafael Toral g, syn, *1967 PT performer
	Thomas Lehn syn, *1958 DE performer

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