second pressing of 580 copies (first pressing of 500 copies sold out).
Andrew Deutsch - bells, DSP, loops
Tetsu Inoue - guitar, DSP, bells
"Field Tracker" was recorded at the Institute for Electronic Art, Alfred NY during the Winter of 2000. Inoue, utilizing his digital sound processing systems in combination with bells, guitar, and other odd sound making objects, constructed tiny improvisational sound moments each one having a shape and gesture of their own. These "micro compositions" were at times highly abstract and noisy and at other times extremely melodic and calm. Many of these micro compositions were used in the production of his recent release "Object and Organic Code", the others (almost 2 hours worth) were handed over to Andrew Deutsch who was to construct another release combining sounds of his own. Being responsible for the overall "Auskomponierung" or "compositional unfolding" of the work, Deutsch combined synthesized sounds, drones, chatter, loops and other DSP techniques to produce what he hoped would be a kind of "Gebrauchsmusik" or "useful music" that one might use in the home. The work has a notion of "ambitendency" built into it, that is, the tendency toward change combined with an equal tendency toward stasis. The work could be described as "meta-divisionism", 'Baroque Minimalism", or "expanded systemic digital minimalism". Sound works for our new recombinatory world.
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