this work was originally an installation presented at inmo gallery, in chinatown/los angeles, december 2000. the work was created using 3 objects purchased at chinatown giftshops: a toy wooden flute, a small aluminum wind chime, a small paper accordion. each track was created using one of these objects as the only sound source. some of the sounds have been processed electronically. the installation was created in response to: the generic sounding 'muzak' playing in most of the public spaces of chinatown; the private landscape of chinatown lingering unnoticed in alleys and second floor windows; and, a book on the history of chinese philosopher's stones. the audio was installed in front of a large picture window facing the chinatown pedestrian area. * Steve Roden

[3 lunghi brani in cui origine dei suoni sono piccoli balocchi e strumenti giocattolo. anche in questo cd steve roden crea le proprie composizioni a partire da oggetti quotidiani, strumenti di carta, campanelline, riuscendo a distillarne attimi incantevoli.]

taku sugimoto - guitar
kevin drumm - guitar, electronics
Recorded in concert at Gallery Den, Tokyo on April 5, 2000
CD mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura at setreset

Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) was founding member, and most important conspirator in P16D4. Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop were members of THU20. Profitable postal collaboration (or each one composes from another one's material) and between three current figures of electroacoustic musics. Stratified resonances, shocks of sounds like tectonic plates, brutal ruptures opening on different spaces. A formal and structural work of the most interesting. (Jerome Noetinger / Metamkine)