We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

inflation​(​*​0 0​.​000remix) spin​+​1​(​disk1)

by Various

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $50 USD  or more

     

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

about

0.000 remix project:"INFLATION"
concept: "nothing create everything"
sound material: only"0.000" (except "test1" and "test2"


Japanese minimalist artist *0 (Nosei Sakata) released a disk on his own Mu-Label entitled 0.000. This release consists of two test tracks of 1,000 Hz sine waves and fifteen tracks of sine waves either below 20 Hz or above 2,000 Hz—that is, either below or above the audible threshold of human ears. In short, apart from the test tracks, the disk is silent. Sure, your dog can hear the songs, but you, the paying customer, cannot. What is the point of this disk? Some critics suggest (and I would agree) that the work simply takes minimalist electronic music to its inevitable conclusion: music so minimal that it cannot be heard. In fact, the liner notes to the release proudly proclaim this very point when they announce, "You cannot hear anything."

Ah, but proclaiming "you cannot hear anything" is not the same as saying that there is nothing to hear. To prove this, we have Inflation, a Mu-Label concept album where some of the most prominent artists on the minimal side of electronic music (Taylor Deupree, Bernhard Günter, Merzbow, Richard Chartier, Aube) take the silent tracks on 0.000 and create "everything" out of "nothing." This is, in short, a remix album where the source material is inaudible and the artists must use these inaudible sounds to create audible music.

This is, without a doubt, the ultimate in concept albums, a work whose primary existence is to prove that computer software has reached the point where any sound (even inaudible sounds) can be used as the basis for any kind of musical experiment your mind can concoct. Of course, just because you can create music out of nothing doesn’t mean you should. Lucky for us, however, the artists represented on Inflation have taken this experiment seriously, and the results here are, by and large, excellent. What is most impressive about the work is how many ways these artists have found to transform both the silence of *0's work and the simple sine waves of each track, creating musically inventive, musically rewarding works that you not only can hear but want to.
(Reviewed by: Michael Heumann)

credits

released January 1, 2002

license

all rights reserved

tags

If you like inflation(*0 0.000remix) spin+1(disk1), you may also like: