The first part of a new series of releases in extremely limited editions of 100. A chance for me to launch my new project, FOURM, and for me to remix the work of those artists who I most admire, most of whom work within the field of minimalism. As a general rule, I am only remixing material that is previously unreleased, live, or in very small editions on CDR, thus giving the audience something new and perhaps unheard within a different context.
The concept of the remix has always given artists the opportunity to re-interpret, re-contextualise, and reconfigure the work of others, and these little editions are no different. I have likened my own remixes to “KNOTS” - each being a concentrated and focussed area of activity, but each strand of material being discernable from the others. When remixing, I like to keep the source material intact to some degree, and work from this point of origin, gradually building up new layers, and creating subtle new frameworks from within, slowly mutating and changing the material until it becomes something different, something unique, yet still retaining an imprint of the source. Remixing is both a compliment to the originating artist, and in some sense, the creation of a new work, a fusing and juxtapositioning of elements. In this way remixing data of any kind has become a major conceptual leap: making music on a meta-structural level, drawing together and making sense of a much larger body of information by threading a continuous narrative through it.
The work on KNOT 3 is a remix of a live set, “box“ by STEINBRÜCHEL at Taktlos Bern in 2000. I stumbled upon a CDR of the piece quite by accident, and as it was not acknowledged in his official discography, asked him if it could be used as the first edition of this project. I am pleased and honoured that he agreed, and the CDR will be available very soon from a handful of distributors. The source material, “box” can be found at the web address below. Details on price and availability will follow soon. Bookmark this page for updates of this and forthcoming projects.
“Culture is remix. Knowledge is remix. Politics is remix. Everyone in the life of producing and creating engages in this practice of remix. Companies do it..Politicians do it..we all do it..This is what life is in the expression of creativity. Remix is how we live.” - LAWRENCE LESSIG
Source: Ben Guiver: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benreviug/1184438208/in/set-72157601484820973/
STEINBRÜCHEL : http://www.synchron.ch/
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