XCD-046 Eugene Thacker – Sketches For Biotech Research

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[Music:] Eugene Thacker.

[Recorded:] 12/97-4/98 at Studio Maldoror.

[Source materials compiled:] 1997-1998, using SoundForge XP, DAT, MD, contact mics, 4-track, and various CD players and “prepared” CDs.

[Art direction:] Doriana Corda.

[Cover and interior images:] Bruce Riley, “List” & “Pathogen” [bruriley@tezcat.com].

[Imbedded Image:] Marie Thacker/ScanDog Graphics.

©& P EXTREME 1998

[Notes:]

This CD is an attempt to suggest a particular type of body of sound, influenced, on the one hand, by the “technosciences” of digital anatomy and biotechnology (both of which have significant ties to the Internet), and on the other, by the kinaesthetics of electronic dance music. Noise provided a kind of kinetic pivot-point between these two types of bodies (one immobilized by databases, genetic codes, taxonomies and

diagrams; the other constantly mobile through the use of electronic beats and regular rhythmic patterns). Thus, many sounds from the physical body, sounds or pulses produced by digital file transmission or errors, and heavily processed/edited samples from techno and drum’n’bass, all contributed to the source material for this CD.

[Thanks:]

Floating Point Unit, Fakeshop, Masami Akita, Achim Wollscheid, Joe Colley/Crawl Unit, Michele Alpern, Bruce Pearson, EMRL, Climax Golden Twins, Mark Amerika/ALT-X, The Poool, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker/CTHEORY, The Thing, Eric Lanzillotta, Josephine Diamond, Elin Diamond, Christophe Lamiot, Ed Cohen, Nikola Stojsin, Anand Commissioning, Murphy McCullough, Jason Heiser, Heather Matthews, Jasper Lin, Isis Leslie, and to others for their support & feedback.

Special thanks to Roger Richards and to my family.

The first track is for E, the last track is for M.

[Web:]

http://gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/index.html