Various Splitting Bits cd

cd
2003
new
Nice little forgotten set of musicians who, in some sense or another, play the machine. One woman read lines of html code, someone plays turntables, someone else hacks a video system. Still others take fractions of seconds of older songs and expand them a thousand fold, or shove dense packs of data through sytems that weren't meant to process it. Most importantly though, the fancy techniques don't get in the way of anybody's personality. Alejandra & Aeron are still cutesy, Institut fur Feinmotorik are arty & dry, Marc Behrens gives you a slow wash, Francisco Lopez is obstinate & Steve Roden is self-effacing & adroit. Tracklisting: AGF-Leo's Code, M Behrens-For the Further Consequences of Reinterpretation, Alejandra & Aeron-Village Football, Dat Politics-Bag, Stephan Mathieu-A Microsound Fairytale, Francisco Lopez-Untitled #115, Francisco Lopez-Untitled #115, Institut fur Feinmotorik-Slo, Janek Schaefer-Rink, Steve Roden-Otr, Scanner-Spirit Trace, Stephen Vitiello-Slow Rewind.