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JOSEPH CLAYTON MILLS «THE LETTER» |
$5 plus shipping/handling: OUT
OF PRINT
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«The Letter» is a piece of music designed
to approach disappearance. To create it, a single 22-minute recording,
incorporating piano, field recordings, electronics, and voice, was
transferred to one side of a Maxell Communicator Series C45 cassette. This
initial cassette was then duplicated onto another cassette, which was in turn
duplicated onto still another cassette, and so on. With each generation of
this iterative process, a certain amount of deterioration was introduced in
the audio fidelity of the recording. This procedure was repeated until 100
unique artifacts had been produced. This limited-edition release comprises
100 unlabeled, hand-duplicated cassettes, each accompanied by a copy of the
score that inspired the piece (“Abscission” 2015), a photograph, and a brief
explanatory text. Copies of the release will be issued strictly in sequence. Recorded
1989-2015
Assembled
by JCM in Chicago 2015
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The Botticellian Trees William
Carlos Williams The alphabet of
the trees
is fading in the
song of the leaves
the crossing
bars of the tin
letters that spelled
winter
and the cold have been illuminated
with
pointed green
by the rain and sun–
The strict simple
principles of
straight branches
are being modified
by pinched-out
ifs of color, devout
conditions
the smiles of love–
… …
until the script
sentences
move as a woman’s
limbs under cloth
and praise from secrecy
quick with desire
love’s ascendancy
in summer–
In summer the song
sings itself
above the muffled words– |
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Joseph
Clayton Mills Is a
musician, artist, and writer who lives and works in Chicago, where his
collaborators have included Adam Sonderberg and Steven
Hess (as Haptic), Michael Vallera (as Maar), Noé Cuéllar (as Partial),
Sylvain Chaveau, Jason Stein, Michael Pisaro, and Olivia Block, among many others. His
recordings have appeared on numerous labels, including Another Timbre, FSS,
and Entr’acte. In 2013, in collaboration with Noé Cuéllar, he launched the label Suppedaneum
to focus on releasing scores and their realizations. |
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