This is a reworking of the ‘Above Black’ album, imagined as data recovered after millennia locked on magnetic media. Partially corrupted; only some of the original data remains, so interpolation has been used to reconstruct the messages left for any sentient beings who discover them. Created using the source files taken from the original improvised performance, which was direct to DAT.
As some of you may have seen, I recently rescued a large collection of DAT’s from a container in our shed. They contain many unreleased tracks recorded between 1991 to 1998.
Thanks to Martin Stürtzer (Phelios), you can watch the whole of my performance S.E.T.I. Live at Phobos VIII at Sophienkirche in Wuppertal on March 11th 2017.
For those interested in the gear I used, here is a list: Mutable Instruments ‘Shruthi’ synthesizer, Bastl Instruments Trinity Poly, Roland SP404SX Sampler, Bleep Labs ‘Nebulophone’, Phonic 12:2 mixer, Mute Dirty Synth 1, Boss SE50, Boss Tera Echo, Koma Elektronik BD101 Delay, Sony MiniDisk, 4:1 submixer….the video was edited in iMovie. Insect photographs by Alek Lagowski, 3D processing by Pete Woodhead….
The ‘studio’ at Du Cane Court, in Balham, South West London, where I recorded and arranged many albums and tracks including ‘False Dawn’, ‘Die Datenschleuder’, ‘Knowledge’, ‘Prismatic’, the Lagowski Chromium Industries 12″ series, Nagamatzu and engineered Lustmord, Terror Against Terror and Isolrubin BK. That is Lustmord’s Akai keyboard in the foreground, which we used as a MIDI controller and sampler. A while after this, I got a Yamaha DX11 to control my MIDI equipment and sold the TEAC 8 track and Seck 12-8-2 mixer to Paul Rooney, the guitarist from Vice Squad.
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I discovered that the cassette version of this had sold in 2014 for nearly £20 and another copy was available for £40, so I thought I’d make it available as digital for the much easier to swallow price of seven dollars.
