VERSION 2.0

The first update to the palimpsest project sees the original exhibition's audio works step into the foreground, while two completely different reworkings of a digital photography piece and a digital video work round out the current exhibition.

AUDIO - VERSION 2.0

Charlie DeVico's shRunkwRapped, based upon matt chiabotti's version 1.0 piece, subtley transforms the original source material derived from web pages converted to sounds into an audio canvas. A series of unearthly voices now seem to surround the listener as the recording weaves its new sounds among the source piece's original frequencies.

Using an elaborate process which consisted of re-recording the original track within the acoustics of a large room, DeVico layered this re-recording along with a new field recording, playing back multiple versions of each with a slight offset. Using reverb as an "eraser," the artist then isolated certain sounds and reworked them in the foreground of the piece, re-layering and editing the final output. The result is an entrancing recording which explores a wide range of acoustic spaces, challenging the listener to discover the hidden meaning of the spoken words and their relationship to the sounds they interact with.

Andrew Duke's vinyl hiss voice reuses loam's piece from the previous version of this exhibition. loam's original work, which used a guitar and cassette recorder to create a sound work as much about process as about composition, is here layered upon with a new work which also concerns itself with recording techniques.

In Duke's version of the work, the sound of a turntable is used to continue the discussion of manipulated recorded media. A short burst of static heralds the arrival of the turntable's needle drop amidst a flutter of loam's distressed cassette noise. Sparse undertones remaining from loam's work hum in anticipation of Duke's crackling turntable's slow drag across the original sound surface. Quiet thumping and whispered metallic whines accompany the restrained history of the vinyl's pops and crackles while occasionally relenting to loam's cassette-recorded guitar. An austere work of shimmering beauty, Duke's new work serves to both equally honor and obliterate the work upon which it is based.

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