Thursday 12 March 2015

Luis Mesa ‎– "Arqueotomia" (Grand Mal Edicions) 1986

A C1....yes you read it right....a C1,not a C90,which lasts 90 minutes,but a C1 that lasts one minute!
Two 30 second bursts of noise,to be played on an auto-reverse cassette deck making a continuous loop with a theoretical time length of Infinity.
I have made a short 6 minute loop edit for those of you without an auto-reverse iPod,so you can get a taster without listening to it for eternity. Either a statement on the finite constraints of time,or on the freedom we deny ourselves to choose when to end something that can never be eternal,be it life or a chrom-dioxide tape that will eventually wear out before you press the stop button.

Tracklist:


1 Arqueotomia 1  
2 Arqueotomia 2

3 Arqueotomia 3 (Die or Diy? bonus loop edit)

DOWNLOAD a moment when analogue is incompatable with digital HERE!

4 comments:

Carlo said...

Insane item!
Thank you.
Carlo

Alan Burns said...

Brilliant! Just one of many reasons why cassettes were so unique and irreplaceable.

Jonny Zchivago said...

I suppose this is the cassette equivalent of the lock groove on a vinyl LP? They both can't be done in the digital medium.....is this advancement?

Vaykorus said...

Jonny..

Thannnks!!!!!!!