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AN ALBUM IN 1000 VARIATIONS
Artist: Icarus
Album: Fake Fish Distribution
Release Date: January 30th 2012
Format: Unique Digital Download
Label: Not Applicable
Catalogue Number: NOT022
Icarus' forthcoming album, Fake Fish Distribution (FFD), their 9th in all, uses generative and parametric techniques to create a musical work that draws on the increasingly fruitful relationship between contemporary electronic music, algorithmic software processes and designed variation.
THE CONCEPT
FFD was composed using normal electronic music production tools and uses the normal medium of music distribution — the media file download — but comes in the form of a vast array of structured variations on the album's musical content, feeding unique versions to each unique listener. FFD reinvigorates our understanding of what it means to own a 'copy' of something, in an age where the contents of our music collections are not even distinct objects, but clones of the exact same bits that belong elsewhere to others. You give somebody your phone number, not a 'copy' of your phone number; how can you experience ownership of this stuff except in a logical, legal manner, that old fashioned sense of ownership, going beyond the rights associated with its use? The motivation behind FFD is to think of how copies of something can be regain that distinction that is grounded in an individualised relationship to an entity, a relationship that is lost in the age of network-distributed music.
Artist: Icarus
Album: Fake Fish Distribution
Release Date: January 30th 2012
Format: Unique Digital Download
Label: Not Applicable
Catalogue Number: NOT022
Icarus' forthcoming album, Fake Fish Distribution (FFD), their 9th in all, uses generative and parametric techniques to create a musical work that draws on the increasingly fruitful relationship between contemporary electronic music, algorithmic software processes and designed variation.
THE CONCEPT
FFD was composed using normal electronic music production tools and uses the normal medium of music distribution — the media file download — but comes in the form of a vast array of structured variations on the album's musical content, feeding unique versions to each unique listener. FFD reinvigorates our understanding of what it means to own a 'copy' of something, in an age where the contents of our music collections are not even distinct objects, but clones of the exact same bits that belong elsewhere to others. You give somebody your phone number, not a 'copy' of your phone number; how can you experience ownership of this stuff except in a logical, legal manner, that old fashioned sense of ownership, going beyond the rights associated with its use? The motivation behind FFD is to think of how copies of something can be regain that distinction that is grounded in an individualised relationship to an entity, a relationship that is lost in the age of network-distributed music.
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