Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Minidisc is the only full-length release by Gescom. The album was originally only released in minidisc format, but was later pressed to CD. In addition, the album has been released on bleep.com in FLAC and MP3 formats. The personnel for this album were Sean Booth and Rob Brown (alias Autechre), and Russell Haswell (from Or Records). Minidisc was the world's first ever MiniDisc-only release and was designed to take advantage of the format's (then exclusive) zero seek time: Minidisc contains 45 pieces split into 88 tracks which are intended to be played in shuffle mode, creating a quasi-unique, aleatoric arrangement every time it is played. (a technique also used for the 1999 compact disc release Masque by the King Crimson-related ProjeKct Three.) The tracks on this album reveal the influence of DSP techniques. Half of the album can be related to drone music or ambient music, the other half to acousmatic music or electroacoustic music. Gescom wanted to make use of the seamless shuffle play unique to the MD format and created this sequence of 88 short tracks to be played in any order at random. Most CD players cannot do seamless random playback because there is always a slight delay between tracks. People listening to digital versions will get the full MD experience as most music players now have gapless playback even in shuffle mode. The original MD album had an exact total of 67:06; later CD or MP3 versions may be one second off from the original durations. Some titles may be various references: "Shoegazer" to shoegaze; "Gortex" to Gortex; "Yo! DMX Crew" to DMX Krew; "Stroyer 2" to the short lived punk/noise band Destroy 2.More: http://booksllc. net/?id=13513630
| | Gescom Albums: Minidisc, the Sounds of Machines Our Parents Used, A1-D1, Iss: sa, This, Gescom, Keynell |  | 8.31 |  |
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