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asher - graceful degradation, ambient
artist's notes:
     these works started their lives as recordings of my piano onto
     an old, beat up tape using an old tape recorder. the piano I
     bought on the street in brooklyn for seventy five dollars. I
     was told it had been the piano in a local bar and was in quite
     a state of disrepair. over the year or so that I lived in my
     partment I grew quite attached to the black spinet with gold
     stickers spelling "steinwa" on its face. the cassette I found
     while cleaning out old offices in queens. it was among an
     abandoned collection of cassettes that someone left behind. I
     adopted them, giving them new life by layering field
     recordings and piano over led zeppelin and the police which i
     found on them. the tape recorder I found in a storeroom at
     work. no one cared when I took it home and it always sat next
     to the piano with a cassette ready. one of the cassettes I
     ended up using had been recorded onto so many times that it
     became worn out and never played back my recordings the same
     way. ( read more )