Equilibrium, by Sketching Venus

Equilibrium

by Sketching Venus

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3.5" floppy disk containing an unmastered mp3 of 'Equilibrium' by Sketching Venus recorded in 2000.

Also includes explanatory readme.txt file and gif photo of the VL-1 keyboard used to create the track, taken in 2003.

Limited to 15 hand-numbered copies, because that's how many old floppy disks I found on a shelf while decluttering recently.

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Taken from the unreleased album 'Kleine Stücke #1 - The Infiltration Of Silent Gestures' (NominalMusics, 2001).

While decluttering some shelves, I came upon a box of 15 unused floppy disks, which I’d been keeping for no obvious or logical reason. What to do with them? I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away, but also couldn’t find any way of recycling them.

I began exploring ways that I could use the disks. I found an old, unreleased 30-second track I’d made in 2000 under the Sketching Venus alias. It was made using a second-hand Casio VL-TONE VL-1 keyboard and Maplin echo unit. I found that if I saved that down as a horribly low bandwidth mp3, it would comfortably fit onto a disk (they have a 1.44mb capacity). There was just enough room to add a 2003 photograph of the VL-1 and an explanatory text file.

You could call it a response to waste, the exponential growth of data storage demands, redundant technology and obsolescence. Or you could call it a cynical ploy to turn garbage into art (for cash). You decide.

The low-bandwidth unmastered mp3 edition is available in a limited, hand-numbered edition of 15 copies.

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released November 10, 2023

Written and performed by Mat Smith, 2000.

Digital version mastered by Paul Wormhole, 2023.

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