Mnant

mnant is a first collection of material recorded & assembled by re:. the 11 pieces on mnant were culled & coaxed from an unruly pile of 4-track cassettes, DAT tapes & hard drives in montreal, canada and arlington, usa between 1997 & 2000 that involved numerous cross-border journeys. mnant features densely layered songs formed by overlapping loops and filter treatments as well as spare compositions using only one or two fragments, similarly overlapped and filtered. re: relies heavily on the 'cut & paste' technique popularised by microcomputers, though some pieces were executed largely in real time, just as in real life. all pieces, with a couple of obvious exceptions, are comprised (to some degree) of fragments performed in real time, out in the open air, with resonant devices, amplifiers, microphones, etc. various filters were also often applied in real time, with hands on knobs turning & calibrating & whatnot. in other cases, with reference to all of the above, the computer did the work & time was suspended. at one stage or another, all sounds were binarised & dealt with as such.