mnant

VINYL FORMAT. "mnant" is a first collection of material recorded and assembled by re:. The 11 pieces on "mnant" were culled and coaxed from an unruly pile of 4-track cassettes, DAT tapes, and hard drives in Montreal, Canada and Arlington, U.S. between 1997 and 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 and paste" technique popularized by microcomputers, though some pieces were executed largely in real time. 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, and microphones. "mnant" is definitely the deepest that Constellation has yet plunged into the depths of machine-created music. The half of Constellation who is not part of re: (and who retains some objectivity re: re:) believes this foray to be as masterful and nuanced as anything we've released to date.