2003, Elevator Bath
Special 9" record on transparent vinyl in an edition of 800 copies. Packaged in beautiful full-color heavy paper sleeves. In their new EP entitled 'Numbers', PUBLIC WORKS logs their second release, their first since 1997's 'Matter' (Staalplaat). The group debuted with the latter title, exhibiting a markedly different sound and temperament from the Tape-beatles, from whose ranks Public Works sprang. 'Numbers' follows the release of the Tape-beatles' 1999 CD 'Good Times' (Staalplaat), in which both members of Public Works participated.
'Numbers' finds mysteries in the playful particles that turn the ossified intentions of humans (their machines) toward unexplainable flights of poetry. It is as if the airwaves are alive, breathing ghostly voices. It is as if the electrical grid throbs with intelligence, its organs and circulatory systems negotiating remarkable levels of complexity and touching everyone. It is a hesitant affirmation that mathematics and magic are one and the same.
'Numbers' finds mysteries in the playful particles that turn the ossified intentions of humans (their machines) toward unexplainable flights of poetry. It is as if the airwaves are alive, breathing ghostly voices. It is as if the electrical grid throbs with intelligence, its organs and circulatory systems negotiating remarkable levels of complexity and touching everyone. It is a hesitant affirmation that mathematics and magic are one and the same.
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