Means from an End, by Terre Thaemlitz

Means from an End

by Terre Thaemlitz

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	1.	Inelegant Implementations: G1.A-J 01:58
	2.	Inelegant Implementations: G6.A-S 02:02
	3.	Inelegant Implementations: G3.A-L 02:46
	4.	Inelegant Implementations: G2.A-O 01:31
	5.	Inelegant Implementations: G7.A-T 02:13
	6.	Inelegant Implementations: G5.A-S 02:31
	7.	Inelegant Implementations: G4.A-S 02:05
	8.	Resistance to Change: Commentary 01:08
	9.	Resistance to Change: Resistance 00:47
	10.	Resistance to Change: Resignation 03:16
	11.	Resistance to Change: Transformative Nostalgia 03:07
	12.	Still Life w/Numerical Analysis 08:24
	13.	Means from an End: Means from an End 10:25
	14.	Means from an End: Reduction of Contents I 03:08
	15.	Means from an End: Reintroduction of Contents 01:05
	16.	Means from an End: Means to a Means 07:37
	17.	Means from an End: Reduction of Contents II 00:30
	18.	Means from an End: End to a Means 08:26

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From the original accompanying essay (included as PDF):

Computer synthesis allows for the analysis and resynthesis of input sound sources - or to put it otherwise, it allows for the generation of a means (middling) from a previously constructed end point. Such generations use numeric equivalents of sound waves to establish ranges of numbers which are then edited or used as variables in equations applied to other sound sources. Associations between sound sources can be made more or less obvious, depending on one's technique and desire for explicit referentiality. This process bears similarities with general processes of social recontextualization, wherein previously constructed histories (end points) are filtered and reconstituted to advocate a particular cultural agenda (means, or middling of past events with transformative desire). As all analyses of such processes of social recontextualization take their footing in interpretive abstractions, any attempt for a total comprehension and/or control of socio-material processes is an impossibility of no interest to this project. Once this most traditional presupposition of popular Western cultural analysis is disposed of (as it has been countless times over the past century), one finds there is a vast difference between cultural processes which actively engage a multiplicity of constructed contents, and those which promote a rarefied and linear teleology of historical processes intended to conceal the construction of contents. It is hoped that these recordings contribute to a developing discourse of the former.

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released October 1, 1998

Originally released under license from Comatonse Recordings in 1997 as a CD (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1998) MP44. Contracts have since expired and all rights reverted. Recorded at Meow, New York. Produced, mixed and arranged by T. Thaemlitz (BMI). Design by Terre.

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