A Room Listening To Itself

by Adam Basanta

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	1.	Listening To A Room 03:38
	2.	Room Chord #1 07:06
	3.	Lyrical 03:25
	4.	Moving Closer Together 09:16
	5.	Eight Pulses 02:06
	6.	Floating Over 06:41
	7.	Insects 02:57
	8.	Room Chord #2 06:34
	9.	A Room Listening 02:30

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Originally Released as a 100 copy limited-edition cassette by Cassauna / Important Records (USA).
As the original cassette run sold out in 2017, the album is re-released as a digital release.
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Adam Basanta is a Montréal-based sound artist and experimental music composer. His sound installations investigate intersections between sound reproduction, consumer technologies, and the activity of listening.

To create A Room Listening to Itself, the artist produced sound exclusively through amplification techniques that make audible the physical relationships between microphones and reclaimed speaker cones within a gallery's surrounding acoustic environment.

In this work, eight iconic SM58 microphones and eight reclaimed speaker cones are dispersed throughout the gallery space, arranged in a manner that produces complex computer-controlled feedback and recursive amplification networks. Using these acoustic phenomena, the gallery space is turned into a giant resonator that amplifies acoustic space as a product of spatial relationships. Custom-built software algorithms constantly recalibrate the room to ever-changing acoustic situations, aiming for a sonic equilibrium that remains out of reach.

The result is an ever-changing spatial composition encompassing ambient passages, resonant chords, and rhythmic activities -- created solely using feedback -- through which gallery visitors can navigate.

The album was recorded live at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, in August 2015.

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released October 1, 2016

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