The film consists of a reel of blank film looping in a 16mm projector, gradually acquiring its image through the dirt and dust ending up on the film strip. La Monte Young's experiment with the drifting pitches between two analog sine wave generators either defeats its purpose when frozen into digital zeros and one or preempts today's popular simulations of analog through digital technology. The mother of all alternative porn films loses its explicitness and gains mystery thanks to heavy video codec artifacts. Ichyanagi's great piece, which combines post-war avant-garde electronics with traditional Japanese music, thus gains a minimal music drone as its third compositional element. On this vinyl rip, only the left stereo channel survived, but is left with a constant low hum from the wrongly grounded record player. (2) Toshi Ichyanagi, Opera "From The Works Of Tadanori Yokoo" (1969) The compression artifacts are so extreme that they turn the piece into something else: something truly monochrome. (1) Yves Klein, The Monotone Symphony (1949, rec. Top 7 of Ubuweb uncreative poetry from low-fi remediation
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