Paul DEMARINIS
“The Edison effect-A listener’s companion”

“For this recording, the acclaimed sound artist created theoretically dense work which explores the relationships between recording technologies. Working with the faults of mediums lifetimes apart – the early Wax Cylinder Phonograph and Digital audio suite – he recorded signals imbued with the inherent noise of the opposing mediums. Recording the results back and forth on both technologies ancient and new, this experimental work strives to make music with the hidden textures of history. In short, The Edison Effect is an audio essay of sorts, that seeks to address artistic issues through the exploration and deconstruction of the mediums, and employs the laser beam of digital audio interpreting the analog grooves carved into wax. Aesthetically, this work is a meditative animation of nostalgia, with the idiosyncrasies of the failing mediums providing the texture and tonality to these quiet pensive compositions. Predating the glitch movement where recorded medium deconstruction became the vogue of artist such as Oval and Otomo Yoshihide, the recording has similarities to vinyl deconstruction artist Christian Marclay and Philip Jeck, and comes highly recommended to those intrigued by such explorations.” Sylvie Harrison, All Music Guide