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Digital Snow This free compilation/collaboration, released today, is well worth your time - if you can actually hear it. The opening track is barely audible and undoubtedly the quietest piece of music on this site. Its authors describe it as the introduction to “electroacoustic glitch or ‘post-noise.’” “Pre-noise” would be equally accurate. Nikita Golyshev, shown above and known professionally as CD-R, authored “Digital Snow” together with Bogdan Dullsky (Quest.Room.Project [below]). They worked togehther on this recording virtually, not physically, merging pre-recorded files with real-time performances over a peer-to-peer connection. In a recent interview, Dullsky explained the interplay between file swapping and improvisation as follows. He tried defining a balance between the limits of prerecorded sounds and the limitless choices of absolute, aimless freedom. Somewhere in between lies creativity: ”When it comes to improvisation, this is what I do… The first things to consider are the given circumstances. It’s a bit like an actor trying to relive something with his [boundless] heart, albeit inside the limits of the stage. He tries both to relive his character’s experience and to allow it ‘through’ him. In the same way - in those same circumstances of an amorphous [yet restrictive] room - you’ve got to hunt down the main thing. It’s what people sometimes call ‘liberty.’ The driving force behind this project was something similar; we were looking both for stimuli and for re
