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Track 6 from album "Selected Sounds: A Collective Investigation Into the Practice of Sample-Based Music"

© Co-Ed 2007

"Co-Ed is made up of Bernadette Houde and Lynne Trepanier. The duo share a love for strong coffee, open spaces and a desire to make weird and wonderful bass heavy music. You can often find them jumping around as parts of the 'Lezzies on X' and 'Boyfriend'."

Produced by Co-Ed
Mastered by Harris Newman

Montreal 2007

This album explores the sampling practices of a group of sound artists. Seven composers (in one case a duo) each contributed a piece of digitized sound to the project. All samples were collected around Montreal, Canada. These audio files were compiled onto CD-R and redistributed to every participant. Each composer then produced a track drawing on this sample-pool exclusively for source material.

This intervention counters the assertion that increased control is paramount to users of digital audio technology. Although extraordinary editing precision is currently possible when compared to the days of magnetic tape -- copying, pasting and processing audio is still about responsive listening. This is due to the affective dimension of sound -- its fleeting presence as vibrations of the ear drum. For recorded audio must always be converted into moving air molecules in order to be experienced. Praise be to the woofers and the tweeters.

For more information, including interviews with the participants, please see: http://selectedsounds.org