UTIL 02 by main(void)
ara / about recording artists
main(void) - UTIL 02
Release Date: 24 September 2021
”Who will ever do anything better than that propeller?”
- Marcel Duchamp to his friend Constantin Brâncuși, while visiting an aviation technology exhibition -
After a stunning start by Refracted, the second instalment in ara's "UTIL" series—dedicated to unique club music tools and flamboyant functional tracks—is coming from main(void), who explores a circular theme in this expansive sounding and bass-heavy EP.
The "UTIL" series on ara (about recording artists) questions the process involved in releasing a functional dance music record nowadays. Available in digital format and as a limited art edition of the customised tool from the artwork.
Tracklist:
01. Feint.0
02. Centrifuge
03. Inertial Frame
04. Out in the Storm
05. Turbine
06. Tesla.0
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UTIL 02 is accompanied by 30 additional tracks, called "Entanglements", added for free as a bonus when you buy the entire release on Bandcamp.
"The idea behind Entanglements is loosely inspired by my unscholarly reading of Karen Barad’s Agential Realism. Barad says that entities are never separate but entangled. Meaning, entities do not pre-exist and interact, but instead are constituted from what she calls "intra-action"—they emerge from and are of the phenomenon rather than being its condition.
The 30 Entanglements are the result of complex relationships and processes that intertwine the original tracks of the EP in inseparable ways. They can be visualized in a circular arrangement, distributed evenly at defined degree marks. Additional, colored circles connect the Entanglements to indicate their relationships, and a Venn diagram originating from within the circle shows the range of Entanglements the respective original tracks feed into." -main(void)
Tracklist
| 1. | Feint.0 | 8:13 |
| 2. | Centrifuge | 6:20 |
| 3. | Inertial Frame | 6:25 |
| 4. | Out in the Storm | 5:59 |
| 5. | Turbine | 4:54 |
| 6. | Tesla.0 | 7:00 |
| 7. | Entanglement 0 | 4:42 |
| 8. | Entanglement 12 | 4:52 |
| 9. | Entanglement 24 | 4:47 |
| 10. | Entanglement 36 | 4:48 |
| 11. | Entanglement 48 | 4:28 |
| 12. | Entanglement 60 | 4:32 |
| 13. | Entanglement 72 | 4:19 |
| 14. | Entanglement 84 | 4:17 |
| 15. | Entanglement 96 | 4:15 |
| 16. | Entanglement 108 | 4:16 |
| 17. | Entanglement 120 | 4:18 |
| 18. | Entanglement 132 | 4:12 |
| 19. | Entanglement 144 | 4:17 |
| 20. | Entanglement 156 | 4:09 |
| 21. | Entanglement 168 | 4:13 |
| 22. | Entanglement 180 | 4:14 |
| 23. | Entanglement 192 | 4:04 |
| 24. | Entanglement 204 | 4:09 |
| 25. | Entanglement 216 | 4:19 |
| 26. | Entanglement 228 | 4:07 |
| 27. | Entanglement 240 | 4:08 |
| 28. | Entanglement 252 | 4:24 |
| 29. | Entanglement 264 | 4:08 |
| 30. | Entanglement 276 | 4:19 |
| 31. | Entanglement 288 | 4:06 |
| 32. | Entanglement 300 | 4:15 |
| 33. | Entanglement 312 | 4:08 |
| 34. | Entanglement 324 | 4:29 |
| 35. | Entanglement 336 | 4:19 |
| 36. | Entanglement 348 | 4:41 |
Credits
All tracks written and produced by Jan Ola Korte
License
All rights reserved.
"The void is a lively tension, a desiring orientation toward being/becoming." (Karen Barad, What Is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice)