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Just a little something to welcome in the summer months.

(Today it rained)

I was looking for some words and found this lump of them squirrelled away from February.

Mini Spillage, Combo F and the Mac's speech synthesiser in Tracktion. The end.

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4'33 is a shorthand for silence.

February's recordings are not 'cover versions' but utilise the duration to highlight the listening experience. A performance of 4'33 is not simply sitting at a piano and not playing it; it's attending a performance, being attentive and listening - as if the pianist were playing - and hearing the environmental sounds of the moment.

A performance of 4'33 in an anechoic chamber would be different for each audience member as their blood flow, heartbeat, latent tinnitus and so on comes to the fore during the performance.

We can each attend our personal 4'33 every day – one is just required to listen for two hundred and seventy-three uninterrupted seconds, mentally closing the piano lid at the end.

Music is, after all, “organised sound” - by defining bounds, the sound is organised — corralled — and music happens.

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from 365​/​2015, track released June 1, 2015

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namke communications York, UK

Since 2000 John Tuffen has been performing/releasing electronic music under the name of namke communications. Originally formed with Damian Murphy in 2000 for the SightSonic festival in York, since 2002 it has been a solo venture.

December 2011 saw the live return with a synthesiser/drum-machine trip; January 2012 saw a guitar replacing the synth but still maintaining the electronic edge...
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