artist: NORBERT MÖSLANG
title: Header_Change
label: Cut
country: Switzerland
format: CD
title: Header_Change
label: Cut
country: Switzerland
format: CD
As of January 2009, Jason Kahn's Cut label ceased operations.
The a/O Diffusion shop is now selling final copies from the Cut catalog.
Norbert Möslang: computer
Composed summer 2006 using video stills of Silvie Defraoui as audio source.
"Norbert Möslang has for some time sought out the benefits of transmuting light into
sound - the title of his latest investigation refers to the practice of changing the values
in the header code of a data file. Here, he has taken video stills from Swiss video artist
Silvie Defraoui and made sound files from them, pressing them onto vinyl and mixing
them live at an arts event in St. Gallen, his home town. What these undertakings have
discovered of value is debatable. Opener '_8.27' consists of little more than a
fast-flickering, gently undulating drone, which no more confounds established notions
of light-as-sound than does a malfunctioning strobe. However, '_8.20' is more eventful,
casting sudden, imaginary beams of illumination, while the spidery fury of '_5.44' feels
like a cluster of mini-epiphanies." (David Stubbs - The Wire)
The a/O Diffusion shop is now selling final copies from the Cut catalog.
Norbert Möslang: computer
Composed summer 2006 using video stills of Silvie Defraoui as audio source.
"Norbert Möslang has for some time sought out the benefits of transmuting light into
sound - the title of his latest investigation refers to the practice of changing the values
in the header code of a data file. Here, he has taken video stills from Swiss video artist
Silvie Defraoui and made sound files from them, pressing them onto vinyl and mixing
them live at an arts event in St. Gallen, his home town. What these undertakings have
discovered of value is debatable. Opener '_8.27' consists of little more than a
fast-flickering, gently undulating drone, which no more confounds established notions
of light-as-sound than does a malfunctioning strobe. However, '_8.20' is more eventful,
casting sudden, imaginary beams of illumination, while the spidery fury of '_5.44' feels
like a cluster of mini-epiphanies." (David Stubbs - The Wire)
