This limited edition CD-R is something of a souvenir from a soundwalk
staged by Seattle artists Yann Novak & Gretchen Bennett. The concept behind the event was to
superimpose the Brooklyn sonic landscape into there own city, compounded by stencils on the
sidewalks of Brooklyn icons. This CD-R renders the original concept somewhat moot through the
fragmentation of the Brooklyn field recordings into a gentle snow of digital pixilation. The
passing garbage trucks and barge blaring its horn in the distance intermingle with a synthesized
urban din, and become simply non-placed signifiers for any major metropolis on the globe. Novak
and Bennett’s blurred soundfield is non the less impressive, its glitched filigree amassing into
a snowblind haze. The original soundwalk (complete with map and audio) is available through
there website; the deconstructed offerings of The East River Project Vol. 1 is presumably the
kind of impressionistic, emotional sensibility that the two hoped their audio tour will impart.
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