nEW cOLD cRACK // iNTERactive _ NOisE ROT // NOisE jAM 2 // oRigiNaL({sin}) wORc by MiNDape
Discharged in Decker for Noise Jam 2 on the theme of “FUNGI, ROT & FLOWERS”.
Inspired by: mycelial network patterns, fungal growths, a half remembered 1990s museum exhibition on potato blight, Houdini Magazine’s “cold crack” concept, minor literatures, VHS tape / basement mould (Cladosporium), DJ Trace / darkside hardcore, Kandinsky, chance encounters, silhouettes of strangers, and their staining effects upon normal human relations.
Noise assets used include:
- Degraded VHS screencaptures
- Dithering via Decker
- Spontaneously captured VHS static
- Field recordings of radio static
- Noise generated on a Korg Monotron
- Actual photographs of tape mould (Cladosporium)
- Internet archive images of “Chestnut blight”
