NN: Please give me a short introduction to who you are and what you do.
Mikrosopht: Mikrosopht, multidisciplinary conceptual creative, frequent collaborator.
NN: When exactly did you make "Hookface-1981"?
Mikrosopht: 2003. I collected & selected the loops, then September to November assembled the tracks.
NN: What was the inspiration and idea behind it?
Mikrosopht: Deprogramming. Growing up in small town America means not much diversity on the radio; People around you habitually play the same mainstream pop. I thought that by editing some of those familiar elements into something new I could possibly solve the ear worm problem, break the spell that those particular songs usually perpetuate. And it does work for me, it may also work for listeners.
NN: What was the technology and process you used?
Mikrosopht: For this I used Cool Edit Pro, a wave editor & multitrack editor (still use it). I went through the 100 individual source songs to find my favoured loop to represent each song. Once I had a loop I wanted to start something with, I sought compatible second, third, & sometimes further possible layers of other song loops. After selecting a base loop & speed for a track, I would pitch shift subsequent loops usually lower to match time and diversify tones. My track structures on 1981 follow basic patterns of pop in abstract.
Audio available in 44.1 kHz/16 Bit.
Gapless album.
Audio assembled in Providence, Rhode Island.
Cover artwork by A. Bill Miller.
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