Qualitative Easing

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Sculpture by Amelia Baxter. Comes with download code for Qualitative Easing by Contest. Each sculpture is unique.

"Extrusions of clay have been woven together uniformly, draped in a muted gradient and contorted accordingly. It is the symbiosis of desire for and aversion to the structures that demand conformity."

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If quantitative easing involves central bankers dumping zeroes onto balance sheets to stop international finance from seizing up, what would its dialectical twin look like? Contest has no answers. As a vaguely clever emblem floating over this session, it corresponds to the bright and easy exchange of sounds.

Qualitative Easing will be the first in our series of Sound/Object releases. The physical edition of the release will include an acrylic sculpture by the artist Amelia Baxter.

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released October 1, 2020

Chris Brian Taylor – No-input mixer, effects
Daniel Pearce – Drums
Danilo Markov – Amplified mbira, Ekdahl Moisturizer, X-Acto knives
Brandon Bussolini – Aalto, Zaquencer

Engineered and mixed by Jacob Felix Heule
Artwork by Amelia Baxter

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Contest San Francisco, California

Californian electroacoustic improvised music.

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