the impure soil thief, a soundtrack

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1.	open 01:10	buy track
2.	discovery 02:05	buy track
3.	burial 03:04	buy track
4.	techne unleashed 03:10	buy track
5.	unearth 02:07	buy track
6.	end 01:15	buy track

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"Art is the tree of life, science is the tree of death." - William Blake

Subtitled "The Son of Prometheus", the soundtrack to a video art piece in 6 movements, created entirely in SoundEdit 16 on various Apple Quadras in a lab in late 1995, this piece integrated sounds from some of the themes of the video -- water, soil, and industry.

Field recordings of running water and a train yard are featured prominently, as are a few sound samples used to create the pieces. The original video has possibly been lost to time; the location and condition of the original video cassette currently unknown.

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released December 12, 2020

Created by Ryan Todd-Nakamura in 1995. Cover taken from a video still for the Impure Soil Thief video art project of the same year.

Track 1, "open", features a grinding guitar sound from the track "The Beginning of Wisdom" from the album "In This World" by Cindytalk.

Vocals on Track 3 provided by C. Rider Wiggins.

Track 5, "unearth", features a rhythm sample from the track "I'm a Frayed Knot" from the album "A Sucked Orange" by Nurse With Wound.

Track 6, "end", features a single note from the Kronos Quartet album "Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2", as well as the Cindytalk sample from track 1.

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intafon Tokyo, Japan

intafon (|ˈɪntəfəʊn|, in-tah-fone): Mensch-maschine, the nom de l'électricité of Ryan Todd-Nakamura, Tokyo-based composer and performer of electronic music and noise. As intafon, he produces music primarily using modular synth arrangements, while also incorporating other devices and media, both analog and digital. ... more

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