Carl Stone Electronic Music From 1972-2022

Electronic Music from 1972-2022 seeks to frame fifty yearsof Carl Stone's compositional activity, starting with Stone'searliest professionally presented compositions from 1972("Three Confusongs" and "Ryound Thygizunz", featuring thevoice and poetry of Stefan Weiser - later known as Z'EV) upto the present. This collection is not meant as a definitivehistory but rather as a supplement to be used alongside theprevious two archival releases. It is simultaneously an archival release marking Carl Stone's evergreen 70th birthday and a document of archival art. In the spirit of disorientingrepetition and layering, call it an archive of archiving.Stone's practice emerged from the repetitive archival processof his graduate job at CalArts preserving vinyl recordings bydubbing them to tape. With perhaps 10,000 albums rangingfrom Renaissance and electronic works to music from acrossthe globe, he had to re-record multiple discs concurrently,creating chance collisions and coincidences.In the decades since, he's explored various ways to composethis process, creating temporal envelopes in which foundsounds - existing tracks or field recordings - can take form.Whilst the technologies he's used have changed and sampleshave varied beyond categorization, what's remainedconsistent is his concern for organizing temporal experienceusing fragments of pre-existing sounding events.Stone's impish collage-like constructions of times cut fromtime suggest that archival records are neither wholly indocuments preserved from change nor in living memories anduse, but in their interaction.