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D.A. #001 - A.D. 2020

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1.	A.D. 2020 - SP#001 \| blood 'n guts 22:24	info	buy track
2.	A.D. 2020 - SP#002 \| night is drawing nigh 20:00	info	buy track
3.	A.D. 2020 - SP#003 \| now the day is over 01:24	info	buy track

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On 23/09/19 at about 12 (CEST) a cardboard box was found at the front door of our studio. The only information on the box (handwriting all caps) was a small code (A.D. 2020) and the cryptic warning "KEEP AWAY FROM MAGNETIC FIELDS". As we opened the box a smell of old attic spread like if the content was sealed in there since forever. Inside the box we found 12 dusty folders, each including a variable number of magnetic tape spools and disparate items (paper material, prints, photographs, VHS tapes...). The puzzling findings unfold a high degree of space-time discrepancy, with dates, locations and names that don't add up, certainly leaving the awareness of being faced with a very strange puzzle, way too elaborate to be a joke, too full of meanings to be a fake. Unable to tell what it was, we decided to start an archive to catalog and publish the content of the box, one folder at the time. We called it: Dust Archive.

What follows is the content of the first folder
Dust Archive protocol code: D.A. #001 - A.D. 2020

∙ [SP#001] to [SP#003] spools of tape
∙ [IT#001] black and white abstract print
∙ [IT#002] VHS tape, no label, containing black and white extremely damaged footages
∙ [IT#003] worn out sheet of paper, containing notes handwritten with a blue ballpen. Transcription follows:

"A late evening in the future.
Rusty black narrow trousers too short for him.
Rusty black sleeveless waistcoat, four capacious pockets.
Heavy silver watch and chain.
Grimy white shirt open at neck, no collar.
Surprising pair of dirty white boots, size ten at least, very narrow and pointed.
White face. Purple nose.
Disordered grey hair. Unshaven.
Very near-sighted (but unspectacled). Hard of hearing. Cracked voice. Distinctive intonation.

Creative process:
phase1 (future | write) – modular composition
phase2 (present | perform) – tape manipulation
phase3 (past | mise en scene) – postproduction

The tape runs on in silence. ---> S.B."

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released January 28, 2020

D.A. #001 - A.D. 2020

Aural findings curatorship: BIAS

Restoration and level matching: BIAS
www.bias.space

Visual items curatorship: Vita Tae Zorat

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Dust Archive publishes music found inside mysterious boxes

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