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D​.​A. #007 -​ ​A​.​D. 2020

by BIAS + RNX

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A.D. 2020 - SP#027 | an old forgotten recording 02:53
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A.D. 2020 - SP#028 | the ubiquitous electric buzz 13:15
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A.D. 2020 - SP#029 | two different rooms 06:17
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about

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 seventh folder
Dust Archive protocol code: D.A. #007 - A.D. 2020

∙ [SP#027] to [SP#029] spools of tape
∙ [IT#014] black and white abstract print
∙ [IT#015] A4 sheet folded in 4, on the top it says "For V.", on the inside in pale blue hand-writing:

"the Past does not lie behind your back
as the Future does not hide in front of you:
the Future overtakes you from behind,
in front of you you have your Past,
gems and dust"

∙ [IT#016] sheet of paper, same hand-writing style:

"Creative process:
phase1 (past | event) – in a room a brown tube radio is playing an old, forgotten recording performed by Beatrice Tagliapietra on celtic harp, Ariston Blesh on upright bass and 太空黑洞 on percussion instruments, the window is open
phase2 (present | storage through mutable medium) – an open mic is recording both the music and ambient noise from the surrounding, the ubiquitous electric buzz and the wind and the rain
phase3 (future | waiting for the unexpected to break in) – dubbing this copy from tape machine one (internal speakers) to tape machine two (internal microphones), the recorders are located in two different rooms, the door is locked

The purpose of this process is to amplify what the main event masks, the elusive details, the side edges, the Future haze"

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released October 13, 2020

D.A. #007 - A.D. 2020

Aural findings curatorship:
BIAS www.bias.space
Arnoux fabioarnosti.com

Restoration and level matching: BIAS
www.bias.space

Visual items curatorship: Vita Tae Zorat

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