The Letter, by Joseph Clayton Mills

The Letter

by Joseph Clayton Mills

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«The Letter» is a piece of music designed to approach disappearance. To create it, a single 22-minute recording incorporating piano, field recordings, electronics, and voice was transferred to one side of a Maxell Communicator Series C45 cassette. This initial cassette was then duplicated onto another cassette, which was copied onto still another cassette, and so on. With each generation of this iterative process, a certain amount of deterioration was introduced in the audio fidelity of the recording.

This procedure was repeated until 100 unique artifacts had been produced. Copies of the release were issued strictly in sequence.

The original limited-edition release comprised 100 unlabeled, hand-duplicated cassettes, each accompanied by a copy of the score that inspired the piece (“Abscission” 2015), a photograph, and a brief explanatory text.

This digital file is copied from iteration 80 of «The Letter», originally released on Suppedaneum in 2015, and is presented here free of charge.

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released April 20, 2022

Recorded 1989-2015
Assembled by JCM in Chicago 2015

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