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DiSanto, Devin / Nick Hoffman: Three Exercises (ErstAEU)

A self-aware release presenting 3 exercises exploring the relationship between performer and audience, DiSanto & Hoffman recorded and reworked these pieces from live performance, including introductions and explanations, using sound created from common objects and stochastic synthesis.
 

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Devin DiSanto-electronics

Nick Hoffman-electronics

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Label: ErstAEU
Catalog ID: ErstAEU 005
Squidco Product Code: 21214

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2015
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School, West Hartford, CT, August 8-9, 2014
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"Devin DiSanto lives in brooklyn and develops performances, actions, and audio recordings that revolve primarily around the material attributes of a sound, particularly the plurality of its signification. His projects start from the premise that space is listened for as much as seen and heard before it comes into view. It doesn't arise from the visible-readable realm but is first heard, listened to, and enacted through physical gestures and movements. He often performs solo but prefers to bind himself to collective projects bypassing the private sphere of his own interests. He seeks to emphasize determinacy rather than indeterminacy, critique rather than ambivalence, and decision rather than indecision in order to develop social relations and action oriented values capable of questioning the apparent 'neutral', 'objective', fixed, transparent, innocent or indifferent representation of a space. These sound-producing tasks don't need to generate musical sound or even produce audible sound in creating performances, but instead search for a distorting effect produced by signifying material, and the possibilities inherent in the slippage between society and language."

-Devin DiSanto Website (http://devindisanto.com/page-5/)
10/8/2025

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Nick Hoffman is a composer and computer musician, who runs the label Pilgrim Talk. He also performs under the names Hair EXP, and Katchmare, and has been in the groups Back Magic, Bumbrella Donkey, Eyeless Executioner, God-Eater, Metatronics, VEYOU.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1739485-Nick-Hoffman-2)
10/8/2025

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