In 2004, sound artist Jos Smolders released his Textures and Mobiles album on the CONV label; so taken by the sound, which is based on dtmf and ccitt tones generated by phones and pure sine waves, the Preliminary Saturation duo of Steffan de Turck and Wouter Jaspers created these three diverse edits and remixes of the album, one for a live performance at Smolder's 2006 birthday party.
"It was late 2004 when Spanish label CONV released Textures and Mobiles, by Jos Smolders, in a limited run of only 100 CDr's. This amazing album was based on a limited set of sounds: dtmf and ccitt tones that were generated by telephones and pure sine waves that interfere with each other. It came in like a wrecking ball! For us at least. A couple of years later, at Jos' birthday party, we used samples of this album in a celebratory live performance. A couple of more years and years later we decided to make a recycle / remix project out of it, processed Jos' original sounds, added some of our own spices and poured the results into this album."-Moving Furniture
"[...] Relatively more active, yet created out of more static stuff, is "You Are the Universe" by Preliminary Saturation, which is credited to the duo of Steffan de Turck (aka Staplerfahrer) and Wouter Jaspers. Though perhaps calling this a duo album is unfair, because there is a phantom third member of the band here: Jos Smolders provided the source sounds in a roundabout sort of way. His 2004 album "Textures and Mobiles", itself made out of CCITT and DTMF tones (sine waves and crinkling white noise) from telephone interference, made such a strong impact of de Turck and Jaspers that they used it the basis of a live collaboration at a concert for Smolders' birthday. Perhaps to further honour the highly influential Smolders or perhaps just in the spirit of discovery in continual recycling, de Turck and Jaspers went back to "Textures and Mobiles" to transform it into something else entirely. Considering how brittle the foundational sound elements are, this album contains warm and very full-sounding music, some of it even approaching accessible, somewhat ambient electro-pop. The first of the three sections is not dissimilar to Moving Furniture's preferred mode of pleasantly-somnolent hum, with an engaging depth and attention to sonic detail. While the component sounds are most recognizable on this track, the artists transform them radically. The second section, "Die Schwerelosigkeit" ("The Weightlessness") is strangely titled, as it's the most grounded of the three. The opening rhythmic beep reminded me of Kraftwerk's "Radio-Activity", a spare pulse that morphs into laid-back techno-pop. Reader, I must admit that at this point, I had a huge smile on my face. Had to go back to listen a second time before moving on. The album's closer is another looping crackle with some depth-charge bass tones underpinning jabs of tape-remind punctuation and electric-shock percussion. A wonderful album, full stop. [...]"-HS, Vital Weekly Get additional information at Vital Weekly