Curator Statement
A CD project presented at the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA98), Liverpool, UK.
Audio Research Editions was founded by Colin Fallows in 1998 as a limited edition imprint for artists’ soundworks. Audio Research Editions CDs contain soundworks by a broad range of international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Using the limited edition print as a formal model, the imprint has to date published over two hundred works by artists from over twenty countries. Audio Research Editions treats the compact disc as an art space with each edition containing a themed audio exhibition that can be experienced in either linear or random modes.
HOPE is a limited edition CD collection of one-minute soundworks by international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Contributors were invited to create an original recording of one-minute duration for the CD on the theme of HOPE – whether personal or universal; directly, obliquely, humorously, ironically, romantically, musically, noisily, lyrically or in their title.
Tracklist
1 Martin Archer – Hope Bridge Crossing
2 Oliver Augst & Friedrich Tietjen & Michaela Ehinger – Hoffnung
3 Steven Ball – Hope Under The Weather
4 Joe Banks – BSkyB Vs. The Solar Maximum
5 Peter Batchelor – YeARN
6 Rene Beekman – Early Morning
7 Steve Bradley – Hope Of The Insects With Dryer And Chinese Cooks
8 Warren Burt – In Delicacy There Is Hope
9 John Campbell & Henry Priestman – Ship Of Hope
10 Damien Castaldi – Hopetoun Plunge
11 Wacah Chan – A Little Tent Of Blue
12 Tim Cole – SOS-Age
13 Edward Cooper – Hope Place
14 Peter Cusack – New Year 92: Blaring In The New
15 Roger Dean – The Spear And The Boat
16 Delete – Hope
17 Paul Devens & Benga! – I Hope You Get Well
18 Diledadafish – Hope #53
19 Ivan Mitev Dragolov – Etude For ‘Viktoriya’ N 1
20 John Levack Drever & Alaric Sumner – 60 Seconds Of Hope
21 Max Eastley – Hope Spring
22 Egghatcher – After Every Long Night Comes The Dawn
23 Equius – Hope
24 Paul Fretwell – Doors Close…
25 Gauss – Senda
26 Joseph Gerhardt – Titled
27 Reed Ghazala – Species Machine
28 Martin E Greil – Hope She Is At Hope
29 Greyworld – Tunnel
30 Dave Griffiths – Nil Desperandum (Where There’s Life There’s Hope)
31 The Groceries – Hopespace
32 Martin Hall & Irma Victoria – September Song
33 The Hearing Trumpet – Road To Satori
34 Wm Houck – Hope: The Bell Metaphor
35 Humming Experiments – Oh! Hum (Hopefully)
36 Id Battery – A Short History Of Decay
37 In Between Noise – Heaven, Open, Purple, Elastic (For Sari)
38 Ruth Jarman – Rinky Dink
39 Robert Kennedy – Somniferous Extract
40 Koan Master – Hypertext
41 Petri Kuljuntausta – In Spe
42 The Land Of Nod – Escape Velocity
43 Laurence Lane & Matt Wand – Hope
44 Nina Lehrfreund – Plastic Fly
45 Rainier Lericolais – Conjugaison De L’Espoir
46 Longstone – Where There’s L.I.F.E. There’s Hope
47 Danny McCarthy – Dochais = Hope
48 Eduardo Reck Miranda – Wee Samba
49 Phil Mouldycliff – These Sounds Remain
50 Tomás Mulchany – Experiment 6.95
51 Other People’s Children – The Frame Of Him
52 Conor O’Toole & Kieran Hurley – Eternal Optimism
53 Al Willard Peterson – Brass, Steel, Skin And Bone And Hope
54 Ian Potter – Living In Hope (Still Life Passing)
55 Project Dark – Gramophones (Hopefully)
56 Frank Rothkamm – Every
57 Keith Rowe – Cutlers Scale
58 Robert Rowlands – Hope Springs
59 Scanner – Hope
60 Janek Schaefer – End Of Hope And Glory
61 Dallas Simpson – On Entering The Portal Of Hope
62 Skyray – Maharani’s Blowfish
63 Starfish Pool – Voice
64 Stylus – Hopeless Diamond
65 Time’s Up – Hope For The Future
66 Riou Tomita – Nichijo
67 Aleksandar Vasiljevic – It’s Going To Rain! I Hope Not!
68 Zero – Hope
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- Colin Fallows, Producer (UK), Reader in Audio and Visual Arts, Liverpool Art School, Liverpool John Moores University.