Transoceanic, by Brosamer

Transoceanic

by Brosamer

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12" Vinyl | Transoceanic EP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
“Limited Edition" 12" Vinyl.
Edition of 50 + screenprint (signed)

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TRANSOCEANIC EP deals with the cultural imagination of dematerialisation, historical sound carriers and digital colonialism.

The worldwide distribution of shellac records started around 1925 with an unprecedented electrical recording boom. It was also the beginning of the music industry as we know it today. The trade networks were run via the old colonial ports and slave shipping routes on the Black Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Polynesian Pacific. The contemporary music industry is predominantly digital and online. The internet has emerged as a „global jukebox“ of digital sounds. However, the network infrastructures remain resolutely material and are entangled with the colonial and militaristic histories of the western world. This materiality exists deep under the ocean. Undersea cables are the critical infrastructures that currently support over 95 percent of transoceanic internet traffic.

credits

released June 15, 2020

recorded at BB15, Linz / Austria
june 2020

using shellac records, turntables, gramophones and pure data.

trombone by Felix Mayer (Track 2)

mastered by Andy Rosczyk
artwork by Sascha Brosamer

special thanks to
BB15 - Space for Contemporary Art
bb15.at