“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by The Wire

Crónica’s arch satirists Autodigest serve up a second volume of postmodern pranks. Last year’s Volume 1 took as its theme the reduction of real huma experience to data streams and binary code, resulting in a sonic illustration of a world sucked down a technological plughole. funny and frightening as the concept was, the spluttering digital …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Etherreal

Aujourd’hui, ils poussent le concept un peu plus loin. Après avoir détruit la musique, maintenant qu’il ne reste plus rien, à l’heure où celle-ci se dématérialise sur internet, il ne reste plus que les auditeurs, le public, et c’est ce public qui fait l’objet de ce deuxième volet. Le disque ne contient qu’un seul morceau …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Cyclic Defrost

Like an eviscerated live performance with its innards trailing in the dust, A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded Vol 2 captures the sounds of applause post-performance, and extends them into a veritable orgy of hand to hand combat. Or so it seems after 50 minutes of non-stop clapping, cheering, whooping, and at some stages …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Fear Drop

Voici un disque spécialement destiné aux chroniqueurs qu+il défie par son concpet initial radical. Si l’audace artistique est amplement auscultée, décryptée, décortiquée par les journalistes encartés ou passionnés, l’audace éditoriale des labels l’est beaucoup moins, peut-être par réflexe consumériste qui veut que la démarche de chroniqueur renvoie fatalement à l’acte commercial de production d’un produit, …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by ei magazine

As the byline describes with rapt attention, this is “spontaneous, improvised, slow crescendo by every audience ever.” Yes, it is what it says: an entire disc of applause. A ceaseless, neverending, nay-eternal timestretch of the manic, slavish response of rawkshow sheep goggling tight spandex cockjocks, the disgusting, hamfisted crapclaps of the orgasmic bourgeoisie, the pre-pubescent …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Terz

Und hier kommt er: eine Stunde lang Applaus. Tut gut, nech? Sirius: das Audiokonzept?projekt Autodigest nimmt sich konsequent und mit etwas help from its theoretical friends Debord, Baudrillard, Harvey oder Adorno dem medialen Zustand von Musik in Zeiten an, in denen wir sie schneller runterladen als hören können. Das konsequente Projekt, legendär durch das kürzeste …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Bad Alchemy

Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels klatscht sich selber Beifall, bis das Fleisch von den Knochen fällt. Gegenstand und Anlass des Jubels sind egal, „it is the process of consumption, not its object, that we are currently enjoying.“ Konsequenter Weise bringt AUTODIGEST bei Ubiquitous Eternal Live (Ash International 6.1 + Crónica 016~2004), Vol.2 der Reihe „A Compressed …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Jade

Le label portugais cronica continue à explorer avec une curiosité et une intuition rare la matière sonore pour en extraire des axes de recherches didactiques et philosophiques inaccoutumés. Depuis Ash int, on n’avait pas eu vent d’aussi originaux pivots de réflexions. En un sens, l’ombre de MC Harding, boss du label Ash n’est pas loin …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Sonic Arts Network

Consumers now find nothing expensive. Nevertheless, they suspect that the less anything costs, the less it is being given them… When thrown in free, the now debased works of art… are secretly rejected by the fortunate recipients, who are supposed to be satisfied by the mere fact that there is so much to be seen …

“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live” reviewed by Vital

Just like the first volume, I really like the title of this work. In this first volume Autodigest delt the compression of music, the new volume is about ‘all the audiences ever recorded and has them share one hour of hysterical, progressively apocalyptic applause’. And that’s what you get: people clapping their hands, cheering, shouting. …