Seth Kim-Cohen

Symphony 0 (for Jimbo Blachly)

"The question: what would happen if one chord were strummed for 24 hours, each strum occurring only after the previous strum was allowed to decay to silence? The answer: this. Two strums were recorded every hour, on the hour and on the half hour — with the exception of 1:00 A.M., which was inadvertently missed and made up at 1:13 A.M. There is some crackling after three of the strums, due to the phantom-powered condenser microphones warming up. Once I realized this was occurring, I Ieft the mics on for the remainder of the 24 hours, thus eliminating the crackle."

Symphony 0.mp3 (5.40 MB)