Name: Smalltalk by Paul Lansky
Brand: Paul Lansky
SKU: 022551003026
Price: 3.96 USD
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Rating: 3 (28 reviews)

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Paul Lansky is a Princeton-based composer who specialized in computer transformations of speech and naturally occurring sounds. The most successful cuts on this disc, Smalltalk and Late August, take samples of everyday conversation (the first in English between Lansky and his wife, the second in Chinese) and run them through a program that masks certain characteristics, leaving others. This results in speech-like cadences and inflections but with no perceptions of actual speech sounds aside from the occasional sibilance. A fascinating, dreamy image emerges as though one is hearing conversation through a light sleep. These pieces walk the line between science experiment and art, but manage to have enough aesthetic resonance and mystery to succeed. The remaining compositions take other instruments as a sound source (bluesy harmonica and ostensibly heavy metal guitar) and work various processes on them. Part of the problem is that the two sourced musicians (especially guitarist Steve Mackey, who sounds like an academic slumming in a populist genre) do not come through as interesting in and of themselves. Lansky's electronic elaborations on their playing add little of interest to the already meager material; again, it sounds like an Ivy Leaguer deigning to tiptoe in the streets, and the results are predictably timid. He would have been better off enlisting the services of Eddie Van Halen and Toots Thielemans! ~ Brian Olewnick

Technical Specifications

Volume

1 volume only

Tracks

4 tracks available

Type

ALBUM

Format

Digital Media

Duration

58 minutes and 59 seconds

Explicit

None

Coverart

Available and up to 620x620 px

Booklet

Not available

Max Quality

CD Quality (Lossless)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stereo

Audio Extension

Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Archive Format

Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR

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Genres

Pop/Rock, Classical, Electro, Electronic, New Age, New Age Electronic

Label

New Albion Records

Music Distribution Service

Independent Online Distribution Alliance Inc.

Country

United States

Language

English (United States)

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Release Date

Apr 4, 1994

Track Preview

Available

Delivery Charge

Free

Delivery Method

Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site

UPC

22551003026

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Smalltalk

1. Smalltalk

2. Guy's Harp

3. Late August

4. Not So Heavy Metal

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Smalltalk

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1. Smalltalk

2. Guy's Harp

3. Late August

4. Not So Heavy Metal

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