john hudak “sotto voce” compact disc recordable

• on . 01
  
• two . 02
  
• three . 03
  
• four . 04
  
• five . 05

john hudak “on and on” compact disc

• on and on (70:28)

presto!? press release...

john hudak "on and on" total time: 70.28 format: cd limited edition: 300 design: lorenzo senni photo: cesare fabbri release date: 1/8/08 catalog number: p!?001 the other day, i heard a sound that sounded like music. it was a bird's song - a black-capped chickadee. the song consisted of four notes: a to g and g to f. first a to g for awhile, then g to f. the next day, the bird only sang a to g. the early morning was the only time i heard the song. when i hear a sound, i think of what the sound represents; but i also think of what it might sound like reduced to the basics of rhythm, melody, and texture. to create "on and on," i recorded myself strumming a guitar for a long time. i converted the strumming audio to midi information (a collection of numbers that hold the basic pitch information along with duration and volume). the computer had to simplify the strumming, and in this simplification, left me with a melody ... a succession of number information that i used to trigger the pitches of an instrument much like a dulcimer. (john hudak, summer 2008)

“graceful degradation : variations” compact disc

• steinbrüchel - shimmer (10:35)
  
• kenneth kirschner - april 17th, 2006 (5:35)
  
• heribert friedl - rehsa (8:07)
  
• john hudak - snd8 (8:55)
  
• steve roden - gration degradaceful (5:16)
  
• jason kahn - am wasser (5:05)
  
• ubeboet - untitled #305 variation (17:26)

sourdine press release...

sd-001: graceful degradation: variations 2.2008 cd limited to 500 copies featuring: heribert friedl, john hudak, jason kahn, kenneth kirschner, steve roden, steinbrüchel and ubeboet. the source recording for the compositions featured on this album still exist on a single 90 minute cassette, made by the intermagnetics corporation from santa monica, california. there are still some bits of led zeppelin here and there which remain among my recordings, but mostly the tape is full of recording i made. i remember working with this tape for several months over the summer and into fall of 2005, in my apartment in brooklyn; i would spend hours going through the material and trying to find different combinations of the recordings of the sounds which are stored on it. after a certain period of time working with the material i put together some pieces for an album release and thought i was done. but in the end i went back and continued working, it is the material from this second period of work which has been used by the artists featured on this release. the concept of graceful degradation in relation to memory as well as system failure, seemed quite fitting to the work i was doing, as well as to the work of other sound recording artists. there is a relationship that develops between our own memories and recordings made and archived using various data storage and retrieval technologies which i am very interested in; i initiated this project with this interest in mind. as a continuation of the graceful degradation of my original recordings i asked seven artists to use the material in their own ways to create a new piece. each artist put the material into their systems of working with sound and came up with the results featured on this album. i am very honored to have their contributions and pleased to present them on this first release on sourdine.

“black faction reworked” compact disc

• grains - john hudak (additional sound design andrew diey)
  
• cartesian - black faction
  
• afghan front mix 3 - black faction
  
• kaftanistanabul 1 - universal delux
  
• odessian - rapoon (additional sound design andrew diey)
  
• caligulan - rapoon (additional sound design andrew diey)
  
• sepia indate - keith fullerton whitman aka hrvatski
  
• oakland concréte - sutekh (additional sound design andrew diey)
  
• modenesa arleasian - valea djinn "the arleasian girl"(additional sound design andrew diey)
  
• danté is afraid of virgils vision - black faction
  
• widow maker - nemezis
  
• älska dig min kärlek - john hudak (additional sound design andrew diey)
  
• into the ether - unknown
  
• anti-freeze -props mix - black moses
  
• caucus burial final - black arc cclay (additional sound design john hudak)
  
• dissidents in exile - foreign terrain / cclay
  
• mina schoen unreleased - black arc (seven sages mix)