San Francisco Art Institute - Main Campus
800 Chestnut St
415.771.7020
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Signal
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Wednesday May 14, 2008 (7pm–midnight)
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$15
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Compared to the Raster-Noton label's austere output, most self-described "minimal" techno sounds positively maximal. The laptop-generated oscillator tones and minute, ice-cracking clicks heard on many of the releases by Alva Noto, Byetone, and Frank Bretschneider are often perched on the edge of audibility, suggesting a degree zero of electronic music. But when the three combine their carefully calibrated static as Signal, the sound becomes as deceptively flat — and subtly variegated — as one of Robert Rauschenberg's infamous white paintings. Prepare to commune with the ghosts in the machine.
