"The concept of modern media has become a good-looking but highly intransparent arboretum aiming to manipulate your precious brain in each and every single moment. But there is also a real enjoyment within the endlessly absorbed stream of pre-designed information because it unintentionally provides a rich playground for specific audio experiments and ultimately a true medium for new art forms.”
Norman Fairbanks is an audio concept art project officially started in 2003 with the mission to freely alienate, process and melt artefacts from the vast panopticon of American mass media with found noise, selected field recordings and specifically generated electro-acoustic elements to a) investigate new tonalities in sound and b) create a context-free, unbiased, neo-expressionist audio witness and reflection of contemporary American culture.
While constantly moving forward with "One American Second" as conceptual audio art, the project will always try to integrate a substantial portion of unusual sources [i.e. custom made soft- and hardware or other unconventional tools] into the setup, in order to provide a unique sound experience.
Since subliminal cultural sampling and field recordings are another essential part of it all, the project will additionally ensure to provide steady growth for "The Big American Mistake" audio library, a database containing every single piece once found or created for one of the concept releases, with the idealistic goal to store a [never completed] subjective audio image of America, painted by bits and bytes on a harddisk.
Releases:
(2004)
One American Second
(2005)
West Hollywood
(2006)
Unstructured Elements
(2007)
Meet Mr. Lynch
Delusion Californica
7 Days Microsleep
Conspiracy Test Runs
(2008)
The Reverse Vampire
Living Near The Valley
American Optimism
Cathedral City Counterfeits
The Essense Of Radio Musicola
The Pendulum Session
L.A. Machine
Blood And Glass
(2009)
The Base
Corporate Lies
Apollo
