Album Review: absent origin by Mira Calix

The story goes that in 1959 Brion Gysin declared literature to be "50 years behind art", before demonstrating the cut-up technique to an attentive William Burroughs. But, if Gysin's statement was true, music was only very slightly ahead in the race, and the technology allowing musique concrète tape splicing was still shiny and fresh when Gysin was wielding his scalpel. Fast forward a mere decade though, and multitrack studio methodology meant that almost every recording was effectively a montage, and in our digital world it's almost impossible to envision a music-making that doesn't consist of placing discrete elements together.

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