SLP

The structure of a rock group inherently bears a tendency towards a collaborative principle: no unique authorship, no separation between composer and player; instead there is constant interchange of ideas and musical material. For SELECTION this cooperative way of working is a prerequisite of continuous production. Another important aspect of SELECTION's work is the international mail music network which serves as a scaffold for independent distribution of sound carriers and as an important condition to the exchange of information and musical material.

A correlate of the working exchange of the musical material on reel tape or, compact cassette and its interchanging or sequential reworking is the so called "recycling". This term denotes a procedure concentrating on materials already existing on their own or as separate sources as a practical base for further reworkings. It is important that those basic materials should have reached a complex state for which not all musical or acoustical materials can be used.
The musical activity is not so much object centered, rather, it is engaged with the general conditions of exchange and organisation.

Cooperation, material-exchange, and recycling are fundamental to NICHTS NIEMAND NIRGENDS NIE! The DLP by P16.D4 and S.B.O.T.H.I. (1985/86). Both groups / projects had been cooperating on different smaller matters before. NNNN! Marked the point when a general discussion of procedures and a parallel processual work n the musical material necessarily merged into the conceptual frame of a sound carrier, which was on the one hand a documentation of processual cooperation and on the other, a complex connection of sound materials; e.g. those sound formations referring to various independent compositional ideas on the level of pieces or fragments and to the sound carrier s an obligatory condition on the macrostructural level.
SLP presents an attempt to transfer the experiences off cooperative work and SELECTION's development of tape-music to the field of a multi-levelled live presentation. It includes a live recycling of the NNNN! Record mentioned, a spatial installation defining SLP's pragmatic space and a computer composition selecting the sound material, which determines the special acoustical space.

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