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PRSNT
Artist
Various Artists
ReleaseProduct
PRSNT
Label
Modern Obscure Music
Catalogue Number
MOMPRSNT
Release Date
May 21, 2021

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At a time in history where we are constantly warned about shortening attention spans and the onslaught of information -- videos, pictures, sounds -- being too much for the human nervous system to withstand long-term, Spanish label Modern Obscure Music asks the logical next question: can one create a substantial work of art that lasts only 30 seconds?

The imprint asks a host of genre-crossing multimedia experimentalists to produce a work according to this strict brief — and the cohort prove just how stimulating creative limitations can be. What’s staggering about PRSNT is the diversity of exciting ideas at work. We begin with a luscious synthesised curtain-raise from the legendary Laurie Spiegel, and a subsequent melding of an electronic-ancient ritual scale from label boss Pedro Vian and Pierre Bastien. Meanwhile, Lyra Pramuk, Chassol and Pascal Comelade emulate the warmth and urgency of vintage video game bleep-bloops on their compositions, imprinting in the brain some sly earworms of melody. Lafawndah generates a head-spinning wealth of club atmospherics into a tiny nook of time, while a closing statement from Ryuichi Sakamoto simply plays nothing more than a pure sound-void with his 30 seconds of silence.

A stimulating experiment that certainly pays off, PRSNT is an enthralling reaction to the modern plight of having too little time and too much to do.

Booklet includes writing from contemporary thinkers like Shumon Basar and François J. Bonnet, and images from Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen Teller, Araki, Jack Davison, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Dani Pujalte, Elizaveta Porodina, Adrià Cañameras, Larissa Zaidan, Zhong Lin and Javier Tles among others

Design by Marc Monguilod

Lacquer cut by Josh Bonati & Mastered by Rashad Becker

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Digital Track List

  1. 1 FlyBy Laurie Spiegel 0:35 Buy

    FlyBy

  2. 2 Memory Pedro Vian & Pierre Bastien 0:32 Buy

    Memory

  3. 3 Cage Lya Pramuk 0:33 Buy

    Cage

  4. 4 ya! Chassol 0:28 Buy

    ya!

  5. 5 Page Turner Nicolas Godin & Pierre Rousseau 0:32 Buy

    Page Turner

  6. 6 Segons com Pascal Comelade 0:32 Buy

    Segons com

  7. 7 Lifeworld Visible Cloaks 0:32 Buy

    Lifeworld

  8. 8 Vid2020 Raul Refree 0:37 Buy

    Vid2020

  9. 9 cosa Lucrecia Dalt 0:32 Buy

    cosa

  10. 10 Dead Cat Kelman Duran 0:34 Buy

    Dead Cat

  11. 11 THE SUPER LADY FROM NAMELESS-TOWN Lafawndah 0:32 Buy

    THE SUPER LADY FROM NAMELESS-TOWN

  12. 12 silence Ryuichi Sakamoto 0:32 Buy

    silence

Track List

  1. Laurie Spiegel - Fly By
  2. Pedro Vian & Pierre Bastien - Memory
  3. Lyra Pramuk - Cage
  4. Chassol - ya!
  5. Nicolas Godin & Pierre Rousseau - Page Turner
  6. Pascal Comelade - Segons com
  7. Visible Cloaks - Lifeworld
  8. Raul Refree - Vid2020
  9. Lucrecia Dalt - cosa
  10. Kelman Duran - Dead cat
  11. Lafawndah - The Super Lady From Nameless-Town
  12. Ryuichi Sakamoto - silence
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Modern Obscure Music

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Electronic and Electronica

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