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The User: Symphony No. 2 For Dot Matrix Printers

by Mark Sabbatini
February 20, 2005

Every now and then an album awes me with its artistry, even though I can't bear to listen to it in more than small doses. This might be the pinnacle of that group. The title says it all. Two Canadians, Emmanuel Madan and Thomas McIntosh, composed Symphony No. 2 For Dot Matrix Printers"? on ...

Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers

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Label: Asphodel
Released: 2002
Track listing: Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers

The User: Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers

by Glenn Astarita
November 1, 2002

This Canadian aggregation’s previous effort had something to do with converting a Montreal grain silo into “an instrument of sound.” Hence, the band has purportedly qualified itself as a hi-tech entity. With this release, the artists have sampled the sounds of ancient dot-matrix printers via midi technologies, software engineering, sampling, and so forth. In addition, the ...