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Black Shred is the second in a series of compositions that use discarded paper and other detritus as the sonic building blocks for compositions created using unconventional materials and methods. Discarded black shredded paper was shaped into a graphic score that was then photographed and transmuted into audio using a computer program. The score itself was played like an instrument, amplified with pickups and pedals, with the result being that the black score is paradoxically transformed into white noise. The word "black" has many connotations, and Black Shred alludes to some of these: Black Magic, Black Heart, Black Metal, Black Death. The transcendent nature of sound is used to communicate in a visceral way what "black" might sound like. No other elements other than those generated by the Black Shred score were used in the making of this composition.

Black Shred was included in the sound installation “Close, Closer” at the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa – Palácio Sinel de Cordes as part of the Miso Music Portugal Festival.

The Black Shred score was part of the exhibition AFTERSOUND: Frequency, Attack, Return at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

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from Radiant Energy and Other Strategies, released December 4, 2020

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Lin Culbertson New York, New York

Lin Culbertson is a NYC based synthesist and composer. She is 1/2 of the free improv unit White Out. These releases are a selection of solo unstructured songs and acousmatic sound art.

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