Alva Noto * Madeleine Cocolas
Alva Noto returns after a five year hiatus with volume 4 of his Xerrox pentalogy *** Madeleine Cocolas explores the complex emotions she felt when returning home to Ithaca.
Alva Noto returns after a five year hiatus with volume 4 of his Xerrox pentalogy *** Madeleine Cocolas explores the complex emotions she felt when returning home to Ithaca.
Xerrox Vol. 3 is the third part (duh!) in what is going to be a five part series inspired by the process of copying.
All three parts have their subtitle: “Old World” (Xerrox Vol. 1, 2007), “New World” (Xerrox Vol. 2, 2009) – and now Vol. 3 is labeled: “Towards Space” .
William Basinski has built almost his entire oeuvre on deteriorating copies of original tape recordings. (The Disintegration Loops may be the best example).
So, when reading about the new Alva Noto release, Xerrox, I had to suppress a ‘not again’ yawn..
“Via the technique of duplication the copy often contains mistakes and glitches that differ from the original. The mutating copy emerges as a new original and thereby provides space for development”