The Project (CD + booklet)

The Project (CD + booklet)
Author: Minus Delta t
Publisher: Mazine.ws Publishing
Language: English, German, Japanese, Chinese, French
Pages: CD + 80 pages booklet
Size: 13.6 x 13.6 cm
Weight: 140 g
Binding: -
ISBN: 9783950282962
Availability: In stock
Price: €35.00
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In 1982, the artist's collective Minus Delta t travelled with a gray-blue granite block weighing 5.5 tons overland from Europe to Asia. What started out as the “Bangkok Project” is now being continued as “The Project”. The stone shall leave its temporary home, New Delhi (since 1986), and travel on to China. Mike Hentz and Karel Dudesek, the founders of Minus Delta t, have worked on the relocation of the stone to China since 2011. This CD is the re-edition of the record “The Project”. It was first released by ATATAK, Düsseldorf, in 1986; 2nd release Suezan Studio, Tokyo (2013); 3rd release Mazine.ws, Vienna (2014). It features field recordings of the journey, concerts, and remixes from 1991 to 1986.

26 sound tracks in all. The re-edition includes a CD and a new booklet of 80 pages in English, German, Japanese, Chinese, and French with photos and texts about the journey.

Minus Delta t (or -Δ t) was a group that created a barely classifiable form of “life art” on the intersection between the music and the art scene. The group, which had named itself after a mathematical phenomenon, was founded in Zurich in 1978 by Mike Hentz, Chrislo Haas and Karl Dudesek, three artistic autodidacts who had previously been active in the alternative art and music scene.

In the ten years of their activities, Hentz and Dudesek formed the personnel core of the group, which was joined by almost a dozen other temporary members during its existence (including Wolfgang Georgsdorf, Gerard Couty, Malika Ziouech, Gérard Couty, Padeluun) after Chrislo Haas left the group to make electronic music as a musician with the bands Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) and Liaisons Dangereuses.