1% Audio 2CD

Disc 1:
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman
Colleen
Constanze Schweiger and David Jourdan
Dat Politics
Dorit Chrysler
Eugene Chadbourne
Felix Kubin
Four Tet

Disc 2:
gelitin
L?K?O
John McEntire and Jeff Parker
Nobukazu Takemura
Rashim
Sun Ok Papi K.O.




This double CD includes all contributions (114 sound pieces/ 01:50:22) to David Jourdan and Yuji Oshima's installation for the elevators of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
According to the French government’s 1% guidelines, one per cent of the total amount spent in the construction of any public building is to be allocated for the realization of site-specific artworks. In this context, David Jourdan and Yuji Oshima were commissioned to create a permanent installation for the new building of the ministry, 182 rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, completed in February 2005.
A temperamental audio playback is set off by accident – one chance in a hundred – in two elevators at the ministry. For once, the 1% is indeed one per cent. The issue is deceptive musak.
Every user of the elevator who presses a button participates in a game in which there is a limited number of possible actions, but a real 1% chance of winning. In short, a mere lottery.
When one wins, the reward is an illuminated animation on the cabin ceiling accompanied by a brief audio composition. For that purpose, Jourdan and Oshima invited 17 artists/groups to create 15 to 90 seconds of sound compositions from previously unreleased audio material.
Assuming that on average, the cabin carries any other passenger going to a different floor, a user who takes the elevator 10 times a day, 5 days a week, has one chance per week of winning. With the exception of this brief event, nothing else out of the ordinary occurs.