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After is the product of the meeting of Kim Cascone, Richard Chartier, 
and Taylor Deupree at Montreal's Micro_Mutek 2 on April 6th, 2001. 
Scheduled to perform solo sets they decided to do an unexpected 
improvisational live laptop set at the end of the evening which ended 
up being one of the highlights of the evening.

Each artist utilized his own software and contributed his own sound 
to the 20+ minute performance. Cascone's custom Max/MSP patch 
sputtered and spewed random chunks of soundfiles while he processed 
the output in real time through various effects. Chartier ended up 
being the unlikely designated rhythm unit for the night; supplying 
pulses, basses and precision-craftted clicks. Deupree washed over the 
whole mix with gentle drones and blankets of sine wave layers. The 
result was a surprisingly diverse, layered, and engaging recording.

With a desire to release and catalog the evening's production, 
Cascone, Chartier, and Deupree decided that to extend the time of the 
project to make a full length cd that each of them would create a new 
work using the original live set as source material for their piece. 
Cascone ushered in a new era of dense DSP with the "New World Rising 
(New Density Mix)," a reworking of key elements from the end of the 
performance treated with his ever-evolving Max creations. Chartier 
chose the more subtle elements of the night and created "Afterimage." 
Deep, filtered tones create warm washes of bass that are punctuated 
by fragments of the original soundfiles that he used during the live 
set, more audible than his more recent compositions. Deupree's 
"4+2_Stil Live" reconstruction uses a mix of 4 loops layered by an 
additional 2 passages which he then works into new loops using custom 
programmed software algorithms. These new loops are then structured 
to form a highly repetitive and evolving piece of churning, hypnotic 
tones . . . a preview and exercise into methods for his upcoming cd 
"Stil."