devin disanto/nick hoffman: three exercises

"DiSanto brought his unique sensibility, combining office drone and experimental musician, to these sessions with noted noise improviser Nick Hoffman, who runs the well-respected Pilgrim Talk imprint. This was their first meeting, in a gymnasium in Hartford in August 2014, and is the fifth in the ErstAEU series, featuring adventurous young American artists working in the experimental vein. 'Three Exercises is a collaboration between Devin DiSanto and Nick Hoffman, and is a recording of three performances that took place inside an elementary school gymnasium. These performances ranged from test taking and games, communicating through the use of numbers, to measuring and marking different paths of travel through the space. They hired two writers to take notes out loud into cassette recorders as they watched the performances. The descriptions were used to structure the final version of the recording. Devin and Nick played basketball between performances.' --Devin DiSanto"