John Hudak Room With Sky Released: 11/2004 Label: Spekk Catalog #: 003 Rating:  Not Yet Rated Rate This Record

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US sound-artist John Hudak’s new material is a sculpture of his voice speaking about the view of the sky from his room. The actual tones heard on this album sounds so delicate and beautiful like a reflection in a mirror by going through more than twenty permutations before arriving to this final version. This was originally released on a CDR of limited 50 copies from his own Chaba Recordings (now out of print) in 2003 and this will be the official release with the remastering by Stephan Mathieu. Hudak: “ROOM WITH SKY began as a recording of my speaking voice in my bedroom, which is very sunny on sunny days. My bedroom has Bauhaus style casement windows with views in the Southern direction (towards New York city), and the Western direction (towards the Hudson River and the Palisades cliffs of New Jersey on the opposite side of the river). The words that I spoke came directly out of my mouth in a stream-of-consciousness style, with the actual text having been lost through destructive editing within my computer. The idea behind this piece was for me to convey in the listener the feeling of being in this sunny room, on a sunny day. ROOM WITH SKY was mastered by Stephan Mathieu consisting partly of a process of digital to analog to digital conversion...for warmth.” Third release on this impressively packaged Japanese imprint, following Taylor Deupree’s JANUARY, and William Basinski and Richard Chartier’s collaboration.