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Release Order:

010 Antenna Builder - '26 October 2002 FLUX nO.8' - cdr
009 Creation is Crucifixion - 'Radio Bronka' - cdr
008 Upsilon Acrux - 'Last Train Out' - cd
007 Torus - 'phlogistics' - cdr
006 Roman Bathhouse - 'Las Vegas Dirge' - cdr
005 Creation is Crucifixion - 'Destructivist' - cd
004 Creation is Crucifixion / Suicide Nation - split 7" repress
003 Creation is Crucifixion / UUM - 'Laboratory Series 1' - 3" cd
002 Creation is Crucifixion - 'Kill Net Art' - 3" cd
001 Critical Art Ensemble / Creation is Crucifixion / Hactivist - 'Child as Audience' - book/cdrom

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Antenna Builder
26 October 2002 FLUX nO.8

CDR
HAC00001010 (010)
pre-release pressing unlimited

50 Minutes (10 tracks) of a live performance by Antenna Builder in Pittsburgh, PA on October 26, 2002. A|B features 3 members of CIC on this performance with 8Cylinder and Dave Good. Utilizes NO COMPUTERS. Antenna Builder is a shadow of the symbols and signs that populate the air we breathe. We inhale the body of the signals. The signals that occupy this space are a product of capital and take the form of the medias we consume and the advertisements we hear. As a shadow, Antenna Builder will use the air as our technology and as our tool. In each intervention performed by Antenna Builder, a new set of individuals create sound work with a central character transforming FM radio signal transmittance through gesture and location. The FM Theremin Transmitter is a sound interface device invented by Antenna Builder. Each sound creation is entirely dependent on the location of the construction and reception. All created sounds are transmitted and mixed with existing signals in the air of the space. The interference between the sounds already present and the pirated sounds created by the members of Antenna Builder mix and distort to become one frequency. The only sounds both viewer and participant are able to hear are the final mix of all these noises constructed in real time. The only amplification is of a small FM Receiver tuned to a chosen frequency. Viewers of the intervention can listen directly or through their own FM receivers where available.

Creation is Crucifixion
Radio Bronka

CDR
HAC00001001 (009)
pre-release pressing unlimited

79 Minutes from a live improvisation done in October 2001 in Barcelona, Spain at one of the oldest pirate radio stations there - Radio Bronka. This is a semi-minimalist, especially for CiC. This is definitely their best experimental recording to date. Final cut was mastered in Germany in late 2001. This may eventually see a full blown release - but maybe not.

Creation is Crucifixion / Critical Art Ensemble / Carbon Defense League
Child as Audience

224p Book + CDROM (audio and PC software)
HAC00000001 (001)
first press of 2,000 stamp numbered in chipboard box

Now this is what I call Multimedia! The Critical Art Ensemble (of Electronic Civil Disodedience) team up with other technologically inclined troublemakers for a book and CD package. The book chronicles (in four languages) the how to dos and why to dos of hacking and reprogramming childrens video games. With a political and educational vengence, the group takes apart the mindless crap embedded in the “Gameboy” and replaces it with interactive masturbation and street crime fantasies. CD contains software, schematics, and codes to duplicate the procedure plus ripping tracks from the band Creation is Crucifixion. All packaged in a fancy printed cardboart box. The most creative thing I’ve seen in years! (AK PRESS review 2001)

Creation is Crucifixion
| || | KILL NET ART | || |

3" CDR
HAC00000010 (002)
first press of 100 copies(all different cpies)

This is an all digitally recombined mess with content derived from a Jerry Lewis movie. Released with individual handmade covers of my extra photographs on 3" mini cd for tour 2001.

Creation is Crucifixion / UUM
Laboratory Series Volume 1

CDR
HAC00000011 (003)
50 on PC floppy disc
first press of 100 copies
second press of 100 copies

This was originally released as a floppy MP3 split (50 copies) ala Bastard Noise. Amazing harsh tape loop constructs from UUM. Short and fast from CIC noise.

Creation is Crucifixion / Suicide Nation
remastered/relreleased split

7" vinyl
HAC00000100 (004)
20 test presses
first repress of 500 copies (all black vinyl)

Repress licensed from cyberdine 243 (for free - thanks ryan). This is remastered although like every other CIC release still sounds like ass. Originally released in 1998.

Creation is Crucifixion
Destructivist [noise remixes from Automata and In_Silico]

CD
HAC00000101 (005)
first press of 1000 copies

Noise remixes from In_Silico and Automata as well as the track from Kill Net Art. 3 tracks totalling 72 minutes of some more intricate CIC noise.

Roman Bathhouse
Las Vegas Dirge

CDR
HAC00000110 (006)
first press of 100 copies

C.F.DiSalvo, obviously a big whitehouse fanatic, gives us a preview of a full length he is working on for Hactivist. These are longer, all digi, and a bit more structured experiments.

Torus
phlogistics

CDR
HAC00000111 (007)
first press of 100 copies

A.MacGregor, former CIC guitarist, is Torus. These are all analog creations made from samples and found sounds over the past few years. Check out A.MacGregor's other projects soon to be released through Hactivist such as Conelrad.

Upsilon Acrux
last.train.out

CD
HAC00001000 (008)
first press of 1000 copies

Wait for the reviews. Fucking amazing prog from San Diego. This is an amazing Full Length. Vinyl to come in February 2002. Early release of September 1st at the AK Press event.