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Seeland 023
CD with deluxe 6” x 12” 64-page full-color book and die cut outer sleeve
2002

This beautifully packaged conceptual project is a very different move in a very different "found art" direction than the anti-corporate, anti-copyright creations that Negativland is more known for, charting new territory for the group in many ways.

"Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak" is a 6"x12", 64-page full-color owner’s manual, which comes with a 45-minute CD soundtrack. Packaged inside a large die-cut automotive courtesy envelope, this project is a poignant, voyeuristic, disturbing and occasionally funny glimpse into lives which may be very different from your own... or eerily similar.

The CD is a meticulously layered, ever-shifting electro-acoustic soundscape, created to accompany the pages of the book. No bass lines, no melody, no dialogue, no singing, no beat – perhaps it is the sound of Negativland’s studio being destroyed in a car crash…