Album premiere: PRSNT
April 2021
Clockwise from top left: Lyra Pramuk; Lafawndah; Laurie Spiegel by Chris Buck; Lucrecia Dalt
Laurie Spiegel, Lafawndah, Lucrecia Dalt, Lyra Pramuk and others respond to the state of online music engagement with a new album lasting less than seven minutes
| Laurie Spiegel “FlyBy” | 0:00:35 |
| Lyra Pramuk “Cage” | 0:00:33 |
| Pedro Vian & Pierre Bastien “Memory” | 0:00:32 |
| Chassol “ya!” | 0:00:28 |
| Nicolas Godin & Pierre Rousseau “Page Turner” | 0:00:32 |
| Pascal Comelade “Segons com” | 0:00:32 |
| Visible Cloaks “Lifeworld” | 0:00:32 |
| Raül Refree “Vid2020” | 0:00:37 |
| Lucrecia Dalt “Cosa” | 0:00:32 |
| Kelman Duran “Dead cat” | 0:00:34 |
| Lafawndah “THE SUPER LADY FROM NAMELESS-TOWN” | 0:00:32 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto “silence” | 0:00:32 |
PRSNT is a multimedia project and compilation instigated by Barcelona based label Modern Obscure and Created By Us. Inspired by recent studies into shortening attention spans, the project explores how this shift affects the way we engage with music. Presented as a book and an album, the resulting works include texts by writers Maria Chavez, Francois J Bonnet, Yves Citton and Shumon Basar; artwork by various photographers including Wolfgang Tillmans and Juergen Teller; plus 12 specially commissioned tracks – none of them more than 37 seconds in length – by Laurie Spiegel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lucrecia Dalt, Pierre Bastien, and more. Listen to the fleeting album in full above.
PRSNT is reviewed by Spenser Tomson in The Wire 446. Subscribers can read the issue online via the digital archive. It is released on 16 April via Modern Obscure.
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