Baltimore-based experimental music duo Matmos has announced that their new album, Ultimate Care II, will be composed entirely of sounds made by the Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine in the basement of the group’s home.
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The album will run in a single, continuous 38-minute “experience” (the length of one of its wash cycles) that begins with the sound of the machine’s wash size selection knob and ends with its “cycle finished” noise. In between, the machine is pounded like a drum and its various operational noises are sampled and processed until they reflect very little of the original source.
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