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The Second Life Project

Posthumous creative reconstruction

Chapter 01 / 09

Overview

Some recordings are never intended to be heard beyond the room in which they were created.

Others remain unfinished, forgotten or inaccessible for decades.

This project began with the rediscovery of historically significant recordings by a deceased recording artist.

What initially appeared to be a collection of archival material developed into a much larger creative undertaking: the preservation, reconstruction and development of previously unfinished performances into a new body of work.

The objective was never simply to restore the past.

It was to understand the original artistic intention and responsibly create something that could exist in the present.

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