Artifacts.001 by Yann Novak
Artifacts.001 gathers tracks made for various compilations, originally released between 2017–2021 and newly remastered by Lawrence English. Shaped across disparate contexts, these pieces are brought into alignment—like scattered data points that begin to reveal a pattern when viewed from a distance. The years since have shifted the lens: through the accumulation of crisis and the slow encroachment of technology, the relationship between past and present has grown less about longing and more about survival. Here, time operates not just as a structuring force, but as something that erodes, reframes, and transforms.
"Coming Up (Redux)" from "Homework – Year 2," Taâlem (France), 2017; "Inverted Qualia (Redux)" from "Relatives Schoensein," Adventurous Music (Germany), 2020; "Evidence for Optimism (Redux)" from "Slow Sketch Vol. 2: Reflections Of The Ambient Community," EL Muelle Records (Spain), 2020; "Artifacts of Function (Redux)" from "Homework – Year 5," Taâlem (France), 2020; and "Accelerating Distance (Redux)" from "University of Ambiance Vol. III," Transvection Ltd. (Mexico), 2021.
Tracklist
| 1. | Coming Up (redux) | 6:44 |
| 2. | Inverted Qualia (redux) | 7:28 |
| 3. | Evidence for Optimism (redux) | 6:24 |
| 4. | Artifacts of Function (redux) | 8:32 |
| 5. | Accelerating Distance (redux) | 7:28 |
Credits
Cover by Yann Novak, "Abstraction.001" (2013).
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space.
Published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music, UK.
License
All rights reserved.
Yann Novak is a Los Angeles–based artist, composer and technologist whose work draws from his unique perspective as a queer autodidact. Working critically with technology, Novak uses sound and light to explore questions of presence, agency, and technological influence, transforming these intangible materials into human-scaled encounters that blur the physical and the virtual.