Juho Toivonen - Yhteisötalon Äänite CDR (Förfall)
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https://discreetmusic.myshopify.com/products/juho-toivonen-yhteisotalon-aanite-cdrAn audio recording from a Finnish community house, documenting an evening that began as a performance by sound artist Juho Toivonen and later required corrective authorship management.
The audience consisted of peace-oriented hippies, trance enthusiasts, and various practitioners of bodily and spiritual maintenance. Perception was expanded and ownership of publishing rights carefully monitored.
The first ten minutes of the CD-R capture Toivonen's performance. He then exits the space whistling, followed by a brief ripple of applause. An at-the-time unidentified audience member steps forward and continues performing, Toivonen temporarily mistaking the atmosphere for a commons. This assumption was later retracted and his piano playing saved for only those who shared the space.
To be clear: at the request of the newly self-identified rights holder, their contribution has been removed. The missing duration has been replaced by an alternate variation performed by the compiler, inserted to stabilize the document after its encounter with capitalist enforcement. As a result, the CD-Rs themselves had to be redubbed, their material continuity broken and reasserted in the service of compliance.
What remains is an edited archival object: a performance, applause, substitution, and the faintly bitter aftertaste of having attended a communal, consciousness-oriented gathering only to be issued a firm reminder about intellectual property.
But as always, truth is victorious and conceptualism proves resilient. Life itself continues as a work of art. Masks multiply, roles shift, and occasionally the most committed performer is the one who listens.
