Taking the reparation and servicing of a 1970s tape recorder as its point of departure, Noise floor intersects the development of recording technologies with ideas of a sonic presence. With the repair manual as an informing framework, the work intermingles appropriated advertising blurbs with HFE´s own writing; technical photography with photographic abstraction. Combining these different voices, the publication examines notions of a sonic-self, through the recording industry’s race for higher sensitivity and lower noise.

Info:
Publisher - Mount Analogue
Year - 2025
Edition - 75
Pages - 24+cover
Dimension - 24x19cm