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Admit it: Ten pages into photocopying a stack of papers, you find yourself bobbing to the beat of the machine's 60-sheet-per-minute cycle. You're not alone. Stefan Helmreich has dedicated an entire album, Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music, to the office drone's rhythms. Armed with a cheap recorder, the anthropologist captured the sounds of a dozen copiers - from the Canon NP 6545 to the Xerox 5828 - at NYC libraries, drugstores, and copy shops. He then arranged the hums into 13 tracks of motorized cacophony using a decade-old Ensoniq sampler. "There's a sonic landscape we live in that's changing quickly," Helmreich says. "This is partly an attempt to document it."
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