Album Notes

The Fossil Aerosol Mining Project began in the early 1980s as a loose-knit group of artists and collectors interested in exploring and harvesting the damaged remains of late 20th century popular culture. The project began producing audio recordings in 1983, using literal “found sounds” such as fragments of open reel 1/4” tape and 35mm film recovered from burnt out warehouses and abandoned drive-in theaters. The earliest compositions involved physical tape loops and analog signal processes, which were gradually replaced by digital delay treatments and multi-track manipulation.

"About Your Belief" was the first set of recordings produced by the reassembled Fossil Aerosol Mining Project in 2004. This involved (after nearly 20 years) the use of new equipment and revised delay processes. The result was more concealed source material, altered by several generations of digital decay. The subject matter here is more cryptic, but revolves around instructions and descriptions of media-bound, late 20th century belief systems.