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Original Signed Limited edition CD on the private label Seventh Chance Recordings, 2000. Very rare and out-of-print, this first and only edition was limited to 400 signed numbered copies, and a number of signed artist proofs. This is one of the artist proofs, signed by Roedelius and Story, and marked "O/S" ("Out-of-Sequence", an artist proof designation). Very limited quantities.

Includes unlimited streaming of Persistence of Memory via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. "Persistence of Memory" was the first of many collaborations between Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Largely improvised from a large selection of sound sources that the artists prepared in advance, it consists of a single long track that plays out like a surreal journey, it is the most abstract, and the rarest of their artifacts. Released in 2000 in a limited edition of 400 signed and numbered CD's, and a small number of artist proofs (also signed), it has not been re-issued.

Digital Downloads remastered to hi-resolution audio by Tim Story in 2023 for this Bandcamp release.

".56 minutes of sonic mind mapping and meteorology from Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Ohio-based Tim Story: a part (and Arvo Part-y) studio meditation on the passage of music into memory, part blotchy Daguerrotype of their Philadelphia concert on the former's 1999 Indian Summer tour. The duo loop their way through and beyond a series of hung oscillations, goosing the synthesiser's circuitry and tossing software manuals into the ether... a slow motion replay of recurring motifs, waiting to cohere into music. Rising thermals carry blown leaves of chromatic burr and dissonance... it tunes into a psychic FM, chancing across Charles Ives, Todd Dockstader, morphed samples of Roedelius' back catalogue.

From start to end, a circular odyssey of longing and distance like the Arctic tern riding the Westerlies and Trades each year - the imprint of rotating constellations on its brain. Mostly inhabiting the warm side of autumn, sometimes a chill sets in - bursts of static, a twinge of regret, faded images in photograph album. It's evidence of some invisible narrative thread that you don't reach for the 'Stop' button on your CD player, which seems to deposit its richness into your head: like waves lapping sand onto a beach."

– Stephen Iliffe, Audion magazine, UK

Official page of Grammy-nominated American composer and sound artist Tim Story (b. 1957), a “true artist in the electronic medium” (Victory Review). Through three decades of influential recordings, live performances and sound art installations, Story’s unique blend of inspired composition and innovative sound design has garnered a dedicated worldwide following.