Soul Zodiac by Nigel Ayers is a temporal and spatial deconstruction of the Soul Zodiac double LP released in 1972 by the American jazz performer Cannonball Adderley.
Using time-stretching (a process where the duration of an audio signal is changed without affecting its pitch) each of the twelve zodiac-themed tracks has been altered from its original running time to a length of one hour and burnt onto a compact disc.
For the performance, each compact disc is then played on one of twelve CD players. The twelve CD players in Soul Zodiac are arranged to align with the sequence of zodiac signs they represent.
The running time of the piece is precisely one hour.

Photos from University Collge of Falmouth May 2006

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