SET OR PERFORMANCE

"Of course, the question is, why make these sounds so tiny to begin with? Why force listeners to turn up the volume to hear them? One answer might be practical. Perhaps the sounds, when compressed and embiggened (to borrow from Jebediah Springfield), are distorted or mangled in some way. Or perhaps the sounds are small simply because Chartier chooses to examine and manipulate sound at the microscopic level. Think of his music as slides filled with the sound equivalent of microbes, amoebas, and other infinitesimal creatures. From this point of view, our CD players (or iPods) are microscopes that magnify those sounds into recognizable shapes".