Found Objects

Found object is a loan translation from the French objet
trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but
often modified, objects or products that are not normally
considered materials from which art is made, often because
they already have a non-art function. Like the results from
automatic writing and readymades, Found Objects offers an
approximation of those techniques in sound by repurposing
displaced phrases and timbres, pitches, restatements,
and treatments as the root technique. K. Leimer describes
it this way: “I worked toward a greater variety of outcomes
between each of the pieces, with the goal of providing a
more diverse listening experience. At the same time it
became important to avoid any specific sense of adhering
to a particular genre.” After eleven months in the studio,
Found Objects finally became music, but only as the result
of almost continuous, arbitrarily redirected accidents.