LET'S GIVE UP WEB SITE 2006.
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Letsgiveup.com began around August 2004 as an experiment in arbitrarity and confusion intended in part to promote a collaborative exhibition of drawings and video work. Its content tended to mirror, expand, muddy and subvert the philosophical themes of the show, and it also served an ongoing purpose as a labyrinthine playground/sketchbook for our design-collage whims as we created that body of work.

As the collaborative elements of our show came together, we began playing with recombining audio in a wav editor with the intention of making drones for two video/installation pieces featuring environmental and headphone sound. The resultant four tracks were irrational, chaotic, mostly atonal, sometimes disorienting, occasionally terrifying and, to us, immensly satisfying soundscapes. We were so pleased with the process and results that we decided to continue making album-oriented audio work in a similar vein to those pieces.

The show came and went, but letsgiveup.com continued to slowly expand as we completed and posted our first self-titled web album in March, 2005. We decided that rather than try to find a local label to distrubute a record only to sell a few of them to friends (we had no illusions about the marketablity of our "music"), we'd be better served by making the whole thing available for free on our web site. So we did, and apparently some people even downloaded it.

In February 2006 we finished our second web release, No Things In World. By that point the audio project had gradually supplanted our visual work and had become our primary focus. Over time we updated the rest of the site less and less frequently, and it became essentially a vehicle for the audio portion of the Let's Give Up project. In June of 2006 the site was revamped to reflect this, but we continue to make the old site available for the curious.