An exquisite corpse in 10 tracksHow do three distinctly different creative forces, each with their own personal vision, merge to create new sound?The answer may be found in the arresting, unexpected results of a creative process adopted by the French Surrealist movement.“Exquisite corpse” was the name its Surrealist practitioners gave to both the product and the process, in which an artist would write a phrase on a piece of paper, fold it to conceal their contribution, and pass it to the next person to add their words. The curious name derived from the result of their first attempt at the technique:Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine)When recording artists Hans Joachim Roedelius, Tim Story and Dwight Ashley came together at Tim’s Ohio studio to make recordings, both the technique of composing and the finished product echoed the character of this emblematic phrase – at once, both comical and mystical.The 10 aural collages that resulted from their recording session reflect what Surrealist Nicolas Calas characterized as “the unconscious reality in the personality of the group,” derived from a state Max Ernst wryly dubbed “mental contagion.”Commenting on the effects of this, Ashley remarks: “It’s not uncommon for people to hear an element in the recordings and think ‘oh, that’s a classic Story riff,’ when in fact, Ach or I actually contributed that bit.”So, what do you get when you combine the melodious musings of Hans Joachim Roedelius, the nuanced phrasings of Tim Story and the sonic colorations of Dwight Ashley? You get the sonic colorations of Roedelius, the melodious musings of Story, and the nuanced phrasing of Ashley. In short, you get a distinctly different fourth entity that emerges from the group, rather than the individual. From the rhythm-fueled, epic “squiggle” to the brief, wonderfully abstract title track, Errata echoes the Surrealist credo that “poetry must be made by all, and not by one.”