Though they have collaborated before, 12k label head Taylor Deupree and LINE sublabel founder Richard Chartier have never come together under such amazing circumstances. Both were invited by the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., to commission a new work inspired by the serene seascape photography of Hiroshi Sugimoto as part of his celebrated retrospective. The duo's audio interpretation of the photography does justice to Sugimoto's work, as the 45-minute composition unravels slowly with a graceful stillness found in the majority of Chartier's work and Deupree's landmark album Stil. Specification Fifteen starts off with a low droning sound (found in a majority of Chartier's long-form pieces) that eventually fades into quiet murmurs of sound, which eventually fold into sounds that are textbook Deupree. The duo creates an atmosphere that is easy to immerse yourself in and get lost for an hour or 12. A simply outstanding, arresting piece from start to finish. Limited to 1,000 copies. From the back cover: For this collaboration, sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree were invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, to create a new live work inspired by the Seascapes series of renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition. The result is this live recording, Specification.Fifteen. This work premiered on March 30, 2006 in front of the curved panoramic window of the Museum's Lerner Room as the sun set across the city's skyline. Specification.Fifteenevokes the stillness and opposing yet related spaces of Sugimoto's Seascapes, which suggest infinitesimal change and variation under a seemingly uniform surface. Cover: Boden Sea, Uttwil 1993. © Hiroshi Sugimoto. Thank you to Kerry Broughter, Kristen Hileman, Milena Kalinovska, Olga Viso, all at the Hirshhorn, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.