HECKER : Inspection II

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Format: CD [eMEGO268]
Shipping Weight: 0.1lbs
Label: Editions Mego

3,280円

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'Florian Hecker's latest CD release continues his work with computational techniques for analysis and re-synthesis. In Inspection II, you hear the progressive reconstruction of original source material using algorithms based upon human hearing and designed to capture timbral characteristics of sound. As the source is iteratively extracted from featureless noise, a complex ongoing dialogue commences between formal model and empirical experience of sound. Like Charon, the boatman who ferries souls of the dead across the styx, Inspection II crosses perpetually from one bank to the other: from the formal anticipations of analysis to the unexpected artefacts of synthesis. In Robin Mackay's libretto, recited by a synthetic voice, this inspective dialogue is transferred to the introspective psychoanalytic situation, where the continual re-narration of the self creates further disturbances and transformations -- to attain a definitive image of oneself would be to face one's own death. As discussed in Amy Ireland's essay "Beside a Cold Statue" commissioned for the CD sleeve notes, this process, whose symptomatology is recognizably that of masochism, sees the coldness of the formal model subverted as Hecker's continual re-synthesis delivers up a series of harsh, tantalizing, and bewildering textures and timbres. 16-page booklet. Written and produced by Florian Hecker, 2016-17. Synthetic Voice: Christophe Veaux, CSTR, The University of Edinburgh. Liner notes: Amy Ireland. Mastering: Rashad Becker.'

1 Inspection II 1:15:03

Graphic Design – NORM, Zurich
Libretto By – Robin Mackay
Liner Notes – Amy Ireland
Mastered By – Rashad Becker
Programmed By [Scattering Transform Algorithm and Sound Computation] – Vincent Lostanlen
Sequenced By – Alberto De Campo
Vocals [Synthetic Voice] – Christophe Veaux, CSTR, The University of Edinburgh
Written By, Producer – Florian Hecker