
Inspection II
Florian Hecker(Author)
Urbanomic Media Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 2019
Audio
CD-Audio
16 pages
978-1-913029-71-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Masochism is cruel because, in subverting the model, it imposes it with exaggerated severity."-Amy IrelandFlorian Hecker's latest CD release continues his work with computational techniques for analysis and resynthesis. In Inspection II we 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 sleevenotes, this process, whose symptomatology is recognizably that of masochism, sees the coldness of the formal model subverted as Hecker's continual resynthesis delivers up a series of harsh, tantalizing, and bewildering textures and timbres: "the resynthesized sound is more intractable, more disorienting, and more empirically obscene-a contingency that always disrupts the plan [.] synthetic progency, nourished on nothing but ice and noise."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-913029-71-5 (9781913029715)
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