Hecker reemerges with more text-based synthesis on two new releases on Editions Mego – Tiny Mix Tapes

Not in a negative sense, Vienna-based mad scientist/producer Florian Hecker seems to make some of the most inaccessible music out there right now. So it wasnt surprising to hear that he was collaborating with Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani for 2012s Chimerization project, which combined an experimental libretto with the abstract synthesis on which Heckers a veritable expert. (I can think of no better way to attract the margins of artistic consumers than to bring on a guy whos written and spoken extensively about Rationalism and related subjects so prodigiously it makes my out-of-school braincry.)

Now, Hecker has re-recruited Reza for the third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces (in case you lost count, the first was the just-mentioned Chimerization and the second was 2014s Articulao). The newest installment is called A Script For Machine Synthesis. Its out February 24 on Editions Mego and is said to present a complex simplicity that spirals in an unending manner as an audio image of the uncanny valley. (Something tells me this uncanny valley should be limited to children 10 andup.)

Heckers anti-hit-parade dont stop there, though; because in addition to A Script For Machine Synthesis, Hecker has also just released Articulao Sintetico, a limited-edition cassette that, as the title suggests, purports to be a complete resynthesis of Articulao which therefore pretty much makes it a resynthesis of the voice of artist Joan LaBarbarba.

Buy Articulao Sintetico here, and pre-order Script right over here.

Articulao Sinteticotracklisting:

01. Synthetic Hinge 02. Modulator (Scattering Transform) 03. SyntheticHinge

A Script For Machine Synthesistracklisting:

01. Prologue 02. A Script For Machine Synthesis 03.Credits

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Hecker reemerges with more text-based synthesis on two new releases on Editions Mego - Tiny Mix Tapes