{"title":"Hecker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlorian Hecker, born in 1975 in Augsburg and currently based in Vienna, is a renowned artist in the field of computer music. Since 1996, he has been actively involved in creating innovative soundscapes both independently and through collaborations with other esteemed artists such as Farmers Manual, Russell Haswell, Shunichiro Okada, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler, and Yasunao Tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHecker's unique approach to music production has garnered him a dedicated following. His experimental compositions push the boundaries of traditional electronic music by incorporating elements of noise and glitch aesthetics. With his mesmerizing sonic creations, Hecker transports listeners into uncharted territories of auditory exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by pioneers like Luc Ferrari and Iannis Xenakis, Hecker's work stands out for its meticulous attention to detail and its ability to evoke emotional responses through abstract sound structures. His compositions have been described as immersive experiences that challenge conventional notions of musicality.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-script-for-machine-synthesis","title":"A Script For Machine Synthesis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest work from Florian Hecker A Script for Machine Synthesis is an experimental auditory drama and a model of abstraction. A Script for Machine Synthesis presents a complex simplicity that spirals in an unending manner as an audio image of the uncanny valley. It is the third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces Hecker has collaborated with the philosopher Reza Negarestani. A resynthesized voice outlines procedure as procedure itself unfolds. The suggestive encounter with a pink ice cube is a conceptual point of departure for a scene in which linguistic chimeras of descriptors are materialized through synthetic trophies, mental props and auditory objects. Hecker presents a synthesis of the gap in the valley which we almost know. The motifs Hecker has staged in the last decade, the text, the sound, the scent, the obelisk, the demon, the self, the other all appear throughout in a thorough, rigid and formal exploration. Exeunt all human actors, A Script for Machine Synthesis is an experiment in putting synthetic emptiness back into synthetic thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50435774021963,"sku":"1007410","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2d9ff3e5-aad0-40db-b699-84bee291fc51_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726907596"},{"product_id":"synopsis-seriation","title":"Synopsis Seriation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSynopsis Seriation\u003c\/i\u003e, Hecker's latest release with Editions Mego, draws upon current research in machine listening and music information retrieval, where the 'ghosts in the machine' are unsupervised, engineered operators designed to extract auditory features from a signal. The album advances a general research programme Hecker initiated through various projects. In \u003ci\u003eA Script for Machine Synthesis\u003c\/i\u003e, the third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces in collaboration with Reza Negarestani, both a resynthesized and a computer-generated voice modelled after the narrators voice, reflect on systems of language, automatons and chimerized synthesis. \u003ci\u003eArticulação\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSintetico\u003c\/i\u003e — a complete resynthesis of \u003ci\u003eArticulação\u003c\/i\u003e — features synthetic voice models of Joan La Barbara, Sugata Bose and Anna Kohler. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Synopsis Seriation' does away with such staging of computer-generated speech. It dramatises synthetic sound in all its unnameable intensities and detail by transforming four multichannel pieces Hecker produced since 2015. These have been analysed, dissected and reconstructed utilising information geometry, a subfield of mathematics at the interaction between statistics and differential geometry, designed by Vincent Lostanlen. Similarities and logical segmentation, partly accessible to the human listener, partially exclusive to virtual listening agents, open a dialogue with these spectral operators. Moving between analysis and synthesis, they render audible their intelligence signature, the signal trace of their nonhuman brain-ear, between discriminative and generative models. This newly seriated arrangement of \u003ci\u003eSynopsis Seriation\u003c\/i\u003e further abstracts and detours the appearance of specific motifs, sequences and characters, into a hallucinatory gaze. Remembrance of what has just been heard, in which formulation and mode of synthesis continually navigate between sensible and highly formulated registers. Resembling George Seurat's perception of the Seine, 'Synopsis Seriation' is a streamlined, structured whole. Yet, by embracing time, succession, and sound as an immaterial, its multitude of auditory perspectives and encoded logic challenges a traditional synoptical overview of analytical architecture and resynthesized sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50463889949003,"sku":"1117381","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9990eebd-972e-48a8-9112-bcb23d6e6457_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727268077"},{"product_id":"inspection-ii","title":"Inspection II","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlorian Hecker's latest CD release continues his work with computational techniques for analysis and resynthesis. In \u003ci\u003eInspection II \u003c\/i\u003ewe hear the progressive reconstruction of original source material using algorithms based upon human hearing and designed to capture timbral characteristics of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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, \u003ci\u003eInspection II \u003c\/i\u003ecrosses perpetually from one bank to the other: from the formal anticipations of analysis to the unexpected artefacts of synthesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50483488260427,"sku":"1073371","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/hecker.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}