{"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\/products\/inspection-ii","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}