Saturday 18 March 2017

Event: Formulation As Texture, IRCAM Live, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

18 March 2017: Premiere of Formulation As Texture at IRCAM Live, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Samedi 18 mars 2017, 20h30
Centre Pompidou
Grande salle

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Friday 10 March 2017

Inspection II - Andquestionmark


16 March 2017: A series of projections is presented, accompanied by clinical observations. Next. Replicate non-trivial traits. Next. Andquestionmark presents the new work “Inspection II” by acclaimed composer and sound experimentalist Florian Hecker. Next. Hecker’s pluriphonic composition uses computer-generated sound and a synthetic voice. Next. Mackay libretto. Next. Original sound material is algorithmically reconstructed, the specificity of the timbre explored and reprocessed. Next. If the materiality of a sound changes, is it still the same? If the cells of your body change, are you still the same? Next. The title “Inspection II” refers to the attempt to look inside introspectively, while acknowledging that by watching something, we change it. If we cannot capture anything in a definite way, what’s the minimum you need to understand? Next. Listening is a constructive act, and as listener you are part of the creation of the sonic fabric. Next. Hecker’s work is unsaturated. Starting out as a dialogical machine-machine interplay, the sound disintegrates from recognisable speech to more and more abstract sounds masking each other, concluding in noise absent of a signal. Nex… (press text)

Andquestionmark
Stefanie Hessler & Carsten Höller
Roslagsgatan 60
11354 Stockholm
Sweden

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Monday 6 March 2017

Broadcast: Tapage Nocturne

06.03.2017: L'invité du jour : Florian Hecker 

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