UPIC Diffusion Session # 23 - X100 Kraftwerk, Berlin

19 November 2022: Haswell & Hecker, UPIC Diffusion Session # 23 at X100 Kraftwerk, Berlin.

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TEMPLEXTURES

Galerie Neu is pleased to present TEMPLEXTURES, Florian Hecker’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.

9 June - 28 July 2022

Galerie Neu 
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany

more information here: 

https://www.galerieneu.net/exhibition/florianhecker

Syn As Tex Scene

12 May 2022: Syn As Tex Scene as part of INDEX Of Art and Technology, Braga, Portugal.

gnration
Praça Conde de Agrolongo
4700-312 Braga
Portugal

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Musica da Camera: Presto!? - Four Musical Procedures: Capitolo 3: Giorni Syn As Tex [C1]

14 April 2022: Giorni Syn As Tex [C1], a set of six long format pieces is part of Presto!?'s 'Four Musical Procedures' at MACRO — Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma.

#MUSICA DA CAMERA / #CHAMBER MUSIC
Presto!?
Four Musical Procedures
Capitolo / Chapter 3: Florian Hecker

14/4/22 – 13/5/22

MACRO — Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea di Roma
Via Nizza 138 ― 00198 Roma

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FAVN, REDCAT, LOS ANGELES

12 March 2022: FAVN

Produced by Equitable Vitrines with support from the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, KnollTextiles, Herman Miller, and Meyer Sound.FAVN was originally commissioned by Alte Oper Frankfurt and MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt in 2016.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)

631 W. 2nd Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012

tickets here https://www.redcat.org/event/florian-hecker-favn

Formulations As Texture, horizontal and vertical crossings

 

12 February 2022: Formulations As Texture, horizontal and vertical crossings

12 February - 2 April 2022

Simian
Kay Fiskers Plads 17 
2300 Copenhagen

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Event: Auditory Scene Resynthesizer; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma

17 December 2021: Auditory Scene Resynthesizer at Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma as part of TI CON ZERO – Sound Performances, curated by Xing

Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Via Nazionale, 194
00184 Roma
Italy

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Release: Syn As Tex [AC]

6 December 2021: ETAT released Syn As Tex [AC] as digital download

Total runtime 51 h 19 min 45 sec

1 x File WAV (16 bit / 44.1 kHz), MP3 (320 kbps)

more information and direct download here: 

https://etat.xyz/release/SynAsTexAC#

Resynthesizers

Equitable Vitrines Presents Florian Hecker: Resynthesizers 

November 21, 2021 – March 13, 2022

Fitzpatrick-Leland House

8078 Woodrow Wilson Dr, 

Los Angeles, CA 90046

Opening Reception

November 21, 2021; 3 – 5 PM

The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)

more information and booking system here: http://equitablevitrines.com

photography here

Peter Rehberg (1968 2021)

https://www.artforum.com/passages/peter-rehberg-1968-2021-86352

Synopsis Seriation: A computer music piece made with time-frequency scattering and information geometry

09 July 2021: Synopsis Seriation: A computer music piece made with time-frequency scattering and information geometry is part of Journées d'Informatique Musicale 2021.

Access the paper here: https://www.lostanlen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/lostanlen2021jim.pdf

SOUND EFFECTS – Ina Blom on the art of Florian Hecker

 01 April 2021: SOUND EFFECTS – Ina Blom on the art of Florian Hecker in Artforum April 2021

https://www.artforum.com/print/202104/ina-blom-on-the-art-of-florian-hecker-85251

Release: Synopsis Seriation

05 March 2021: Synopsis Seriation is released via Editions Mego as 2xCD and digital download.

While you enjoy the colour of Les Andelys, I see the Seine. An almost indefinable grey sea, even in the strongest sunshine under a blue sky.

— Georges Seurat to Paul Signac, 25 June 1886^*

Synopsis Seriation, 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 A Script for Machine Synthesis (EMEGO 226, 2017), 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. Articulação Sintetico (EMEGO 180C, 2017) — a complete resynthesis of Articulação (EMEGO 180, 2014) — features synthetic voice models of Joan La Barbara, Sugata Bose and Anna Kohler. Central to Inspection II (EMEGO 268 / UF047, 2019) is a bespoke computer-generated voice, reciting Robin Mackay's libretto — by means of deep neural networks and machine listening computation, perpetually crossing formal anticipations of sound analysis to the unexpected artefacts of synthesis². 

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 Synopsis Seriation 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.

¹ Quoted in: Éric Alliez. The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting. Trans. Robin Mackay. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.

² For further detail see: Hecker, F and Mackay, R. (2021) 'Synthetic Listening', in Bonnet, F. (ed.) Spectres #03 Ghost in The Machine. Paris: INA GRM / Shelter Press, forthcoming.

Disc 1: 72min00sec

Disc 2: 69min31sec

Total duration: 141min31sec

Written and produced by Florian Hecker, 2015–2020

Information geometry and sound computation by Vincent Lostanlen

Seriation Input

• Formulation (2015)
• Formulation DBM Self (2015–2017)
• Formulation As Texture [hcross] (2017)
• Formulation Chim 111 [hcross] (2017)

Scattergrams of seriation input, seriated output and process diagrams: Vincent Lostanlen

Correlation matrices of seriation input: Axel Röbel

Graphic Design: Norm, Zurich

Mastering: Rashad Becker

more information and order here: http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-256

Release: Statistique Synthétique

18 December 2020: Statistique Synthétique is released via GRM Portraits in association with Editions Mego as vinyl and digital download.

Statistique Synthétique draws as much from the history of computer sound synthesis as from its latest developments. But well beyond developing simply as a proof of concept, this piece aims to transcend the abstract status of synthetic sound objects and lead them to a properly hallucinatory state, that is to say to a meeting point where the object and perception dissolve into each other, in a sort of transcendental field. Beyond, also, hylomorphism, to reach the world of matter-form fusions, where perception knows how to see “shoulders of hills”, as Cézanne wrote. François Bonnet

Computer-generated sound with resynthesized situated texture recordings

Written and produced by Florian Hecker, 2019 - 2020; Texture analysis and resynthesis algorithm: Axel Röbel, Analysis/Synthesis Team, IRCAM, Paris; Mastered by Rashad Becker; Photo by Mauricio Guillén, 2019; Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley; Thanks to Axel Röbel for his commitment to the project and special appreciation to GRM, Luke Fowler, Mauricio Guillén, Dirk Mayer and Porta33.

more information and order here: http://editionsmego.com/release/SPGRM-003 

Release: cd_slopper pfanscotcoe

18 December 2020: cd_slopper pfanscotcoe is released via SUPERPANG – digital download

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Audiosphere - Sound Experimentation 1980-2020

14 October, 2020 - 11 January, 2021: Audiosphere - Sound Experimentation 1980-2020

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Madrid 
Spain

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SynAsTex Korrektur - Deep Blue, Vancouver

19 October 2019: SynAsTex Korrektur at Deep Blue, Vancouver

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Event: Hecker, Roads, Senni – Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

4 October 2019: Hecker / Roads / Senni @ Positive Feedback, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

Via Chiese 2
20126 Milan
Italy

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Release: Inspection II

27 September 2019: Masochism is cruel because, in subverting the model, it imposes it with exaggerated severity… — Amy Ireland. Editions Mego and Urbanomic release Inspection II - CD and digital download.

CD, jewel case, white tray, 16-page booklet

Written and produced by Florian Hecker, 2016–17

Libretto Robin Mackay
Scattering Transform Algorithm and Sound Computation Vincent Lostanlen
Sequencing Alberto de Campo
Synthetic Voice Christophe Veaux, CSTR, The University of Edinburgh
Liner Notes Amy Ireland
Graphic Design NORM, Zurich
Mastering Rashad Becker

http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-268

https://www.urbanomic.com/event/hecker-inspection-ii/

ISBN 978-1-913029-71-5

The Shape of RemiXXXes to Come: Audio Texture Synthesis with Time–frequency Scattering – DAFx 2019

2 September 2019: Vincent Lostanlen & Florian Hecker: The Shape of RemiXXXes to Come: Audio Texture Synthesis with Time-frequency Scattering at DAFx 2019, the 22nd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Birmingham, UK

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09334

http://dafx2019.bcu.ac.uk/papers/DAFx2019_paper_58.pdf

Statistique Synthétique aux Épaules de Cascade - (Projet GRM) – Maison de la Radio, Paris

31 May 2019: Statistique Synthétique aux Épaules de Cascade - (Projet GRM)

Création, commande INA GRM

Analyse de texture, algorithme de resynthèse et calcul sonore : Axel Röbel, équipe analyse/synthèse, IRCAM, Paris; Système de spatialisation : Alberto de Campo

Maison de la Radio - Studio 104
Paris 
France

Synthetic Statistics – Porta33

25 May - 10 August 2019: Florian Hecker - Synthetic Statistics

Inauguração: Sábado 25 Maio 2019 — 18h

Seguida de uma conversa com Robin Mackay, Michael Newman e Miguel Wandschneider

Porta33
Rua do Quebra Costas 33 
9000-034 Funchal 
Portugal

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Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese

23 May 2019: Florian Hecker – Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese

Edited by Vanessa Joan Müller 
Texts by Matthew Fuller, Vincent Lostanlen, Vanessa Joan Müller, Michael Newman, Axel Röbel, Magnus Schaefer 

Sternberg Press, Berlin, copublished with Kunsthalle Wien   
Design by NORM, Zurich 

24 x 32 cm, 384 pages, 2 b/w and 44 color ill., softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-471-1

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1935

23.12.2018/20.02.2019: 1935 as part of Technosphere Magazine

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Passages, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi

16 February – 21 April 2019: Passages: Luke Fowler, Florian Hecker, Susan Philipsz

Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade
Wellington
New Zealand

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SynAsTex Korrektur - Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura, Bologna

31 January 2019: Xing presents in the frame of ART CITY Bologna 2019 and ARTE FIERA: the première of SynAsTex Korrektur, a computer-generated, 9-channel sound piece in the monumental atrium of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna.

Thursday 31 January 7.30pm

Friday 1 February 12pm; 7.30pm; 9.30pm

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 
Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura
Viale del Risorgimento 2 
Bologna
Italy

more information here: www.xing.it 

and www.artcity.bologna.it and facebook.com/xing.it

Synopsis As Texture - Donaueschinger Musiktage

20.10.2018: Synopsis As Texture für Computer und Frei Systemtechnik Filterbank (2018) 

Uraufführung / Kompositionsauftrag des SWR

14h & 18h
Erich-Kästner-Halle
78166 Donaueschingen
Germany 

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Synposis / Seriation - CU Art Museum, Boulder

6 September - 22 December 2018: Synposis / Seriation

University of Colorado Art Museum
1085 18th St
Boulder, CO 80309
USA

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Release: XAllegroX (Hecker Scattering.m Sequence)

20 July 2018: XAllegroX (Hecker Scattering.m Sequence) as part of Lorenzo Senni's The Shape Of RemixXxes To Come has been published by Warp Records. Cat. No. WAP425 12" Vinyl & Download

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Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese - Kunsthalle Wien

17 November 2017 - 14 January 2018: Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese 

Kunsthalle Wien 
Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
Austria

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Synopsis PDF

31 July 2017: A digital publication including an essay by the artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler, installation photography and full production credits is now available to download:

https://www.sadiecoles.com/publications/239/

ISBN 978–0–90–616998–8 

Synopsis, Tramway, Glasgow

26th May - 30th July 2017: Synopsis

Tramway
25 Albert Drive
Glasgow, G41 2PE

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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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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Broadcast: Tapage Nocturne

06.03.2017: L'invité du jour : Florian Hecker 

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Release: A Script for Machine Synthesis

24 February 2017: Editions Mego releases A Script for Machine Synthesis - CD and digital download. "The 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." (press release)

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