17 December 2021: Auditory Scene Resynthesizer at Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma as part of TI CON ZERO – Sound Performances, curated by Xing
Friday, 17 December 2021
Monday, 6 December 2021
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:
Sunday, 21 November 2021
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
Monday, 26 July 2021
Friday, 9 July 2021
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
Thursday, 1 April 2021
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
Friday, 5 March 2021
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
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