A Script for Machine Synthesis, Maison de la Radio, Paris

24 October 2015, 18:00h:

A Script for Machine Synthesis

Maison de la Radio - Studio 104
116 Avenue du Président Kennedy 
75016 Paris

Admission free

more information here

Event: Music for Museums – Whitechapel Gallery, London

15 October 2015: Performance, Whitechapel Gallery

77-82 Whitechapel High St 

London E1 7QX

more information here 

Show: Formulations, Culturgest, Porto

25 September - 19 December 2015: Florian Hecker, Formulations

Culturgest Porto

Edifício Caixa Geral de Depósitos

Avenida dos Aliados nº104

4000-065 Porto

Portugal

De segunda-feira a sábado, das 12h30 às 18h30 

Encerra domingos e feriados 

www.culturgest.pt

Show: Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

11. September 2015 – 17. Januar 2016

Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Invalidenstraße 50–51
10557 Berlin

more info here

EBM(T) Issue 8: The Brain-Ear

link

Event: Kunsthalle Basel & HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel)

30.05.15: Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera – LP Release – Talk and Concert

During the last days of the exhibition UniAddDumThs by Mark Leckey, Kunsthalle Basel, HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) and the Berlin based label PAN celebrate the release of the der LP Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera. The event starts at 5 pm at Kunsthalle Basel with a talk, followed by a small reception with food, drinks and sounds. At 9 pm Florian Hecker will perform live at HeK, supported by a live-set of Bill Kouligas (PAN).

Kunsthalle Basel

Steinenberg 7

CH-4051 Basel

Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel

Freilager-Platz 9

CH-4142 Münchenstein / Basel

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Event: Counterflows - CCA Glasgow

03.04.2015: performance at CCA Glasgow Auditorium

more information here

Release: Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera

30.03.2015: Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera 12" vinyl and digital download released on PAN.

"In 2010, acclaimed German sound experimentalist Florian Hecker and multidisciplinary artist Mark Leckey came together for the first time. Their combined Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera—a mutant configuration of two genetically discrete solo works—was originally presented as part of a two-day performance event at the Tate Modern called Push and Pull, and arrives as PAN’s inaugural offering of 2015. Both artists, as the art historian Alex Kitnick notes in his text accompanying the release, have a demonstrated interest in sound and its material effects; Hecker’s acute, algorithmic computer music is noted for impacting the very molecular infrastructure of its listeners, while Leckey’s work across performance, sculpture, and installation takes up transcendence and the occupation (or animation) of new bodies and modes of being.

In Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera, Hecker decomposes, modulates, and re-synthesizes the vocal track from Leckey’s 2010 performance piece “GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction” (for which Leckey intoned the inner monologue of a black Samsung fridge) and his own “3 Channel Chronics” installation from that same year, where distinct sounds from three speakers telescoping down from the ceiling were combined and altered by visitors’ movements. The result- ing work—like that three-headed beast of Greek mythology—is a multivalent, tri-part hybrid in which heavily distorted fragments of Leckey’s narrative intersperse Hecker’s synthetic textures and fidgety tonal patterns. On the PAN release itself, channel 1 from Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera corresponds with side A and channel 2 with side B; channel 3 is available as a monophonic mp3 download."  (press release)

more info here

Event: Haus der Kunst, München

26.03.2015: Performance, Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera

20:00 h CET 

Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538 München

more information here 

A Script for Machine Synthesis

26.02 & 28.02 & 01.03.2015: A Script for Machine Synthesis, Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Sonic Acts Festival 2015

A Script for Machine Synthesis is a sound piece, an experimental drama, a model of abstraction recalling Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty as much as Beckett’s minimalist narratives and neo-imagist poetry. It is the climactic third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces Hecker has collaborated with the writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani (Chimerization, documenta 13 and Hinge, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; both 2012). The suggestive encounter with a pink ice cube is a conceptual point of departure for a scene in which linguistic chimeras of smell/sound descriptions are materialized through synthetic trophies, auditory objects, and theatrical props. Exeunt all human actors, A Script for Machine Synthesis is an experiment in putting synthetic emptiness back into synthetic thought, featuring main vocals by Charlotte Rampling, a perfume created by Frédéric Malle, Editions de Parfums and Carlos Benaïm, IFF, a synthetic voice designed by Rob Clark and the Center for Speech Research Technology, University of Edinburgh, a CAL 64 Column Array Loudspeaker System by Meyer Sound, and a synthetic paper booklet designed by NORM, Zurich.

A Script for Machine Synthesis is a Sonic Acts Commission. Co-presented by Sonic Acts and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam with the support of Sadie Coles HQ, London; Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle; Galerie Neu, Berlin; and Meyer Sound. 

26 February 19:30 & 21:00 
28 February 16:00
01 March 16:00

more information here, and:

http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/performances/71930

Show: Florian Hecker / John McCracken, Künstlerhaus Graz

31.01.2015 - 05.03.2015: Florian Hecker / John McCracken

26.02.2015 
19:00 pm
Lecture "The Hallucinating Ear" by Robin Mackay (Cornwall)

Künstlerhaus
Halle für Kunst & Medien
Burgring 2
8010 Graz
Austria

more information here

photography here

Show: Chimerization / Hinge, Midway Contemporary Art

16.01.2015 - 14.02.2015: Chimerization and Hinge at Midway Contemporary Art as part of Exploring Compositional Epistemologies

Midway Contemporary Art
527 Second Avenue Southeast
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414
USA

Please note special gallery hours
Wednesday – Friday: 4pm – 9pm / Saturday: 11am – 6pm

more information here

photography here

Event: SAVANA SPECTRAL, Circolo Filologico Milanese

31.10.2014: Peformance Circolo Filologico Milanese

Circolo Filologico Milanese
Via Clerici 10
20121 Milano

more info here

Show: Fondation Louis Vuitton

24.10.2014 - 24.11.2014: Formulation (FLV Project) as part of the opening exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Fondation Louis Vuitton
8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi
75116 Paris

more here and:

http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/performances-florian-hecker-.html

Event: Donaueschinger Musiktage, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch

18.10.2014: Performance Donaueschinger Musiktage, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch

Am Karlsplatz 7 
78166 Donaueschingen 
Germany

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Show: Real DMZ Project

31.08.2014 - 27.09.2014: Real DMZ Project, border areas near DMZ in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do, South Korea & Lounge, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea

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Event: Artsonje Center, Seoul

01.07.2014; 16:00h: Florian Hecker talk with Adrian Villar Rojas and Nikolaus Hirsch

Artsonje Center
87, Yulgok-ro 3-gil
Jongno-gu, Seoul

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Event: “Les Immatériaux” for Instance

10.06.2014: "Rearranged Playlist as Auditory Scene Synthesis" at “Les Immatériaux” for Instance

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen 
Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany

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Event: 30 years after Les Immatériaux

21.05.2014 - 22.05.2014: 30 years after Les Immatériaux

Sym­po­si­um at Cent­re for Di­gi­tal Cul­tu­res, Sülz­tor­s­traße 21–35, 21335 Lüne­burg, Germany

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Event: Articulação at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

11.05.2014: Presentation of Articulação at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
20A Inverleith Row
Edinburgh EH3 5LR

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Show: 20 Years Galerie Neu

03.05.2014–28.06.2014: Chimerization as part of 20 Years Galerie Neu

Galerie Neu
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany

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Release: Articulação

31.03.2014: Editions Mego is proud to release Articulação, the latest work by Florian Hecker. Articulação deepens Hecker’s collaboration with Reza Negarestani, author of the libretto created for Hinge. In two distinct renderings this piece articulates a complex scene in which the two obelisks of the script - one from the perspective of nature and one from the perspective of culture - are recited simultaneously in an informational yet dramatic style.
Hinge* features the legendary artist Joan La Barbara as its main voice and is delivered in microtonal ly converging pitches with sparse sample accurate time lags, shifts and twists. The repolarizing phrasings of Hinge recall Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty as much as Beckett’s minimalist narratives. Here the listener may construct a hinge, a pendulation between the right and the left obelisks; embarking upon navigation and synthesis while tracing the chimeras of nature and culture.
In apparent contrast, Hinge** engages the disparate modalities of its sources, complicating any assimilation of their respective traits. With an insight on the complexities of Hecker’s chimerized pieces, Robin Mackay summarizes: According to psychoacoustical research, the brain functions that serve to identify the ‘what’ and the ‘where’ of a sound operate upon different timescales, a finding Hecker exploits to produce sequences in which the fine time structure of one voice is sheathed in the amplitude envelope of another, producing an entity that remains recognizable as a voice while being spatially delocalized and semantically scrambled, and which the listener must reconstruct as a unified yet impossible synthetic creature - a chimera.
Between these pieces, Modulator (... meaningless, affectless, out of nothing ...), reveals, in a structural and formal manner, the synthetic means of modulation and topological transformation that appear in disguise in Hinge**. In a sequence of short episodes and chronics Modulator celebrates the notion of sound as an Immaterial. Its syntheticness and modern generation occurring as a bottom up and top down process across different scales, exciting the human minds hallucination of objects on the basis of auditory cues, without obvious compounding of a narrative progression.
Articulação is an isolated masterpiece of text, sound and synthesis. 

Track Listing:

1. Hinge*
2. Modulator (... meaningless, affectless, out of nothing ...)
3. Hinge**

Total Running Time: 79 min 30 sec

* Voice: Joan La Barbara; recorded at the Hearing Science Laboratory, City University of New York, New York, NY

** Voices: Sugata Bose, Anna Kohler; recorded at the Sensory Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Articulação has been mastered by Rashad Becker and its cover design and the including 12 page booklet has been designed by NORM, Zurich. (press release)

order here http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO-180

Event: The Art School, Glasgow

29.03.2014: Hecker, Cut Hands, Konx-om-Pax at The Art School, Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association 20 Scott Street, G3 6PE Glasgow 

Jack Wrigley &  Konx-om-Pax's laser trailer here:

Event: The music of Bernard Parmegiani

23.03.2014: Performance as part of The music of Bernard Parmegiani, the UK's first major retrospective of the legendary French electro-acoustic composer. Alongside his acclaimed acousmatic pieces such as La Création du Monde and Dedans dehors, the three-day series featured guest performances from artists touched by Parmegiani's broad influence, including Florian Hecker, Rashad Becker, and Vessel.

Britannia House
68-80 Hanbury Street 
Spitafields 
E1 5JL 

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Event: Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México, D. F.

19.03.2014: Performance at El Nicho Aural, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México, D. F.

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Event: Articulação, CD presentation, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon

7.03.2014: Articulação, CD Presentation and Talk 

Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisbon
Portugal

more information here

Broadcast: "Chimerization – Der Klangkünster Florian Hecker" Deutschlandradio Kultur

25.02.2014; 00:05h (CET) - 01:00h (CET): Deutschlandradio Kultur Feature authored by Hubert Steins

Event: Harmonic Series, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London

7.02.2014: Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera, as part of a one-off special PAN showcase night

Event: The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus & Kunsthal Aarhus

7.12.2013 - 8.12.2013: Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and Seminar with Robin Mackay, Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa and Florian Hecker at Kunsthal Aarhus

more information here

Event: reiheM – Konzertreihe für Gegenwartsmusik, Elektronik und neue Medien; Stadtgarten, Köln

2.12.2013: Performance at reiheM – Konzertreihe für Gegenwartsmusik, Elektronik und neue Medien; Stadtgarten, Köln

Stadtgarten
Venloer Str. 40
Köln

C.D. - ­A Script for Synthesis

09.11.2013 & 10.11.2013: C.D. ­A Script for Synthesis is a sound piece, an experimental drama, a model of abstraction recalling Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty as much as Beckett’s minimalist narratives and neo-imagist poetry. It is the climactic third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces Hecker has collaborated with the writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani (Chimerization, documenta 13 and Hinge, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; both 2012). The suggestive encounter with a pink ice cube is a conceptual point of departure for a scene in which linguistic chimeras of smell/sound descriptions are materialized through synthetic trophies, auditory objects, and theatrical props. Exeunt all human actors, C.D. ­A Script for Synthesis is an experiment in putting synthetic emptiness back into synthetic thought, featuring main vocals by Charlotte Rampling, a perfume created by Frédéric Malle, Editions de Parfums and Carlos Benaïm, IFF, a CAL 64 Column Array Loudspeaker System by Meyer Sound, textiles in collaboration with Kvadrat and a chorus with vocal design by Joan La Barbara and a synthetic paper booklet designed by NORM, Zurich.

C.D. – (A Script for Synthesis) is a Performa Commission. Co-presented by Performa and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; with the support of Sadie Coles HQ, London; Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle; Galerie Neu, Berlin; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; IFF; Kvadrat and Meyer Sound. 

November 9, 2013; 7:30 pm
November 10, 2013; 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Peter B. Lewis Theater, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

more information and tickets here: 

http://13.performa-arts.org/event/florian-hecker

and

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2013/11/10/florian-hecker-cda-script-for-synthesis/2618

Release: Eva-Tone Soundsheet Modulator

01.10.2013: Eva-Tone Soundsheet Modulator is included in the magazine Acid; more information and sources here; the Flexi 7" is also available via Tochnit-Aleph

Event: 10 Years Kunsthaus Graz

28.09.2013: Performance of 'Rearranged Playlist as Auditory Scene Synthesis'

Kunsthaus Graz
Lendkai 1
8020 Graz
Austria

Show: SYSTEMICS #2

21.09.2013 - 31.12.2013: SYSTEMICS #2: AS WE MAY THINK (OR, THE NEXT WORLD LIBRARY)

Kunsthal Aarhus
J.M. Mørks Gade 13
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Event: L’Audible Festival, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil

12.09.2013: L’Audible Festival, 3ème édition: Florian Hecker, Bernard Fort

Instants Chavirés
7, Rue Richard-Lenoir 
93100 Montreuil 
France

more information here

Show: Soundings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

10.08.2013 - 03.11.2013: Affordance (2013), a three channel synthetic piece is part of Soundings: A Contemporary Score, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY 10019-5497

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Show: The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things

13.07.2013-20.10.2013: Chimerization is part of 'The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things', curated by Mark Leckey

De La Warr Pavilion

Bexhill On Sea

TN40 1DP

U.K.

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Show: 'No night No day' at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Augarten, Vienna

04.07.2013: A second iteration of 'No night No day', originally commissioned by TBA21 on occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennial is part of Cerith Wyn Evans’s exhibition 'The What If?... Scenario (after LG).' Photography: Jens Ziehe

Opening: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 7 pm
Duration: July 5 - November 3, 2013

Hours: 
Wednesday and Thursday 12-5 pm
Friday to Sunday 12-7 pm

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Augarten
Scherzergasse 1A
1020 Vienna
Austria

Publication

Event: The Cooper Union, New York

17.05.2013: An Experimental Event on the voice in contemporary performance featuring artists and musicians Joan La Barbara, Jace Clayton, Florian Hecker, and Alex Waterman.

4:00 – 6:30 pm

The Cooper Union
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square
New York City

Free admission with reservation, rsvp@performa-arts.org

Event: Chimerizations, Book Launch & Installation, Artists Space : Books & Talks

16.05.2013: Chimerizations, Book Launch & Installation  

Thursday, May 16, 7pm

Artists Space : Books & Talks
55 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013

more information: http://artistsspace.org/programs/chimerizations/

Event: 20130511 Editions Mego, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

11.05.2013: "20130511 Editions Mego" is the largest live assemblage of the Editions Mego aesthetic to date.

more information here

Event: Dionysus Discotheque at the Oberlin Sco

03.05.2013: Performance at Dionysus Discotheque, Oberlin Sco

https://www.facebook.com/events/146347258879602/?fref=ts

The Oberlin Sco
135 W. Lorain St.
Oberlin
Ohio 44074

Show: The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things

27.04.2013 - 30.06.2013: Chimerization is part of 'The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things', curated by Mark Leckey

Nottingham Contemporary

Weekday Cross

Nottingham

NG1 2GB

UK

more information here

Release: Chimerizations

07.04.2013: 

Chimerizations feature a radically new form of documentation of Florian Hecker’s sound works that dramatize the phenomenon of Auditory Chimaeras.

The publication presents the documentation of Hecker’s recent sound pieces (“Magnitude Estimation,” 2010; “Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera,” 2011; “Bregman/Deutsch Chimera,” 2011; “Chimerization (MIT Project),” 2011 “Chimerization” 2012; and “Hinge,” 2012); The images, installation-reference and productions stills, have been altered by Hecker using a Sift Flow Algorithm. The result is varied and idiosyncratic, with the same image undergoing multiple translations, effectively creating a visual parallel to the chimeric phenomenon produced in the sound works they document.

Included within this selection are the two texts that the philosopher Reza Negarestani has contributed to “Chimerization” and “Hinge”.The libretto Negarestani produced for “Chimerization (MIT Project)” and “Chimerization,” is set in a partly legible, decomposed and restructured typography programmed by Ben M. Jordan in 2 × 99 different fonts. 
A detailed typographic specimen of the macro and microstructure of this special typographic transformation is featured as well.

Chimerizations is introduced with essays by Stefan Helmreich and Catherine Wood  and has been designed by NORM, Zurich.

304 Pages
6 x 9 inches
474 color illustrations, 30 black / white illustrations
Published by Primary Information, New York

order here 

Event: CTM Festival 2013

30.01.2013: Performance at Berghain and Panoramabar

CTM Festival.13 | The Golden Age: PAN event at Berghain w/ FLORIAN HECKER, KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN, HEATSICK, LEE GAMBLE, MARK FELL, JAR MOFF…

more information: http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival/program/event/2013/01/30/pan/

Radio Nacional de España: Vía límite

08.01.2013: Radio Nacional de España: Vía límite - Presentado por: José Manuel Costa

download podcast here: http://tinyurl.com/V-a-l-mite-Hecker-pensamiento

Release: Chimerization - Vinyl

27.11.2012: Editions Mego is happy to announce the release of 'Chimerization', three vinyl editions of a text - sound piece Hecker produced on the occasion of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany.

For 'Chimerization' Hecker invited the Iranian writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani, to contribute an experimental libretto, “The Snake, the Goat and the Ladder (A board game for playing chimera)” a script that has been recited by a group of speakers and recorded by Hecker in anechoic and sound-attenuated chambers - rooms designed to minimize the reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves.

Hecker characterizes ‘Chimerization’ as a concept derived from psychoacoustic investigations on difficult-to-define areas between language and non-language, a process focusing on the decomposition of sound and synthesizing incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, in order to obtain a narration beyond immediate comprehension, which may be deciphered through repeated, ‘active’ listening.

'Chimerization' is released in the following languages - English (eMEGO 153), German (eMEGO 154), the mother tongue of the artist and Farsi (eMEGO 155), the orginal language of the writer.

German voices: Andreas Huyssen, Anna Kohler, Guerino Mazzola 
Farsi voices: Arash Afraz, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam, Mahsa Rouhi 
English voices: Gabriel Catren, Sugata Bose, Joan Jonas
All voices recorded by Florian Hecker at the Sensory Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, except: Andreas Huyssen recorded at Hearing Science Laboratory, City University of New York; Guerino Mazzola recorded at Orfield Labs, Minneapolis. Gabriel Catren recorded by Olivier Pasquet at IRCAM, Paris.

The three vinyl editions of 'Chimerization' have been designed by NORM, Zurich and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. (press release)

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+154
http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+153
http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+155

Show: Sadie Coles HQ, London

23.11.2012 - 19.01.2013

Sadie Coles HQ
69 South Audley Street  
London W1K 2QZ
United Kingdom

http://www.sadiecoles.com/ecards/155-flash.html

Event: The Non-Trivial Goat and the Cliffs of the Universal; Abrons Art Center, New York

15.11.2012: Reza Negarestani & Florian Hecker:

The Non-Trivial Goat and the Cliffs of the Universal: A Topological Fable on Navigation and Synthesis

Thursday, November 15th, 2012 

7:30 PM 

Abrons’ Playhouse, 466 Grand Street, New York (at Pitt Street)

more info here and here

Event: Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

03.11.2012: Performance on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Future That Was' 

Smart Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 105
Amsterdam