[microsound-announce] AUTISTICI - DETACHED METAL VOICE - EARLY WORKS (VOL I)

[David Newman]

AUTISTICI - DETACHED METAL VOICE - EARLY WORKS (VOL I)

http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB028/AB028.htm

A collection of tracks exploring the raw extrusion of the human condition.
Bringing together early works, Detached Metal Voice is characterised by an
abstract narrative exploring the anxiety of disconnected elements striving
to find connection in a world of digital communication. AT&T voiceovers
provide threads of psychological association, rhythmic neo-classical
arrangements and noise electronic jazz improvisations provide the backdrop.
Many experimental techniques are in place within the creative process of
these tracks. Laboratory sinewave oscillators sweep through many of the
tracks, tones are produced from simple homemade synthesisers. 

There is a homage to voice synthesis including excerpts taken from many of
the early laboratory attempts to produce the human voice through the mode of
synthesis, including work pioneered by Philip Rubin from the Haskins
Laboratories, Tom Baer, and Paul Mermelstein. This synthesizer, known as
ASY, was based on vocal tract models developed at Bell Laboratories in the
1960s and 1970s by Paul Mermelstein, Cecil Coker, and colleagues. In tracks
such as "Babyman" Autistici illustrates a fascination in hearing machines
talking about emotive subjects, emulating emotive tonal changes and yet
having no real connection to the subjective emotional experience.
Alternatively tracks such as "Whispering Mongo Man" contains a 15 minute
interview with John Lennon with all the words spoken by John deleted from
the sound file.. Leaving only the intake and exhalation of breath. With the
content missing we are left with a sense of emotion contained within the
spaces - the working of a man's body. The tracks encourage the listener to
consider the complex question of how meaning, relationships and connections
are constructed, communicated and perceived. 

Visit the release page
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http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB028/AB028.htm.

Artwork by maciejgruszecki
<http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/be42af7ab02a0f6684e59154a4b96bd5?pa=8239511
98> .

Very limited edition CD-R in a cardboard sleeve available now.
<http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/e76de9f9f258eefba5e8a2ae45dbf4ec?pa=8239511
98>  

 

David Newman

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