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Florian Hecker: Chimerizations

Reza Negarestani

4/5 ( ratings)

Electronic composer and sound artist Florian Hecker has made inventive use of contrasting and conflicting auditory illusions or chimeras--perhaps most famously on his recent acclaimed Mego album Acid in the Style of David Tudor, which brilliantly and bizarrely merged the two soundworlds of acid house and avant-garde electronics. Auditory chimeras have been previously explored in electroacoustic music, in particular by Alvin Lucier, but have never been as rigorously researched and exploited as by Hecker. This volume documents four sound pieces that dramatize auditory illusions, effectively composing within the relationship between our perception of pitch and the localization of sound, as we process the two in our auditory cortices. The pieces are partly transcribed using a form of notation called "typotranslation," developed by Hecker at MIT.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Primary Information

Release: May 31, 2013

ISBN: 0985136421

ISBN 13: 9780985136420

Florian Hecker: Chimerizations

Reza Negarestani

4/5 ( ratings)

Electronic composer and sound artist Florian Hecker has made inventive use of contrasting and conflicting auditory illusions or chimeras--perhaps most famously on his recent acclaimed Mego album Acid in the Style of David Tudor, which brilliantly and bizarrely merged the two soundworlds of acid house and avant-garde electronics. Auditory chimeras have been previously explored in electroacoustic music, in particular by Alvin Lucier, but have never been as rigorously researched and exploited as by Hecker. This volume documents four sound pieces that dramatize auditory illusions, effectively composing within the relationship between our perception of pitch and the localization of sound, as we process the two in our auditory cortices. The pieces are partly transcribed using a form of notation called "typotranslation," developed by Hecker at MIT.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Primary Information

Release: May 31, 2013

ISBN: 0985136421

ISBN 13: 9780985136420

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