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...according to our Ant on Fri 20 May, 2011.
The slightly inflated price on this disc is justified by the smart debossed metallic printed box in which it is housed. It contains 5 tiny ball-bearings but after handing my copy around the office goons mine now only contains four. Who would steal this minuscule metallic object from yours truly??? One can only hope the culprit has an elaborate plan to pop it on the top of a fairy cake at a children's party in order to break the school bully's teeth. If that is indeed the case I shall not progress with the investigation. This comes with a dual language booklet which I devoured in five minutes with the assistance of Doctor Spock who is my physics guru. Okay the truth is I love a lot of this stuff but I'm crap at it and have to get my other half who teaches physics to help me along. So yeah the audio here is a massive digital crinkly crumpled head mashing sonic mind warp. Then I expect nothing less from Sir Florian. Strange, abstract, inexplicable, disorientating in your face and more subdued dissolving computer sounds aplenty. Exactly what the people of earth need right now in this time of nature getting its own back on the human race. This is the sound of nature though at its very essence, articulated through the computer perhaps but we cannot deny the mathematics and physics which are the fabric of our very existence. Pretty much always singular in his sonic vision this is yet another welcome journey into time, space and a ride along with the very energy that flows through both circuits and our collective bodies. Metaphysics through audio is a compelling idea and here it is transmitted to the listener with knowledge, vision and astounding articulation. If you care about none of the above then this is also just a really strange sonic ride to throw yourself into.
Written and produced by Florian Hecker, March 2009 - November 2010
Book edited by Robin Mackay; featuring essays by Elie Ayache, Robin Mackay and Quentin Meillassoux.
Typesetting by Tina Frank, Elvira Stein CD mastered by Rashad Becker
This sensation that you are in a world where there can be no physics, but only a chronics, of things. Editions Mego and Urbanomic are pleased to announce the release of 'Speculative Solution', a CD and book with contributions by Florian Hecker, Elie Ayache, Robin Mackay and Quentin Meillassoux.
Originally commissioned by Urbanomic and developed over the last year, this collaborative project brings together Hecker's sonic practice and psychoacoustic experimentation with philosopher Quentin Meillassoux's concept of 'hyperchaos' - the absolute contingency of the laws of nature.
In an apparent departure from Hecker's previous release 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor' (eMEGO 094, 2009), the four titles featured in 'Speculative Solution' contain a series of micro-chronics and sequences of auditory contingencies, ranging from extreme stasis to the most dynamic intensities, crisp dramatisations of what Meillassoux calls in his tex 'extro-science worlds'.
As Mackay states in his contribution to the book, Hecker's composition "participates in a circuit in which it, the accompanying texts, and diverse other objects, enter into a perpetual catalysis that must annihilate all priority, representation, reference, and even entity.'. Both 'scripture and prescription', 'Speculative Solution' invites its users to integrate its sonic and textual components, as they enter into an accelerative cycle, becoming "truly 'literalist' marks which have no reason to be as they are, and which could have been - and still could be, at every moment - otherwise". With 'Speculative Solution' Hecker proposes that the concepts of absolute contingency and hyperchaos offer a rigorous new alternative to the employment of chance and randomness in avant-garde composition.
It is recommended to listen to 'Speculative Solution' on loudspeakers at high volume. Headphone use is not advised. Frequent recitation of the included texts is also indicated. 'Speculative Solution', is Hecker's 13th release with (Editions) Mego. It comes in an embossed, deluxe box with a bilingual (English / French) 160 page book and 5 metal balls (o 3,969mm). Available only in this format.
1. Speculative Solution 1
2. Speculative Solution 2
3. Speculative Solution 3
4. Octave Chronics
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