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Artist:	HECKER
Title:	Speculative Solution
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD/BOOK
Price:	$26.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 118CD

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 094CD), the four titles featured on Speculative Solution contain a series of micro-chronics and sequences of auditory contingencies, ranging from extreme stasis to the most dynamic intensities, crisp dramatizations of what Meillassoux calls in his text "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 (ų 3,969mm). Typesetting by Tina Frank and Elvira Stein. CD mastered by Rashad Becker. Available only in this format.

Artist:	HECKER
Title:	Chimerization (English)
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 153LP

Editions Mego is happy to announce the release of Chimerization, three vinyl editions of a text-sound piece Florian 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 available in the following languages: English (EMEGO 153LP), German (EMEGO 154LP), the mother tongue of the artist, and Farsi (EMEGO 155LP), the original 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.

Artist:	HECKER
Title:	2 Track 12inch
Label:	MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	MEGO 064EP

"File under: Acid, Computer Music. 3 audio tracks and 6 locked grooves, 45rpm. Obscure, frenzied zigzag rhombus. Angular audio designed to dismantle perception. Florian Hecker (b. 1975 .DE) is an artist in the fields of computer music. He started making music with computers in 1996. Ever since, he has researched on mobile performance tools taking part in the first wave of Mego related concerts in 1996. This latest 2 track 12" is a fine example of just how far extreme audio has come -- electroacoustic whiplash courtesy of hypertense audio angles and intense digital disorientation. 'Pandämonium 9 Playlist' rides a manic curve with jagged edges, abrupt swoops, metallic bites and wild bass bombs -- an all out war on the senses which leaves the listener simultaneously baffled + energised. 'Stocha Acid Vlook' hijacks the senses in a torrential digital storm. A macabre buzzing drills it's way through sweeping hiss and wailing sheets of sound propel the listener through a violent and furious lysergic 4 mins 30 secs. The bubblegum patch fantasy is dead. This is computer music with attitude. It is not your run of the mill kid with software exercise in audio angst but a whole hearted love affair of the medium in a classical sense and some solid evidence as to where it can be taken in the future, which is right here and now. Lusus naturae -- an unnatural production. An end to audio -- digital decay as ecstatic vision."

Artist:	HECKER
Title:	NEU CD
Label:	NEU (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	NEU 007CD

Galerie Neu presents Florian Hecker's NEU CD. In apparent contrast to Acid In The Style Of David Tudor (EMEGO 094CD), this CD features three computer-generated pieces which were produced in close relation to Hecker's first exhibition at Gallery Neu in 2007 as well as a contribution for the exhibition Off The Record/SOUND ARC at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2004. NEU shifts back and forth between detail-saturated fragmentation and a near-static structuralism. "Wq Acid VII" and "Neu Ext" show evidence of Hecker's interest in the notion of the déja entendu, where the repetition of rhythmic patterns slowly densify the emission of events, further rupturing the sonic affect into a new re-structured gestalt. In "≤ Σ" constant fluctuations and ever-changing waveforms along the lines of a dynamic stochastic synthesis rupture the classic definition of "noise signal" used within the field of psychoacoustics. The last track "Yin Pitch Detection Synthesis Kissing" takes a seemingly opposite approach while re-synthesizing the recording of a garden. NEU CD comes with a 12-page booklet featuring the product photography of the original CD case design by Peter Saville: a laser-cut block of open porous foam, housed in a transparent, smoke-grey acrylic cover. Photography by Nick Turner. Mastered by Denis Blackham.

Artist:	HECKER
Title:	Recordings For Rephlex
Label:	REPHLEX (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	REPH 181CD

This is Vienna-based sound artist Florian Hecker's first full-length release on the Rephlex label. Hecker has been working with computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as: Farmers Manual, Russell Haswell, Shunichiro Okada, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler and Yasunao Tone since 1996. Hecker's works emphasize the connection of the most recent as well as the most historic developments in computer music, hard- and software. Often working closely together with software engineers and scientists, his recent productions incorporate psycho-acoustic effects disorientating the listener's spatial perception in live presentations and studio works. He has been working on sound pieces commissioned by visual artists Angela Bulloch, Carsten Höller, Florian Pumhösl and Cerith Wyn Evans. Together with Russell Haswell, he is currently working on a compact disc with material recorded early 2004 during their research with the UPIC system at the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris. The eight pieces on Recordings for Rephlex were completed between 2002 and 2004. Although individual pieces have been produced for different occasions, all the recordings share concepts of sound generation on various time scales, down to the smallest sound particles. Superimpositions of multiple audio layers were not applied.

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