florian hecker - 2/8 bregman 4/8 deutsch 7/8 hecker 1/8 holler (2x10inch vinyl)

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Hecker is a mad man. Obviously. This new double 10" of send-you-to-the-nuthouse computer music and bizarre vocal manipulations finds Hecker in fine form. Cyclical passages of sharp, pointed tones richochet around and around, slowly evolving as they plink off the inside of your skull. Micro-melodies click along, dispersing into binary debris. At other times, the wooziness will make you feel off-balance and generally disoriented. It's all very strange and all very rewarding. The counterpoint to these clinical exercises is loops of spoken text, deconstructed and reassembled in new and interesting, rhythmically-driven ways. This is one of the strangest and most interesting releases I've heard in a while. Totally out of this world. - Brad Rose, Experimedia

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A double 10" vinyl set produced and compiled by Florian Hecker with a contribution by CARSTEN HOLLER.

The title indicates the percental inputs of the eight pieces, intertwines practical, theoretical and conceptual proportions and its audible dramatizations. 6/8 of the pieces are untitled, 2/8 and are titled 'Gelbgrun' and 'UpDown', 8/8 play on 45 RPM.

For further information also see:

Arnheim, Rudolf and Grundham, Uta. 2001. The Intelligence of Vision: An Interview with Rudolf Arnheim. In Cabinet 2: 95-100.

Bregman, Albert S. and McAdams, Stephen. 1979. Hearing Musical Streams. In Computer Music Journal 3, no. 4 (December): 26–43. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Bregman, Albert S. 1994. Auditory Scene Analysis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Deutsch, Diana. 1974. An Auditory Illusion. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 55: 18- 19.

1986. An Auditory Paradox. In Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 80: 93.

Gibson, James J. 1966. The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Kubovy, Michael and van Valkenburg, David. 2004. From Gibson's Fire to Gestalts. In: Neuhoff, (ed.) Ecological Psychoacoustics. London: Elsevier Academic Press, p 114.

Mackay, Robin. 2010. These Broken Impressions. In Gaensheimer, Susanne (ed.) Florian Hecker. Event, Stream, Object. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig: 11-12.

Moore, Brian C. J.. 1977. Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing. Cambridge: University Press Cambridge.

Roitmeister, Carl and Schneider, Eckhard. 2008. Carsten Holler: Carrousel. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig