Florian Hecker Live

Music
18/11 2017 10 pm
Museumsquartier

Location: Museumsquartier Halle G

Kunsthalle Wien and Wien Modern present the Austrian premier of Florian Hecker’s text-sound pieces Chimerization (2011/2012) and Synthetic Hinge (2014–2016).

Program

Florian Hecker: Chimerization(2011–2012) – 32 min 30 sec
Libretto by Reza Negarestani. Featuring the voices of Javier Anguera, Joan Jonas, Anna Kohler, Stephen Prina. Voices recorded by Florian Hecker at the Sensory Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, as well as at the Bose Corporation, Framingham.

Iannis Xenakis: S.709(1994) – 7 min 03 sec

Florian Hecker: Synthetic Hinge (2014–2016) – 28 min 00 sec
Libretto by Reza Negarestani. Synthetic voice developed by Rob Clark, Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh / original voice: Joan La Barbara, recorded by Florian Hecker at the Hearing Science Laboratory, City University of New York.

Tickets

Ticket prize: EUR 19

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