Artist  : Haswell & Hecker
Title   : Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Rec
Genre   : Noise
Year    : 2007
Date    : 01/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 05
Label   : Warner Classics & Jazz
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 74:01 min
Size    : 89,1 MB

Tracklist:
----------

01.Movement 1                             31:38
02.Movement 2                             12:47
03.Movement 3                             08:46
04.Movement 4                             19:45
05.Appendix                               01:05
                                         -------
                                          74:01 min

From Boomkat:

Yes you did read that right: digital
noise virtuosos Russell Haswell and
Florian Hecker have released an album on
Warner. Fear not though, this set of
recordings finds the duo on arresting
form, fashioning further developments
from the sounds they pioneered back in
their Mego days. This album is possibly
even more technically baffling than
anything produced back then, and anyone
familiar with Hecker's "Sun Pandamonium"
or Haswell's "Live Salvage 1997-2000"
will realise that's no mean feat.
"Blackest Ever Black" is an experiment
in synaesthesia, with the two sonic
explorers working on the cutting edge
compositional software Upic, a system
for digitally transferring visual data
into an auditory language. Upic was
conceived by that giant of 20th century
composition Iannis Xenakis, who devised
it as a means of reading graphic images
and synthesizing them directly into
sound. Haswell and Hecker set about
collating a number of extreme images,
all somehow definitive of, or
influential on this point in history,
ranging from pornography to photographs
of the Madrid train bombings and nuclear
testing sites. All this pictorial
information was then fed into Upic
alongside the artists' own abstract
drawings. This process might sound at
best overly conceptual, at worst in very
poor taste, but it's all integral to the
duo's end goal: to find a true sonic
equivalent of the more troubling imagery
that shapes and defines our time. You
might interpret this album as a
remorselessly scientific slant on the
principles of nihilistic metal, as if
its reason for being is to produce some
sort of cathartic blast, but the music
here differs vastly from the standard
makeup of sonic dystopianism - it
genuinely sounds like it's made from the
very fabric of our age. This is the
sound of telecommunication devices gone
wrong, technology dismantling itself. If
all that sounds rather cold and austere,
well frankly, it's supposed to.
"Blackest Ever Black" is very far
removed from the improv-driven noise
music that finds favour nowadays, and
that's its greatest asset. This is
absolutely rigorous and uncompromising
in its academic approach to sound
design, and right now, in a noise scene
dominated by outlandish power
electronics performances from arch
showmen like Wolf Eyes and Prurient, the
apparent dour stoicism of a release like
this feels like the most extreme
statement you could make in electronic
music right now. Stone-cold devastating.

http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com/



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Artist  : Haswell & Hecker
Title   : Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Rec
Genre   : Noise
Year    : 2007
Date    : 01/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 05
Label   : Warner Classics & Jazz
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 74:01 min
Size    : 89,1 MB

Tracklist:
----------

01.Movement 1                             31:38
02.Movement 2                             12:47
03.Movement 3                             08:46
04.Movement 4                             19:45
05.Appendix                               01:05
                                         -------
                                          74:01 min

From Boomkat:

Yes you did read that right: digital
noise virtuosos Russell Haswell and
Florian Hecker have released an album on
Warner. Fear not though, this set of
recordings finds the duo on arresting
form, fashioning further developments
from the sounds they pioneered back in
their Mego days. This album is possibly
even more technically baffling than
anything produced back then, and anyone
familiar with Hecker's "Sun Pandamonium"
or Haswell's "Live Salvage 1997-2000"
will realise that's no mean feat.
"Blackest Ever Black" is an experiment
in synaesthesia, with the two sonic
explorers working on the cutting edge
compositional software Upic, a system
for digitally transferring visual data
into an auditory language. Upic was
conceived by that giant of 20th century
composition Iannis Xenakis, who devised
it as a means of reading graphic images
and synthesizing them directly into
sound. Haswell and Hecker set about
collating a number of extreme images,
all somehow definitive of, or
influential on this point in history,
ranging from pornography to photographs
of the Madrid train bombings and nuclear
testing sites. All this pictorial
information was then fed into Upic
alongside the artists' own abstract
drawings. This process might sound at
best overly conceptual, at worst in very
poor taste, but it's all integral to the
duo's end goal: to find a true sonic
equivalent of the more troubling imagery
that shapes and defines our time. You
might interpret this album as a
remorselessly scientific slant on the
principles of nihilistic metal, as if
its reason for being is to produce some
sort of cathartic blast, but the music
here differs vastly from the standard
makeup of sonic dystopianism - it
genuinely sounds like it's made from the
very fabric of our age. This is the
sound of telecommunication devices gone
wrong, technology dismantling itself. If
all that sounds rather cold and austere,
well frankly, it's supposed to.
"Blackest Ever Black" is very far
removed from the improv-driven noise
music that finds favour nowadays, and
that's its greatest asset. This is
absolutely rigorous and uncompromising
in its academic approach to sound
design, and right now, in a noise scene
dominated by outlandish power
electronics performances from arch
showmen like Wolf Eyes and Prurient, the
apparent dour stoicism of a release like
this feels like the most extreme
statement you could make in electronic
music right now. Stone-cold devastating.

http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com/



This NFO File was rendered by NFOmation.net