COMPOSES

Flesh+Prosthesis #0-2

duration:16' (#0: 4', #1: 6, #2: 6')
year:2013-2014
instrumentation:amplified quartet (tenor sax, percussion, electric guitar, piano) and 4-channel soundtrack
FIRST PERFORMANCE
date:8/11/2013 (#1), 13/08/2014 (#0-2)
place:Casino Baumgarten, Wien (Wien Modern Festival) (#1), CentralStation, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany (#0-2)
ensemble:Nikel Ensemble

Program notes

Sonically speaking, the posthuman era is not one of disembodiment but the exact reverse: it's a hyperembodiment (Kodwo Eshun, More brilliant than the sun, 1998.)

Flesh+Prosthesis #0-2 are closely related to the 8-channel electronic composition Hybridae (2012). In that composition I used digital sound-processing techniques (based on feedback-principles) on a series of violin samples to generate a hybrid sonic body that constantly occupies different regions in the spectrum between the physical (clearly recognizable violin samples) and the digital (after heavy digital processing). A fragment of Hybridae was then became Flesh+Prosthesis #0, while I envisioned to create a hyper-hybrid body in Flesh+Prosthesis #1 , adding instrumental and electronic layers to a heavily edited and cut up version of Hybridae, in order to create a multi-dimensional hybrid body, somehow similar to the multi-dimensional meta-bodies that we have become ourselves. Flesh+Prosthesis #2 then is what remains from this hybrid body after the imposed force of the technological is taken away and what now is absent became at least as important as what's present.

The three parts of this series can be played back-to-back (attacca), or can be spread out over one evening, with other pieces being played in between them. In the first case there are supplementary electronic intermezzi that function as hinges between the different parts.

Flesh+Prosthesis #0-2 is written and dedicated to my dear friends of the Nikel Ensemble.

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