Bleep

Hecker - that’s Florian, not Tim - continues to work with ‘computational techniques for analysis and resynthesis’ on new composition Inspection II. This seventy-five minute work is a harsh and disorienting listen, full of hellish screes of noise and brooding, freighted drone passages. An AI voice reciting Robin Mackay’s libretto only adds to the uncanniness of it all. Imagine a fusion of Tarquin Manek & Martina Quake’s Locks On Our Doors Not On Our Hearts with Guttersnipe and you aren’t too far off Inspection II. Amy Ireland’s accompanying essay on the CD sleeve-notes should help you make sense of it all.