The above is the result of a project for Multimedia and Audiovisuals UC at the Fine-Arts Faculty of Lisbon on the third year of the Communication Design course.
HYPERBATON was born, which samples a single rendered .wav file from the japanese voice-synthesizing software UTAULOID. This extremely raw render I found on an old 2012 hard drive is that of a very robotic voicebank singing monaca.factory's Comet. I proceeded to cut it, reverse it, stretch it, equalize and compress it in many different way in order to create a track that could fit into the ambient/drone/noise genres. Everything — from the bass to the final synth leads — was emulated from a single acapella track of a virtual voice singing Comet.
The cover art draws on the ethereal nature of the soundscape and tries to recreate some of its intensity.
Obvious influences were Tim Hecker, FARWARMTH, Aphex Twin, William Basinski, Harold Budd, Bing & Ruth and Oneohtrix Point Never.
Below you can find an audiovisual interpretation of a 5 second sample taken from Hyperbaton. The idea was to reproduce the mechanical overview over the human body and representation; the simulation of how a neural network perceives reality, assembles it and tries to make sense of it by association with other know realities. The video showcases various phases of discovery, association, detour, analysis, conclusion and then the machine takes on another subject.
