Granular Synthesis - Modell 5 (1994-1996)

(WARNING: contains flashing images) ⏂ »Between 1994–96 Granular Synthesis focused on training their machine/system on two different human models. For «MODELL 5» (butitled MotionControl) and »MODELL X« (subtitled Sweetheart) Hentschläger and Langheinrich worked with the head/face/voice of Akemi Takeya, a Japanese dancer, singer, and performance artist. [...] Their machine is primarily a device for islolating or dislocating a model’s appearance and behaviour from the cause and effect logic of cinemat, television, video, music, and our perceptual experience of ‹full motion› life itself. [...] Through granulation, relentless repetition and the rolling, enveloping or cyclical recombination and layering and compression and with each of thousands of edit-point, high-frequency staccato image and sound perforation [...].« “We need to know that machines don’t control us. We need to sing to them in order to recognize that they sing to us“