granular synthesis


Yeah, i'm totally bankable

to be successful
(not sentimental)
the female poet
must have Hegelian
pathos (a thing in and
for itself) and a comic
dialectics (the structure
of the joke, the twist).

when you said happy
hunting, you meant ‘go 
and get a result’ and i 
brought back a few crowns.
peeling human skin from skull
has its drawbacks just as it
has benefits; now i sit in my
room at night and think of 
model trains (blue, grey).

when you cotton on
the world flows ≈
100% polyester




Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich / Granular Synthesis – Modell 5 from Anti-Utopias on Vimeo.

“From a few expressions on the face of the performer Akemi Takeya to a frenzied exploration of the alter ego, any known context of meaning ends in the dissolved movements, is stalled in denaturalized redundancy, in machine pain. The semantic void is too loud to be amenable to meditative reception. The frontal images, the rhythmic structures generate contradictory emotions and great strain. Entertainment is offered and almost violently denied. At the highest level of energy, enjoyment reaches the limit.”

Sample session performed by Akemi Takeya. Edited on various AVID Suites in England and Austria between 1994-96. Produced by: Mike Stubbs, at HTBA (Hull Time Based Arts) in Hull England. Co-produced by PYRAMEDIA Vienna.

© Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich / Granular Synthesis.