florian hecker‘Acid In The Style Of David Tudor’ is Florian Hecker’s first studio project since 2003. Between then and now he has focused more on commissions and installation work as well as a myriad of collaborations with such esteemed artists as Yasunao Tone, Russell Haswell and, of course, Richard James. Hecker delivers pretty much exactly what you would expect from the album’s title; indeterminate electro-acoustics that takes the synthetic sound crafting from the Stockhousen school of frequency modulation and accelerates it into new and incredible geometrical morphologies. By combining virtual binaural and stereophonic sound transmissions, Hecker creates brilliant psychoacoustic tricks that require the most focused listening mode to appreciate. Listening is recommended at high volume on good quality loudspeakers and it is certain that your Ipod headphones wont do it full justice. The album is divided into 3 sets. Six ‘Acid In The Style of…’ tracks were created with a Buchla modular synthesizer being driven by a Comdyna analog computer, Three ASA pieces were the end product of a complex electro-acoustic process, and the album closer ‘Ten’ seemingly splices the two preceding forms together as a jittering, time-stretched afterthought. The album is a hugely challenging listen but for those of you who respect this man’s work as much as I do will know that it’s going to be more than worthwhile. --simon harris.
:: Florian Hecker - Acid In The Style of David Tudor - Editions Mego/Groove Attack/A-Musik.
