Various Artists – Future Chorus

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: HMDM010
Barcode: 5056321659583
Release Date: 20 Jan 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

In Western thought and culture, voice without speech is viewed as irrational and dangerous. Across myth and history, these voices must be contained or prohibited due to the threat they pose on social order. Female, animal, artificial and inanimate, lamenting, screaming, dreaming, mumbling. Fugitive voices, entangled in a parallel ‘nonhuman history’ coming together to create a chorus. Future Chorus is based on a collection of readings, spoken word, nonlinguistic sound, poetry, MCing, and animal sound, combined with machine learning processes to generate a genderless voice speaking a nonhuman language. The vocal database and AI voice became the raw material for five remixes by AGF, Chino Amobi, Harrga, Savvas Metaxas, Trustfall and Lafawndah. The project was conceived and curated by writer, theorist and practitioner Eleni Ikoniadou, a Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art and member of the art collective AUDINT. The album is released by Hypermedium in collaboration with MAENADS — Anne Duffau, Eleni Ikoniadou, Aphroditi Psarra — a platform for collaborative art projects, musical, visual, performative or text based, releasing work that seeks to inhabit polyvocal narratives, group joy, alternative worlds or subjectivities, spontaneous collective ruptures.

Track list: 1. AGF - code88 2. Harrga - En nous vivants les morts 3. Lafawndah & Trustfall - Animal Mourning 4. Chino Amobi - Emmanuel II 5. Savvas Metaxas - 40 days

More From This Artist: AGF Chino Amobi Harrga Lafawndah & Trustfall Savvas Metaxas