Machine Listening
ENVIRONMENTS 12
(LP)
Futura Resistenza / RESLP038
12 Inch
Machine Listening / Environments 12 Longplayer
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Environments 12 is a speculative addition to the Environments series (an 11-part field recording series by Irv Teibel from the 1970s), which imagines a cybernetic ecology in which the biosphere, humans, and technology merge through synthetic representations of 'nature'. Created by Machine Listening, it unfolds as a mind-inverting libretto narrated by vocal performers and generative voice clones telling stories of reef lullabies, natural compositions, and large language models for whales and crows. Critically spinning the original Environments series further through balanced conceptualism and irreverent absurdity, Machine Listening's suspension of acoustic realities is deeply perplexing, disorienting and captivating.[info sheet from distr.]