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Departure |
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Hello World |
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Turing's Nightmare |
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To the Moon |
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Hibernation |
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Kessler Syndrome |
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Life is Good |
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Indifference |
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Palingenesis |
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Xenotopia |
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| Editor’s Note |
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Xenotopia, the debut album of Simon Öggl, explores a musical landscape oscillating between affiliation and alienation. The composer and producer’s unique sound language results from the recontextualisation of acoustic and electronic compositional techniques and sounds. By continuously questioning the nature of sound, the distinction between traditional and innovative sound production becomes obsolete. The analogue fades into the digital. // If nature is unjust, change nature! (Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism 0x1A)
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| About Xenotopia |
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Xenotopia is a musical approach to reflect the relation between human beings and technology in the field of tension of nature and culture. These aspects are especially recognizable through the development process of the album. The aim of the musical process was to cross classical forms of compositions and electronic music production to fulfill not only a dialog between these creative aspects, but also to merge composition and production into one other. For this purpose, basic musical material for instrumentalists was composed and recorded, to then be manipulated and processed to its definitive form of appearance in the editing process. Then, in the editing process manipulated and brought to its definitive album version.
Furthermore, various methods of sound generation were used: from subtractive, additive and granular sound synthesis to methods of sound generation – using artificial intelligence (neural synthesis, differential digital audio processing, text to sample). Through the constant processing and recontextualisation of the recorded sounds and the interaction of these with synthesised sounds, the boundaries between the natural and the artificial are dissolved - transcendence and immanence become blurred. As the title Xenotopia suggests, the album deals with the fascination of strangeness and otherness and invites to explore musically the boundary between the fear of the unknown and the naivety about techno-optimism. |
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| Ludwig Ascher (trumpet) / Elena Gabbrielli (flute) / Clara Hamberger (soprano) / Daniel Holzleitner (trombone), Aleksandar Jovanovic (countertenor), Florijan Lörnitzo (electric guitar) / Vincent Pongrácz (clarinet) / Manuel Schager (cello). |
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| About Simon Öggl |
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Simon Öggl, born in Schlanders (Italy) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, DJ and sound engineer. He is a member of the live electronics band Drahthaus and has composed commissioned works for Klangforum Wien, ensemble chromosom, airbone extended and InnStrumenti, among others.
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