Florian Hecker
Chimerization, 2012
2-channel electroacoustic sound
http://chimerization.documenta.de/
33min 23sec (English)
32min 33sec (Farsi)
32min 24sec (German)
Written and produced by Florian Hecker
Libretto “The Snake, the Goat and the Ladder (A board game for playing chimera)” by Reza Negarestani
German voices: Andreas Huyssen, Anna Kohler, Guerino Mazzola Farsi voices: Arash Afraz, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam, Mahsa Rouhi English voices: Gabriel Catren, Sugata Bose, Joan Jonas
All voices recorded by Florian Hecker at the Sensory Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, except: Andreas Huyssen recorded at Hearing Science Laboratory, City University of New York; Gueri- no Mazzola recorded at Orfield Labs, Minneapolis. Gabriel Catren recorded by Olivier Pasquet at IRCAM, Paris.
Software developed by Betrand Delgutte and Jayaganesh Swaminathan Mastered by Rashad Becker
German translation of the libretto by Sebastian Viebahn
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