Granular Synthesis Modell 5 (1994 1996)

(WARNING: contains flashing images) Between 199496 Granular Synthesis focused on training their machine, system on two different human models. For MODELL 5 (butitled MotionControl) and MODELL X (subtitled Sweetheart) Hentschläger and Langheinrich worked with the head, face, voice of Akemi Takeya, a Japanese dancer, singer, and performance artist. Their machine is primarily a device for islolating or dislocating a models appearance and behaviour from the cause and effect logic of cinemat, television, video, music, and our perceptual experience of full motion life itself. Through granulation, relentless repetition and the rolling, enveloping or cyclical recombination and layering and compression and with each of thousands of editpoint, highfrequency staccato image and sound perforation We need to know that machines don t control us. We need to sing to them in order to recognize that they sing to us br, br,