Face
Label | Unsounds – 66URROMA Publications – 388 |
Format | Vinyl, LP, Album |
Barcode | 9789492811769 |
Country | UK |
Released | 15 Jan 2021 |
Genre | Electronic, Classical, Folk, World, & Country |
Style | Experimental, Contemporary |
Face is a multimedia composition for voice, violin, piano, recorders, live electronics and video, based around the use of facial and emotion recognition software. Face plays with how we see ourselves and each other by changing the familiar surface of the face with other representations, alternative portraits in image and sound. Face is the result of a search for poetry and beauty that, as so often, hides behind a questionable development. The piece navigates between the problematic practice of anthropometry in the early 20th century to the current use of emotional face recognition software, an ever-present aspect of our lives where the reading of the is completely automated - stripped of ambiguity and removed from human intuitive perception.
A1 | Part 1: Appearance of Form | 7:05 |
A2 | Part 2: Affect Display | 7:49 |
A3 | Part 3: Mask | 9:13 |
B1 | Part 4: Anthropometry | 8:48 |
B2 | Part 5: The Reflection | 7:53 |
B3 | Part 6: A Mechanized Truth | 6:42 |
Graphic Design – Experimental Jetset
Photography By – Johannes Schwarz
Piano – Saskia Lankhoorn
Recorded By – Micha De Kanter
Recorder – Susanna Borsch
Text By – Maria Barnas
Violin – Diamanda La Berge Dramm
Voice – Michaela Riener