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\nCat. No.: eMEGO 118
\nArtist: Hecker
\nTitle: Speculative Solution
\nFormat: CD + Book
\nBarcode: 9120020387859
\nRelease Date: May 23rd, 2011
\nSpeculative Solution 1 \t\t32:00
\nSpeculative Solution 2 \t\t2:57
\nSpeculative Solution 2 \t\t2:55
\nOctave Chronics \t\t\t19:10
\nWritten and produced by Florian Hecker, March 2009 – November 2010
\nBook edited by Robin Mackay; featuring essays by Elie Ayache, Robin Mackay and Quentin Meillassoux.
\nTypesetting by Tina Frank, Elvira Stein
\nCD mastered by Rashad Becker
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\nEditions Mego<\/a> and Urbanomic<\/b> are pleased to announce the release of Speculative Solution<\/a>, a CD and book with contributions by Florian Hecker, Elie Ayache, Robin Mackay and Quentin Meillassoux.
\nOriginally commissioned by Urbanomic and developed over the last year, this collaborative project brings together Hecker‘s sonic practice and psychoacoustic experimentation with philosopher Quentin Meillassoux\\’s concept of ‘hyperchaos‘ – the absolute contingency of the laws of nature.
\nIn an apparent departure from Hecker‘s previous release Acid in the Style of David Tudor<\/b> (eMEGO 094<\/a>, 2009), the four titles featured in Speculative Solution<\/b> contain a series of micro-chronics and sequences of auditory contingencies, ranging from extreme stasis to the most dynamic intensities, crisp dramatisations of what Meillassoux calls in his text ‘extro-science worlds‘.
\nAs Mackay states in his contribution to the book, Hecker‘s composition “participates in a circuit in which it, the accompanying texts, and diverse other objects, enter into a perpetual catalysis that must annihilate all priority, representation, reference, and even entity.”. Both “scripture and prescription”, Speculative Solution<\/b> invites its users to integrate its sonic and textual components, as they enter into an accelerative cycle, becoming “truly ‘literalist‘ marks which have no reason to be as they are, and which could have been – and still could be, at every moment – otherwise”. With Speculative Solution<\/b> Hecker proposes that the concepts of absolute contingency and hyperchaos offer a rigorous new alternative to the employment of chance and randomness in avant-garde composition.
\nIt is recommended to listen to Speculative Solution<\/b> on loudspeakers at high volume. Headphone use is not advised. Frequent recitation of the included texts is also indicated.
\nSpeculative Solution<\/b> is Hecker‘s 13th release with (Editions) Mego. It comes in an embossed, deluxe box with a bilingual (English \/ French) 160 page book and 5 metal balls (ø 3,969mm). Available only in this format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cat. No.: eMEGO 118 Artist: Hecker Title: Speculative Solution Format: CD + Book Barcode: 9120020387859 Release Date: May 23rd, 2011 Speculative Solution 1 32:00 Speculative Solution 2 2:57 Speculative Solution 2 2:55 Octave Chronics 19:10 Written and produced by Florian Hecker, March 2009 – November 2010 Book edited by Robin Mackay; featuring essays by Elie… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}