HECKER

Editions Mego is happy to announce the release of 'Chimerization', three vinyl editions of a text - sound piece Hecker produced on the occasion of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany.For 'Chimerization' Hecker invited the Iranian writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani, to contribute an experimental libretto, "The Snake, the Goat and the Ladder (A board game for playing chimera)" a script that has been recited by a group of speakers and recorded by Hecker in anechoic and sound-attenuated chambers - rooms designed to minimize the reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves.Hecker characterizes 'Chimerization' as a concept derived from psychoacoustic investigations on difficult-to-define areas between language and non-language, a process focusing on the decomposition of sound and synthesizing incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, in order to obtain a narration beyond immediate comprehension, which may be deciphered through repeated, 'active' listening.'Chimerization' is released in the following languages - English (eMEGO 153), German (eMEGO 154), the mother tongue of the artist and Farsi (eMEGO 155), the orginal language of the writer.(label info)