In Western culture, voice without speech is irrational and dangerous. Both in myth and history, those voices must be contained or prohibited because of the threat they pose to the social order. Female, animal, artificial and inanimate voices, lamenting, screaming, dreaming, mumbling. Fugitive voices, entangled in a parallel ‘nonhuman history’ devise a chorus yet to come. 

Future Chorus is based on a collection of readings, spoken word, nonlinguistic sound, poetry, MCing, cello and animal sounds — made by Abbas Zahedi, AGF, Elaine Mitchener, Eleni Ikoniadou, Jordan Edge, Joshua Leon, Lunatraktors, Ruth McGill, Sukitoa O Namau and Viki Steiri. The material was combined with machine learning processes — by Mohab Tarek — for the artificial generation of a new voice speaking a nonhuman language. The vocal database and AI voice became the raw material for five remixes — by AGF, Chino Amobi, Harrga, Savvas Metaxas, Trustfall and Lafawndah. 

This release is a collaboration between Hypermedium and MAENADS. A perpetually growing collective, MAENADS is a platform sonic, visual, performative or text-based projects, unleashing works that seek to inhabit polyphonic narratives, other worlds and subjectivities, group joy.

Concept & curation: Eleni Ikoniadou 

Human voices: Abbas Zahedi, AGF, Elaine Mitchener, Eleni Ikoniadou, Jordan Edge, Joshua Leon, Lunatraktors, Ruth McGill

Animal lament: Sukitoa O Namau 

Cello: Viki Steiri 

AI voice: Mohab Tarek 

Mastered by: Giuseppe Ielasi

Art direction & design: Vasilis Marmatakis 

Cover photography: Panos Defteraios

Future Chorus

@savvas-metaxas-sounds - 40 days
Taken from the V/A LP 'Future Chorus' [HMDM010 / MNDS01].

Out on January 20, 2023 on limited edition vinyl in a deluxe triple gatefold sleeve and digital.

More info: hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus

Savvas Metaxas - 40 Days

@chinoamobi - Emmanuel II
Taken from the V/A LP 'Future Chorus' [HMDM010 / MNDS01].

Out on January 20, 2023 on limited edition vinyl in a deluxe triple gatefold sleeve and digital.

More info: hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus

Chino Amobi - Emmanuel II

@lafawndah & @trustfallplays: 'Animal Mourning'
Taken from the V/A LP 'Future Chorus' [HMDM010 / MNDS01].

Out on January 20, 2023 on limited edition vinyl in a deluxe triple gatefold sleeve and digital.

More info: hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus

Lafawndah & Trustfall - Animal Mourning

Taken from the V/A LP 'Future Chorus' [HMDM010 / MNDS01]. 

Out on January 20, 2023 on limited edition vinyl in a deluxe triple gatefold sleeve and digital.

More info: https://hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus

Harrga - En Nous Vivants Les Morts

Hypermedium is thrilled to share 'code88' by AGF @agf-antye-greie , first track off the upcoming V/A LP 'Future Chorus' [HMDM010 / MNDS01]. 

Out on January 20, 2023 on limited edition vinyl in a deluxe triple gatefold sleeve and digital.

More info: https://hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus

Curated by Eleni Ikoniadou and featuring five tracks by AGF, Chino Amobi, Lafawndah & Trustfall, Harrga and Savvas Metaxas, 'Future Chorus' is based on a collection of readings, spoken word, nonlinguistic sound, poetry, MCing, cello and animal sounds. The material was combined with machine learning processes for the artificial generation of a new voice speaking a nonhuman language. The vocal database and AI voice became the raw material for five remixes.

This release is a collaboration between Hypermedium and MAENADS. Created by Eleni Ikoniadou in collaboration with Anne Duffau and Aphroditi Psarra, MAENADS is a platform for collective projects, sonic, visual, performative or text-based, unleashing works that seek to inhabit polyphonic narratives, other worlds and subjectivities, group joy.

Concept & curation: Eleni Ikoniadou 

Human voices: Abbas Zahedi, AGF, Elaine Mitchener, Eleni Ikoniadou, Jordan Edge, Joshua Leon, Lunatraktors, Ruth McGill, Sukitoa O Namau 

Cello: Viki Steiri 

AI voice: Mohab Tarek 

Mastered by: Giuseppe Ielasi 

Art direction & design: Vasilis Marmatakis 

Cover photography: Panos Defteraios

Harrga - En Nous Vivants Les Morts

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