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

Afrofuturism Jams 2

Call Super mixes

@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

Order

AGF - code88 [from HMDM010 / MNDS01: Future Chorus]

No Protection

Trinity Dub (Three) [feat. Mad Professor & Nicolette]

I've Known Rivers And Other Bodies

I've Known Rivers

CUT 4 ME

Bank Head (Extended)

V/A - mono no aware もののあわれ

Format: 2xLP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 77
Release Date: 17 March 2017

http://p-a-n.org/

purchase:
site: http://bit.ly/2mQN5AO
bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2n9ToSm

mono no aware (もののあわれ) is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.

Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called ’ambient’, to incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Molly Matalon and design by Bill Kouligas. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with Mount Analog for the LA Art Book Fair 2017, before going on general release.

mono no aware

3. Yves Tumor - Limerence (PAN 77)

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-k-lone-old-fashioned

If you're a fan of the sounds of STL and of the artwork designed by Madaline Gardner, @k-lone93 'In The Dust' EP should be an instant addition to your record collection.

Chino Amobi - Emmanuel II

HYPERMEDIUM