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

FAERIS

@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]

@comastasis - Ross 308 EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU005, out Apr. 29th, 2022]
* featuring remixes by @exmantera and @yikii *

Comastasis (he/him) is a producer and DJ based in Helsinki, Finland who manipulates an incessant flow of sound stimuli and sonic violence bursts in the shape of abstract post-club outings, influenced by grime and industrial music. After hosting “Stagnant” paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/track/comastasis-stagnant, one of his many remarkable tracks, inside our 2020 mammoth v/a compilation “WE NEVER WILL”, we are so glad to present you his latest work which furthers the producer’s investigations into heavily rhythmic, unsettling experimental music: Ross 308 EP.

Named after the proprietary commercial name of a particular breed of chicken, bred for life in atrociously overcrowded warehouses to grow as fast as possible (thereby often incurring dramatic health conditions leading to organ and bone failure) so to maximize profits of the corporate machine, the release revolves around the feeling of melancholy and world-weariness which, in the case of factory farming, has been condensed into a single physical representation in a time and space. The sound palette used by Comastasis captures the anguish and the stench exhaling from the slaughterhouses and constricts it into music. A perpetual swarm of stress-drenched flesh turned inside-out washing over you; a passing swirl of tendons snapping at the root of your ear with ASMR-like quality and putting you in intimate contact with agony and embedding you in their misery.

Ross 308 EP is composed of three original tracks and features remixes by the Finnish multidisciplinary artist @exmantera, and by the singer, poet, artist, and music producer @yikii, based in China. While the former provides a both rusty and sharp, clangy re-interpretation of the eponymous opening track which manages to even turn the knife in the wound, the latter offers an eerie re-interpretation of the Fermented Biomass composition in the form of an eerie industrial ballad, a dark, sneering lullaby for dismembered and mangled limbs.

Ross 308

Name-your-price DL

Comastasis - Fermented Biomass

SITOI 'Kuori II'

'Kuori' is a story about a shift in identity following the collapse of reality. The double EP examines gender and sexual identity, mental health, and existence within forced, rigid societal norms. It's a portrayal of confusion, the relentless hold of anger and loneliness, constant change, and finding softness and tolerance. SITOI transforms the mundane into abstract imagery. Their spoken word poetry is reunited with the familiar unforgivingly abrasive yet somber noise, expanding upon the sonic foundation laid by 'Kyyhky' with more pummelling and techno-infused percussive production.

’Kuori II’ is a continuation of the storyline from the first released half of the double EP. ’Kuori II’ is a raw, vulnerable yet keen attempt to shed the hardened skin, the shell created to numb and protect oneself but which serves that purpose no more. It’s about the fear of letting go, accepting and embracing the weariness and disappointment in order to find joy, comfort and pleasure and to connect to oneself and others.

As on ‘Kuori I’ and ‘Kyyhky’, Exploited Body is back on production duties for ‘Kuori II’. The record flails violently between the sparse and morose atmospheres of tracks like ‘Faux Uterus’ and ‘Exuviae’, and the unrelenting storms of noise on ‘Varsat’ and ‘Hän’.

Kuori II

SITOI - Kulo

Written by SITOI
Produced by Exploited Body

@sitoi
@exploitedbody

Ytimeni (Core)

My core
My core
My smouldering core
My malleable core
My smouldering and malleable core

Kyyhky

SITOI - Ytimeni

FROM CLAM005 | K MAJIK 23

0UT 30/09/2020

clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam0…-k-majik-23

@clam-pressure

VAGINAL GROOVE, KUNG POW PENIS

Written by SITOI.
Produced by Exploited Body.

@sitoi
@exploitedbody

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

HYPERMEDIUM