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CM von
Hausswolff
The Wonderful World of
Male Intuition
Oral
Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $14.00
With a lengthy career of melding earnest inquisitiveness
and absurdist black humour through metonymic leaps of
logic, CM von Hausswolff delves into the first of two
releases dedicated the prospects of male intuition. As
with most all of his conceptualized works, Hausswolff
strives to short-circuit any linear thought process when
executing the work at hand; hence an album about intuition
is anything but convoluted. So the logic may go for Hausswolff:
if all matter is a really a vibration, what better way
to communicate than through the modulation of pure frequencies?
If technology is really an aid to our ability to perceive
the world around us, what better way to increase that
perception by forcing technology to interact with those
pure frequencies? Hence, Hausswolff's intuition
arrives at a system of running shortwave radio and cassette
recordings of the human voice through sinewave oscillators
as the best means of articulating what intuition has to
say for itself. The grand comedy of this album is that
the voices of the Dalai Lama, Alvin Lucier, and Albert
Hofmann are mangled into an unrecognizable muffle amidst
a clinical mosaic of fluctuating electricity. Through
his inimitable deadpan delivery, Hausswolff presents yet
another brilliant conundrum for us to figure out through
our own powers of intuition. Good luck. |
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