CM von Hausswolff
The Wonderful World of Male Intuition
Oral

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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.