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AGF Language is the Most: Ars Electronica 2003 (Klangpark) Quecksilber 6 2004 allmusic.com {Antye Greie} was invited to perform at the Klangpark, an outdoor performance space set up during the {~Ars Electronica} Festival. The theme of the 2003 edition of Ars Electronica was Code - The Language of Our Time. {AGF} chose to approach code in both its linguistic (verbal) and programming entities. Her 43-minute set consists of bits and pieces from her then-just completed album {Westernization Completed} and segments composed for the occasion. Her voice is central to the music, either treated into ethereal soundscapes, softly singing snippets of melodies, reciting the dictionary entry for the word ³code² (in {Code in the Noodle Soup}), or confessing her thoughts on language, thoughts that have been chopped up, shuffled and left to the listener to piece together. Language thus becomes content and a commentary on content. The set begins with a certain level of bounciness. {&³Loading²} immediately puts the AGF follower at ease, as it unequivocally points to the previous album. {&³Reduced Trust²} is a revision of {&³Ambient Trust²} from {^Westernization Completed}. By {&³White Flip Flops²} the set has already percolated into something more diaphanous. Reaching {&³Schlauchtraumstimmen²} we are left with a few electrical hums, clicks and other quiet manipulations; beat is hardly more than a fleeting pulse. {^Language is the Most} is a confident, cohesive set that pushes AGF¹s art further into abstraction without loosing sight of her distinctive features. François Couture 0.Loading 1.Code in the Noodle Soup~5:37~ 2.Reduced Trust~6:57~ 3.White Flip Flops~5:08~ 4.Salmiakki Pattern~7:44~ 5.Delusion~2:26~ 6.Arriving~2:47~ 7.Schlauchtraumstimmen 7.79Leerzeile~5:26~ 8.Burning Fraquencies~2:31~ 9.Un-de-buged~4:46~ AGF/live mix/sound material/source material/photos Havel, Hubert/engineer Nothmann, Kerstin/photos/artwork/design Dziallas, Uli/photos Greenwald, Mel/translation Detmer, Markus/project management Pfaffenberger, Manu/project management Electronica Experimental Electronica 43:25 http://www.forcedexposure.com |