User:Niek Hilkmann
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Resurrection of the genius was an installation-piece consisting of a variety of audio-visual equipment connected through different pieces of wire and cable. A short composition of circa eight minutes was manipulated and distorted through the equipment and its features. The audio-piece itself consisted of three parts: industrial field-recordings touched game music and the digital simulation of a heartbeat. Different carriers, such as cassette, MP3 and video-tape, were used for each part and eventually got combined with differently tuned speakers, for instance a built-in one for a TV-set, stable monitors and computer speakers. The TV-set also visualized it’s audio-input through a digital connection, responding with visual white noise to the electrical current of the heartbeat. The setup was presented in a dark room with only the television screen delivering a beam of light each time the heartbeat sounded.
Sowieso is the second album I recorded under the alias Yoshimi! and was released in februari of this year. I play practically each instrument that occurs during the album’s 38 minutes duration. I recorded, mixed and produced the music in the attic of my parents’ house. Sowieso consists of 11 pop-songs sung in Dutch about conceptual disorder and existential crisis. The album reflects upon finding meaning within a medium. In this case, music itself and the formal basis of audio or more precisely: pop music. The production in itself is contemplation upon the incorporated function of production within a cultural framework. This neutral function of music was precisely what I wanted to undermine by using Dutch lyrics and putting these confusing songs in a harmonic popular framework with disharmonic interruptions.