Das Fieber der menschlichen Stimme
Klangkrieg`s 1999 release "Das Fieber der menschlichen Stimme" (The fever of the human voice) features 9 compositions made out of processed human voice sounds.
The title refers to an installation work conceived for 8 loudspeakers and a video projection that has been premiered at Den Anden Opera in Kopenhagen during the ArtGENDA 96 festival. A stereo track version of this 17 minute piece is opening the CD.
Most of the tracks, among them a composition by Bernd Schurer/das Erdwerk, make exclusive use of human voice sounds, ranging from cut-up spoken word to completely "atomized" voice bits and digits.
In excessive sonic treatments Klangkrieg split up words, meanings and information again and again until they lost their recognizable structures. The character of this „phonetic poetry“ changes from mechanically-abstract to sensitively-concrete textures.
„Das Fieber...“ is about the dictatorship of precision, since biology and technology have become identical twins.
1. "Schlafen links"
> snoring plus background tape, recorded in Rena Raedles room, September 97
2. "Das Fieber der menschlichen Stimme"
> Computer and sample manipulations of male and female voices of different origins and age. All three parts of the composition have been realized at the Media Art Dept. of the Art School in Enschede, Netherlands. This is a stereophonic version of the originally sixtophonic audio piece.
3. "Kehlentanz 3"
> Reanimation of digital chaos, applied on voice samples
4. "Schraubkopf"
> A by-product of track 2
5. "Aus den hinteren Reihen"
> composed by Bernd Schurer/Domizil from Zurich. The original sound material has been provided by Klangkrieg and deconstructed by granular synthesis method
6. "Anormales Geräusch"
> One sentence cut into many frequency slices that were shifted against each other on a timeline
7. +8. "Flieger in großer Spirale", "Kürsprecher"
> two variations on an old recording of a radio commentator describing ice-scating
9. "Schönes Gefühl"
> Cut-up of a suggestion tape for sick children called "Fieber senken durch Denken"