Alalia
Gauss PDF, 2018Sound piece that wanders between respiratory disease (inhalation of chemicals), loss of language (as a mechanic correlating air and speech), and material coating to replace what’s missing (to patch or to replace as a simulation).
For guitar, amplification and electronics. An analog processing system that performs an input signal while denying the performance that is being received by constantly outputting dubious feedback of the input gestures by severely compressing, bypassing, or applying nonlinear operations to the signal is programmed. The performer must manage to stay motionless, nevertheless also responding.
The recording is then affected, as data, by copy-pasting the whole Wikipedia entry of “Silicon dioxide”. The performance, in this way, can be patched by filling the blanks with silica.