Programme notes

The piece explores the ambiguous and problematic relationship between humankind and machine. Sounds and patterns recorded from machines and household tools (typewriter, sewing machine, iron, old telephone) are manipulated, elaborated, and inserted into a rhythmic-spatial grid to evoke the soundscape of a bustling factory.

The human presence is allegorized by an Italian work chant found on an old vinyl record. The original text is decomposed and recomposed to create new meanings and relationships with the sonic events caused by the machines; the voice becomes increasingly distorted and alienating, until it blends and blurs with the orgiastic environment of machines.

Here, the human plays and dances to annihilation.