Articulação sees avant-garde electronic musician Florian Hecker continuing the collaborative work he began with author/philosopher Reza Negarestani on the 2012 album Chimerization. The album's three lengthy pieces see different manipulations and the electronic processing of human voices reading texts by Negarestani that explore themes of nature and the culture man creates around it, interrupted and often side-lined by
Hecker's blasts of digital noise and skittering, computer-generated mayhem. Opening track "Hinge" features two stereo-panned readings by noted poet and sound artist
Joan La Barbara, known for her groundbreaking work with the human voice as instrument. A second, much noisier track breaks up the flow before the third track (also entitled "Hinge") recalls the text of the opening track, bogging down the sound of new narrators with deeper processing and electronic disruption. ~ Fred Thomas