The body is a vessel. Transpositions occur within it to produce
something else. On Binary Breath,
sound artist Heejin Jang allowed the four ambient compositions crafted from field
recordings and digital noise to configure themselves within her mind and body,
“generating a code in cipher.” To decode these communications, the listener
must act like a computer, processing the signals from the speakers,
deconstructing them within the mind. Allow the information to decompose and
reform in measurable data. The brain can then transmit this data to parts of
the body, triggering different stimuli depending on the patterns.
Binary Breath doesn’t allow
easy analysis. It is, as its press relates, both “hypnotic” and “chaotic.”
Sound appears, swirls, coalesces, pulses, undulates, is supplemented by human
beings speaking language, decays, reforms, and diffuses. The four pieces,
represented by arrangements of 0s and 1s, are alien, but they transfix with a
weird energy. Jang specifically uses the term “taken over” to describe how she
was able to conjure this alchemical suite, her body the site where the sounds
became meaning. They, too, can become meaning within your body. You have the
translation software, you have the capacity.
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--Ryan Masteller, aka 01010010 01111001 01100001 01101110 00100000
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