HONORARY MENTION
Unyoga
Chlorgeschlecht
The drive for the album Unyoga arose from the group’s living together in Tower Hamlets in London, the third poorest area of Europe, a fifteen minute walk from Liverpool Street, one of the richest financial districts of Western Europe. The sheer anger of the piece was the groups’s reaction to this system. In Chlorgeschlecht’s own words, “our way to laugh about its ridiculousness.”
Unyoga is a half-instinctive piece of work, not limited to any one formal, prescribed or systematic approach, made with little knowledge of Max/MSP or sequencers and relying entirely on: voice recordings; the shades between white noise and nothingness; text and program files rendered as audio files; samples of the group members’ former bands and largely obscure grindcore bands; radio and television samples; field recordings of crack houses, gang fights, street kids playing, struggling illegal immigrants, motorway joggers. Chlorgeschlecht mixed these environments and musical influences with the stereo editor application Peak.
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