Die bald geborene Tochter von der Psychic Ills Bassistin Elizabeth Hart und Iván Diaz Mathé, Buddie von Lee “Scratch” Perry, hat hiermit schon im Körper ihrer Mutter für Musik gesorgt, bevor sie noch geboren wurde. Die werdenden Eltern haben dafür die Ultraschallaufnahmen des Fötus in MIDI-Daten übersetzt, diese an diverse Synths weitergegeben und dann, klar, daran rumarrangiert. Sehr nerdig, aber eben auch deshalb sehr geil.
The baby, named Luca Yupanqui, is the soon-to-be child of Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart and Lee “Scratch” Perry collaborator Iván Diaz Mathé. Yupanqui created the songs on her album using biosonic MIDI technology that translated her in-utero movements into sound. The MIDI device was hooked to Hart’s stomach, recorded the vibrations created by Yupanqui, and transcribed them into Mathé’s synthesizers, a meditative process that took place over five hour-long sessions.
Hart and Mathé then edited and mixed the results of those sessions while trying to respect Yupanqui’s musical autonomy so as to allow her message to exist in its raw form. The resulting collection of songs is aptly titled Sounds of the Unborn, and it’s due out on April 2nd via Sacred Bones.
(Direktlink, via BoingBoing)