resample by Jörg Piringer

Jörg Piringer's fifth album “resample” brings together 40 tracks from 30 years of sample sound poetry. The pieces consist exclusively of edited political speeches, advertising, television sound, radio recordings, obscure records and other found speech material.

They question the illusion of the genius artist: in a society in which even car noises originate from a sound design process and pop music becomes environmental noise, it seems only natural to resort to media speech sounds in poetry too - a development that has long been commonplace in music, for example: artists/poets as processors and recyclers.

By processing the language material, the semantic-suggestive context of what is said is broken through and the pure linguistic gesture becomes audible. Thus the words and sounds, freed from meaning, seem to say more clearly what their speakers could really have meant by emphasizing the surface or reinforcing the superficiality. An additional statement no longer needs to be made, the speakers convict themselves.

The shattering of language into partial words and sound particles liberates the material and makes subsequent reassembly and “new speech” possible in the first place - with all the opportunities and risks in times of deep fakes and generative artificial intelligence.

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