Jan St. Werner – Transcendental Animal Numbers

Artist: Jan St. Werner
Title Of Album:Transcendental Animal Numbers
Year Of Release: 12 nov 2013
Label: Thrill Jockey / Thrill 356
Genre: Experimental, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:40:09
Total Size: 95 mb

Transcendental Animal Numbers is the second entry in Jan St. Werner’s Fiepblatter Catalogue. The work is comprised of carefully edited sounds derived from computer algorithms. There are no intentional references to traditional ideas of tuning, meter or spectrum. Rather, there are unexpected shifts of sonic scales, sudden frequency modulations andextreme panoramic shifts that produce an unconventional chunk of condensed acoustic information. Still the resulting compositions are arranged seamlessly and unpredictably as if they were field recordings of animals in the wilderness. The work is a representation of an acoustic organism where no sound is derived from any living creature or acoustic source, instead it is artificiality incorporating the irrational and unpredictable into a logical mathematical system to create a black box in which sound can scatter. Werner likens Transcendental Animal Numbers to Schrödinger’s “cat in a box” experiment that proves that quantum physics is the unpredictability of one particle simultaneously existing in various states.

Tracklist:
1. Transcendental Animal Music (20:00)
2. Parrodisia (20:08)