• Hyperplastic Other — Cassette

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  A1 Young RF, Recoded
  A2 Does RF Work Underwater?
  A3 RF Surrogates: PF, RE
  A4 Dispersion of RF Particulates
  A5 RF-event
  
  B1 Resumption of RF-event
  B2 [...]
  B3 End of RF-event/The Case Against RF
  B4 What Happens When I Divide?
  B5 Some Limitations of RF
  
  Hyperplastic Other was composed largely using a two-dimensional array of 17,040 computer-generated values between 0 and 1, which was divided into 71 parametric paths. The array values were scaled and converted to MIDI messages; the paths were arbitrarily assigned to individual parameters of commercial software synths. Navigation along the paths was controlled via a Max/MSP graphical interface. In the interest of heterogeneity, the RF-event suite, including the interregnum […], was produced by subjecting the output of Chris Jeffs’ Particularity granular synthesis system to spectral processing techniques.
  
  The term hyperplastic is taken from David Rosen’s essay “Dark Posthumanism: the weird template”:
  
  "[T]here could be posthumans: that is, powerful nonhuman agents arising through some human-instigated technological process…it is conceivable that there might be agents far more capable of altering their physical structure than current humans. I call an agent 'hyperplastic' if it can make arbitrarily fine changes to its structure without compromising its agency or its capacity for hyperplasticity…
  
  Hyperplastics (H-Pats) would be unreadable in linguistic terms or intentional terms, but this is not to say that they would be wholly illegible."
  
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