Diplopia/Transfiguration by Automatisme

Diplopia/Transfiguration signs Wiliam Jourdain, aka Automatisme, debut on Humidex Records. Jourdain began his career in 2011 and has published on notorious labels such as Constellation, Mille Plateaux and Outlines. His generative ambient dub techno music functions as a sonic environment that elicits a state of hallucination, wherein all elements are experienced through a doubled perspective.

The artist's thyroid eye disease (TED) has resulted in a perceptual alteration of his surroundings. His autoimmune condition is associated with hyperthyroidism (Graves disease). It affects his visual perception, causing him to have double vision, a state where a person sees two images of a single object superimposed on top of each other. Diplopia/Transfiguration is an attempt to transpose this problem to sound. A deep use of the chorus tool was a significant challenge for the artist to experiment how to clone audio. This sound effect was selected for its inherent functionality, namely the duplication of a delayed and modulated signal. The process is additionally conducted via multi-channels to accentuate the perspective in a bubbly confused vapor. All instantiations are then distinct and are perceived as templates rather than as fixed media. The generative parameters guide the calculation like a level that is different every time and in which its exploration is unstable. Everything is in a constant slight transformation between the not so opposites sublime and chaos. Then how can we be nuanced inside the noise, which is a masking source? Jourdain focuses on the feeling experience, which creates a space where everything is a gaseous equal of the rest.

TED affects the tissues around the eyes, including the muscles, fat and connective tissues, leading to various symptoms related to eye health and appearance. One such symptom is double vision, which is caused by a misalignment of the eyes due to the swelling of the ocular muscles that lead to the diplopia. For the artist, this confusion represents a psychedelic context to live in the world. A transfiguration is then observed, as it involves a significant alteration in form and appearance. Identity, nature and growth modify their interrelation into positive adaptation.

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