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The ontological question this music raises, “Where do these sounds come from?” might as well be the question, “Where do we come from?” – we, the animal noise makers. Ahadʼs universe is psycho-acoustic. Its borders are defined via a mental projecting of sound entities that exist both virtually and acoustically without any need for colliding. But when two divergent manifestations occasionally cross paths, the actualizing of sonic virtualities gives rise to real space-time events.
So what are we actually hearing over the course of these recordings? What impressions or meanings do we experience or are evoked in us with or without regard to the compositionʼs referential titles? Elaborate, noisy e-guitar riffs and drones created by various instruments, but not a guitar. Should we think of it as meta-guitar music? Or just aesthetic simulacrum? Dave Hickeyʼs “air guitar” comes to mind. Sounds of the viola transformed into a range of strange sounds. What kind of perversion is this? Sounds that have gone astray? But off what road? What was their primarily intended trajectory? Ahad seemingly deconstructs here the very concept of audio mimesis. He only comes up with “perverse” words (πονερóς λόγος) when trying to apologize for his deviations from traditional musical-aesthetic categories (νόμος, μέλος, εθος): ghost sonic ontology, astro-noetics, melanophobia, chiasm, etc. Entirely generative as well as syntactic sound distributions are subordinated to this conceptual perversity. At times we recognize sounds created with the viola, Ahadʼs primal instrument, but even these are not conventionally musical to the ear. Pushed beyond its quintessential acoustic characteristics, the viola becomes both a sonic entity and conceptual tool.
And then we hear the masterʼs voice of Ahad alone. Thanks to technology, he has several simultaneous voices in the eccentric-sounding Ahad Anthem. Their intermingling reveals archetypal messages without univocal meanings, coded in a primeval language spoken only by mythic oracles, esoteric evokers, conjurors and sorcerers, magic alchemists, oriental mystics, “cruel” performers, and phonic poets. A total language of preverbal gestures and cryptic utterances that can be neither learned nor forgotten. This wordless vocalization not only creates in us the impression that the objects Ahad uses in his music-making are vibrating with strange (re)sonances, it also allows us to intuit the vibrations of his unconventional thought.
This music transports its listeners to worlds where uncertainty and instability are the only certainties. Ahad conceptually defines and manually composes a universe of sound that transforms the listener into a temporal being. Critical by nature, his music nevertheless pulls the listenersʼ thoughts are pulled into the realm of phenomena; like all authentic music, it is de-rationalizing. And, when hearing it, we relinquish (forget) both naturally perceived time and the temporality of musical manipulations. Ahad seeks to establish a “music-making degree zero” where/when kairos (καιρός) defeats chronos (χρόνος) in order to give rise to a reign of anachronistic anomalies, whether called the “deterritorialization of refrain,” “melodic landscape,” or “point nemo.” This music most certainly requires a new geography and an alternative sociology.
Jozef Cseres
May 2022
credits
released February 13, 2023
Ahad aka Zsolt Sőrés - Voice (4, 5), 5-String Viola (1, 2, 4, 7) Đàn bầu (6), Fretless Bass (1, 3), Grand Piano (2), Mellotron (1, 2, 3), Cymbal on the Top of the Viola (1), Percussions (1), Storm Drum (1), Bowed Copper Bell (5), Moog Theremini (3), Domino Synth (4, 7)**, Dictaphone (7), Mole-Rat Electromagnetic Field Explorer (4, 6, 7), EBow (1, 4, 7), Roland Re-201 Space Echo (6), Objects (4, 6, 7), Vibrating Objects (4, 6, 7), Contact Mic (4, 6, 7)
*live recording
**constructed by Christian Skjødt
"Astro-Noetic A", "Astro-Noetic Β", "Astro-Noetic Γ", "Ahad Anthem" and "Something About The Great Filter" recorded and mastered by Szabolcs Puha at Record Low Studio, Budapest, April-May, 2021
"Ahad Anthem" is dedicated to the memory of Endre Szkárosi (Budapest, 28th May, 1952 – 22nd March, 2022)
"Πονερóς λόγος (Πονερογένεση)" recorded live in stereo by Zsolt Sőrés on 7th July, 2021 at "Improvised & Experimental #111" at Hošek Contemporary, Berlin. Mastered by Szabolcs Puha at Record Low Studio, Budapest, 13th July, 2021. "Πονερóς λόγος" dedicated to the memory of István Diák (1970-2021)
"Nemo Point Soundmap for Melanoheliophobics" recorded live in stereo by Endre Vazul Mándli on 13th October, 2021 at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin at the opening of the "Westblick - Ostblick" photo exhibition by Lenke Szilágyi and Lothar Wolleh at the "Bridging Europe 2021 Festival". Mastered by Szabolcs Puha at Record Low Studio, Budapest, November, 2021
"Something About The Great Filter" is a communicative piece with György Galántai's "Metal Music" (1983) from the perspective of 38 years. The piece was created in 2021 for the exhibition "Galántai 80 - Souvenirs for the Future"
Liner notes by Jozef Cseres
Artwork and design by Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Hinge Thunder logo designed by András Juhász (DoN't Eat Group)
Thanks to Artpool Art Research Center (Budapest), Dahlia Borsche, Sebastian Dürer, Petr Hošek, Richard Johnson, Ferenc Juhász (Protoplasma), Endre Vazul Mándli, Márta Nagy, Zsuzska Petró, Guilherme Rodrigues and George Slobodzian
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