You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Providence-based musician Adam Morosky sometimes creates sounds by connecting analog synthesizers to his body. In other instances, he allows ambient light to control the pitch, volume, and effects. It’s an intimate approach, one that blurs the distinction between sound, performer, and environment. “Dissection Theater,” a highlight from Morosky’s most recent album as Timeghost, performs a similar synthesis of self and sound. A heavy industrial pulse wraps around Morosky’s disfigured and digitized voice as he recites, along with his own lyrics, pieces of the Nuremberg Code, recasting this early attempt to define the ethics of medical research as an ominous spell spat from a void of bubbling noise. The title refers on one hand to the way in which medical research is itself a performance and, on the other, to Morosky’s personal dissolution into the texture of the song.
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this dissection theater thing is neat, however