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Post-Pop Meta-Vision
Proto-Algorithmic Pseudo-Songs

by IGOR ŠTROMAJER – intima.org (2020)

“It all starts with the sound of the modem connecting…

There are seven songs, proto-algorithmic pseudo-songs. The music is all computer generated, lyrics are sung by a computer – and this is of course also the case with the Swedish moderator guiding us through the Post-Pop Meta-Vision experience…

Before each song the computer voice announces:
Låt nummer ett: ×kX‹-+Ô[ô |Ń‚xăö9
Låt nummer två: ×›lëśßwp^Ů ßc W
Låt nummer tre: -ľH°¦Y˙7y=¹^=Q _-Můě
Låt nummer fyra: éOŁs=•üVz˙ Ľ‚;z—xľ,?
Låt nummer fem: 9熰¬ý3÷ °¬ 1É ›‘i
Låt nummer sex: Hh…og“mS~ÍÖθŐZ»
Låt nummer sju: Éc Ö=ě ŢĘS÷…O‚ ü

At the very end, the computer voice quotes Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach, also in Swedish: “Filosoferna har bara tolkat världen på olika sätt, men det gäller att förändra den. Karl Marx.”

I chose the Swedish language because – for me personally – the Swedish language is a synonym for the ESC, the Eurovision Song Contest. But I wanted the whole thing also to sound serious: to have the ESC touch, but inside a very serious, almost classical atmosphere. That’s why there’s not much other sound effects (besides some short beeps and gongs), so that the main focus of the listeners can be put on the music, on these seven weird, a bit dark, post-Brechtian and meta-punky songs…”

Igor Štromajer