...... ...As
the arduous task of deciphering the drunken idiosyncratic
scrawls and near hieroglyphic tablatures proceeds, it becomes
apparent that Frankenthaler's 1957 doctoral dissertation
(in which she asserts that Tomcha's stubby fingers would
have had to have been double-jointed in three directions
in order to execute the chordal tablatures) has now been
completely refuted. Here, Prof. Nawrot grapples with a fragment
from the 'Estonian' period by performing a post-Schenkerian
deconstruction to extract the gestalt of what will be transformed
into "Nice Lice" through the process of contemporization.
...Prof.
Bering painstakingly prepares an exact copy of the viola
found with the remains of Tomcha & Vlasch, including beer
and sauerkraut stains and cigarette burns. This copy will
be used in the recordings.
Critical evaluation of data demands almost superhuman concentration.
Shown here is one of eighteen auxiliary studios deployed
throughout the Vancouver complex.
...Artist's
rendition of the Vancouver studio built for the Tomcha &
Vlasch Project as designed by Professors Bering & Nawrot.
...
After the essence of the original music has been extracted,
the data is flown to Berlin and downloaded to a computer
originally designed to measure Brownian motion of sub-atomic
particles accelerated in a supercollider. With minor modifications,
including operation near absolute zero, the same computer
now analyzes and "contemporizes" the raw musical data. Using
progressive Euclidian interpolation and trinary bitflow
algorithms, a modern version is created-which is as close
as present technology can come to approximating what Tomcah
& Vlasch's music would sound like if it were written by
them in the 21st Century.
Photos
from the German facility
Aerial view
Section
of accelerator retrofitted for trinary operation
Illustrates
the inferiority of binary data encoding
Data
compression buffers must be replaced after every session
Technician
calibrates bitflow density before every song
Expansion
tanks for data overflow
Coupling
tolerances must be within .0006 mm
Processing
trinary data algorithms results in operational temperatures
twelve times hotter than the sun
Dangerous
heat levels require thermal regulators for safe operation
of supercollider at near absolute zero
Once
trinary data stream is
initiated it cannot be shutdown
until the terminal cadence
Cut
away view of interior of the degaussing module
Artist
rendition of trinary data encryption
Degaussing
module must be used
between every test run