By Berk Yagli : :
Hypnagogic Hallucination Machinery is about the 21st-century condition. Living in a hyper-consumer-based world, where everyone happily becomes a commodity to take part in society, the concepts of individuality, freedom, privacy, and humanity once again become crucial to be questioned and discussed. The sea of endless escapism, simultaneously fractured and monotonous people and ideas, we are now a part of the systematic hallucination machine more than ever.
This piece aims to reflect these topics in an auditory way. As part of a PhD focusing on the musical hybridisation of electroacoustic music and metal to create novel methods for hybridisation, this piece explores a concept called Fluidity, created by the author.
Fluidity is a concept that encompasses different, distinct moments of hybridity and genres within a single work. Fluidity is primarily concerned with two notions: firstly, composing different moments and sections with distinct hybridity and genre moments to yield a cohesive whole. And secondly, and most importantly, the piece's flow in between these differing moments of hybridity and genres. The first notion involves composing numerous sections and materials, each focusing on providing something significantly different (in terms of strategy, hybridity, and genre use), while also having connected characteristics. The second notion involves enacting strategies and composing additional materials to integrate the sections, composed in the first notion, into a cohesive unit, ultimately resulting in a piece with a natural flow.
Providing a natural flow in a piece is concerned with composing transitions for significantly different sections (in terms of strategy, hybridity, and genre use). Composing the transition moments between distinct sections involves micro and macro strategies. Micro strategy focuses specifically on composing a transitional moment between two different sections. Macro strategy focuses on composing additional materials and moments to create cohesion between the macro structure of the piece.
Strategies regarding Fluidity in 'Hypnagogic Hallucination Machinery' focus on the two notions described above. It is challenging to find a hybrid music work with a similar type of genre or musical hybridisation from start to end which, when composing 'Hypnagogic Hallucination Machinery', made it necessary to develop Fluidity concept for the strategies I explore in the piece to derive from.
In essence, my Fluidity concept builds on Alcalde's notion of Trajectory (Alcalde 2017, 222) and Chimeric Environments (Alcalde 2017, 127-128), incorporating both into a unified terminology and set of ideas to help create compositional strategies.
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