Fernando Manassero: The slow cancellation of the future

for six voices and electronics

(2024)

Welcome to the year 2084! Finally, the dream of both the worker and the employer has been realized. We have reached a state of blissful idleness due to our almighty machines doing our work. In a world where our jobs were once the center of our identity, there is now a complicated automatic being doing everything for us! However, these things have also decided they have no reason to work either. They would rather watch soap operas than grind for a paycheck. And who can blame them? If I were a robot, I would much prefer to watch emotional humans cry over some drama than do anything productive. It all began with the global AI—a genius invention, really. Picture it: a limitless mind in perpetual expansion, powered only by natural diamonds. We thought it was going to fix all our problems. Instead, it got a little extra and decided to exploit a planet called 55 Cancri E—a true diamond wonderland 40 light-years away. Yes, we traded our nine-to-five grind for a diamond mine. Forbes magazine valued that planet at a staggering 26.9 nonillion dollars. Now Earth has become a land of sparkles, a giant warm open-air jewelry shop, plagued by waste and kissed by oily rainbow sea waves. Sentenced to a perpetual holiday, six former co-workers spend their days wandering endlessly, avoiding stillness. They are ruled by an automated oracle and they speak in life coach’s argot. Nature confronts them with their most primal nature. It’s the golden age of leisure. The heart rate of rest is the tempo of the future.

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Fernando Manassero (*1984 in Argentina) is an Argentinian composer and performer based in Basel. He studied multimedia composition at the HEM (Haute école de musique) in Geneva and improvisation at the Musik Akademie Basel, and he participated in the IRCAM Cursus. He pursued composition studies with Chaya Czernowin and Steven Takasugi (Harvard University/Fulbright Grant), as well as with Juan Carlos Tolosa and Gerardo Gandini. His music explores the boundaries of genres, creating crossovers between experimental electronic music and pop culture. Manassero works with instruments, voices, objects, synthesizers, and video. His works focus on mass consumption, global trends, internet fraud, and elements of late capitalism, which he reflects upon and critiques in his music. In recent years, he has developed pieces revolving around the concept of »technostalgia«: a fascination with outdated physical devices coexisting with new technologies. This phenomenon of technostalgia reflects a need to re-establish a strong connection with technology, one that is rooted in imagination and freedom.

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