German sound experimentalist Florian Hecker and multidisciplinary artist and 2008 Turner Prize-winner Mark Leckey have announced a forthcoming collaborative release for Bill Kouligas’ PAN imprint. According to a press release, the Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera 12″ sees Hecker “decompose, modulate, and re-synthesize the vocal track from Leckey’s 2010 performance piece GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (for which Leckey intoned the inner monologue of a black Samsung fridge) and his own 3 Channel Chronics installation from that same year, where distinct sounds from three speakers telescoping down from the ceiling were combined and altered by visitors’ movements.” The resulting productions are said to take shape as hybrid compositions in which “heavily distorted fragments of Leckey’s narrative intersperse Hecker’s synthetic textures and fidgety tonal patterns.”

The unsurprisingly abstract, elongated results of Hecker’s and Leckey’s combined efforts can be heard in full when Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera sees its release on March 21 as a two-track 12″, as well as on digital formats with an additional third bonus track. Ahead of the records’ release, the artwork for PAN’s forthcoming release is on display above, while its tracklist has been included below.

1. I (17:32)
2. II (17:32)
3. Down (17:31) (Bonus on Digital Release Only)