Métamorphose de Narcisse, is completely derived from one very short recording of Dali speaking of the painting he painted for Dr. Sigmund Freud, Métamorphose de Narcisse, recorded by Robert Descharnes (and used with his permission). It utilizes time and pitch shifting and various other audio processes to tranform his brief speech about the painting into a surrealist commentary. Beginning with a straight recording of the sample, it proceeds to ecstatically mangle and hysterically distort into particularized gestures the sound of Dali's voice. Stylistically the piece harkens back to my early noise experiments, Golem I and II and to more recent pieces from the Obliterature series.
Métamorphose de Narcisse - MP3
Métamorphose de Narcisse - The Painting by Salvador Dali