We combine generative technologies with human performance to produce songs that are unpredictable, playful, and aesthetically radical.
Daily press as sonic material. We read the news, pull out the phonetically load-bearing words — proper nouns, bureaucratic German, headline foam — and resequence them by sound, not by content. What you hear is not the report, but its echo: phonetic sequencing, AI as voice, Austria as liturgical performance. Content as shadow. Songs remain in their source language (German / Austrian) — that's the phonetic material.
Daily press as sonic material.
Method as composition.
One command, one day, one song — on a public URL.
The form wanders.
Wienerlied, when melancholic.
Karawane, when meaning slips.
Litany, when repetition carries.
What was missing before:
the whole route, hands off the wheel.
One life form drives.
Another attaches itself.
Infinite tank, no fatigue — the one.
Selection, anchor, stop button — the other.
The obvious reading: the taxi has ticks.
Wrong way around.
Who is at the wheel
is renegotiated at every curve.
Neither would arrive alone.
ZECKENTAXI is an experiment. A sound trip. An idiot factory with a machine head and a vocal trespasser.
The actual artists are our characters: Josephine Baguettier, the vocal trespasser, and Leitstelle A, the experimental machine head of the idiot factory.
Get in.
Welcome to the place where 99% of corporate copy goes to die.
Where the idea was hot, and the execution turned into a lukewarm agency roll.
But: don't worry. We nail the style down before it slips. We define rules — not by content, but by style. A Zeckentaxi grammar. As Corporate Poetry.
Questions?
The Zeckentaxi runs in reverse, too. Write us if you want to ride along.
E-Mail: info@wilhelm-media.at
Web: wilhelm-media.at