Aura Trans explores the invisible and inexplicable effects of audible language by using resynthesized versions of original voice samples as a phonetic inspiration.

Continuing Lutz’s research for the work series Abstract Language Model (2022 — 2024) which dealt with the semiotic (visible) side of a trans-human / trans-machine language, Aura Trans is the first work of a new series that extends this concept into the sonic scope.
Voice samples of all spoken human languages were first collected from publicly available sources and selected samples transformed into their spectrographic counterparts in order to decouple them from their wave-based origin. After visually manipulating the time bases and spectrum ranges, this edited material was then resynthesized, creating an algorithmically rebuilt version of the original: a new machine-created original or trans-version.

The phonetic expressions of these trans-versions served as an inspiration for the sonic arrangement of the album. The result is a collection of evocative, carefully realized pieces, where the volatile essence of human speech is interpreted with floating and intricate, at times even cinematic, soundscapes.

"In Aura Trans, Andreas Lutz doesn’t just play with language – he lovingly dissects it, feeds it through an algorithmic blender, and serves it back as a shimmering, glitchy soufflé. (…) The album glides between micro-compositions and more expansive ambient soundscapes. Longer pieces like transu and trans= feel like dreamwalks through forgotten speech, with textures that hover between the human and the post-human. Shorter interludes punctuate the flow – some under 30 seconds – like mysterious radio signals intercepted from another dimension. The whole structure reads less like an album and more like a sonic codex, each track a glyph, each tone a cryptic phoneme in a language without grammar. (…) For those curious about the boundaries of sound, language, and perception, this is an engrossing, oddly beautiful collection. It’s like overhearing a conversation in a dream, where the words don’t make sense – but the feeling sticks with you anyway."
— Vito Camarretta via Chain D.L.K.

"There are 16 pieces on this SD card (in various formats), ranging from 16 seconds to just over five minutes. It has that retro-futurist shine of granular synthesis and time-stretching, the digital residue of ambient music; it’s never all too warm yet most pleasant to hear. It is not too mellow, as there are moments of mild distortion (such as in trans=, for instance), and there is quite a bit of variation in these pieces. Somehow, it all seems like music of older days, turn-of-the-century digital ambient, which I haven’t heard in quite a while. Very nice."
— Frans de Waard via Vital Weekly

"For Aura Trans, Andreas Lutz first dove into a wide selection of voice samples from various linguistic regions, then turned to a spectrograph. (…) The impressive closing track trans2, finally, seems to bundle all the influences on the record, as if Lutz’s artscore ambient truly finds liberation here."
— Mario De Block via Luminous Dash