LP plus 12-page book. Composer: Yannis Kyriakides Performers: Electra: Diamanda Dramm (violin), Susanna Borsch (recorder), Michaela Riener (soprano) Saskia Lankhoorn (piano), Yannis Kyriakides (electronics).Face is a multimedia composition for voice, violin, piano, recorders, live electronics and video, based around the use of facial and emotion recognition software. Face plays with how we see ourselves and each other by changing the familiar surface of the face with other representations, alternative portraits in image and sound.The piece navigates between the problematic practice of anthropometry in the early 20th century to the current use of emotional face recognition software, an ever-present aspect of our lives where the reading of the is completely automated - stripped of ambiguity and removed from human intuitive perception. The music of Face, written for the virtuoso Electra ensemble, a quartet of voice, violin, recorder(s) and piano, combines acoustic and computer generated sound to create a hybrid music world, of the acoustic instruments and their synthetic doubles, like a digital mirror. During the performance these sounds were manipulated through the use of a camera and hacked face detection software, that mapped the face of the singer to the modulations of the sound. Artist Johannes Schwartz uses an array of images, such as photographs of anthropological 'life masks' from the early 20th century, masks held in colonial museums, images of face used in fashion magazines and advertising. These moving and eerie images are set alongside live images made of members of Electra, using a photographic scanner that captures the face of the musicians as a line scan over an extended period of time, and transforms it into an almost unrecognisable landscape. Some of these images and the text of Maria Barnas are presented in large format in the 12 page inlay for the vinyl release. Yannis Kyriakides is a composer and sound artist of Greek-Cypriot, British and Dutch nationality. He has created over a hundred and fifty works, comprising of audiovisual compostions, music theatre, installations and instrumental works that have recieved many prizes and performances around the world.