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my latest release, came out this week. drones and field recordings.
http://auricularrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-to-sleep

enjoy!

and get in touch if you want this kind of sounds on a demo you're making. :)

Ok cool, going to take it spin till I get too sleepy :)

(kidding aside, this is my cup of tea :))

(oh god that pic has surfaced to here as well (fucking "kreatrock"...) )

Nice stuff and fits the concept well :). Nothing revolutionary though, but enjoyable.

>musique concrete
Oh shit, I used to listen to that. I can't even describe how weird it is.

Preacher: :D

i actually have tibetan throat singing in my iPod

Apparently the Doctor Who music is "musique concrete" :)

Musique Concrète is great, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oBcM1xxmeQ !

(now enough derailing on my part, hopefully)

To turn a phrase: "I should make a demo in the style of musique concrete"

>derailing
I'm not seeing any spiderman or pony yet

yay new ps perfect for tonight, just got home from spending the night with family and ircnet with girlfriend on it is down :( so listen to some ps and then sleep sounds like a perfect plan

I also like Musique Concrète... just saying.

nice! i only had a quick listen yet but it seems up my alley so i'm downloading now

what kind of music is lowercase?

nosfe: extreme minimalism that utilises silence as an element in music. Coined by Steve Roden I think, and his album Forms Of Paper is considered a defining album in the genre.

and HIGHCASE is synonym for JAPNOISE i guess :)

sadly enough i had never heard of the genre lowercase either, and now that i'm reading up about it it seems i have some older experiments playing around with the same concept, recording silent sounds and amplifying them. but i usually would filter them to hell until they turned into a texture of some sort and try to fit that into a mood, it seems lowercase as a concept for a genre is slightly different from that. have to try making an album entirely in lowercase one of these days, should be interesting :)

Silence as an element in music? Pure madness, I say!

On an equally uninteresting side note (teehee), I don't fit anywhere on Preacher's .jpg chart. Does that mean I don't exist? And if so, does that mean I don't have to do my taxes this year? Oh joy unbounded!

ps: Remember Breakpoint many years ago when you had a demo shown out-of-competition? Remember our conversation afterwards when I informed you that I sat front-and-center and watched/listened from start to finish? You kept asking me, "but did it hurt you?"

A few years ago I simultaneously recalled that moment *and* a high school field trip to a very noisy pulp and paper mill. So noisy that the administrative office was both sound-proofed and dampened by giant springs to prevent noise-generated vibrations from irritating desk workers.

Mill labourers were required to wear both earplugs *and* earmuffs, whilst we received only earplugs for the duration of the tour.

On our way up to the Sybian-like rooftop, we passed some rotating drums that somehow cooked the pulp fibres in preparation for paper manufacture. It was by far the noisiest bit of equipment, and even at ground floor it could be heard over everything else. But walking past this offensive machine was something else.

It emitted a very very very very very loud and constant mid/high range sine wave-esque tone, and everyone's ears really did hurt. But not only our ears. It went right through our internal organs, and several classmates felt physically ill from the noise. Nasty.

The point of this story? None really. Just thought you might like to know that I now store that paper mill field trip and our Breakpoint conversation in the same musty corner of my brain.

ps: heh, already waiting for it!

thom: should've said emphasis and uses it as a central element in compositions :p, and even then it's not just a rest, but a much broader cageian interpretation of silence. Or what the fuck do I know, haven't looked into it awfully much, it's not really supposed to be original in the first place, but rather that defines a certain aesthetic and movement more precisely, I guess.

And the chart is pretty awful, shouldn't be taken too seriously :)

thom: most probably this :) that reminds me of an interview i listened to the other day, with a sound artist which had an architectural background i believe trying to explain why so many architects are so much more into sound as opposed to other arts (not sure if the affirmation is true, but thats my recollection of the topic starter atleast). and he was saying that it's because sound is such a physical thing, that we feel it physically, that if it's loud enough it shakes your whole body and that that adds another dimension to the experience, some tones even cause organ disfunctions. it's very interesting. would be nice to try to do recordings of such factories (from the isolated chambers i guess) and use those sounds somehow. actually, i'm not sure how capturing for very loud environments can work, wondering if there is special recording equipment that can handle that, need to look into that.

I guess that's the principle dubstep is based on.