Showing posts with label noise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noise. Show all posts
Monday, December 20, 2010
Marble Tracks- Fast Hands Solo with sqrt effects
These are two effect heavy ambient mixes of relaxation marbles/balls solo I recorded in my house, performed by the renowned percussionist Fast Hands. The dirt mix is layers upon layers of effects, all effects on everything, over and over. The weedalivpmix is a live mixer mix of effects coming in at different times.
Monday, April 05, 2010
"In Pursuit of Silence": How noise really is killing us
This is an article I found on Salon.com about noise and such as an interview/article with George Prochnik who wrote ""In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise." Below is a quote from the article, and it shows the reason I make distorted electronic music.
"Noise wreaks havoc on all different parts of our bodies. The heart rate accelerates. We get vasoconstriction. It's been shown that the elevated blood pressure from nighttime noise continues all through the day. Even if we're not fully aroused by noise, sleep is fragmented. Loss of sleep is tied to all kinds of immune and heart problems, and a real laundry list of ailments. The really scary thing is even if we do habituate mentally to noise, that doesn't change what's happening to our bodies."
The article looks like John Cage wouldn't likeit, but the book title makes me think he would the non-fiction piece. Any way, we all know that house music rots your soul, which is worse than death, so enjoy the ambient noises of the world around you. People demand the technology that is making the noise, so people need to stop bitching about it. If someone eats a whole chocolate pie, I don't want to hear them bitch about being husky either.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
John Cage- The Future of Music – Credo
I BELIEVE THAT THE USE OF NOISE
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at 50 m.p.h. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effeets, but as musical instruments. Every film studio has a library of »sound effects» recorded on film. With a film phonograph it is now possible to control the amplitude and frequeney of any one of these sounds and to give to it rhythms within or beyond the reach of anyone's imagination. Given four film phonographs, we can compose and perform a quartet for explosive motor, wind, heart beat, and landslide.
TO MAKE MUSIC
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at 50 m.p.h. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effeets, but as musical instruments. Every film studio has a library of »sound effects» recorded on film. With a film phonograph it is now possible to control the amplitude and frequeney of any one of these sounds and to give to it rhythms within or beyond the reach of anyone's imagination. Given four film phonographs, we can compose and perform a quartet for explosive motor, wind, heart beat, and landslide.
TO MAKE MUSIC
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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