Listening to NthNth/SthSth, LP from Release the Bats (Sweden). half/theory website.
Starts off barely audible, a whistling like a noodling on a recorder, or a machine whirring like an old tape recorder or airconditioner. Some guitar drones sound, single strings, tending towards distortion which becomes the main drive of the piece. Becomes increasingly jangly, increase on the overdrive, drums or something percussive comes in halfway through, and the whistling tends towards overblown, and then fades out. A snare drum hit any which way, loosely… Guitar drones fade back, left with the echo of this drum.
Mapping this:
(1)Whistling recorder sound…………(4)faster, higher frequencies, shorter notes…(8)overblown…(9)fade into highest nothing…
(2)guitar jangles…..(3)distorted, repeated……..(5)layered…….(6)crescendo…………………………………………………(11)climax/peak…(12)less layers, intensity subsides….
(7)random percussive sounds……(10)loose rhythm……………………………………………..(13)left with a slack snare slightly variable rhythm.
Also: Seht – ‘Dead Bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite)’.
Simple and subtle drones, smooth and clear quality, like pure sounds…almost quite sentimental in the end, picking out a tonic chord, i think… drones like synthesizers with big waves or changing low frequencies, and the ever present wash of waves in the background.
And listened to some early australian electronic music from shame file music. And a bit from the unnameable, clifton green.
So I’ve decided that I want to simplify my project, and just make the aim to create an atmospheres, or series of atmospheres, rather than illustrate a narrative based on visual objects.
I guess I was interested in taking a gesture – some speech, spoken words, for example, and exploring what could happen if I just treated these things as sound events, rather than representations of objects.
what can one do with an atmosphere of voices?But if these are sound events, then they are not voices. Perhaps I am asking what I can turn a voice into? What kind of an event can I create with the recorded sound event of my voice?
Timetable:
11.40 Try 6 things for 10 mins each
1) layer lots of voice samples together (20 mins – bounced to 11sec of “chorus”)
2) try a granular synthesiser on some voice (30 mins – werd plugin on chorus.wav)
3) a relationship between voice and harmonics (ended up with some distorted wind on a microphone sound, under water)
4) try doing a loop in realtime midi track, low frequencies rumbling pure sound
Break for lunch.
