May 01, 2006 05:05 pm hey Hue. You forgot the link mate. lol.
Experiment in audio-induced paranoia...
Posted on May 01, 2006 04:21 pm
Hue
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Member Since: Apr 11, 2004
Here Comes The Man, is something I did a while back, and always meant to post here, but never really got around to it . It was done when I was at an experimental point... alot of knob-turning going on throughout the work with some interesting results .
Please take part in the experiment by giving a listen... just for fun . : p
~Hue
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May 01, 2006 05:05 pm hey Hue. You forgot the link mate. lol.
May 01, 2006 05:39 pm I sat alone in a dark room and listened. I was glad I wasn't too stoned.
It seems to occppy the shadow place. The in-between of insomnia and the screaming nightmare from which I never wake up.
Very patient writing. I like the feedback sound at 3.28 ish. All that guitar texture fits well. Sensitive mixing and great sounds.
Perfect if you want to spin out after a big night!
May 01, 2006 05:53 pm My god Hue...Im at work listening to this thru a pair of Sony MDR7506's which are some pretty detailed headphones...And I was gettin scared...LOL
I like it!
Its an aura that I used to mess around with alone in the studio...Dark, washy sound...
May 01, 2006 05:56 pm Quote:
I sat alone in a dark room and listened. I was glad I wasn't too stoned.
Outstanding !
The 'feedback' at 3:28ish, is actually the draw of a violin bow on the 'ol LP, heavily delayed, and effected . Another disguised instrument on it is the 'kick-drum' that's run through a ring modulator, and changed slightly between each of it's hits .
May 01, 2006 06:07 pm Thanks you guys !
Oh, and thankyou for participating in todays experiment . : p
May 01, 2006 11:32 pm This would be great video game music on a board requiring exploration of a cave/mine...
May 02, 2006 10:46 am gosh i wanna hear this stuff....dude, you're gonna hafta send me a cd (at cd quality even yeuk)...
May 02, 2006 12:02 pm Not a problem . I'll send it along with the DBD, and AT Cds . I started working on ATs stuff last night... some of it is salvageable, but everytime the bass player stepped on his effect-box, the mix goes to hell . : /
May 02, 2006 07:27 pm Performance Art is what this is. you should be doing this in one of those freaky theatre's. With a liquid light show and all the trippy trimmings. Everything pulsating with the music.
I see a kind of paisley shaped amoeba squirting itself between 2 slinky protazoa's. Suddenly a flash of purple and orange hits me in the eyes. I'm frightened, goose bumps and a chill suddenly streak down my spine toward my feet. I... I... I'm paralysed, I... Cant... Move!
Suddenly the purple give way to a rush of scarlett, my head... its... spinning on my body... Now my hand is reaching for my head, but its not attached to me...
Its coming out of the wall...
I'm surounded by my own hands....
thousands of them...
all reaching for.....
my head???????
Amd I,
DEAD?????
May 02, 2006 07:29 pm OH ya, that was pretty kool Hue. I'm gonna scare Tuna with that one. I'm re-burning his sleeping CD and popping that in at about 20 minutes and boosting the level up a bit so it sneaks up on him as he drifts off.
May 03, 2006 08:48 am Performance Art, eh ? Alright . I was a little befuddled when I went to post it, and couldn't figure out what genre to place it in . I figured 'Folk' was the closest, as it is relative to environment . Glad y'a liked it ! Y'a got'ta let me know how it goes with the Tuna experiment... that sounds like it could be alot of fun .
I'm think I'm going to look into getting some amoeba, and protazoa for the studio . You know... just to enhance listening sessions .
heh "I'm afraid it's scientific experiments for the lot of y'a ."-Monty Python
May 03, 2006 08:47 pm I'll definately let ya know how it goes. But indeed, enjoyed it again this evening. I might have to make a ritual out of it. Close my eyes and drift off for a moment or three with it.
May 03, 2006 08:54 pm I like this Hue. It puts me in a "lost Highway" frame of mind. Nice work.
May 04, 2006 12:16 pm Hey, thanks for the compliment Diemusik . Lost Highway has some pretty cool tunes on it... I have the soundtrack, but have never seen the film .
Lookin' forward to that Noize .
May 04, 2006 12:26 pm dude anything Angelo Badalementi (atleast i think that's how it's spelled) is THE MAN....i got into him via Twin Peaks, and he's got some stweet stuff out...big fan, and now i wanna hear this even more. we'll have internet up here soon at the new place...just gotta get paid a few more times!
May 04, 2006 07:30 pm Hue, Lost Highway is very intense, the music really drives it that way. Angelo and Trent really went out of their way for making the music drive the film into a staight of panic.
May 05, 2006 06:54 pm Hue, it seems you an I are ging for the same trends, as I've been doing stuff similar to this for an avante-garde ritual theater group I'm working with. But yeah, this is good stuff here. Make more! lol
May 05, 2006 06:54 pm Oh and Noize - can I use that little scene you wrote above? I think that I could fit it into our current production with relative ease.
May 05, 2006 10:56 pm Loki, you can surely use it. Not a problem at all.
Just make sure and correct the typo's. :-)
May 06, 2006 10:23 pm 'Ritual theatre' . That sounds pretty interesting !
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Hue, it seems you an I are going for the same trends...
This song is actually two years old, so perhaps it's time I take inventory of these 'trends'... kind'a find out where the hell I've been for the last two years ! Maybe even compile some of this stuff for an actual album of sorts, though I'd prolly have to aquire an extra day a week to pull that off .(Eight... like that one song... by those English guys.)
If I do I'm calling it "Don't Try This At Home !" heh
May 07, 2006 05:53 pm Quote:
If I do I'm calling it "Don't Try This At Home !" heh
Or just Try This at Home might work as well, since it is home made. :-)
I've been hesitating plugging my old SparQ drive in for that same reason Hue. I am afraid I will find some of that old stuff and it will be wanting me to work on it again and breath new life into it. And right now I dont have that kind of time, and it will drive me nuts.
There is some stuff backed up on those old 1 gig carts that is maybe 10 years old or more.
Ya, and Loki, about that Ritual Theatre thing, you dont lke sacrifice anything do you?
May 08, 2006 07:09 am Quote:
There is some stuff backed up on those old 1 gig carts that is maybe 10 years old or more.
Oh man, there's got'ta be some gems on there !
There will come a day, when the time will come... someday . ; )
May 08, 2006 08:06 pm Am I the only one who heard the ghost of Elliott Smith hanging around the edges of this?
Good stuff...reminded me of System Shock 2 for some reason. I like it.
May 08, 2006 09:07 pm No real sacrifices, although we have done fake sacrifices... whatever the production calls for.
May 08, 2006 09:17 pm Oh ya, we kind of got off trac here didnt we?
Fake sacrifices are OK then I guess. :-)
But indeed Hue, I know there are probably some goodies in those old babies, but I'm gonna just have to buck up and dig in one of these days.
May 09, 2006 02:07 pm [quote] Am I the only one who heard the ghost of Elliott Smith hanging around the edges of this?
Good stuff...reminded me of System Shock 2 for some reason. I like it.[/quote]
I never heared of Elliott Smith... appearently he did something like this ? Haven't heared of System Shock 2, either . Statements like this make me wonder just how much music I'm missing that's out there... compells me to seek it out . Then again, I'm not sure by ending my appearent state of 'isolation/insulation' would help me produce more or less works like this one, or anything else for that matter . I find that, sometimes, the best inspiration is to place oneself in a desert, barren of inspiration . Like in the case of this piece, I listened to that single kick(1/24?) completely uneffected for hours and hours before the rest came pouring out . Thanks for the listen thermocaster, your insight is appreciated... gon'na check out those artists .
Loki, the sacrifices we make for our art(s) far exceeds that of the life of a dumb animal, so really if you care to embue your 'focus point' with such imagry go right ahead... save me the face !
Noize... bring it man, we're ready whenever you are . Old recordings are the best because of the archiological factor involved . Critique is almost irrelevant when it comes to the inspection of a moment in time that denotes the path of where one has arrived... if they're happy where they are . It's all the situations that ask "How the hell did I get here ?" that require the microscope .
May 09, 2006 03:50 pm Hue,
Just to let you know...Elliott Smith was a indie-rock semi-icon in the late 90's and early 00's. Wrote a lot of really depressed and isolated songs with some solid pop hooks. Something about the tone of the instruments reminded me of that. Sadly, he killed himself a couple of years ago.
System Shock 2 isn't an artist...it was actually a PC-based video game that came out in the late 90's. Very spooky sci-fi horror game, set on a "ghost ship" filled with mutants. Quality stuff...lots of atmosphere.
May 09, 2006 09:02 pm Hue, there is somewhere on cassette in this dump, a version of Hangmen by a band known as Mason Proffit. It is probably the ugliest recording I was ever a part of. An impromptue jam session in a concrete basement, 2 mics into a 4 track. And lots and lots of malted beverages. If I find it I may post it just for the pure laughableness of it all.
May 09, 2006 09:28 pm thermocaster, I couldn't find a place that'll let me sample his stuff, but from what I did find, he sounded like a hell of a guy, but had some pretty major drug issues . Prett sad stuff, man .
www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-10/22.shtml
Noize man, you can be truly inspiring at times ! Sharing your worst work with us like that... it's just beautiful . I will join you in this endevor to acknowledge that part of the audio-trip when the recording process itself was a rushed and secondary thing to the 'moment of the event' . Hmmmm... only the absolute worst recording would do though . heh Let's start a new thread for this one ! There may be some others who'd like to play this game . : p
May 09, 2006 09:33 pm Allrighty then. I will try and find that cassette tommorrow. And whomever gets there first can start the thread.
Does indeed sound like fun. Now I am on a mission to find the worst stuff I can. I suppose this would have to go in Talking Smack, since it probably will result in nothing but that.
May 09, 2006 09:44 pm The one I'm considering is also on cassette, and may very be one of the worst recordings/performances in existance .(with exception of those Yoko Oh-no recordings, you know the ones with Clapton on it.) Also involving malted beverages in large amounts, among other effects, this recording(if I can find it) is the documentaion of an actual band practice with the complete butchery of the Metallica song The Four Horsemen . No drummer, no lyrics... makes me crack up just thinking about it !
I will start the hunt tomorrow as well, and yeah this is deffinately Talkin Smack material . haha
May 11, 2006 09:36 pm I found it. Now to find a few minutes to search the tape for that tune. Its a 90 minute with a ton of hideous covers done by a bunch of loaded fool's. And yes sorry to say I was one of them.
Its an all out jam with a bunch of nuts who never played together before that night. Although we had all heard each other play so most could step right in. There are a couple of original's as well. As I get time I might toss a bunch up just for yucks.
I think this stuff is from somewhere around 80 to 82. Not really sure as most of that time was blur.
Hue, I'll start a new thread in Talking Smack then, unless you get there before me.
May 12, 2006 07:38 am Sweet ! I know where to look for the one to post, but I have yet to get to it . This weekend for sure, though .
May 12, 2006 07:41 am Man, this makes me want to dig thru my old cassettes and VHS tapes of the old days...I have a small cassette case full of practice tapes and gig videos...
May 12, 2006 08:12 am Hell yeah ! Funs stuff, for sure .
May 12, 2006 07:27 pm Ya, we can make it the best/worst thread. Although for now I am going for the worst as this cassette is really bad.
I had a little listen last night. Hangman wasnt as bad as I remember, but some of the other stuff is absolutely hideous. And that is being gentle.
And funny enough, while digging for that particular cassette I found several odd bits of stuff that were long lost ideas just put to tape and mixed down quickly and forgotten about. Even found some of my best on hold and musac stuff. I'll post it all eventually.
May 13, 2006 06:07 pm it wierded me out. liked it. syd barret has to hear this... he'd really love it.
May 15, 2006 03:19 pm Thanks Tony... wierd is good .
Noise, I too found some other qualifiers while looking for 'the one' . Unfortunately, most of the weekend was consumed by me trying to be a plumber... read as: 'just replacing a faucet, but making the matter much worse by touching it myself, instead of calling someone who does this for a living.' What a mess . I may have water back on this comming weekend, but it will take a remodel of the sink area . Ugh... just as well .
May 15, 2006 06:01 pm Hue - least it was only a faucet. My latest attempt to be a plumber involved fixing a toilet that wouldn't flush. That was not pleasant. Water was squirting everywhere. I just duct taped stuff together and it stoped. Have no idea what did..
May 16, 2006 07:26 pm Ya, I've just done the kitchen faucet. The toilet down here, and am doing the shower faucet in 2 weeks. Not looking forward to the shower as it means shutting down the entire house since they didnt plumb in shut offs for the shower.
But ya, trying to get things done around here. Cleaning for Geoffs visit on Thursday, and picking away at the moving of things in here to make room for the bookcase. I did actually get the drum rack fixed as well as the large speakers stands modified and mounted. So no they dont thump so hard from the solid stands I was using.
But indeed, it left me no time other then to locate and listen quickly to the tape. But as I said in the other thread, there is more then just the one tune on there that is bad. In fact some is much worse then that one. Cant wait to post some of it for the pure horror of it all.
May 17, 2006 01:02 pm Quote:
Not looking forward to the shower as it means shutting down the entire house since they didnt plumb in shut offs for the shower
Yup, that's pretty much where I'm at now . They're damn sure going to be there when I'm done ! With 60 some hours of a workweek in between the plumbing sessions, I'm feeling very greatful and a bit humble for having friends that have water . heheh
I have, in my minds-eye, seen where the tape lies... waiting .
[MarlinBrando]The horror .[/MarlinBrando]
May 17, 2006 09:14 pm Oh ya, and did I add gettng ready for the scout campout this weekend as well. Jeez, I need some time for myself.
May 20, 2006 11:37 pm Oh man if you guys do a "worst of" thread I'm there. I'm actually working on transfering a few old tapes that I had in a box from my high school band days. Its not easy to listen to but it sure brings back memories.
May 21, 2006 07:33 am Yes yes ! Noize is appearently tied up with the troops, and I've been involved in a guerilla-plumbing project, but things should be underway soon . Basically a 'best of the worst'... it's got to be 'real bad' in one or more ways, i.e. real-nasty recording, performance, and/or both . : p
First one ready starts the thread, so feel free to get things rolling if you like . Hopefully there will be a bunch of folks about this one .
May 23, 2006 09:00 pm And post back herre when if you are the first one to start the thread. I know I'm watching this thread as well as others.
And ya Hue, the plumbing thing. I get back on Sunday, and now in the same bathroom I just fixed the toilet in the sink faucet takes a dive and just plain stops. So sunday was another repair day. But now, I'm back on track and hope to be having something up by Wed. or Thur.
It must be plumbing hell everywhere I guess. At least for some of us.
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