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i've been reading up on a genre called "Lowercase Music" lately... its alot like minimalism and ambient music... but it has even more emphasis on silence, and quiet sounds. There also seems to be alot of emphasis on recording inaudible sounds, and editing them to be in human hearing range (ie, a piece was done, recording an ant hill... not possible for humans to hear... but when recorded at 192khz sampling rate... you then down pitch it to a human hearing level...) It sounds really cool, and Id like to read more about it. If anyone has any articles, or just any thoughts on it, id love to hear/read! thanks! |
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can you tell us of some artists that fit into this genre? time hecker could be close to this and i love his music... |
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Where can I find some of this stuff? Any names that are associated with it? |
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from allmusic.com: The end of the XXth Century and beginning of the 2000s saw the rise of a new interest in minimal forms of music. Old-school minimalists like Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier enjoyed a renewed level of appreciation among a younger generation of avant-garde music fans. Concurrently a handful of new approaches and esthetics appeared in avant-garde circles that followed a common decision to strip down the music to its bare essentials. Instead of attacking the listener with barrages of sounds, more and more artists decided to offer limited sound events and invite their audiences to scrutinize them more closely. The term "post-minimalism" assumes a generic role here. Two of its strongest incarnations developed among electronic music and free improvisation. The word "lowercase" stemmed from electronica but quickly spread to the realm of sound art to designate any music focused on silence, contemplative sounds, and minimal events. Composers like Steve Roden, Bernhard Günter, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and John Hudak work with only a few sound sources, often only a single tone that is modified over long stretches of time. Sachiko M reintroduced the use of sine waves, going back to the historical basics of electronic music. At the same time that avant-garde electronic artists were striving to do "less with less" (some would designate it as the post-post-modern era), free improvisation circles were undergoing their own transformation. The idea of an introspective, scaled-down, silence-driven instead of sound-driven improv is not new — it was the basis of John Stevens' teachings in the late 1960s. But a level of abstraction unheard before emerged in the late 1990s. Some improvisers, like Axel Dörner, John Butcher, Franz Hautzinger, Günter Müller, and Werner Dafeldecker, began to leave more and more room between sound events and abandoned the use of notes to favor drones, electronically altered events, and most of all tongue and saliva noises channelled through their instruments, walking a th |
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thats tim hecker |
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walking a thin line between the "something" and the "nothing." This approach of the instrument as an extra limb, an extension of the improviser's body, instead of an artifact manufactured to produce music, was epitomized by the groundbreaking CD The Contest of Pleasures by Dörner, Butcher and Xavier Charles, and the eponymous release by Dachte Musik (led by Hautzinger). — François Couture List of Key Artists John Butcher Dachte Musik Axel Dörner Filament Bernhard Günter Franz Hautzinger Sachiko M Günter Müller Steve Roden |
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i havnt heard any of these people yet... so far my knowledge of this genre is all through reading articles |
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hmm, dont know any of this guys... but this "often only a single tone that is modified over long stretches of time" sounds very much like what tim hecker is doing - and it is my favourite ambient music at the moment, really brilliant stuff |
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i need to hear tim hecker... sounds good! |
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and i'd expect some japanese people in that list...they do this kinf of things |
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i made a whole album of silence once, never released it though. If you dont speak and listen, you can sometimes hear it playing in the background |
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it has a massive underground following. |
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i'd recommend you to check his haunt me... album - its his most minimalistic i think and btw, if you check the sonar thread you can see that some people really liked his live performance (me including) |
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John Cage already did that. |
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UPPERCASE here mate! Hehehe |
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Damn! I really want to hear this stuff now. I wish there was something like it on Kazaa right now. |
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slsk has some john butcher and phil durrant |
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bah, i had to do something at work, and forgot to post this link... its another article on it, and has links to several mp3s... havnt listened yet, seeing as Im at work... |
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the microsound list was/is big into this for a bit. |
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if you convert the brainwaves of dolphins into soundwaves it sounds like music but spead down: this is because radio waves from stations are picked up by the dolphin's sonar organs or something. it had a little thing about it on discovery. also the brainwaves of humans can be converted into soundwaves similar to the music they are concentrating on. this is exciting cos it allows someone to get the sounds one can imagine directly interpretted into digital sound....cool |
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I think everything you just said is bullshit. I dont know about the dolphine thing... but the brainwaves thing is definately bullshit. where do you hear that? or are just being sarcastic? |
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i listened to those examples in that link i provided... it was nice... but i had to pump up my volume to hear it over the hum from the airconditioner unit outside my window...! |
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This thread is gay. These talentless gimps invent a new name for their shit music so that pseudo intellectual knob jockeys will start masturbating over it. |
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i was waiting for one of those responses... suprised it took so long actually... |
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Well I didn't mean you specifically, but if you found out their was a new type of music called rectumramming which was the sonic study of gas escaping from peoples behinds, and one of the examples was done my someone called Rudolph Schitzoid, you would say you found it interesting and challenging. |
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what if afx or ae done it would you say the same |
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I dunno if you have read my posts but when it comes to music I call a spade a spade. If I don't like something I say I don't like it, I don't pretend to like it just because everyone else does, and I don't beleive in the creation of new genres just because you don't have the talent to get recognised in the general music spectrum. |
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That's a little TOO lowercase for me, the clips in that Wired link - I like things not much more minimal than (listen to inhale) |
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you didnt mean me specifically... but if "you" found out there was a new music.... "you" would say you found it interesting... so was that directed at me then? or not specifically. I just think its damn cool that people are sampling inaudible sounds, and putting them into our hearing range. and i liked what i heard of those samples. relaxing... you concentrate on the music much more... think what you want man. |
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i dont see what any of that has to do with me? I read about the music, and thought it sounded interesting. so shot me? |
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Sadly I live too far away to be able to do that. How do you know they have sampled inaudible sounds? They might have just messed about with a sample until it sounded as though it might have been inaudible to start with...then they put it on a website for people to be amazed at. Besides I am just winding you up :D |
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the idea of ant hils woring sounds good but just hearing isnt enough it would work better with the visual micro life in full glory |
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you enjoy being a dick then? |
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No I enjoy winding you up...it is like walking up to a spastic and pulling faces at them...good for a laugh to see their reaction but ultimately meaningless. |
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youre a real stand up kind of guy |
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Cheers ;) |
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if sounds are out of the human spectrum of hearing, they are not meant to be heard. perhaps this is ultimately rather dangerous. |
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yeah, cheers trolly troll troll boy |
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why are you calling earthleakage a troll? I thought that was a valid point to raise. |
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so... any particular reason your just started being an ass to me today? |
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do you mean the ketal talking about you to the toaster and stuff |
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yes, yes there is, but it is personal and I can't go into it on a public message board. |
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kcinsu@kcinsu.com in looking forward to reading all about it |
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Not personal about you...you just gave me the opportunity. It is personal as in I cheated on my girlfriend, and the girl I cheated with has given me a nasty infection which I have given to my girlfriend...and now she won't speak to me...so I am in a wierd mood. |
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I'll tell you on here, I don't care. You're just a bit of an arse really, aren't you? |
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please give reasons. besides the fact that your little god paul didnt like me, and you are just tagging along. i started a thread on music... this is what being an arse is like is it? |
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Boring...do you ever smile and have fun, other than in photo's where DJ Shadow is flipping you the bird? |
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"My little god" heh. I make a friend and everyone assumes that I suck his cock. I didn't require someone else to point out what I dislike about you, just as I'm sure you don't need one of your many fans to point out what you hate about me. Anyhoo, cheerio. |
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i can hear them. my pot is racist, he keeps calling the kettle black. |
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:) |
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