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offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2002-05-30 17:26 [#00242752]
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http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,52397,00.html


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 18:08 [#00242854]
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Dude that is awesome!! Im instantly into it. I heard the
samples and was blown away :) It's so anti Merzbow lol.

I wish I could get some cds of this stuff.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 18:15 [#00242876]
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Come on you slags!! Where are the fans??


 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-05-30 18:20 [#00242887]
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This is totally amazing stuff. I'm floored.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 18:21 [#00242889]
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I know. It's sheer minimalism...unless of course you're
being sarcastic


 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-05-30 18:23 [#00242895]
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Crap! You're on to me!

You need one of those Spinal Tap amps that go to 11 to hear
this stuff.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 18:24 [#00242898]
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LOL!!!!! It's called listening with your mind rather than
your ears man. You gotta think about the air in between the
sounds...explore explore!!! :)


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 18:56 [#00242942]
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I don't think anything could be worse than John Cage's
4'33". He did NOTHING so when a quiet peice that comes out
containing SOME sounds...be nice to it.


 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-05-30 19:39 [#00242978]
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You need a good stereo to enjoy all this stuff. Not for
headphones. And you also need a silent neighborhood :-)


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 19:55 [#00242990]
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lol that's true.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 19:56 [#00242991]
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I wouldn't mind working with silence actually. Im very
interested in the relationship between stuff...it's effect.


 

offline license from out of nowhere on 2002-05-30 21:20 [#00243096]
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I'd like to start doing this stuff. I feel like I don't know
where to begin, though.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 21:42 [#00243144]
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Begin anywhere man. Ive noticed a ton of stuff at night
time when I let my dog out to the bathroom. I'll stand at
the door and just listen and the world is indeed full of
songs. You just need to listen. Say drops of water coming
out of the water spout at 4/4 while a car goes by and
backfires. That never happened but just as an example. Fun
stuff if you listen.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-05-30 21:46 [#00243154]
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Lisence: check this page out from a site on Steve Roden who
is apparenly a genius at it. Hopefully this will give you
some inspiration! One of the things he did was put 20 or so
bottles in a tree in various places with speakers in them.
He had cut out the bottom of the glass bottles of course but
that acted like a chamber for the sounds. Imagine what that
would be like. Lots of his stuff is installation work.
Putting stuff up all over the place to capture the most
offbeat, often over heard sounds.

http://www.inbetweennoise.com/imagessound.html


 

offline uzim on 2003-07-16 16:29 [#00782275]
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"You need a good stereo to enjoy all this stuff. Not for
headphones. And you also need a silent neighborhood :-)
"


> if you have very good headphones though, i think it is
better as it also reduces the noise from the outside world
and takes you deeper into the music imo... but that's a
question of taste maybe! =)

(i'm trying listening to the only track of lowercase music i
have yet in several ways, tried it once on headphones on
full volume, once on headphones with normal volume, and now
on speakers... i prefer headphones!
i must say i have koss headphones and imac speakers too, so
my headphones are better quality)


 

offline uzim on 2003-07-16 16:45 [#00782305]
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btw, Amonbrune > "It's so anti Merzbow lol."

> it isn't... Bernhard Günter, a lowercase music artist,
has actually worked with Merzbow on some occasions! ; )


 

offline _user from rostov-on-don (Russia) on 2003-07-16 16:47 [#00782307]
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i've saved that page.......maybe i'll see it later...maybe
not........myconnection's too slow........


 

offline alnuit on 2003-07-17 04:44 [#00782808]
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This is more arcane theory than music...but in a sense it is
also the PERFECT ambient music. I mean...how much more
ambient than an amplified anthill does it get ?


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2003-07-17 05:04 [#00782823]
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Heh, I like it..


 

offline joakimlinden from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-07-17 05:09 [#00782825]
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Yeah, this has been an interest of electroacoustic musicians
for a long time: building from one small sound, magnifying
it and chopping it up, hear it in different forms.

Thanks for the link.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-17 09:19 [#00783257]
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i posted this link like a month ago...

alot of people called it pretentious artwank music


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-07-17 09:28 [#00783280]
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I listened to the uppermost 2 mp3's:

1st: minimal and subtle. mmm... if you want the piss taken
out of subtle music, try crunch1.

2nd: this is pretty dumb because it merely transfers normal
sounds from the outside world into the confined world of
headphones. You're better off listening to actual sounds in
the real world and interpreting them as music, so normal
people can think you're a bit odd as they pass by and see
you daydreaming.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-07-17 21:27 [#00784462]
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I remember that thread :D

Yes it is pretentious artwank...and I agree totally with w M
w also


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-07-18 00:59 [#00784583]
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sounds good on paper, but damn ambient music gives me the
shits :]




 


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