I've been listening to this for quite a while, and I must say it's been a good change from the usual stuff labelled 'electronic'.
thats what I thought anyway, until I realised my headphones were broken... fran
Favourite minimalist band.
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Ted+Maul
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· Score: 5, Funny
I've got a tape by these guys called "Head Cleaner". It's very quiet. I've got their video as well.
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The Day Today - Game Warden to the Events Rhino
nothing particularly groundbreaking about it
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discogravy
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· Score: 5, Interesting
cage did this, as the article points out. one of the main points behind his "silent" compositions -- aside from the obvious tongue in cheek 'let's mess with the critics' attitude it had -- was the use of ambient sound as part of the composition. brian eno was inpsired to make "music for airports" (for intents and purposes the first non-classical "ambient" record) when he was recovering from a car accident and asked a friend to put a harpsichord record on the turntable..but she didn't raise the volume high enough before she left so he had to put up with it at a very low volume, barely loud enough to hear over the rain on the windows in his room. the ultra-quietness of these recordings reminds me of heavy metal guitarists trying to out-"heavy" each other. these guys are just trying to out-"quiet" each other.
The future of commercial music
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spektr
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· Score: 5, Funny
I think this is an experiment by the RIAA to test whether they can leave out the music around their audio watermarks and sell them standalone. If the market reacts positive, their profit will skyrocket up to 100.05%, because they don't have to pay those greedy musicians anymore.
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itty-bitty quiet sounds.
I've been listening to this for quite a while, and I must say it's been a good change from the usual stuff labelled 'electronic'.
thats what I thought anyway, until I realised my headphones were broken...
fran
I've got a tape by these guys called "Head Cleaner". It's very quiet. I've got their video as well.
The Day Today - Game Warden to the Events Rhino
cage did this, as the article points out. one of the main points behind his "silent" compositions -- aside from the obvious tongue in cheek 'let's mess with the critics' attitude it had -- was the use of ambient sound as part of the composition. brian eno was inpsired to make "music for airports" (for intents and purposes the first non-classical "ambient" record) when he was recovering from a car accident and asked a friend to put a harpsichord record on the turntable..but she didn't raise the volume high enough before she left so he had to put up with it at a very low volume, barely loud enough to hear over the rain on the windows in his room. the ultra-quietness of these recordings reminds me of heavy metal guitarists trying to out-"heavy" each other. these guys are just trying to out-"quiet" each other.
FreeBSD for the impatient.
I think this is an experiment by the RIAA to test whether they can leave out the music around their audio watermarks and sell them standalone. If the market reacts positive, their profit will skyrocket up to 100.05%, because they don't have to pay those greedy musicians anymore.
Heh,
one of the early phillips demo CD's did this to demonstrate the new-fangled CD players dynamic range... it went like this..
Orchestra playing softly....
Orchestra playing softly....
Orchestra playing softly....
Orchestra playing soft *********FUCKING BIG CANNON!************
As I recall, a lot of audiophile's speakers were replaced after the cones practically leapt across the room.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.