Everything is Sound (bmp version)

          *bmp's realization of our experimental sound art (same title, see the video to hear it)

BRA AND PANTY VS. TWO PIECE BIKINI

Nairaos kamakailan lang ang FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the Philippines 2013 at talaga namang umulan ng mga naggagandahan at nagsesexihang katawan! Sana next time gawin nilang 1000 sexiest women para solid one to sawa talaga…

Subalit ang ikinakabagabag namin ay kung bakit may mga kababaihan na ayaw masilipan ng bra o panty pero kung makapagsuot ng two piece bikini sa beach, kita pa minsan ang kuyukot at singit e proud na pround, magpapa-picture tapos ipo-post pa sa mga social network sites para mas maraming makakita at para ito ay komentan o i-like, bakit? Dahil ba akma naman sa beach ang bikini kaya ok lang? Pero public places din naman ang mga beach maliban kung nasa private pool ngunit ganun pa din kasi ipo-post din sa internet ang mga pictures. Ah kasi yung bra and panty pang bahay lang talaga at pamproteksyon o support sa private part kaya hindi pwede ipakita sa madla o sa lansangan? Ngunit maski garter man lang kasi nito ayaw nila pakita talagang tatakpan, siguro nahihiya, longga na kasi…

Wirdo nga e, kapag nabosohan ng panty ang isang artistang babae halimbawa o tipong nagpe-perform sya at biglang tumaas ang palda kita panty instant controversy ‘yun na para bang nakakahiya o nakakatawa. Kasi nga nasilipan sya ng panty which is hindi dapat? Pero ‘yung same girl na ‘yun ay nagsusuot din naman ng two piece bikini sa mga movie, tv, and magz. Anong pinagkaiba nun? May bayad kasi ‘yung pagsuot nya nun? ‘Yung tela ba? O isa lamang itong social upbringing at media programming?

Ganun din kasi kahit sa mga ordinaryong kababaihan tulad nito, “Tang ina pare nakasabay ko kanina sa jeep ‘yung classmate natin si ano _____________ nakabukaka sa harap ko kita panty kulay maroon!” na para bang nasilayan na niya ang buong kalangitan kung makapagkwento sa kaklase. Syempre hindi magpapatalo ‘yung kaklase, “Sarap naman! Nakita ko nga picture nya last summer kagabi sa FB, anseksi tol!”. Natural hindi papayag ‘yung nakaboso ng panty ni ano __________ na maungusan sya ng kaklase, siya dapat bida e. “Wala ‘yan chong, ‘yung sakin live e sa harap ko mismo…”.

Marahil mas secretive at mas private kasi ang datingan ng panty kesa bikini kaya mistulang sacrilege o blasphemy ito kapag nasilip ng kung sino. Naitanim na din kasi sa ulirat natin na ang bikini ay pang swimming at ang panty pang akit sa partner. Pero ano pa man suot ng partner mo sa kama huhubarin pa din ‘yan.

E ano kaya kung bra at panty naman ang suot ng mga babae sa beach or pool o mag papic lang ng naka bra at panty kaht sa loob ng kwarto lang ba ganun or pag bagong bili undies nila at i-post din sa internet? Sana may makaisip gawin 'yun maiba lang…

Everything is Sound (digital radiophonic, glitch, databending)

Music, video, and lyrics by Gen Thalz

THE ALCHEMY OF SOUNDS:

I think sometimes the role of a person who makes music is to take these everyday noises that are ugly and make them beautiful, and by this they doing magic ~ Bjork (singer-songwriter)

*No well-known musical instruments were used in the making of this music or sounds. No notes, notation, complex scale, or any simple chords. All sounds were made of random noises we collected, recorded and mutated, except for the human voice.

Ingredients:

1. Personal sound of morning piss on a Pik-Nik (original) can.
2. Wine Glass harping.
3. Crumpled newspaper.
4. Rubber band, plucked.
5. Stapler, pressed several times.
6. Comb scraping with hairpin.
7. Shake water jug.

We call the technique used in this music or sound as “Digital Radiophonic” or “Databending”. It is a digital version of the original techniques such as Radiophonic and Music Concrete were composers use magnetic tape, morphophone and other recording devices available at that time to record and manipulate raw sounds from anything they could find on their surroundings or "found sound" like frying pan, spoon and fork etc. They manipulate these recorded sounds by changing its speed or tempo, altering the pitch, distort it, reversed, apply effects like echo, delay, flanger and so on to create new weird, strange, out of this world sound.

One of the key figure in radiophonic is Delia Derbyshire (musician, composer of electronic music, and music concrete), they call her “The Sculptress of Sound. Best known for her electronic realization of Doctor Who theme music (BBC science fiction television, 1960's).

The only difference between Digital Radiophonic and the original Radiophonic itself is the device use. Here we only used computer, music editor software, and a ordinary microphone use for chatting but the process is much like the original radiophonic, only we manipulate sounds as wave form on the music editor software and we want to be minimal in a sense, and to be sound more like glitch music similar to the works of Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda, Pan Sonic, and Kabutogani. 

However glitch music is primarily made of computer or any machine sound errors. So what we basically do here is creating a glitch sound using radiophonic/music concrete technique and databend digitally.

It’s not complex or technical and not so simple as well, but more detailed (fussy) and time consuming, so you would put a lot of effort just to create a 1 minute or 3 minutes music piece out of the abstract sounds you may find wherever they came from.

Digitally it’s not that easy, what more for the original radiophonic and music concrete were they cut and paste magnetic tape manually to produce unconventional sounds? But it’s really worth the journey, especially if you’re into experimental music or sound art.

Music concrete, radiophonic, glitch music, and digital radiophonic is a new look or another way of composing presented by means of non-traditional way of making music. Collecting any form of noises or sounds then turning it - the abstract, errors, and chaos of sounds into order. As Pierre Henry (pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.) states:

“Musique concrète, in my opinion … led to a manner of composing, indeed, a new mental framework of composing". 

Glitch Art: Digital Spectrum

Orbs

Orbs (deep)

Orbs (deeper)

Decoding (Static i)

Run Time Error (green)

Run Time Error (yellow)

Run Time Error (blue)

The Wall (minimalism)

Bits and Glitches ll

*inspired by Mark Applebaum's (composer and professor of music composition and theory) METAPHYSICS OF NOTATION

"Bits and Glitches II"

Our book is now available (Fully Booked Branches)

The Secret Book of the Philippines is now available at the following Fully Booked branches:

Bonifacio Global City
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Bonifacio Global City
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Rockwell
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Center 1211 Makati City
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and

Greenbelt
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Makati City

Generative Ascemic Writing

"Collective Unconscious"

*This is one of the many Ballpen Tester Paper (front and back) from National Bookstore Sm North Edsa, we secretly stole it last 06.09.2013 around 11-12 noon.