Noise Music|Feedback Loop|Sound Sculpture

Strange Noise in the Sky ~ Gen Thalz

*All parts of this audio-video experiment was created out of feedback signals recorded live.

-The sound is a sculpted feedback signals coming from all the hardware stated below looping and controlling each other, the mixer and the effects pedal is solely the one acting as oscillator or sound/tone generator. There is no external sound sources, all is coming from within the hardware natural hiss, hum, buzz etc. noises.  And by patching cables
and arranging every equipment in different ways, the possibilities are endless, almost like a semi-modular synthesizer.
We try to be gentle with outmost care as possible twiddling and manipulating the knob because just a slight of a turn can
change the form, tone, timbre, volume and pitch of the frequencies.

Hardware:

1.Analog Mixer
2.Mini Synth Delay Effects
3.Chorus Stompbox
4.Vibrato Stompbox
5.DIY Feedback Looper


-The visuals is also a feedback signals coming from a camera staring at its-self or by its own monitor creating loop
and a slight delay on its output. The results is very generative and may vary using different types of camera and t.v.,
the equipment we used is stated below. By pointing the camera at different angles and zooming it in or out, it can creates
a vast variety of organic-geometrical-fractal shapes, designs, and patterns as if one is on a wonderland trance-like altered-state visions. We put together here some of the videoclips that we created.

Equipment:

1.SLR Camera
2.CRT TV
3.LCD TV


"Sometimes it was enough to barely touch one of the recording or playback potentiometers to develop a sound. It was in this way, i think, that i discovered the pleasure of a work made with the tips of the toes or rather the fingers, and above all in looking for a certain kind of sound." ~ Eliane Radigue [electronic music composer]

Mixology||Concoction

White Russian [remix]

 

Instead of vodka we used gin, and instead of cream or fresh milk we used full cream milk to give it more thickness and creaminess.

ingredients:

1.Gin (vodka for the original)

2.Coffee Liquor

3.Full Cream Milk

Glass = Old Fashioned/Rock Glass

*inspired by "The Dude" from the movie The Big Lebowski

 

 

Gray Russian [version]

 

A little experiment that we try like an alchemist trying to turn lead into gold, it's almost the same as the White Russian but this time we add choco syrup on the mix to give it more textures and taste.

ingredients:

1.Gin (vodka for the original)

2.Coffee Liquor

3.Full Cream Milk

4.Choco Syrup

Glass = Old Fashioned/Rock Glass

*inspired by "The Dude" from the movie The Big Lebowski

 

 

Black Russian [remix]

This is the opposite of White Russian, it's darker and acidic. The only thing that we change here is vodka, again we used gin.

ingredients:

1.Gin (vodka for the original)

2.Coffee Liquor

3.Cola

Glass = Old Fashioned/Rock Glass

*inspired by "The Dude" from the movie The Big Lebowski

 

Golden Sunset [version/stir]

 

Because it's mango season, why not use/add its juice to the White Russian recipe instead of cream or cola. Aside the title suggesting its color, the mango juice creates a thick but soft textures to the mix and its sweetness reflects the calmness and mellow-ish-esque of a sunset on the boulevard. BTW please don't be trick by its name, you can also enjoy this during sunrise. ;)

 

Ingredients:

 

1.Vodka
2.Coffee Liquor
3.Mango Juice

 

Glass = Old fashioned/Rock Glass

 

 

i18n [organic/sound texture/breakbeat]

*please use headphones

This is just another sound design/music concrete experiment that leads into a beat oriented atmospheric way.

Most of the processed found sound here is a sound of birds chirping and rooster cocking nearby that we accidentally captured while recording a sample intended only to pickup the gentle ambient sounds of the morning on a rooftop drinking coffee and turn it into something harsh, dirty, and gritty.

The visual is an actual steady footage of the recordings on the rooftop that undergo through a over-acting processing until the video turns into white, we really want it to be minimal. The grainy, sand, dusty figure that coming to and fro throughout the video is actually our shadow - as we move around the place or pressing the "record" button. As someone see or notice this is really not meant to be sync with the audio.

And the verse at the near end of the video is from our poem/song title "Through the Broken Glass".

"The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun. ... It doesn't really mean anything. I just liked the sound of it" ~ Morton Subotnick [electronic music composer]



　 

minimal

decay

 

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shard

 

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*verse from our poem "Through the Broken Glass"

blot

 

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Maxwell's Demon [Lowercase Music/Field Recording/Drone]

*Please use headphones

This is our attempt to explore the extreme ambient minimalism of Lowercase (music/sound). Lowercase music is a very quiet usually unheard sounds amplify to the extreme level, popularized by Steve Roden (sound/visual artist) where he records the sound of himself handling paper in different ways.

The sample sound we used here is a recording of generative sounds we capture inside one of the car of MRT we ride from Santolan to Cubao station , at exactly 1 O'clock pm. Although these sounds is not literally "lowercase" or unheard but due to the fact that people who rides MRT either listening to mp3s, playing games, reading text/ebook, voice/video call, or simply talking, the noises we collected were ignored - in a broader sense they were unheard consciously.

We processed those sounds to create - that for us a hellish soundscape reflecting the daily basis suffering of MRT commuters. The result is very organic, and the agony of pain on this track is the chattering of people inside the train heavily slowdown.

*For the visuals, basically it was a simple program we coded using Notepad, then exaggerate the code several times, processed the different results, and arrange it manually according to the sounds in a hope to sync them.

As they all says, "this sounds or music does not need a passive ears, but rather requires an active ears...".

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