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ROUTINES, RITUALS, & REPETITIONS
by Gen Thalz d[0-0]b
5 track EP (Extended-Paranoia) from the lost subterranean chapter of pure mundane day to day routines, rituals, and repetitions which was converted into voltages and feedback; sequenced and loop into sounds...
*This is an acousmatic techno track. All sampled sounds is from different mysterious Numbers Stations on radio and internet. Sound collage/concoction into something minimally aggressive-harsh-noisy and glitchy with a feel of lo-fi industrial rustiness and dirtiness.
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Credits:
released 24 August 2015
Track: The Numbers Stations
Creator: Gen Thalz
Genre: Electronic
Style: industrial techno, noise, glitch, minimal
Year: 2015
Type: single release
_Special Thanks to:
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Swedish Rhapsody
UVB-76 (The Buzzer)
Webdriver Torso
Re-sample, mixed, and arrange by Gen Thalz
Produced by Marlon B. Zoleta
*The video clip is from AT&T archives - Telephone Switchboard (Old and New), from the 1920's onward. We just cut and select a few scenes and speed it up a little bit to sync and match the timing of our audio. We immediately like and chose this AT&T video clip for this track because it really (obviously) has the feel and vibes of the sound per se. We also like the lo-fi look of it and the patching of cables and dialing on those massive machines.
*This is our entry for the Sound Interpretation Dedication to Paris
posted on Experimental Music (group). We've never been to Paris that's
why we used the medium from where we got some basic info and perceptions
about this city, and that is:
- a mini tour guide video on Paris - two photos of Louvre Pryramid during night and
*We
then transformed these video and photos into audio files as our “raw
sounds” which is kind a glitchy, harsh and noisy at first. Next, by
doing some sonic alchemy and aural sorcery (naks!) ;), we mold these raw
sounds into what we feel about this City of Lights - very serene,
modern yet classical, seductive and secretive. And like all the cities
in the world, we knew Paris also have a dark side, flaws, and haunting
memories like the catacombs beneath it. With these mindset, we created
this soundscape.
*The
video is an actual found footage of a man lost in this massive
Catacombs of Paris. We manipulate it in some degree just to satisfied
our impulsive needs of "What if?".
We hope you enjoy it as we enjoy the process. Thank you... :)
*Found a simple way to do the Aphex Twin's tricks of embedding an image on spectrogram of an audio. Maybe we're a little too late for this but the process is still fun and interesting, here's our take in mono channel... ;)
Track: An Equation
Genre: Electronic
Style: abstract/noise/minimalism
Year: 2015
*All sounds made from analog synthesizer/drum machine, feedback loop, looper/effects processor, noises, and human voice. Recorded using digital multitrack recorder, arranged and mixdown using DAW.
- the video is a VHS tape loop from a broken VHS cassettes (we combine 3 tapes, cut and splice them together, no measurements at all, but a long loop). To make things worst, we draw some random shapes and figures on the reel to add effects. We help the player by pulling the reel to rotate the loop because it gets stuck from time to time, the result is really messed up :)
Probably we cover this song because we are so amazed that we think this track by Sonic Youth was ahead of its time, considering it was written in 1982, it felt like we're listening to some triphop song from the late 90's... Though the tuning of their guitar here is standard and the sounds really differs from their noise-lofi-punk-esque aesthetic which they've known for and we like, the dark-ish downtempo and experimentation here still mesmerizing.
Lyrics -
Note: The lyrics is slightly differs from original, we add some word and subtract a few phrases.
[Ego]
Look before you leap, okay?
Do you read me?
The day we spent, go on...
The dream...
Shit.
Shift...
Fucking youth, working youth
Fucking youth, working youth
Shift.
Do you read me? Do you read me?
The day go on, the dream
Shift.
Fucking youth, working youth
Fucking youth, working youth
Fucking youth, working youth
Fuck, work
Shift, shit
Fucking youth, working youth
Fucking youth, working youth
Shift, shit
May all your dreams come true
The day we spent go on and on
Shift.
May all your dreams come true
The day, go on
Shift.
Fucking youth, working youth
Shit.
[AlterEgo]
You slept
Did i drift?
Do i dream?
Do you read me?
I'm not speaking.
Do you read me?
I dream, i dream
Sound today are you sound today, are you sound today,
Are you sound today? Sound today, are you sound today,
*All sounds made from analog synthesizer/drum machine, feedback loop, looper/effects processor, noises, and human voice. Recorded using digital multitrack recorder, arranged and mixdown using DAW
- additional sampled voice by Alice and Caterpillar from Alice and Wonderland animation.
- the visuals is a video bending that we made (Terence Mckenna speech - Shamans Among the Machines), original clip not ours.
Our second attempt to cover a song, this time by the great Ms. Grace Slick! And yes we sing, pardon for insisting ;) we just like the song and how she sang it and wrote the lyrics, as they all say - DOPE! But we first encounter this song while watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas starring Mr. Johnny Depp many years ago... and White Rabbit is a good ost for this movie.
Again the recording and vocals is not that good but we really enjoy the process so we hope you enjoy it too, thank you so much for viewing... :)
Lyrics -
Caterpillar: Why? (several times)
One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all
Go Ask Alice!
When she's ten feet tall...
(Alice coughing)
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Call Alice...
When she was just small...
(Alice coughing)
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you just have some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go Ask Alice, i think she'll know!
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight's talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the Doormouse said...
Feed you head... (several times)
(Alice coughing)
Caterpillar: By the way, I have a few more helpful hints. One side will make you grow taller...
Alice: One side of what?
Caterpillar: ...and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Part 2 of our exploration combining tape loop, skipping cd, and loopception which results to a more atmospheric and sound textural way. The setup is just the same with the first one, we just reassemble the wires and didn't use the DIY Ring Modulator.
Most of the sound here is from skipping cd recorded randomly to a tape loop (23cm long) on a walkman tape recorder then resampled it with a sampler/looper to make it more interesting, atleast for us.
While the feedback from a loopcetion is droning effortlessly, we also resampled some sound it produced and mix it together with the others to make some sound layering.
The voice who looks angry talking in the background is an unknown evangelist preaching about God, obviously that we encounter after a several AM station tuning on a mini-cassette radio, we just need a steady spoken words here to jam with, and he did not disappoint us haha! It is also interesting to note how by chance his radio program ended in-sync with our recording ending.
All sounds is recorded using an analog 4 track tape recorder.
Mixdown using DAW.
Hardware:
- Discman
- Walkman with Tape Recorder
- Mini-Cassette Radio
- Sampler/Looper
- DIY Passive 3x3 Matrix Mixer
- 6 Channel Analog Mixer
The video is a footage of the equipment we used shot using a digicam. We processed those clips to synthesized it and to match the textural sound of the audio. As usual for us, it is very organic how it came out.
"The Cosmic Giggle is... A randomly roving zone of synchronicity and statistical anomaly. Should you be caught up in it. It will turn reality on its head. It is objective and subjective. Simultaneously 'really there' and yet somehow sustained by imagination and expectation..." ~ Terence Mckenna [shaman/ethnobotanist/psychonaut]
Aleatoric Music + DIY 3x3 Matrix Mixer & Ring Modulator
Experimenting with tape loop, skipping cd, and loopception (feedback loop within a feedback loop). No synthesizer, drum machine or any acoustic and traditional instrument was used. Recorded straight using an old digicam, eq and volume boost using DAW.
We call it "aleatoric" because of how the nature of the sounds in this experiment was created - by chance.
For example the malfunctioning or skipping sound from the cd player. The discman itself determines when and how it would play those affected area that we burned (you can just scratch or paint it if you like ;D) unless we click "pause" which on the otherhand emits a beeping tones by default that we really like.
The kick drum sound projecting a 4/4 beat. Again, by chance. Purely made out of feedback signal creating a pulsating sound that we harness by accident through random tweaking of the knobs and patching cables to in/out from a loopception consisting of an 6 channel analog mixer, DIY passive 3x3 matrix mixer, and DIY ring modulator.
Lastly, the rest of the sound is from 3 cassette tape loop (23cm long). These 3 cassette tapes have different loop sound - random noises from a radio, i.e. white noise, static, commentators, etc. Done by switching the selector (no timing at all) of the mini-cassette from tape to radio, Am to Fm, and tuning a station simultaneously while in record mode. It is very random what sounds will be recorded to the tape loop. Another thing here is, we played the tape loop on mini-cassette by fading in/out the volume and it decides what part of the loop will be heard. The multitrack tape recorder slowed down its loop via pitch control, while walkman played its tape loop as is.
You can also hear a sampled sound of our voice murmuring "Eight Equals Zero" repeatedly. It was played, sliced, chopped, and resample using a sampler/looper.
Hardware used:
- Mini-Cassette Radio
- Walkman with tape recorder
- Discman
- DIY Passive 3x3 Matrix Mixer
- DIY Ring Modulator
- Sampler/Looper
- 4 Track Tape Recorder
- 6 Channel Analog Mixer
The visual is a combination of datamoshing and video granular synthesis. We say granular because some parts of the video was made from a small very short frame we cut from a videoclip (us walking inside an arcade center) and clone it repeatedly to create a loop almost like a gif. While the datamosh part is done by cutting an equal part of the said videoclip into 2 then mix and render the two again using DAW to create a psychedelic glitch effects.
Our first attempt to do a complete cover song and it's full of pretension, dreams, delusions, and ambition - considering it's from the Floyds'! But hey, we need to get this psychedelic paranoia out of our heads, also this is a personal favorites of us from them and we are deeply moved after hearing the version of this song from the great Mr. Mika Vainio (electronic/noise musician), and our newly found progressive metal band OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). So we dearly hope that we give justice covering this trippy-enigmatic-magical song though the recordings is not on its best quality and vocals is a bad idea haha :)
All sounds was made from analog electronic hardware, except for the "bell" or the sine wave sounds which we done/programmed using a free android app called S.A.M.M.I., there is also some noises that happens during recording and editing which is not intentional but we see it as "happy accident", we like it so we keep it.
- recorded using an old multitrack tape recorder. - arranged, master, and mixdown using DAW. - spoken sampled words by Morpheus from The Matrix movie (redpill scene).
And for the visuals, obviously it is composed of several random footage of our gears that we used overlapping each other, combined with a different video feedback loop clip that we shot using an ordinary webcam staring at itself on a pc monitor... No special effects and animation.
Lyrics-
Little by little the night turns around Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn Lotuses lean on each other in yearning Under the eaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Over the mountain watching the watcher. Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine. One inch of love is one inch of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun. The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun. The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.
Morpheus: The matrix is everywhere, its all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. (Neo: What truth?) That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.
Look/Witness the man who raves at the wall Making the shape of his questions to Heaven Whether the sun will fall in the evening Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Set the controls for the heart of the sun The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun (several times).
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes...
