other_life
bioconfused
i owe ian 4 pieces today bc yesterday was too live to do my assigned reading
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other_life
bioconfused
theres something pleasantly, pantheistic or nature worshippy ab this thread of places having attitudes towards us, landmarks and landscapes as entities (the environment is an agent, angel, aghast, aglow, agon &c).
the ambient/immersive music distinction is also on point, while reclaiming ambient music for "music about ambience" rather than "music setting a preconscious ambience".
itd be nice if "backrooms" stuff was more about this - interminable expanse of once lived in, now emptied prefab spaces. rather than "also a monster is chasing you", which really is quite infantile.
i see a picture of the backrooms and all i want to do is go back there.
some excellent prose reserved for vektroid! -
"if this feeling was somehow preserved and reached another world many years later, a message in a bottle. Despite the tongue in cheek connotations, the promise of the title is genuine: if you listen you’ll be trained in, initiated into the cult of the subterranean. "
i think this paragraph gets at the... emotionally tortured colors and "clandestine game of signifiers" facets of NDL Initiation Tape exceptionally well
the ambient/immersive music distinction is also on point, while reclaiming ambient music for "music about ambience" rather than "music setting a preconscious ambience".
itd be nice if "backrooms" stuff was more about this - interminable expanse of once lived in, now emptied prefab spaces. rather than "also a monster is chasing you", which really is quite infantile.
i see a picture of the backrooms and all i want to do is go back there.
some excellent prose reserved for vektroid! -
"if this feeling was somehow preserved and reached another world many years later, a message in a bottle. Despite the tongue in cheek connotations, the promise of the title is genuine: if you listen you’ll be trained in, initiated into the cult of the subterranean. "
i think this paragraph gets at the... emotionally tortured colors and "clandestine game of signifiers" facets of NDL Initiation Tape exceptionally well
other_life
bioconfused
frankly the super hostile super docile piece on this read round not so gripping not so much for me, too dissensus framework rn. "blade runner jungle vs. kool fm jungle" or Wotever
other_life
bioconfused
the notion of cultures as palimpsests is also something eating me lately trying to look at different stills of jewish history (so to speak) in superimposition
other_life
bioconfused
today is tiferes in tiferes. spending the week building with buum mainly, he says independently of this piece that vaporwave evokes theatre and drama and character mask without having to do with the actual production, stagecraft of a theatre and evokes filmic plateaus while doing away with the celebrity-faciality of actors
other_life
bioconfused
i also screenshotted your dhomont "cycles of sound" writeup so that i remember to listen to, with your notes to hand also
sus
Moderator
thinking about how much talent Version has and heThe presentation really adds to the effect. That fantastical blue city looming out of the mist; the images dotted throughout each entry; the pixelated header. Really emphasises the old histories line in Palimpsestscapes. Xanadu rubs up against the digital; Borges discovers Nintendo.
Idea of the "unvoice" jumped out at me, although I also read it as "univoice" at first and thought you were getting at some sort of master voice, containing all other voices and running beneath music like a rock layer. The voice heard across the portal. A combination of Xenakis' treasure room and Ahab sensing the features of a face behind the world. Certain configurations of sound drilling through and making contact.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
If you want web3 stuff, paragraph.xyz is good, I've been using that for a year or so. They just merged with Mirror, which had been the leading web3 blogging platform before.
sus
Moderator
what's special about music is that it's the most empathetic medium. We don't just react to it, we sync with it. We become it.... Audio animation supports other forms of storytelling by escaping exposition and plunging us into the heart of things, into a state of deep emotional and physiological receptivity. We find ourselves caught in the intensities of dreamworlds that resonate from the atomic level up.
sus
Moderator
in what would prove to be a tragic pattern in the history of audio animation, many of the era’s most renowned magicians prematurely abandoned their work. Ligeti, who created one of the most vivid works of 50s audio animation with “Artikulation”, never returned to the medium. Berio, who did likewise with the haunting "Omaggio a Joyce" followed a similar path. Stockhausen, as well, pursued other aesthetic ends after the 60s, only occasionally drawing on its power—most notably in composing the aerial battle of the archangels Lucifer and Michael in Dienstag aus Licht.
Murphy
cat malogen
Reverb and Echo
a small playlist here. https://www.discogs.com/lists/Reverb-and-Echo/706105 further suggestions below.
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william_kent
Well-known member
mvuent
Void Dweller
blade runner vs kool fm would have more to do with the palimpsest one, imo. i do think super hostile vs super docile is fundamental and primal, places of danger vs places of sanctuary and all, but it's perhaps annoyingly overexplained in that post given the obviousness of the idea.
e.g. if you're listening to something like this, i do think the feeling of hitting "rest areas" (like in a video game) becomes really important.