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<p>What I'm listening to today: "The Culprit", Zü and Nobukazu Takemura</p><p>N.T. is a glitch musician I really like from the early 00s; this is from a 2007 collaboration with a jazz/metal¹ group from Italy. Here a noise that kind of sounds like someone opened up a non-audio file² in Audacity Import->Raw Data plays counterpart to drums and bass produced like metal but fit to free jazz patterns. If you like Sacto postrock listen to this</p><p><a href="https://zuband.bandcamp.com/track/the-culprit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zuband.bandcamp.com/track/the-</span><span class="invisible">culprit</span></a></p><p>¹ God, genres are so fake.<br />² Like, a .exe</p>
<p>Americans now sound like Filipinos from 2016 under the Duterte's administration. They're having Far-right and Far-left opinions from disinformation campaigns. The Philippines was literally the petri dish for this, yet Americans refused to learn from the mistakes of Filipinos.</p>
<p>What I'm listening to today: "Strega Agitation | Part I", Bottle Makes Music</p><p>Five minute solo on the "what if we made the entire synthesizer out of reverb" synth Alessandro Cortini co-designed with Make Noise. Quiet but with an incredible richness and complexity to the sound if you can bring yourself to focus on the structure below the hiss, faraway echoes of unknowable machinery, the corridor to a hangar for planes powered by ghosts</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsLPZ3N1HE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=sVsLPZ3N1HE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p>listen to me now</p>
<p>What I'm listening to today: "Concentric | Tapeloop & Eurorack Dark Ambient", MJ:Mu</p><p>An 18-minute, highly structured sound journey accompanied by ocean waves and some very good nail polish. The musician starts a loop of tape-saturated pads then improvises with two abstract instruments embedded in their modular suitcase, the first a sort of shimmery dub organ, they other (they mounted an Elmyra in a eurorack! I've never seen that) a sort of 90s-style saw-wave violin drone</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQOql1nsUM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=tJQOql1nsUM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p>What I'm listening to today: "hissquiet live at the hive somerville ma"</p><p>Finally, some real friggin noise. The musician's got a granular sampler, it's got an audio clip inside that it scrubs back and forth, and they're controlling it by waving their hand in the air, playing an infared sensor as an instrument. The result defies description, waves of metal wasp grinding and filter howls, a wildly different texture every minute. Video feels like something recorded covertly</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58fvo5DREe0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=58fvo5DREe0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p>What I'm listening to today: "Buchla Music Easel and Tape Loop Feedback Patch", Elabor</p><p>Gorgeous, dark throbbing tones and feedback moans. A short walk through a concrete tunnel lit only by the daylight at the end. Somehow the Buchla here is being augmented with tape loops made with guitar and a Lyra-8 but the sounds can't really be discerned, it's all just one single Thing</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWZA5DAFAM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=0iWZA5DAFAM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p>"Modeline? Do you mean the Celeste girl?"</p>
<p>What I'm listening to today: "Tratto II", Bernd Alois Zimmermann</p><p>Zimmerman was a mid-1900s German composer whose career seems too large to get a handle on without a visit to the reference library, but the running theme seems to be soaking up like a sponge everything happening in midcentury music from New Music to atonality to jazz. From 1969, here he drops a serene 12-minute "electroacoutic" piece, single notes held for minutes at a time, wallowing in a nameless emotion</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ju2N6-XzUQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=6ju2N6-XzUQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>