heard a track from this on the web last night and wowee zowee i loved it. sounded so cool.
also: coolest album title of the year?
― scott seward, Monday, 27 April 2009 13:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tim Hecker or Florian hecker?
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 27 April 2009 13:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
ooh I checked it's Florian. I am down. I loved Sun Pandaemonium.
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 27 April 2009 13:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
samples on boomkat are a bit meh but its not really the sort of thing you can dip in and out of
― straightola, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's not acid house music. i don't understand the title. what style is David Tudor?
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
"what style is David Tudor?"
elektroakoustik space cricket music.
― scott seward, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
Title makes me want to love it but is a bit too bleep-glitch for me. Er, well I suppose that's what I like about David Tudor but there's something in the direct-in recording of those clips that doesn't do much for me. Willing to settle in for the length of an album and give it a real go, though.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Monday, 27 April 2009 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
what style is David Tudor?
http://www.last.fm/music/David+Tudor
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Monday, 27 April 2009 14:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
there's something in the direct-in recording of those clips that doesn't do much for me.
this is what i like about it. the textures are crisp and clean, and very dry. the sounds have a strong physical quality. there is some good stereo design/panning at parts, too
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
"there is some good stereo design/panning at parts, too"
love this about it! sounded so cool on my laptop last night. as well it should.
― scott seward, Monday, 27 April 2009 16:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
haven't spun it yet (nor the new 2CD reissue of O'Rourke's I'm Happy and I'm Singing...) but i keep thinking (per the cover essay) that this is really called "Climate of the Bass Hunter," throwing together Scott Walker, Robert Mitchum, and some obscure electro album in the most delicious, ear-puncturing way.
― beta blog, Monday, 27 April 2009 18:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
David Tudor S & D
Florian is the only Hecker for me. Some of his recent albums are a little too dry, I don't find myself ever putting on 'Recordings for Rephlex' / 'PV Trecks' / 'Disenchanted Forest'. But 'Sun Pandamonium' and '2 Track 12"' are two of the records I play for people when they say they think digital music's at an impasse and there are no new sounds left
And yes this stuff sounds dry on CD, but any chance you get to hear him play out live on a good sound system, drop everything else and go
― Milton Parker, Monday, 27 April 2009 18:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
there's a bit three minutes into the second track on Hecker / Haswell's 'Blackest Ever Black' where the sound just cricketizes beyond anything acoustically possible, that album wanders around a little bit in parts but there are some albums where the high point is so high it justifies the entire length
Hecker's collaboration with Tone is pretty relentless, it sounds like a lightly accentuated / processed version of the noisy CD skipping Tone gets up to by himself (this one my favorite), but in tiny doses, or dropped into mixes as transitions = gold
― Milton Parker, Monday, 27 April 2009 18:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Monday, 27 April 2009 16:50 (Yesterday) Permalink
Yeah, I get the feeling that for me this is going to be all about finding the right way to listen. Whether that's through the right stereo, or live as suggested upthread, or run in stereo through two guitar amps in a gymnasium, well, I hope I get it cuz this guy has piqued my interest for whatever reason.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 05:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
More or less I'm lookin to cut out this kneejerk suckbaby shit when it comes to anything digital.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 05:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
2009-05-09_-_Aphex_Twin___Hecker___Warp20__Cit__de_la_Musique_-_Paris_-_evil.mp3
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 28 May 2009 02:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
yall heard NEU?
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
uh?
― mmmm, Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
haven't heard NEU yet, but 3 Track 12" was exactly what I was hoping Acid In The Style Of David Tudor to sound like. very different from 2 Track 12" but probably my favorite thing he's done since that.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
you didn't like acid...?
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 February 2011 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
scott, I like acid
but I was expecting a little more of it in the Acid<>Tudor equation. maybe calling the album that set my expectations for it beyond anything anyone could realize.
3 Track 12" is a little more minimal & toe-tappin'. kind of reminds me of an more abstract digital take on those first four Asmus Tietchens pop records on Sky like Biotop.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
didn't rly like acid..., sun pandaemonium is the only thing of his i've umambiguously appreshed but i like the first track of NEU
this is good but it's not altogether clear what florian is contributing
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah it's still mostly Sun Pandemonium and 2 Track 12" that I'm 100% into. and the live set at SF's Recombinant Media Labs a few years back was up there too.
it's true he seems to be laying out for stretches of it, but I can really tell when he's ratching the mix up a notch. a lot of the low (and high) end details are just lost in a room recording like that, I must admit I didn't make it all the way through the file.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's a shame cuz i'm at 90m in and it's been improving lately! nice bit of jungle avec digiskronk
― roy stride or die (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
milton u r the main avant electronic dude on ilx insofar as i can tell, what things have u liked in the last few years
― roy stride or die (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
wish I were joking: http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Concertos-Sampler-Lang-Elliott/dp/B002MAPGUK
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously though, xenakis seems redundant sometimes
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
its not xenakis's fault that he isn't a toad though. he would be if he could be!
― scott seward, Friday, 18 February 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
first track of NEU is definitely fun
if this is the side of Hecker you like, I wholeheartedly recommend just about all of the EVOL catalog, especially Punani Quatre, Punani Xerrameca & Rave Slime
http://www.discogs.com/artist/EVOL
& you probably know kfw's stuff but I think he's just been warming up
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/09/30/130239680/keith-fullerton-whitman-in-concert-high-zero-festival-2010
― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 February 2011 06:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
side two of Rave Slime is just ridiculous
http://vimeo.com/14785670
― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 February 2011 06:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
syllabus action:
Presto! is happy to announce the release of '28 Bregman 18 Deutsch 78 Hecker 18 Höller', a double 10" Vinyl set produced and compiled by Florian Hecker with a contribution by Carsten Höller
The title '28 Bregman 18 Deutsch 78 Hecker 18 Höller' indicates the percental inputs of the eight pieces, intertwines practical, theoretical and conceptual proportions and its audible dramatizations
68 of the pieces are untitled, 28 and are titled 'Gelbgrün' and 'UpDown'88 play on 45 RPM
Written and produced by Florian Hecker, except Gelbgrün by Carsten HöllerLayout by Tina Frank For further information also see:Arnheim, Rudolf and Grundham, Uta. 2001. The Intelligence of Vision: An Interview with Rudolf Arnheim. In Cabinet 2: 95-100.Bregman, Albert S. and McAdams, Stephen. 1979. Hearing Musical Streams. In Computer Music Journal 3, no. 4 (December): 26-43. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.Bregman, Albert S. 1994. Auditory Scene Analysis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.Deutsch, Diana. 1974. An Auditory Illusion. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 55: 18- 19.- 1986. An Auditory Paradox. In Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 80: 93.Gibson, James J. 1966. The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Kubovy, Michael and van Valkenburg, David. 2004. From Gibson's Fire to Gestalts. In: Neuhoff, (ed.) Ecological Psychoacoustics. London: Elsevier Academic Press, p 114.Mackay, Robin. 2010. These Broken Impressions. In Gaensheimer, Susanne (ed.) Florian Hecker. Event, Stream, Object. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König: 11-12.Moore, Brian C. J.. 1977. Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing. Cambridge: University Press Cambridge.Roitmeister, Carl and Schneider, Eckhard. 2008. Carsten Höller: Carrousel. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Florian Hecker is so fucked up & awesome
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://chimerization.documenta.de/
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:48 (11 months ago) Permalink