classy packaging with some small metal balls rolling around the box for some reason.
The small metal balls represent one of the key ideas behind the album (linked to chaos theory, uncontrollable variables in output) ; they roll through the box perfectly unpredictable.
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 July 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
oh, of course. :-)
listened again last night - sure, the way the recording interacts with the room it plays in and how you're positioned in it definitely adds an element of chaos. but I think what I really like is how these "uncontrollable variables" interact with such a rigid, precise, and DIGITAL composition. just these tight, cutting slabs of sound needling/bludgeoning you until the rug is pulled out and you're abruptly tossed into the next sound palette. really powerful.
and yes, j. I recall reading some warning not to listen on headphones on the emego press release. I certainly wouldn't advise it.
― original bgm, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
i was just… sitting in a room… listening to the sound of my speakers… with metal balls rolling around inside them.
― j., Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
was way into hecker's speculative solution on my first listen last night. if you're a fan of disorienting maryanne amacher-style tone manipulation
man, you're not kidding. that last track belongs on a maryanne amacher tribute / cover record.
sounds great on headphones to me! but it's definitely going to sound better over speakers. some of this I recognize from his last SF show at yerba buena.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
hah!
― original bgm, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Peterlicker's Nicht on Editions Mego is compulsory listening. This was Pita's first group in the late '80s and they've got back together to make this very menacing record.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/12/ten_best_noise_tracks_2012.php
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 21 December 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i know it's 2012.