i want a thread for Holly Herndon

and it's totally unlistenable!

unless you have ASMR I guess

what is amr? i found the whole album an uncompelling drag tbh

*asmr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

has a dedicated ilx thread - ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=40&threadid=96481

i kinda love the holly herndon ASMR track??

there are a few great moments on the rest of the album but overall idk

The heck is this ASMR track? Makes me feel irrationally embarrassed.

Which one is the ASMR track? I listened to about 2/3 of Platform on Spotify yesterday and just got a major nostalgia buzz. 2002 laptop music redux. It was pretty though. Will probably end up buying.

this is obviously doing well because they just sent out a warning to people who pre-ordered that shipping might take a while.

Worked at the shop on Saturday and listened to this 3 times. Sounds really good on a nice system -- this is probably my favorite record of the year so far. I didn't get any ASMR reactions from it, but our speakers are in the back of the store.

This album is BANANAS.

I think I might get ASMR reactions! "Lonely at the Top" made me feel... off

it's kinda terrible imo, the only track i skip on the record.

Morning Sun is so gorgeous, and achieves a weird trick of sounding both claustrophobic and cavernous at the same time. Her sound design is amazing.

Yep, but crucially it's in the service of some great tunes - I wouldn't be interested it if it was just a dry exercise in sound art. ASMR track is kinda lol mostly o_O, it was amusing for a while but I've started skipping it now.

Intro to the last track is... destabilising. Prob not a good idea to try to fall asleep to this album.

I have no idea if it's technically AMSR, but some music (especially pure vocal harmony music, with lots of reverb, certain speeds of very choppy tremolo) does regularly provoke physical sensations - kind of shivery fingers running down my shoulders/back, but not in an unpleasant way at all.

The thing is, the supposed AMSR track on this album provokes absolutely no reaction in me at all. (I, too, have started skipping it.) Morning Sun, however, has those qualities so exactly that it's actually quite distracting to listen to it on headphones at work.

This album is absolutely phenomenal. As Roz says, the sound design is astonishing, on top of it being really intriguing and compelling music.

the words on that "lonely at the top" one, with their unreserved praise, also provoke a reaction of weird, pleasurable discomfort

really digging 'morning sun' + 'locker leak' off this
obvs 'chorus' is still classic

liking this one much more than "movement" so far

I'm late to the party but this is great!

the sound palette seems pretty limited.. How many times can you use the 'atonal percussion rustle/avalanche' sample before it gets old? the quality of the percussion is nice, but the overload of pitched vocal samples gives it a disposable, later OPN-like quality. feels very 'of the late 2000s'. vocal clutter is way over the top. i could listen to quarantine by laurel halo all day, but the use of vocals on this is grating as shit. i miss chicks on speed produced by the mego guys.

"disposable" is just fine by me; i'm associating this with vaporwave

I'm hearing early '80s Laurie Anderson in her Herndon's sound

i really like the spoken track - i find it funny and kind of theatrical at the same time. it reminds me a bit of some interactive theatre things i've seen.

Any London ilxors going to the show?

how did this leave me cold at first? it suddenly CLICKED a few weeks ago and i haven't been able to stop listening

some of the gorgeous textures remind me of orchestra of bubbles!

It actually reminds me a bit of of the gentler bits of Confield, just the textural crunch of all those granular bits of micro-sound, but with heaps of sugar throughout.

confield flakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzP9IwznNuQ

Which one is the ASMR track? I listened to about 2/3 of Platform on Spotify yesterday and just got a major nostalgia buzz. 2002 laptop music redux. It was pretty though. Will probably end up buying.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:17 (4 months ago)

the clarity of the soundfield on this is so different to anything from that period, even the very best and best engineered of it like autechre

Some of her stuff reminds me of some Tortoise -- which, coincidentally, also has a member named Herndon.

Astonishing gig last night in London - she had a couple of other people onstage with her, a vocalist/dancer whose vocals were being chopped up into a million pieces in real time. Also a dude behind a laptop whose sole job appeared to be to type messages at the audience (best one = "FUCK THERESA MAY"). It was all clearly live (and texturally quite different from the album) but I had no idea how most of it was being done.

+1324232234545345 to any notion of seeing her live; IMO she wiped the floor with everyone else who played Big Ears last year, and the live-data-manipulation stuff was a major part of that

yeah that was an excellent gig (and jam city supporting was brilliant too, and again v different to the record)

cool talk w/DJ Rupture: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21582-lullabies-for-the-broken-brain/

did you mean to link this? https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-holly-herndon-and-jace-clayton/

ha yes, wrong tab. ty.

her process breakdown is good too (haven't gotten through the whole thing yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baj34lxF4g

Discovering Platform now. Sick, and reminds me a little of sometime ilxor Lynskey

on the cover of the latest issue of the wire.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 8:49 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was v cool imo

http://i67.tinypic.com/wb28lc.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9OjL6Mjqo

That is excellent.

and terrifying.

dream combo

Intrigued by the idea of working with AI but not really impressed by the actual track.

I have a feeling that sentiment will characterize most reactions to the seemingly inevitable onslaught of music that will “use” “AI” in the next years

new single is pretty massive

https://youtu.be/r4sROgbaeOs

huge. video is nuts in the best possible way.

Saw the projections adapted to the Hexadome when it was presented as part of the Gray Area festival a couple months ago. It was fucking riveting and one of my favorite things shown.

This was one of the shows I most regretted missing out on while I was out of town in May. Very jealous of all of you.

the projections were kind of washed out by stage lighting, but I saw this show at unsound festival last week and it was great

I've seen Herndon before live and something left me a little cold, but I was in the balcony and viewing this one as a complete stage production really made it click.

New tune

pic.twitter.com/BWOh4TMwsP

— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) November 4, 2020

excellent

pic.twitter.com/KYvQl9TiYH

— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) February 13, 2021

i have no idea what any of this shit is

https://xlr8r.com/news/web3-weekly-wrap-holly-herndons-holly-fwb-gatekeeper-nft-takeover-of-times-square-and-more/

lol i knew when i clicked on this that she and her cornball charlatan partner would be on some nft shit

I've been pretty disappointed with her embracing of NFTs - in general I've always liked her takes on futurism and the potential of AI etc but the NFT thing is slowly eroding my respect.

her cornball charlatan partner

??

Mat Dryhurst. He's def a tech nerd who has been heavily involved in that side of her music. They do a podcast together (https://interdependence.fm/) that I enjoyed early on, but he's gone all in on web3/NFT stuff, I had to bail.

I still don't have an opinion about NFTs because the whole thing confuses me. So does crypto.

i assure you its bad

I always hear that thing about all the energy that's used to store NFTs and I shut down fully at that point.

Mat Dryhurst. He's def a tech nerd who has been heavily involved in that side of her music. They do a podcast together (https://interdependence.fm/) that I enjoyed early on, but he's gone all in on web3/NFT stuff, I had to bail.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Inevitable. he went on a huge diatribe the other year about piracy, and when someone pulled him up, he was like I grew up in the middle east, I was pirating video games long before they were available to the Western public - hmmm what was someone named Dryhurst('s) family doing in the middle east in the 80s-90s?

gave a lecture at Strelka - for what it's worth. Some kind of philosopher not being able to google their relationship to the russian govt...