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
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 October 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Some of her stuff reminds me of some Tortoise -- which, coincidentally, also has a member named Herndon.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 November 2015 10:16 (eight years ago) link
+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
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah that was an excellent gig (and jam city supporting was brilliant too, and again v different to the record)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
cool talk w/DJ Rupture: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21582-lullabies-for-the-broken-brain/
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
did you mean to link this? https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-holly-herndon-and-jace-clayton/
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
ha yes, wrong tab. ty.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
her process breakdown is good too (haven't gotten through the whole thing yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baj34lxF4g
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 3 March 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Discovering Platform now. Sick, and reminds me a little of sometime ilxor Lynskey
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 1 August 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
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
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Monday, 1 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9OjL6Mjqo
― nxd, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
That is excellent.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
and terrifying.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
dream combo
― nxd, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
Intrigued by the idea of working with AI but not really impressed by the actual track.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
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
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
new single is pretty massive
https://youtu.be/r4sROgbaeOs
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
huge. video is nuts in the best possible way.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 March 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
I don't like the songwriting at all but that's a cool timbre she's hit upon there.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
^^^^this is my opinion of every holly herndon song ever p much
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
*hides in Rockist Corner with pomenitul and other sticks-in-the-mud who still believe in old-fashioned nonsense like songwriting while the A E S T H E T I C crowd storm the cultural pantheon*
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
I'm a shameless aesthete but to these ears it comes off as an interminable string of platitudinous highs.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
we're all aesthetes - there's a whole specific thing. you have to space the capitals
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I thought that was a vapourware meme, though – does HH qualify? I must know!
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
*wave, sorry.
It sounds amazing. It doesn't exactly make me want to listen to it again or use it in a dj set (although maybe for the right moment?), but still. It's just vocals, drums, and stabs, right?
Sounds like something Kanye will probably sample this year.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
awesomea welcome return
― nxd, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Save me I'm trending— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) March 11, 2019
(Theresa May saved her after an hour or so by jumping on a plane to Strasbourg)
― Jeff W, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
One of my happiest gig-going memories is of the time when Holly had hooked her laptop to the projector and slowly and very purposefully typed 'FUCK THERESA MAY' over the visuals in lurid pink.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Also this song is incredible, it's like a School of Seven Bells song batting around in a metal box.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
herndon can write a song imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
anyway this fucking rules
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Herndon might be the only person in any discipline doing anything worthwhile with AI
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
anyway besides sounding incredible this is clearly A Song with hooks and stuff and not just some installation piece
― Simon H., Monday, 11 March 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
It's a song, for sure, I'm just not sold on her way with melody. Faux-bliss imho.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
One excellent reason to use AI in your art is that it guarantees press/interest
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
There are way more traditional songwriting chops in Holly Herndon tracks than in half of the stuff imago listens to so I've got no fucking idea what he's talking about (also HH != vape so strike 2).
This bangs.
― emil.y, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
The only thing that kept me from truly diving headfirst into Holly Herndon when I first became aware of her was the videos, which I was unmoved by, but this video is AMAZING-- same director as the stuff I wasn't so keen on, the song rules as always
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
My mistake, the video that rubbed me wrong was a different director whups
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
She really should have done the soundtrack to the live action Ghost in the Shell. I hear a lot of Kenji Kawai here.
― contains pieces the size of a child's esophagus (Sanpaku), Monday, 11 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
oh this is very cool, i've never really been able to get into her work before but this has pushed into pop-enough territory for me to love it
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhh this is so good
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
i don't mean that there's no songwriting, i mean that the songwriting completely fails to engage me and there are no hooks or melodies that do anything for me even if the sound design is quite cool. this is a defensible position surely
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 10:59 (five years ago) link
That's not "I don't like it", that's "it doesn't exist".
there are no hooks or melodies that do anything for me
See, usually you stop before adding the "that do anything for me" part, which is what I find annoying. I don't mind when you don't like things that I like, I just mind when you critique things as if you have a trained musicologist's eye and have found something objectively lacking in it. Personally I find her hooks and melodies v engaging and often properly moving, but there you go.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
Wow, this is good
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
I'm getting links to this from all channels in my little bubbleworld, I can't believe the video has only 20k views?!?? Anyway this track is amazing.
― lukas, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
heart in my mouth by the end of this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvNqNgHAEys
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
Immediately thought of the intro to this when I heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USaAO0vEOE
― Position Position, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
I thought of this (4 mins in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3cWcjZ0Q0&t=240
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link