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by James Thompson
Sat May 18, 2024 5:04 am
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Noise Boxes
Replies: 13
Views: 1267

Re: Noise Boxes

funny you should mention garage door springs, I thought about mentioning them specifically. apparently they are insanely dangerous, turning into bouncy missiles of death at the slightest provocation. or sometimes with none at all. garage door springs and fallen trees sitting at an odd angle are nat...
by James Thompson
Mon May 13, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Modular Noise
Replies: 92
Views: 9796

Re: Modular Noise

Will share more videos soon too. It's a very odd module, we are getting some unexpected things out of it, plus it has some bonus features such as using it as a distortion/fuzz :) not entirely related, but i've been using the fort processor i built at your workshop mostly as a distortion / fuzz for ...
by James Thompson
Mon May 13, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Noise Boxes
Replies: 13
Views: 1267

Re: Noise Boxes

i have a contact mic box from Silent Shepherd on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SilentShepherdNoise really recommend their work. i've been thinking of modifying it maybe, it's just a two-output box with two mute buttons at present - which is great for a lot of stuff - but it'd be neat to add som...
by James Thompson
Sat May 11, 2024 6:20 am
Forum: The Rest
Topic: Punk/Hardcore
Replies: 125
Views: 14258

Re: Punk/Hardcore

seconding the idiot child rec, that album crushes
by James Thompson
Thu May 09, 2024 6:54 am
Forum: New Releases
Topic: IDA K - Dracula busy with hearse (Crude cars rude ears ripe greasy skin)
Replies: 3
Views: 178

Re: IDA K - Dracula busy with hearse (Crude cars rude ears ripe greasy skin)

I'm interested - please send me a copy! subterpod@gmail.com

don't talk down about your own work, it sounds interesting :)
by James Thompson
Wed May 08, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: The Rest
Topic: Steve Albini
Replies: 7
Views: 289

Re: Steve Albini

incredible talent. 61! too young, man, too young. ... and even later a fan of how he actively tried to reconsider some of the things he said and did, and make amends for things without trying to take himself off the hook or minimize his mistakes as so many others do. honestly so much respect to him ...
by James Thompson
Fri May 03, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Bandcamp Codes
Replies: 44
Views: 5047

Re: Bandcamp Codes

hell yeah dude! grabbed qjjc-gcrn.
by James Thompson
Fri May 03, 2024 3:42 am
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Bandcamp Codes
Replies: 44
Views: 5047

Re: Bandcamp Codes

ty! i took ebjj-vam9
by James Thompson
Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:20 am
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Bandcamp Codes
Replies: 44
Views: 5047

Re: Bandcamp Codes

cheers pal - i took ulek-hcb7
by James Thompson
Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Now Playing
Replies: 983
Views: 193790

Re: Now Playing

Dominic Sambucco - Relative Cosmologies Another languid, swoopingly atmospheric release from Language Instinct, washing static and musique concrete nature sounds. I've been really loving their releases recently; Glacial Anatomy - Radiology Noise is another highlight. I recommend! From the label: &q...
by James Thompson
Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: queer noisesters unite
Replies: 39
Views: 5345

Re: queer noisesters unite

oh this looks sick, cheers - adding it to the big list of purchases
by James Thompson
Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: queer noisesters unite
Replies: 39
Views: 5345

Re: queer noisesters unite

bumping this old thread to highlight a couple of artists i've been listening to a ton of recently. GENDERISTHEBASTARD https://genderisthebastard.bandcamp.com/ Amazing Liverpudlian harsh noise / deathgrind artist. Found them through the Hard Return release (PANSY ELECTRONICS) but there's a huge array...
by James Thompson
Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Modular Noise
Replies: 92
Views: 9796

Re: Modular Noise

Cementimental wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:02 pm Coming soon :)
incredibly sick. love this.
by James Thompson
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: The Rest
Topic: Film Discussion / Now Watching
Replies: 316
Views: 55370

Re: Film Discussion / Now Watching

caught Zone of Interest last night. blown back into my seat by the waves of fucking evil emanating off it. an incredible achievement. for the purpose of this forum, it's worth talking about the sound design. i really appreciate that it sort of starts off with an overture - just black screen and mus...
by James Thompson
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:20 am
Forum: The Rest
Topic: Film Discussion / Now Watching
Replies: 316
Views: 55370

Re: Film Discussion / Now Watching

caught Zone of Interest last night. blown back into my seat by the waves of fucking evil emanating off it. an incredible achievement. for the purpose of this forum, it's worth talking about the sound design. i really appreciate that it sort of starts off with an overture - just black screen and musi...
by James Thompson
Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Music and Noise
Replies: 49
Views: 2716

Re: Music and Noise

Any sound produced for its own sake, rather than as a byproduct of some other activity, is music. If you are beating a brick wall with a sledgehammer because it's your job to demolish it, you're not making music. If you are beating a brick wall with a sledgehammer because you like the way it sounds...
by James Thompson
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Cut Up
Replies: 94
Views: 11568

Re: Cut Up

In eurorack, one can look at a sequencer like the Voltage Block as an intelligent chaotic/random burst generator when using a random/irregular clock source and random sequence patterning in order to trigger or CV modulate a variety of things. this is really interesting, it's something i hadn't cons...
by James Thompson
Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:10 am
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Noise Visualizations
Replies: 22
Views: 993

Re: Noise Visualizations

I think for me the descriptor I would reach for is more "dense" than "brutalist", with the caveat that I'm using "dense" in the same way that say, a bundle of neurons is dense. Kind of like neurons, which are all tangled together and always firing, the best noise for m...
by James Thompson
Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Noise Visualizations
Replies: 22
Views: 993

Re: Noise Visualizations

want to say i really agree with you about not necessarily gelling with the extreme / shocking approach to visualisation with noise. while i enjoy plenty of artists who work with dark subject matter, and it can definitely add to it in some cases, i find that that's very rarely what i experience when ...
by James Thompson
Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: New Releases
Topic: edit navigation bar Radiology Noise by Glacial Anatomy
Replies: 1
Views: 140

Re: edit navigation bar Radiology Noise by Glacial Anatomy

i took g8f7-b6wv - thank you! really interesting work, i like it a lot.
by James Thompson
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Project Feedback Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 10059

Re: Project Feedback Thread

messed around with the setup on a livestream this evening... https://youtu.be/uzC6Tb3HEMA?si=H8czehKPRMMgqMzt&t=240 trying to combine my practical gear with the DAW build in Reason. think i get some interesting results. i'd like to play live at some point soon, so i need to decide if i want to g...
by James Thompson
Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Cut Up
Replies: 94
Views: 11568

Re: Cut Up

hey i thought i'd try one of those joysticks you're all talking about but my one seems weird somehow

by James Thompson
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Music and Noise
Replies: 49
Views: 2716

Re: Music and Noise

i guess in a world where noise music as a discrete genre has existed for around 40 years (and, of course, the avant garde that inspired it has been going much longer) then sooner or later we inflict systems of meaning even on to anti-representational art; in the same way that listening to 30mins of ...
by James Thompson
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: Noise Talk
Topic: Music and Noise
Replies: 49
Views: 2716

Re: Music and Noise

This is interesting also, to me, because I have never been able to decide if noise is actually abstract or not. In many ways, it seems much more literal, representationally speaking, that most music. When someone says that a noise composition sounds like people banging pieces of metal together, the...
by James Thompson
Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: Shows
Topic: LONDON - Earworm Shows @ New River Studios, 13/2/24 & 19/2/24
Replies: 0
Views: 166

LONDON - Earworm Shows @ New River Studios, 13/2/24 & 19/2/24

I'm not the organiser for these, but wanted to post them up to see if anyone else is going! https://shearworm.bigcartel.com/product/mattin-informal-bodies-hikikomori-jpsk-13-02-24 https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/373666774/EARWORM+Tuesday+13-02-23+A3+d1.png https://shearworm.bigcartel.com...