Scream & Writhe Forum

Recently it’s my personal mission to get everyone to listen to Aqua-Eroticum - Burnt Carpet, Stained Sheets. Tom doesn’t exactly get no recognition or anything, but I think this album flew under the radar for a lot of people. When was the last time you actually heard a PE album that made you feel b...

Erik Nystrand of Capers makes a good point in his WCN interviewing, speaking on noise and emotion. He says something to the effect that many artists focus on packaging and art and leading the listener with things other than what’s actually on the album, while the album itself sounds generic. This is...

For Ballerina In Blood, I record live. When when I start off a track with a sample, I do that in real time with the sample on a tape, then I cut the channel and raise the “noise channel”. The noise channel usually consists of 4 sound sources (usually radio, synthesizer, and 2 contact mic’d sources o...

Learn your gear. Less is more, but more is okay too. Learn how to record well. The worst thing is having an amazing sesh, then you listen back to the recording and it’s ass. Unless you want it to be ass. Then you’re fine. Ask artists you admire about their process. This was very taboo back when I st...

I have no rhyme or reason to how I listen to stuff. My preferred method is in my car, loudly. 90% of what I listen to is noise, so even though I buy noise and PE often, very little falls through the cracks. Maybe the one constant is I listen to more “subdued” stuff late at night. Lately it’s been Na...

Greetings and felicitations, children of technology.

Nicky from New York.
I do the projects Ballerina In Blood & Spoiler. Past project were Faggot Front and a bunch of others I can’t remember.

I’m extremely boring. Contact mic’d scrap and blades through eq and distortion pedals. Lately, though, I’ve been doing this PE thing with a Wasp, a microphone through on of those old RadioShack reverbs, and a tape full of fucked up true crime and movie samples, all happening through an old Tascam. I...