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Into Existence

SOFT CASE

Track from the album 'Zijn'.

I have recorded the acoustic guitar in my home-studio with the doors open, you can hear some background noises like birds, cars in the distance. I have added a drone to the recording and a strange delay which sampled fragments from the recorded guitar and randomly give it back.

About the album:
I have continued to work with A=432Hz tuning, exploring the possibilities of sustained sounds. I have been working towards an even more static atmosphere than on my previous albums.

I'm very interested in the role of time in this kind of music. The sounds have a different effect and meaning depending on how long they last. To me, the music becomes a vehicle to accomplish a meditative state.

released November 15, 2021

Instruments used on this album: Acoustic guitar, Acoustic guitar with ebow, Sustainer guitar, Soma Lyra 8 synth.
Recording, Production, Photography and Design: Simon van Weelden
© Geluidenfabriek, 2021

Oorsprong

Who here remembers Laurie Anderson's "Strange Angels"? I thought of its lyrics when I read Raðulfr Maganhar's description for his track, "Indoors Light Infinite." He writes, "Angels exist, but unfortunately they are deadly. The emptiness it leaves overwhelms the neurons in each memory with a mixture of feelings, light, and darkness. Happiness and torment. Being lucky and tied hand and foot."

Uncertainty's heartbeat pounds through this track as it did through all of 2020. When I left a comment to tell @raoulfr his thrumming chiaroscuro had become part of my internal soundtrack that year, he generously invited me to add some vocals. Here they are—a few strange angels of my own. Some shriek. Some howl. Some are out of tune. Some sing like sirens. I'm pretty sure all of them are trouble, but at least one of them meant well.

"They're haunting me
This is nothing like I thought it would be ... "

Unruly Angels (Vocal improvisation on  Raðulfr Maganhar's "Indoors Light Infinite")

hearing v listening

10 years ago, https://soundcloud.com/maxx-black/i-had-a-flying-dream was a very popular track. And now I come along and do this to it...

Hey, Roy, I hope all is well :)

Return of the flying dream [with Maxx Black]

Daultide Minglesip

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was unless if someone figures it out on their own.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US.

Prohibited Topics

21 11 21

Sensen - VHS

Metamachine

Lyrics, Vocals & playing on her favourite synthesizer: Naicke
more of her here:  https://soundcloud.com/user-746049418
and there: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDEDpIkdh-t-qnE-LIYETgw
Guitars: her trusty dream tiger
bossa beat: some apparatschik VST

Lass uns doch nur ein Weilchen sein - By Naicke & Her Trusty Dream Tiger

new record, "let go / still time" is out now, and available on bandcamp!

asdb-music.bandcamp.com/album/let-go-still-time

how do we begin again?

all tracks were living performances, usually with acoustic bass and electronics, sometimes guitar, synthesizers, voice, piano, mixers, fx, field recordings, but always in single takes with no overdubbing

for collaborations, commissions, booking, compliments, complaints, etc. etc. please feel free to dm or email asdbmusic@gmail.com

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