*Please use headphones

 This is our attempt to explore the extreme ambient minimalism of Lowercase (music/sound). Lowercase music is a very quiet usually unheard sounds amplify to the extreme level, popularized by Steve Roden (sound/visual artist) where he records the sound of himself handling paper in different ways.

 The sample sound we used here is a recording of generative sounds we capture inside one of the car of MRT we ride from Santolan to Cubao station , at exactly 1 O'clock pm. Although these sounds is not literally "lowercase" or unheard but due to the fact that people who rides MRT either listening to mp3s, playing games, reading text/ebook, voice/video call, or simply talking, the noises we collected were ignored - in a broader sense they were unheard consciously.

 We processed those sounds to create - that for us a hellish soundscape reflecting the daily basis suffering of MRT commuters. The result is very organic, and the agony of pain on this track is the chattering of people inside the train heavily slowdown.

 *For the visuals, basically it was a simple program we coded using Notepad, then exaggerate the code several times, processed the different results, and arrange it manually according to the sounds in a hope to sync them.

 As they all says, "this sounds or music does not need a passive ears, but rather requires an active ears...".

Maxwell's Demon ~ Gen Thalz

Aleatoric music + DIY Passive 3x3 Matrix Mixer & Ring Modulator

Track: Eight Equals Zero
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal Techno, Aleatoric, Noise House
Video Style: Datamosh, Granular Synthesis

Experimenting with tape loop, skipping cd, and loopception (feedback loop within a feedback loop). No synthesizer, drum machine or any acoustic and traditional instrument was used. Recorded straight using an old digicam, eq and volume boost using DAW. 

We call it "aleatoric" because of how the nature of the sounds in this experiment was created - by chance. 

For example the malfunctioning or skipping sound from the cd player. The discman itself determines when and how it would play those affected area that we burned (you can just scratch or paint it if you like ;D) unless we click "pause" which on the otherhand emits a beeping tones by default that we really like.

The kick drum sound projecting a 4/4 beat. Again, by chance. Purely made out of feedback signal creating a pulsating sound that we harness by accident through random tweaking of the knobs and patching cables to in/out from a loopception consisting of an 6 channel analog mixer, DIY passive 3x3 matrix mixer, and DIY ring modulator.

Lastly, the rest of the sound is from 3 cassette tape loop (23cm long). These 3 cassette tapes have different loop sound - random noises from a radio, i.e. white noise, static, commentators, etc. Done by switching the selector (no timing at all) of the mini-cassette from tape to radio, Am to Fm, and tuning a station simultaneously while in record mode. It is very random what sounds will be recorded to the tape loop. Another thing here is, we played the tape loop on mini-cassette by fading in/out the volume and it decides what part of the loop will be heard. The multitrack tape recorder slowed down its loop via pitch control, while walkman played its tape loop as is.

You can also hear a sampled sound of our voice murmuring "Eight Equals Zero" repeatedly. It was played, sliced, chopped, and resample using a sampler/looper.

Hardware used:

- Mini-Cassette Radio

- Walkman with tape recorder

- Discman

- DIY Passive 3x3 Matrix Mixer

- DIY Ring Modulator

- Sampler/Looper

- 4 Track Tape Recorder

- 6 Channel Analog Mixer


Eight Equals Zero [tape loop|Skipping CD|loopception] ~ Gen Thalz

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tak sie czuje kiedy jest godzina 7:00 w poniedzialek i sie nie wyspalem a maciej kurewa szewera zaczyna mi pierdolic o jakims apjd

Void Of Empathy - Memories Of Blood
Taken from the album Irreversible Damage
Cranial Blast # ???

Void Of Empathy - Memories Of Blood

Three uploads in one day. Phew. Unlike the last two, this one is the classic sound. All one take, analog, mindrape. An ode to i-95. 

Felt wrong uploading some BS and not posting something somewhat worthwhile.

Incentive To Desensitize

Limbs Bin
"Live At The Cobra Club"
9.10.14
JL - Vox, Drum Machine, Noise
MG - Drums

DWID INTRO
PRIMITIVE RESPONSE
FOR A CAR
TIE ALL THE ENDS
FIX ME (BLACK FLAG)
A$AP FERG OUTRO

Narc and Radiation Blackbody also played.

LIVE AT THE COBRA CLUB

IN CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT VINOD KARKI ON THE EVENT OF HIS BIRTHDAY

LIMBS BIN - "HAIL VINOD KARKI"

*This is my first patch code I made last year 2016 using the visual programming language Pure Data Extended. I’m really into analog but I’m also interested in the world of digitalism and electroacoustic. Will surely try and expand this thing to integrate codes with hardware. Soon… Hopefully 

//the sample sound is from an unintentional video captured of a baby’s eye. I cut it into some millisecond to go full micro when it process on the granulator patch that I encoded. All sound and some rhythmical sequence is made from the random number count on the patch codes that makes it more “generative”.

Credits:
Released July 9, 2017

Track: Code 32
Creator: Gen Thalz
Genre: Electronic
Style: glitch, noise, minimal, experimental
Year: 2017
Type: N/A

Patch and code by Gen Thalz
Produced by Marlon B. Zoleta

d[o-o]b

Code 32 [generative sound | granular synthesis | microsound]

*I created this track last year 2016 and just decided to release it now. The original concept was to make a psychedelic ambient music using all my DIY stuff that will uplift and take the listener into some higher places, but a “happy accident” happens while tweaking knobs which turn a space-drone sound into a more hardcore-glitch-signal-error-transmission almost rhythmical and alien liked conversation.

//all sounds is from DIY semi-modular analog synthesizer, DIY PWM Fuzz with LFO stomp box, feedback from a loopception of the mixer and tape recorder. The sound of two VCO and white noise of the DIY modular synth was fed and mixed-up thru a feedback loop which was then effected by the DIY fuzz with LFO and back again into the main mixer where the manipulation of the frequencies happens to transform it into a dirty glitch messed up noises.

Credits: 
Released September 30, 2017 

Track: Synapses 
Creator: Gen Thalz 
Genre: Electronic 
Style: harsh noise, glitch, industrial, abstract 
Year: 2017 
Type: N/A 

Mixed, Arranged and Conceptualized by Gen Thalz 
Produced by Marlon B. Zoleta 
Visual by Gen Thalz 

Hardware: 
- DIY Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer 
- DIY PWM Fuzz with LFO (stompbox)
- 4 Track Tape Recorder
- 6 Channel Analog Mixer 

--The visual is a video clip montage that I arranged and datamoshed in-sync with the sound accordingly. Most of it is from the horror movie Rings (2017), the eye scene from Salvador Dali’s surrealist film “Un Perro Andaluz” (1929), some pictures and videos that I shoot using digicam and cellphone, and some images or visual that I made old and new. You can watch it here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eu99vV1tk  

Thanks for watching! d[o-o]b

Synapses [harsh noise | glitch | feedback loopception]

Starved Relations is proud to present a tour de force cassette of absolutely visionary, solo analog circuit-death drenched noise-core from Western Massachusetts one and only, LIMBS BIN. Side A contains 16 tracks of hyper-drive gone wrong cyber-grind, completely sweat soaked in deep-fried electronics and throat shredding vocals, while Side B holds what can only be described as Guilty Connector and Bastard Noise trapped in a ferocious lightsaber battle to the death on Fury 161. A brief, but powerful statement from one of the greatest in modern noise-core, and an essential persona and authority in contemporary U.S. noise. Excerpt from SIde B.

Limbs Bin - Hidden From God / Hiding From God c10

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Incentive To Desensitize

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