A MILLION WAYS TO HURT YOU is my fourth album.

Improvised live at twitch.tv/ClaraHopeMusic and on Kaurna Land (aka Adelaide), Australia.

Test Tube Baby (Music Video): youtu.be/8I2ppq0m0MI

Clara Hope on electric guitar, electronics with synthesiser, artwork.
Amamanita Axaxaxanax Glass Seer on flute, electronics (tracks 2, 4, 6).
https://soundcloud.com/aags555

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album scummunity released 13/12 on bandcamp
.lrc file:
[00:00.00](Heavy kicks with distorted cymbals )
[00:09.00](Rapid, nonstop heavy kicks with a gradually descending sine tone like a plane going overhead)
[00:18.00](sample of Alice) "The rabbit knew it all, and now he's gone..."
[00:34.00](Metallic breathing sound slowly emerges from the kicks)
[00:42.00](Unintelligible sample of Alice)
[01:21.00](kicks reduce to half the speed and the sound of a sports whistle)
[01:27.00](kicks return to full speed)
[01:36.00](kicks end in a pitched down cymbal mess)
[01:38.00](vocoded "Stab all your enemies" repeating underneath)
[01:44.00](Glassy, soft ringing, meditative harmony)
[01:46.00]Shrunken in a corner
[01:48.00]Got a knife to stab you!!!
[01:57.00]Don't fucking touch me!
[01:59.00]I don't have a handle on this!
[02:07.00]Like a kitten hiding in a drain
[02:12.00]I wanna wash youse in acid rain
[02:22.00](soft screaming in the background)
[02:40.00]"I shouldn't think so... I'm a girl. And just now I wish to get very small. About this big"
[02:50.00](Flute processed by synth)
[02:55.00](Wonky drum beat begins with soft marimba arpeggio)
[03:03.00](Sneaky flute)
[03:10.00](Woodblock sound used in place of a snare, somewhat remiscent of Hyoshigi but lower pitched)
[04:14.00](Processed flute solo over ambient synth chords)
[04:25.00](Beat ends, hihats continue, more flute solo)
[04:42.00]"Everyone seems completely dejected... Are things really as bad as all that?"
[04:51.00](Flute processing gets grimey and bassy)
[05:06.00]"Despicable, Grotesque, and smelly louts... I'll fill your bellies all right!"
[05:11.00](Beat comes back, heavier this time)
[05:14.00]I'll fill your fuckin bellies with knife
[05:17.00]End your useless life with my useless knife
[05:27.00]Put your intestines in tripe
[05:30.00]And leave it to rot all night
[05:38.00]Use it as compost to grow my might
[05:44.00]I'll grow with nature as you grow out of shite
[05:48.00](Big cymbal strikes in the beat now)
[05:51.00]Put your intestines in tripe
[05:56.00](Flute comes back, this time very high pitch and modulated)
[06:02.00]Fresh blood and bone feed up my food
[06:06.00]I'll cut it out of you
[06:09.00]with fuck you attitude
[06:20.00](Feedback begins to get very intense, and takes over the other elements)
[06:26.00](It's kinda a feedback "solo")
[06:58.00](track pans across to left ear)
[07:00.00](Entire track is pitch shifted downward, mixed with original track)
[07:28.00](Track gives out for bassy synth noise loop)
[07:35.00](Glassy parts from before play, pitch shift rising gradually)
[07:47.00](Glass tone rings out for the last time)

03 Unpowerful

album scummunity released 13/12 on bandcamp
.lrc file:
[00:00.00](Feedbacky noise)
[00:03.00](Abrupt Synth Chord Stabs)
[00:06.00](Evolving Bassline)
[00:18.00](Synth tone undulates in response to music)
[00:24.00](Weird ``drum beat'' that sounds more like a truck reversing sound with a distorted elephant breathing)
[00:32.00]"How much can one freaking girl take?
[00:39.00]Even an enormously freakin' popular one..." (sample of Quinn from Daria)
[00:49.00]How much can one girl take?
[00:51.00]For god f*cking sake!
[00:57.00]You covered me in metal chain
[01:01.00]Rosie cheeks heavy armor make
[01:07.00]You gave me so many defenses
[01:11.00]Ended friends on sdupits pretenses
[01:16.00]For god fucking sake!
[01:19.00]"How much can one freaking girl take?"
[01:23.00]Rosie cheeks heavy armor make
[01:27.00]"Even an enormously freakin' popular one..."
[01:33.00]AAAAAH!!!
[01:35.00](Drum beat stops)
[01:36.00]OOOAAAHHHH!!
[01:39.00]HOW MUCH CAN ONE GIRL TAKE!!!
[01:53.00]FOR GOD FUCKING SAKE!!!!
[01:57.00]FOR GOD FUCKING SAKE!!!! (With modulated delay glitches)
[02:00.00](Vocal samples get stuck in a loop) 
[02:22.00](Noise washes over the music)
[02:30.00](More vocal samples get stuck in short repetitions)
[02:50.00](Washing machine sound reaches fortissimo)
[03:09.00](Feedback sound returns and slowly diminishes)
[03:27.00](Truck reversing beep sound returns out of silence)
[03:47.00](Crackling)

02 Quinn

album scummunity released 13/12 on bandcamp
.lrc file:
[00:01.00](A metal bowl rings)
[00:05.00](Regular glockenspiel)
[00:10.00](Whispering Ghosts)
[00:25.00](Bowl rings rhythmically)
[00:50.00](Synth tone rapidly rises and falls)
[01:15.00](Regular anvil-like clanging sound)
[01:25.00](Cymbal crash, doom-ish drone) 
[01:30.00]Collective delusion got me socially excluded
[01:49.00]So I found myself a room of pipes
[02:03.00]My ears can listen far away
[02:15.50]Light up together forever, in my room of pipes
[02:36.00]Security think I'm just rats
[02:45.00]I guess that's what I'll be when the rats come and eat me
[03:03.00]Wanna scream, I got no listeners
[03:14.00]Let my body feed life put me at postmortem peace at least
[03:30.00](A harsh noise rises in frequency)
[03:40.00]It never ends! it's everywhen
[04:21.00]It never ends! it's everywhen
[05:06.00]It never ends! it's everywhen
[05:40.00](Kitchen activity noises quietly in the background)
[06:10.00](Reverse metal bowl ring...)
[06:20.00](Hardcore punk drummin by Jar with glitches)
[06:46.00](Sonic charge roll SFX)
[07:28.00](Fully glitched drum noise, much beat repeat effect)
[07:46.00](Sonic charge roll SFX again!)
[08:01.00](More Jar drumming)
[08:30.00](Final bass drone to end the track, getting noisier toward the end)

01 Room Of Pyps

Guitarist, poet, electronic composer, trans woman (she/her) making protest music evoking power structures and environmental crisis. Fusing experimental electric guitar with electronic synthesis, these solarpunk songs and improvised live performances wisp from noise rock to ambient to industrial music.

Photography by @shaunv0.13
Avatar Visuals by Helen & @i.hate_max
Banner Visuals by @miles.dunne.artist, Helen & @shaunv0.13

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