Yes You Can

Independent Production of Electronic, Low-Fi, Ambient and Random Habitual Noise. Habitually making one-off moments in sound using synthesisers, drum machines and effects pedals in hardware (No DAW) with live, low-fi recording.

@habitualnoise
@hiyafoto

Ed B. is a British multi-media artist with a passion for producing electronic music and visuals through his love of hardware synthesisers and drum machines combined with his passion for film photography.

Working under the name of "Habitual Noise" for his music and "HIYAFOTO" for his photography, he was born in East London, UK and began his passion for electronic music and photography in his teens.

Influenced by musicians such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Harold Budd, Cocteau Twins and Aphex Twin, he began by producing his own mix tapes on his dad's "GEC Music Centre" in the 1980s, before investing in his own small bedroom mixing setup based on equipment from Radio Shack. 

At the same time he progressed his passion in photography studying the art at high school, working with black and white 35mm film, developing and printing his own work in an age before digital photography.

Skip forward 40 years after a career in technology, the pandemic creates an opportunity for him to invest more time in his passions for electronic music and photography creating a studio for "HIYAFOTO" and space for his music by starting "Habitual Noise".

Applying similar principles to his music as he does to his photography, he seeks to capture a "moment in sound", often working in a single take, recording a "one-time-never-to-be-repeated" combination of sounds from his environment, hardware synthesisers, drum machines and effects.

Ed B. loves the imperfections of film photography and so seeks to introduce analogue artifacts into his music, using lo-fi hardware to introduce noise.

Please follow the links to find out more. Thanks for following...

experimental musician/soundmaker from Apuliae
Born in 1978

Welcome here to everyone.

I hope what you'll hear inspires you.

For your growth or fall
Through the cathartic world of sounds 
that I try to propose. 

A test area 

A search for meaning 
Of this passage for ours.

Sound as a primordial frequency
Before any acquired significance

If what you hear resonates with your tuning fork
A like and a repost would be of great support.

May your journey be pleasant and constructive
in this sea of instants called life

The eternity of our days.



All here, in reality, are works in progress and are therefore apt to change at any time. All those except XIII Sisters and RAW which, as many of you may have done, I literally gave away in return for their placement in a library. Something I won't be doing again any time soon. If you have a use for something you hear here please just ask.

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ChatGTP said of AI Music...
'Creative AI tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws'

Sometimes it takes a dispassionate, independent view to actually see the truth of it ...

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There are links to XiiixxiQ below. Your mileage may vary as to whether it decides to work on your system or not. It only runs on a Mac because I really don't have time to do all the necessary work to make it compatible with anything other than my 2015 MacBook Pro :-(. It is still being developed (for my own use) and improved, and I may yet get round to doing another release if I can find the time to tidy it all up.

Ambient textures, granular atmospheres, and evolving soundscapes.

I release new tracks almost daily - fragments of tone shaped by silence, noise, and time.

Follow to drift with me.

I hope the Wild Edges speak for themselves. The rest is what happens between them.

I have limited know how and equipment, but think that feeling is more important than hardware and technical ability. 

I decided to stop liking other artists tracks, even if i do like them. I was feeling the pressure to like tracks when i listened to them, especially when people sent them to me to listen to, worried that if i didn't i would upset or offend the artist if i didn't like them, its easier just to like privately. Misunderstandings sadly happened too easily, so i'm distancing myself from the possibility of hurting anyone and of being hurt myself.  Maybe it is better being alone after all. Soundcloud is just like anywhere else where there are lots of people...it can be difficult.

I won't follow, listen, or like, for followers, listens, and likes, so, please, don't ask me to. 

This is a creative escape.

I am always trying to be quiet, but often fail, and to do better.

For Headphone listening
Thank you for listening

Yes You Can

Notes From Your Wild Edges