Ladies and Gentlemen,

TiC is going on hiatus, as each of us feel the need to explore our individual directions and opportunities this year. It's been an awesome journey with you - our friends and fans, who gave us the support and inspiration to keep experimenting.

However, before you reach for your crying towels, we're happy to announce that we're putting our previously un-released material together into an album which will be available in both CD format and digitally. Also, we're still most likely going to be collaborating with each other this year under different project names with different musical directions. Updates on the aforementioned will be posted soon.

In the meantime, may the sounds around you shape your perception, and may the voices in your head demand that you express yourself.

Have a nice day.

Bass: Julian
Keys: Phang
Guitar: Angelo
Beats & Mix: Brendan

Input Peak

This room is a place to vent. 

The coins just don't sound as nice as they do in real life. They sound so crunchy suddenly. 

A penny for our thoughts perhaps?

*Audio and Video is recorded with a Sony Cybershot. 
Watch the Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0V1kb8NKE

Still A Slave (To the White Room)

Hopefully... it breathes. 

Made with sounds found in the white room.

Issues with reality

"Many species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species, but the majority of species raise their own young." - Wikipedia

Used: Effects, guitar, synths, vocal noises, unintentional noise. 

Almost zero post production - just a little panning to better mimic the usual speaker & amp setup here.



Of Humans and Cuckoos

If you'd like to add some sugar and spice, hit download and go do your magic! 

Do drop a message when you're done, or send an email w/link to: angelomanuel@gmail.com

Do give your work a title ^^

Made with a NUX Time Force Looper. It is the stem :) 

*Image from XDA Wallpapers

Split The Spark [OPEN TO COLLABORATION][See Description]

*image from Wikimedia Commons.

Meet Phang. The keyboardist.



As the llamas walk through the valley (of the shadow of death)

Meet http://soundcloud.com/tiempoyforma

Visit his page for a helping of alternative rock meets ambience and noise (which gets pretty psychedelic at times), supplemented by innovative and tight guitar wizardry! 

He's on Bandcamp too: http://tiempoyforma.bandcamp.com/



Split The Spark (Damaged Mix) by tiempoyforma

"If the world is going to end, I got some serious streaking to do." 

Image from stock.xchng


End of Days Fixation

The 'Split the Spark' saga continues, with http://soundcloud.com/paco-jones, an awesome multi-talented musician who loves to rock out on his guitar, and boldly experiments with all sorts of sounds! 

 

Spark [with Paco Jones]

Taken from our jam on 20.01.13

We could... sound something like this year. Still taking shape. 

Taking Shape for 2013 Teaser 1

Brendan ripping some beats on the drum machine. 



Taking Shape for 2013 Teaser 2

Recorded with a Sony Cybershot. 


You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djf6IOeA944&feature=youtu.be

You may have heard some of these sounds in:http://soundcloud.com/ticnoise/sets/the-white-room-sessions

Image Credit: Bannai


22.02.13 Live @ Findars  [PT I]

You can watch the video here: http://youtu.be/0fYr2Znirak

22.02.13 Live @ Findars [PT II]

What's your poison? 

Who's poisoning you? 

Why are they poisoning you? 

[Post production by Brendan Teh] 

*Image from Wikimedia Commons. 

Urban Poison

Yes, we've been missing for a while. But the good news is, we've played a couple gigs in recent months and acquired new gear which we are still figuring out. Also, the political climate here in Malaysia has replenished our 'angst reservoirs'. 

In the meantime, to placate you, here's one recorded during a house session, as we hang out and talk about our bandmate Brendan (who was not present that day) and what it would be like if he got a busking license. We guarantee it will be sight to behold as he screams profanities, makes alien noises and belts out mind boggling catch-phrases at passers by such as: "Perhaps, you need to reach out and suck on more sauerkraut."

On this track are Angelo, Julian, Phang and Rom, a good friend of TiC. 

Said In Passing (about Brendan busking)

TiC is heavily inspired by soundscapes, soundtracks, industrial elements, electronica, ambient music...and noise. Lots and lots of noise. 

We are:  

Angelo Manuel

- Programming & mixing
- Synths
- Guitar
- Effects
- Digital scapes & loops

Brendan Teh

- FX based scapes and loops
- Synths
- Guitar
- Occasional 'vocals' & violent outbursts
- Noise/percussion out of random objects

Julian Lim

- Bass

Phang

- Keys and Synths

Rashaad Ali

- Drums/Percussion

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Hear more of Brendan at:
http://soundcloud.com/freedesertersband
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Hear more of Julian at: 
http://soundcloud.com/bokazzi

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Hear more of Angelo at:
http://soundcloud.com/blackout-borscht
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Feedback and comments are most welcome. But its incredibly hard to take you seriously if you copy-paste your comments on so many pages ;)

Thank you for getting infected and spreading our madness.

We're always open to collaboration with like-minded folk. If you'd like to work on any of our tracks, let us know. Or better yet, lets do something completely new and psychotic together. 

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On a separate note: 

"Tics are described as semi-voluntary or unvoluntary, because they are not strictly involuntary—they may be experienced as a voluntary response to the unwanted, premonitory urge. A unique aspect of tics, relative to other movement disorders, is that they are suppressible yet irresistible; they are experienced as an irresistible urge that must eventually be expressed. Some people with tics may not be aware of the premonitory urge. Children may be less aware of the premonitory urge associated with tics than are adults, but their awareness tends to increase with maturity."
Wikipedia.org definition of "tic" 

So we ask... why are you resisting the noises? Are you afraid?

TiC

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