Mucking around with Korg ER1 drum machine run through a long chain of cheap guitar pedals.  There are so many of these stupid little noodling sessions, you don't even want to know.

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Er1 Noise6

A live noise / drone session from 2004, probably involved looping of some kind or other, kind of layering tones on top of each other.  Personally, I find these things more satisfying to make than to listen back to, which is why I rarely release them.  On the other hand, there are people who make whole careers out of this kind of thing, so I guess some people are really into it?  Hope you like it!

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040202a - Edit

Studio recording session from 2004, live looping with guitar pedal feedback things.  The original recording is about an hour long!

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040324b - Edit #1

Finally, the track you've been waiting for all this time, without even knowing you needed it: several minutes of granular synthesis madness based on Chunk from the classic 80's movie The Goonies making vomit noises.

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Upchunk

Early 2004 vintage: generating weird noises with Buzz Tracker by using a network of resampling granular modules triggered by LFOs.  The source was probably some simple acid-ish synth loops, but I don't remember for sure.

The name for this track was inspired by its vague sonic resemblance to some of the things I heard Shawn Greenlee doing in his early Pleasurehorse performances at the time, although developed independently and by totally different techniques as far as I know.

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Steed

From 2004: part of a jam session, running some breakbeat-ish rhythm loops through a complex chain of effects in Buzz Tracker.

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Fuqd Beats Filt

Not power noise in the genre sense at all, though I was aware of that genre, dimly, when I created this.  My best guess is that this track was more effort in creating a wide variety of noise sounds of varying quality and frequency ranges which could be sampled for use in a power noise track later.

If you enjoyed this, you might also like the track Auto Chaos Memory Timer, from my Voidstar Productions release Radio Free Camazotz : https://voidstarproductions.bandcamp.com/track/auto-chaos-memory-timer

Powernoise

One thing about glitch music I've always found surprising is how often it is made to sound delicate and thin.  I've always liked this recording because I managed to capture something that is at once very glitchy, but also heavy as hell.

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Fatty Beats 20bpm - Edit

Recording of a live experiment with mechanical reverb and exciter speakers : basic signal is a low bass kick loop produced by a Korg volca kick.

This signal is sent to a driver speaker adhered to a metal sculpture where it is sent through an attached slinky and re-recorded via a contact mic on the other end.  A close but open-air recording of the metal plate the driver speaker is attached to is also mixed in; the speaker was rattling pretty badly, but the weird distortion noise this made was pretty amazing.

Megabass Direct Mic LiveRec

Running Korg Volca kick based bass loops through a couple chopped up empty cat litter boxes with contact mics attached, turning things up to get mechanical distortion.

Recording very lightly compressed and normalized for wonky levels, but this is pretty close to the original.  No electronic distortion was used!

stereo reamp bass loops

Assembled a track from all the tinkerings and testings I've done with the new modular rig over the past couple days.  Demo video showing first liverec session can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rlep1sfpw

COVID Modular Beats #1 (uku278)

Tracks here are outtakes, unfinished work and experiments.  Please check out http://ukuphambana.bandcamp.com for full (and often more listenable) tracks, releases, and downloads, or my Voidstar Productions album Radio Free Camazotz, at https://voidstarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/radio-free-camazotz

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