dac insomniac + r.s.stropharia - tărâmul iluziei - impro-set live (06.06.2020)

Check out, Ducks on Quack in Space, also on Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/user-713093027

All Artwork by Peza

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.



★Caution!★These tracks can cause tinnitus.
Works from the past year or so have been released at a lower volume.
<<耳鳴り注意！ここ1年くらいは音量を低めで公開しています>>

Mix at a low volume for home listening.

Hello Earth! Hello humanity!
Thank you for listening to my music. 
If you don't forget to set it up, most of the songs are available for download!
I hope my music can be a part of your fun time.

”Nouten(脳天)” means the top of the head in Japanese.
The literal translation of each character is "brain heaven"

Nouten Party Alone MV on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz5V4RGh1jGynSuoRP1K7SCwuW9bF-hrK
180sec. Dream Effects (for sleep)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz5V4RGh1jGwt3-e-EonXzMOs0mz-xTjA

Charnel House is:

Limited Bob: https://soundcloud.com/bob-bowden
Necrogurgitron: https://soundcloud.com/necrogurgitron

songs & story

underwater
deep space
robotnik

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

Banner: The Hearing Trumpet_Leonora Carrington (detail)

These songs started with the words. 

I set the words, written by Riley Robinson, to chords on piano. The chords that felt right. I recorded the Casio electric piano, then my sawed-body Austin bass guitar both plugged in directly. Bass played with a pick. (a square corner of my old drivers license)

The organ pretty much follows the piano chords. Two different organ sounds were used for each song on The Black Cat Record. The same Casio.

Vocals. I recorded one, then muted it and recorded another. So that the second vocal wouldn't be an imitation. I tried a lot of the time to sing as if I were in a concert. One vocal is only on the left, and the other is only on the right. 

I recorded electric guitar plugged into a Blackstar amp, direct-in. Same pick used. I had a Lyon Disturbed signature guitar with a kill switch for The Black Cat Record, and a Squire with a whammy bar for Hex. Rhythm guitar was usually done twice, and only on the left or right, like the vocals. I like to think the left headphone is a slightly different album than the right.  Vocals recorded with a Shure SM57.

All songs recorded in my room on a laptop, through a preamp. On Audacity. One piece at a time. 


No A.I. 
No auto-tune. 
No metronome. 

- Ryan Bulliner 