What even is a song?
I'm very inspired by the idea of sound evolving on it's own, which is one of the reasons why I'm so fascinated by modular synthesizers. Also, sine waves. So I took two sines, fed them into a weird delay (Make Noise Echophon), fed that into digital "tape-studio" module Make Noise Morphagene, added a bunch of modulation, and let Morphagene record and loop over and over itself to hear what happens to the sound. I love the little rhytms that emerge from seemingly static sounds, how it kind of wants to devolve into fading buzz but then revs again and comes back. Then I remembered Alvin Lucier and his 'I Am Sitting In A Room', and chained together a bunch of reverbs to further examine what is burrowed inside the sound and what emerges when the machines can emphazise and attenuate frequencies on their own. No other sound sources than two sine wave oscillators.
@bethkille Feb 2022
Wow! Sounds like you were the mastermind in some evil yet amazing scientific experiment. Applaud the creativity with your toys.
@headfirstonly Feb 2022
Dark and ominous, yes, but rhythmic and musical as well. I can occasionally hear something that sounds like a didgeridoo which appears and then fades away again. I found myself wondering if it would be possible to compose a piece where our brain creates all the rhythms and motifs, but which do not exist in the original sound. Rather like the speech-to-song illusion that Diana Deutsch discovered, perhaps...
And it's nice to discover someone else who knows about "I am sitting in a room." I'm sorry to report that Alvin died just before Christmas after a bad fall.
@unpronounceable Feb 2022
Wow. Reminds me of Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross style scores. I'm a big fan of this creative approach to music/noisemaking and appreciate you naming the influence and the how. When I listen to this, I feel like I can sense the space around me in a comforting way; like I can dance with the air around me from an internal viewpoint. It's just so nice to close my eyes to this and notice the subtle movements.
@circle Feb 2022
I'd say a song is basically any audio that isn't just talking and is called a song by the creator. So this is one! and it's very cool. I like noise and drones, and the sound that can be created just by allowing things to reverberate and develop. it sounds like there are two higher frequencies sort of fighting for their place, and they make a kind of melody
@frey Feb 2022
This is sick!! I'm really into ambient/horror movie scores and I'm always in awe how this type of sound instantly creates an atmosphere I can really only describe as impending. Great idea you had with the reverb!
@elesimo Feb 2022
This is fascinating and gave me a few ideas that I want to experiment on. Love the hypnotic texture here.