Actress / Nail the cross

[connect_icut]

I should point out that I don't use randomization to simulate the sound of analogue gear, I use it as a controlled compositional/improvisational element in a specifically computer music context. I swear the results aren't as dry as that makes it sound.

I really do like the way analogue stuff sounds and I'm sure playing with gear is fun but to realise the sounds I hear in my head requires a computer and a programming environment along the lines of Max/MSP. Of course, it would be pretty easy to use Max to send controlled, randomized modulations to hardware instruments via MIDI. In fact, Max was originally designed for use with a MIDI hardware set up (because high-level, real-time DSP simply wasn't possible at the time).

 

[skull kid]

the one benefit of these lame analogue noobs and their tape saturation plugins saturating the market is that the really well produced digital music sounds even more startling than ever, see the latest hecker (florian) record, and the latest releases on raster noton, particularly the kangding ray and alva noto/sakamoto albums -- now that's what i call 'depth of sound'

 

[connect_icut]

the one benefit of these lame analogue noobs and their tape saturation plugins saturating the market is that the really well produced digital music sounds even more startling than ever, see the latest hecker (florian) record, and the latest releases on raster noton, particularly the kangding ray and alva noto/sakamoto albums -- now that's what i call 'depth of sound'

I love you and I want to bear your children.

 

[pattycakes_]

succinctness is a virtue

 

[pattycakes_]

the one benefit of these lame analogue noobs and their tape saturation plugins saturating the market is that the really well produced digital music sounds even more startling than ever, see the latest hecker (florian) record, and the latest releases on raster noton, particularly the kangding ray and alva noto/sakamoto albums -- now that's what i call 'depth of sound'

just heard some demos from these and wow

 

[labrat]

http://www.factmag.com/2011/07/15/actress-is-giving-away-tracks-on-his-twitter-again/

 

[Phaedo]

Some great bits here, shame no 320's but oh well. "Murder Plaza" and "My Weed's Strong Blud" (you get the impression thats true with the second title haha) are my favorites so far.

 

[Sectionfive]

Has this been posted? http://work-ethic.net/features/actress-0

Good Dem Hunger interview there too.

 

[pattycakes_]

this is a decent read for the nerds

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb10/articles/analoguewarmth.htm

me being one of them

 

[Ulala]

Just got back from seeing Actress and Lukid at the Shacklewell Arms, and I think the right word is 'nonplussed'. It was alright, like, but that's as far as I'd go. I tend to think it's more headphones music than dancefloor, based solely on drunken empirical evidence tonight. It never seemed to really get going, lots of build-up but no money shot, as it were.

It was dead busy, mind, but there was a lot of standing about and not a lot of dancing.

 

[routes]

i was at this and yeah it wasn't great. fair play tho he played a Being Boiled/No Scrubs bootleg which was amusing.

 

[hopper]

yeah I was there too, really wasn't feeling the set - so spent most of it outside. Seems like he hasn't quite figured out a good live set up for his stuff yet. It was all over the place at times and you kinda just felt he was stoned off his nut thinking that phaser knob sounded amazing. And I couldn't be any bigger a fan of his music, the sound at the venue didn't really help either. Was a slightly strange night, nobody was really looking at him playing, but standing around talking to each other over the music, can't blame them entirely as it was pretty impossible to dance to most of it

 

[mistersloane]

i was at this and yeah it wasn't great. fair play tho he played a Being Boiled/No Scrubs bootleg which was amusing.

That's Richard X's Being Scrubbed

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[meatstixx]

he smashed it at field day. proper techno for the first 20 minutes to a packed dancefloor.

 

[baboon2004]

really wish i had more chord n harmony knowledge. definitely makes even the shittiest synths sound good

check out ravenspiral - best theory e-book ever. the guy even references acid house.

 

[wise]

Loving the Laurel Halo remix, shades of MBV in the groaning synths

 

[hopper]

the one benefit of these lame analogue noobs and their tape saturation plugins saturating the market is that the really well produced digital music sounds even more startling than ever, see the latest hecker (florian) record, and the latest releases on raster noton, particularly the kangding ray and alva noto/sakamoto albums -- now that's what i call 'depth of sound'

which hecker record do you mean? the sun pandemonium reissue or acid in the style of david tudor?

the sun pandemonium one sounds brilliant on clips

 

[e/y]

Speculative Solution?

 

[connect_icut]

I just got the vinyl of Sun Pandemonium. Lush. I'm actually surprised Hecker's stuff can be transferred to vinyl on account of all the extreme frequencies but this sounds great. I find the mixture of analogue and digital extremes quite potent, actually. Which might explain the appeal of Actress, to an extent.

 

[Dorsey]

Actress / Nail the cross grabs a lyric before the military. Does a slang trip the child? Actress / Nail the cross crosses my prose. Actress / Nail the cross moves the percent below the injured average. An arm tailors the flood backlog under the lit worry.

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