Apr 19, 2023, 7:30 PMWhat I'm listening to today: "Make Noise Shared System Jamuary 11.2023", Lukas Hermann
A minimal synth noodle with some note sequencers and the Shared System (Make Noise's standard eurorack module bundle). Not very complicated but I like it. There's some interesting implicit clicky percussion when the echo gets its teeth into some of the notes' attacks. Goes through an interesting change partway through.
Apr 20, 2023, 7:00 PMWhat I'm listening to today: "Ambient improvisation 7 (Soma Enner + Cosmos)", Più
I've linked this same artist using this same equipment before but this piece comprises totally different sounds, starting with gentle buzzy hums and escalating to ominous swarmscapes and rocking thumps (if you pay attention, caused by physically smacking the device). I find this one very emotionally intense; it definitely shows the expressiveness of the Enner as a performance instrument.
Apr 21, 2023, 7:19 PMWhat I'm listening to today: "Bombora || Sequential Prophet Rev2", Pat Carroll
A peaceful low-key keyboard solo. A lot of the synth music I link in this thread the focus is on the technical shock of the instrument capabilities, so I'm not sure how to express the idea a synth piece is just about the synth player's performance. This possibly could have been performed on a piano, though the Prophet voice's LFO does add some nice subtle rhythmic elements. Anyway. Feels good
Apr 22, 2023, 8:24 PMWhat I'm listening to today: Outro, God Lives Underwater
My favorite thing by 90s industrial group GLU is the "hidden track", not very hidden, from Life in the So-Called Space Age, which starts right after the final song and begins with a repetitive humming noise that goes tens of minutes without noticeably changing.
The best way to listen to this is to put it on speakers and then forget you had it on, so the thing that happens after hits you like a truck. Trust me.
Apr 23, 2023, 7:35 PMWhat I'm listening to today: "Last Ap Roach", Squarepusher
When I was in college I had awful insomnia. One night, exhausted, I went to McDonalds at 2 AM. When I got up to the window, they had installed a machine that makes your drink and drops it in a carousel. There were no humans visible. I was alone in the world with a robot and a slowly-rotating coca-cola and, at this song's precise climax on my stereo, I watched the robot smash my unattended drink against the wall
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