Industrial/Noise experiments

[ValiumMan]

So, I recently decided to dig into electronic music a bit, due to my recent acquisition of a new laptop (Macbook). I'd never really used a computer for making music except for a bit of house-ish music made in Fruity Loops. So I got myself Logic Express, Pd and some other stuff and started making sample-based music, created from "real" instrument recordings I made myself.

I'm listening to a lot of abrasive experimental electronica, like Merzbow, Fennesz, John Wiese, Autechre and Nordvargr right now, so that's kinda the direction it took. And eventually, I managed to get enough material for a full "album" together (about 45 mins) in a month. So I thought up a pseudonym for the whole thing (SSH Visor, which is a part-anagram of my real name), assembled the 6 tracks I made in an order, gave them weird, acronym-like titles and called the album A Clinical Printer (another part-anagram of my name).

The music is kinda abstract industrial-ish with a crunchy, noisy egde (but not necessarily "harsh"). It's not structureless though, most tracks have a kind of "rhythm". It's not beat-based either, but it has a kind of weird groove.


I uploaded one track (160kbps MP3, about 11 mins), called APSH-KSA, based mostly on acoustic percussion for you to try and if you like that, you can download the full album (same format) as a zip file (about 50MB).

DOWNLOADS:
APSH-KSA (single track) http://www.mediafire.com/?bduw19beddd
A Clinical Printer (full album) http://www.mediafire.com/?2ugjtd9ddwn

Tell me what you think of it! Remember, this stuff still represents a learning process for me, so don't be harsh. Also, if you're not into noisy experimental music, don't bother with it.

Cheer, VM.

[Tremens]

downloading album right now. opinions later.

[Tremens]

so from listening most of this, its pretty standard noise stuff. the first few songs seem to be the least interesting, kind of sounding like a more boring john wiese.

the last three songs are great though. sounds like kind of taking more "rhythmic" merzbow stuff and making it into kind of some noisy trance.

[Happy_Squirrel]

Thanks for critiquing my song.

As for APSH-KSA: I've never listened to experimental noise music before, so this was really a trip for me. I must say I rather enjoyed it. Some of the really high-pitched "clicky" percussion got a bit annoying to listen to, but most of it I found more palatable. You made pretty good use of dynamics. I really liked the part starting at about 6 1/2 minutes. The sound almost implies people screaming in the background (at least that's what I heard). Cool.

[ValiumMan]

First of all: thanks a bunch to both of you guys.

I pretty much assembled the tracks in the order in which I made them, and as I said, the whole album is pretty much me learning the ropes of electronic music production, so naturally the first coupla tracks sound kinda poor. I just listened to it again, and TTA-L struck me as a snoozefest. On KTHY, I had no idea how to "intelligently" use distortion, so there's a lot of sludge there. The piece was intended to be a lot more "free-flowing", actually.
But I really like O12 (2), CTHI and APSH-KSA, they're all pretty close to what I wanted to achieve with them.

Also, I'm working on new stuff right now, and I'm trying to incorporate some melodic elements. I recently ordered a MIDI controller, so there's gonna be some soft-synths on there, plus I'm currently cutting up a recording I made with my Nintendo DS, using Electroplankton.

[La Revolucion]

APSH-KSA is pretty good. I can't really offer a critique because there isn't too much wrong with it.

[ValiumMan]

Thanks again! I seem to be on the right track with what I'm doing, so to speak.