My stab at the January acid pattern recorded live last night.
Rust Creep’s original pattern is a cool smooth 4 bar thing but I got tired after inputting the first 13 notes and then absent-mindedly left the door open for some weird mutants to creep in, confuse me massively with their monkeying around, and introduce stacks of hard-to-control layered distortion.
Eh, it happens.
Waves by Daniel Palacios:
A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element.
Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds.
These kinds of action-reaction influences applied to sound and space are the basis of this installation. Due to its particular features, a space has a way of relating with sound, understanding sound as a series of compressions and decompressions which move through the air, so that the geometry of the space itself and the elements in it will influence the movements of the sound and finally our perception of the sound; adding to this entire stationary system a chaos of infinite variables from the most minimal movement on our part.
But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations.
Tangibly, the installation is made up of two turbines, supported by a tuning fork structure between which the waves are created.
Nonetheless, it is the intangible, the process created there, which provides sense to the space it occupies and establishes a relationship with the public, who begin to discover that their movements have an influence on the space, sound, and alternate states of great agitation with others when they stop to see how the wave disappears in space like a whistle in the wind.
(via Sonic Terrain)
There is almost no point in attempting to impose a calm, coherent chronology on the house music scene of mid-eighties Chicago, which gathered steady momentum during 1984 before the floodgates opened in 1985. The naivety and desperation of many of the record makers combined with the off-the-hoof machinations of the local label entrepreneurs created a recipe for vinyl chaos. What’s more, there was no established practice, ethical or otherwise, for music makers and publishers to fall back on in order to reference the dos and don’ts of the music business… There was little order, but a great deal of excitement.Tim Lawrence (from the liner notes for Acid: Can You Jack reissue on Soul Jazz)
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert (via gopatchyourself)
