Overview
Linear predictive coding is a process of deriving the shape of a filter from a particle of sound that can be used to later reconstruct that particle by
feeding either a pulse stream or white noise into a filter with the derived coefficients. It is typically used as...
I'm working on two long-form projects now -- both of which have passed the one year anniversary of their honeymoon periods...
and one is approaching its second anniversary much sooner than I'd like.
I'm happy with them both! They still need quite a lot of work though. When ...
Gentle Computer Music
A playlist.
Sébastien Roux - Pillow (2003 Apestaartje)
Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001 Mego)
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4 (2001 Mego)
Severiano Martinez - Clocks & Psandas (2003 Shinkoyo)
Tsukimono - The Back Is A Coll...
Yo La Tengo - We Have Amnesia Sometimes (2020 Matador)
I stopped writing in this listening journal back in February. Of course I kept listening, but at some point
the idea of trying to write about everything I listen to started to weigh poorly on my listening choices. I ...
Spent most of the day listening to something I'm working on, but took a few listening breaks with Sun Ra and Christopher Hipgrave.
I really would love a new Christopher Hipgrave album! He's been one of my favorite computer musicians since his Home Normal debut Day blew
me out of the water.
Lanquidity gets further into the realm of funk than many Sun Ra albums, but it's still our man with his ways. Utopian, thoughtful and a bit
more funky than usual.
I downloaded this from an mp3 blog long ago, then lost track of the blog, but I very much enjoy coming back to this album. (I've since found a cheap used
copy as well.) Just a great post-rock outing -- reminds me a bit of Isotope 217 maybe. Great sense of sound & timbre, plenty of hypnotic freakouts and
a solid showing of interesting harmony and subtle hooks.
Autechre – NTS Session 3 (2018 Warp)
"There's another side left?" was a question I found myself asking throughout the day as I listened to this.
In a weak moment sometime in 2018 I pre-ordered the vinyl box set. I like Autechre a lot -- top Autechre is
fantastic and cla...
Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua (1969 BYG)
Archie Shepp – Montreux One (1976 Arista)
Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot – Songs (2003 Intransitive)
Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack – Born To Love (1983 Capitol)
Well, I only ended up writing a short rant about Peabo Bryson &a...
Collections Of Colonies Of Bees – Rance (2000 Crouton)
Man Or Astro-Man? – Eeviac: Operational Index And Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices (1999 Touch And Go)
Spill – Fluoresce (2012 Monotype)
This early Coco Bees album is one of my favorites -...
Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile (2019 Rvng Intl.)
Various – Musique Électroacoustique - Electroacoustic Music - Disc 2 (1990 Radio Canada International)
I think I listened to the Sunday Jazz Workshop for more than 16 hours yesterday - I didn't plan to but the playlis...
Jose Ignacio Quevedo Gómez - την εποχή της αναγέννησης. // पुनःकरण. // En la Era del Renacimiento. [SuperCollider] // Stochastic Music (2019 Self-released)
brekekekekexkoaxkoax - Drone Works (2017 Earthwalker)
Radboud Mens - Three Linear Studies Of Cross-Synthesis (2016 ER...
Too engrossed in a music project tonight to write much.
Haim's Days Are Gone is a classic and I can't wait to hear the one they're teasing with new singles now.
The last one felt like a weird misstep but the new singles seem to go back to what they do best: playing
rock and roll very well.
So much I wanted to write about this relatively obscure Nobukazu Takemura album which comes at an interesting
point in his solo career... another time!
Finally: Phonem's Hydro Electric defines the IDM genre and is the best offering of its era. A nuanced view!
Shalabi Effect – Shalabi Effect: Disc 1 (2000 Alien8 Recordings)
Autechre - Chiastic Slide (1996 Warp)
Shalabi Effect was a dorm room touchstone. My friend introduced me to this record. I remember just hanging out and comparing our personal
lists of mind-blowing albums, ...
Bernhard Günter - Impossible Grey (1997 Metamkine)
Bernhard Günter - Monochrome Rust / Differential (2002 Line)
Chiyoko Szlavnics - During a Lifetime (2017 Another Timbre)
Impossible Grey is one of Günter's more silent pieces -- maybe the most silent. Despite his suggesti...
Real Life Rock And Roll Band – Hollerin' The Spirit (2019 Geomancy)
Roland Kayn – A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound - Disc 6: Aseral (2017 Frozen Reeds)
Mark Templeton - Standing On A Hummingbird (2007 Anticipate)
Mark Templeton – Inland (2009 Anticipate)
Joshua Trebl...
Andrew Weathers Ensemble - Build A Mountain Where Our Bodies Fall (2017 Full Spectrum)
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (1996 Warp)
Today was the yearly Richard D. James Album listen. Now that I'm actually writing it all down,
I kind of wonder in a few years if I'll b...
Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile (2019 Rvng Intl.)
Michael Pisaro & Greg Stuart – Ricefall (2010 Gravity Wave)
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges – Clube Da Esquina (1972 Odeon)
Various – Musique Électroacoustique - Electroacoustic Music - Disc 1 (1990 Radio Canada ...
Grace Cathedral Park - Grace Cathedral Park EP (2018 Self-released)
Grace Cathedral Park - Grace Cathedral Park (2019 Self-released)
Cocteau Twins – Victorialand (1986 4AD)
I finally picked up the companion album to that incredibly sleepy Grace Cathedral Park EP. This was...
My favorite record of the year so far, although we're only about a week in and it's the only record I've listened to so far this year (amazingly, to me)
and it was released in 2018... but it's really good. Hard-to-describe and haunting guitar music that positions itself in a dusty room and
leaves more of the trail of sun hitting the particles in the air near the guitar than the guitar itself in many moments. Makes me think of the Recital
label but this is more acousmatic and less concerned with western classical music. (It's still very much of the world of western harmony to my ears, but fragmented
and destructured into sound-mass enough to be more than just chords and rhythms.)
Although I participated again in this year's MEDIUM 24 hour long NYE drone,
I spent as much time listening as I did playing. This post could span two days into Thursday the 2nd, too --
I spent most of Thursday listening back to the archive recording which is still streaming on a day-long loop
on medium.radio.af.
