Quote-unquote MUSIC

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

My band (which is actually just me and my laptop, in reality, but on paper consists of a few more members) has finally released our new album, which has been in the works since like January.

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/44333  <-- The new album
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/stdin <-- all our albums

License-wise, all of those can be downloaded and redistributed, sold, &c. That is, if you can find anyone willing to buy it :P.

I am unsure whether or not to call any of it 'music'.

[Lies]

I don't know, do I want to download it?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

There's not much to lose. It's six minutes long, and will probably only take you a few minutes.

[AFK]

There's not much to lose. It's six minutes long, and will probably only take you a few minutes.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

A six minute album?

album....  haven't seen that word in a long time without getting the WTF is that look...

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I guess the proper term would be EP, or Single, or something. I never really understood the industry terminology.

[Triple Zero]

so your band, which is actually not a band, has made something that you're not certain could be called music on what might be either an album or an EP or a single?

i GOT to check this out.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I guess the proper term would be EP, or Single, or something. I never really understood the industry terminology.

Sorry, I wasn't picking on ya or anything, I was appreciating that someone else used the word.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

so your band, which is actually not a band, has made something that you're not certain could be called music on what might be either an album or an EP or a single?

i GOT to check this out.

Well, this quote makes the name far more appropriate. Mind if I yoink it? It's a better description than anything I have.

[Triple Zero]

Hey ENKI, this is pretty cool. I dunno why or how, I always used to have a real interest in non-music, it puts a smirk on my face I lost my interest in it (non-music/minimal) somewhere along the road, but one-and-a-half track into your album, has rekindled it somewhat.

Thanks!

And yeah sure use the description

oh and the text/lyrics, did you write those yourself, are they from books/essays, or cut-ups from your markov generators?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Most of the lyrics are either from me or hand-edited stuff taken from cutups/markov outputs. How much human intervention is involved is questionable, generally.

In this current album, some of the tracks actually include things like the fibbonacci sequence in reverse, or "true" or "false" spoken over and over again. Everything else (aside from the first track, which was written by hand and then fed through a first order markov chainer) was written completely by me. On the other albums, it's more of a mixed bag -- my last one had a final track (Line Out_)  that was a manual copy-paste cutup of the results from a google search with a softer voice speaking quotes from Ubik pasted into arbitrary places on the output of a buggy program that spit out the incorrect series of numbers, along with some other tracks many of which may have been written entirely by me and some of which may have been almost completely computer-generated. Noise vessel monochrome was actually written totally by me aside from the first line, and Ravenhurst was simply arranged by me and slightly modified after I put a bunch of good-looking phrases I copied out of a scrambling of other lyrics in google notes and then pasted them back into a document in an order that felt right. Oddly enough, ravenhurst is one of maybe two of my songs for which I know all the lyrics down-pat.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My band (which is actually just me and my laptop, in reality, but on paper consists of a few more members)

I'd like to take just a moment to laugh at you for that.  Like this ---> 

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

http://namcub.accela-labs.com/stories/aether%20intro.mp3 <-- first track for the next album, tentatively titled "no exit".

For the record, the reason that it's really just me and my laptop is because my band members are lazy asses who go outside sometimes.

[BabylonHoruv]

Playing it on my radio show now.  Will let you know what I think.

[BabylonHoruv]

ok, I liked it for a minute.  The speak and spell technique and noise style instrumentation worked for me for about one song, but I couldn't listen to more than that without it all sounding the same.