Alan Splet, John Fahey, Laurence Crane, One String Sam, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Kaffe Matthews, Sonic Youth, Annie Gosfield, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Neurosis / Tribes of Neurot, Diamanda Galás, Fred Frith, Gavin Bryars, John White, Christopher Hobbs, Takehisa Kosugi, John Cage, Tristan Murail, Gérard Grisey, György Ligeti, Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, Yuji Takahashi, Sofia Gubaidulina, Iannis Xenakis, Bernard Herrmann, Giacinto Scelsi, Julius Hemphill, Hamiett Bluiett, Bernd Friedman / Burnt Friedman, Marilyn Crispell, Derek Bailey, Sylvie Courvoisier, David Slusser, Annea Lockwood, The Red Clay Ramblers, Eugene Chadbourne, David Shea, John Zorn, Justin Broadrick / Godflesh / Final, Lull / Scorn / Mick Harris, KK Null, Tabata Mitsuru, Iceburn, Biota / Mnemonists, Hafler Trio, John Adams, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Philip Glass, Mercury Rev, Bruce Springsteen, The Beach Boys / Brian Wilson, Obscure late 60s / early 70s psychedelic bands, Slayer, Entombed, Shiina Ringo / Tokyo Jihen, Hüsker Dü, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Number Girl, Ryoji Ikeda, (the original) Magnetar, the moon stealing project, Smedley Hoboken & Joe E. Crumb, The Inhibitors, Keiji Haino, La Monte Young, Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber, Steve Reich, Merzbow, Brian Eno, Glenn Gould, Marc Ducret, Tim Berne, Paul Schütze, Peter Brötzmann...
Sounds Like
A monster truck rally. Through a 6 mile long spring reverb tank.
Or, as my brother once put it: "A cockroach with the head of a lion."
Seth - your MY SPACE page is enough to make anyone puke. Maybe your obvious lack of talent or intelligence makes you cranky. Grow up.
- Kathryn Berry
sounds forgotten and found again. left out in the rain, in the sun, weathered with months and years. left on rooftops, left on on the beach, buried in the yard and found after a storm.
Instructions: place sound in a quiet place and unpack. Allow sound to roam free and explore the new space it is in. Explore with it. Allow your new sound to interact with other small sounds which may be in or around the room such as air conditioners, fighting neighbors, wind, creaky wood, silent stones...
New sounds must interact with other sounds in order to grow, but can be easily smothered by too many of them. At first, see to it your new sound only encounters one or two other sounds at a time. For example, a bird in a tree and your own breathing. Or sparse raindrops and distant traffic.
Suggested locations for your new sound:
a pond in the woods.
an empty room with a flourescent light.
a stretch of highway in New Hampshire at 3:00 in the morning.
a ladder up the side of a building that just stops, leading nowhere.
a hole in the pavement that makes you think of something you lost, but you can't quite remember what it was, it's been lost so long...
a cement block left in river shallows.
on a hill, feeling your body rebuild itself under summer heat, large industrial machines and insects buzzing in the distance.
The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence
- Proverbs
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
- Cicero
Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
- William Rose Benet
Hi Seth. Your music is really interesting, and also the influences (Satie-Godflesh(?!?!?!)), and I also love the explanations...is a short piece for 2 guitars... The piano note on Eventual elegy is something totally weird
And, this is not music. ...so this is music.
It is not feelings either.
It is silence dedicated by the person who loves all stories.
Love for You to listen to the one that it is not likely to listen.
if you...
