More from Peter’s Ryoji Ikeda remake CD can be found... HERE! Among them are 6 extracts of a piece he didn’t finish, as the CD was already long enough. They exist for your listening pleasure, um, torture, misery, reminder that your life doesn’t suck? and also to be used with his stupid blessing—stupid because of his stupid copyright notice he puts everywhere. Yes, go ahead and play with the 6 samples, they are fairly good. Credit him. Do something better than he could. Make it sound like a million dollars. Make that two, because then you could contact him, and he could override the -nc- part of the (CC) license. He is as impecunious as I, and, um, isn’t it a -sa- “share alike” agreement, like give me some money. Now. Make three million.
But as I am doing nothing to speak of, here a couple of his other compositions, from completely different periods of his output. He has a Mus.B.(Hons.) (1st class) in composition, but he has largely rejected what he composed for that. Some things should stay in the workshop, or in notebooks. He is old. Forty-two years old, in fact. That means he was approximately class of ’91. He was making electronic music on 8-track machines, and using a MIDI sequencer that overloaded a Yamaha Rev5 reverb device. In fact, vestiges of his 1980s sounds from the Electronic Music Study in Marama Hall of the University of Otago, New Zealand (sorry, he’s a Kiwi) can be found in very many of his pieces. In further fact, the first piece he had me post to my Tumblr site (linked above) has a background wash of sound, very full, writhes ever so slightly; a little unnerving, but it is about bipolar affective disorder, which terrible as it is, some people think doesn’t exist. Or that people suffering (some would say enjoying, for part of the cycle) from some part of the spectrum are misfits or defective. Fcuk them. It’s something you can’t will yourself out of having. I’d know.
If someone tried to say it (the sounds, not the b.a.d., although the latter is likely) didn’t come from the EMS at Otago U., then chance are they are stupid (which includes the possibility of them being a liar).
Oh, the pieces will be in separate links (I can’t work out how to get sounds onto Blogspot. Tumblr is so much easier). I will post my thoughts on lorem ipsum and Wikipedia in a second. Peter and I work together on these things, and his website (I suppose we share it but it is messy, doesn’t make sense too often, and never dollars—don’t become a professional musician, he is muttering—but the site is fun, and my job is to make it worth your while).
PS. I lied a little about how the sounds from 1980s were made. It’s part of my non-renter’s insurance policy. A kind of monetary instrument.
But as I am doing nothing to speak of, here a couple of his other compositions, from completely different periods of his output. He has a Mus.B.(Hons.) (1st class) in composition, but he has largely rejected what he composed for that. Some things should stay in the workshop, or in notebooks. He is old. Forty-two years old, in fact. That means he was approximately class of ’91. He was making electronic music on 8-track machines, and using a MIDI sequencer that overloaded a Yamaha Rev5 reverb device. In fact, vestiges of his 1980s sounds from the Electronic Music Study in Marama Hall of the University of Otago, New Zealand (sorry, he’s a Kiwi) can be found in very many of his pieces. In further fact, the first piece he had me post to my Tumblr site (linked above) has a background wash of sound, very full, writhes ever so slightly; a little unnerving, but it is about bipolar affective disorder, which terrible as it is, some people think doesn’t exist. Or that people suffering (some would say enjoying, for part of the cycle) from some part of the spectrum are misfits or defective. Fcuk them. It’s something you can’t will yourself out of having. I’d know.
If someone tried to say it (the sounds, not the b.a.d., although the latter is likely) didn’t come from the EMS at Otago U., then chance are they are stupid (which includes the possibility of them being a liar).
Oh, the pieces will be in separate links (I can’t work out how to get sounds onto Blogspot. Tumblr is so much easier). I will post my thoughts on lorem ipsum and Wikipedia in a second. Peter and I work together on these things, and his website (I suppose we share it but it is messy, doesn’t make sense too often, and never dollars—
PS. I lied a little about how the sounds from 1980s were made. It’s part of my non-renter’s insurance policy. A kind of monetary instrument.
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