I've finally managed to start sorting through the recordings of my time with the impossible box and thought it'd be about time to share a little. Most of my recordings (and all of what I currently have posted on soundcloud) are straight recordings, direct from the box and relatively (or completely) unedited. If I'm trying to make a "song", I prefer to be able to play it proper in one take - so I spend a day patching the Impossible and working with the sound and when to play what, etc. until I get it right...Then I record...and if it doesn't turn out right, I do it again and again until it does.
I think this yields a specific style of composition, sometimes one not so exciting and intricate and perhaps slow or even boring for the modern over-excited world. But...that's what I'm into.
For your (un)listening (dis)pleasure, I have a few recordings;
The first two were recorded for the first 10" dubplate release on the soon to be folktek records. Strange, somewhat minimal, almost droning, verging on music, cliffside hallway dub. A pulsing spatial sound for the release entitled "Spatial Recognition".
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This track entitled "Impossible Dub" is some bass whomping, ethereal foot dragging, crystallized melodicizm utilizing the natural occurance of the sequencers glitching from odd voltage inputting - somewhat dictating when to do what while I play. All in good fun.
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"Untied Up" is in two parts - a relatively simple sound but with the complexity of a seeming cello playing a sequence off in the distance, with the sound of slapping water in front of you. It's a composition that requires a mental reconciliation for what at first provides a spatial recognition of two very different places.
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"Dragon Sound" is more specifically in the straight drone realm - made with film sound in mind. Tense, ever-changing and building drone. The sound of train, busy-ness, a swarming, driving force...and yet somehow, at least moderately lulling.
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Another dub piece, more minimal...very chill - all live and unedited impossible box;
I will be posting more to my sound cloud in the future if you'd like to hear what develops; http://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze
cheers
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6 comments:
You Sir, are a true visionary artist! Very few artists in the world are breaking away from the norm buy doing special music like yours. Don't ever stop creating, don't ever stop experimenting. From one art to another. RES DNA from Submask music chitown
Gorgeous sound, and a breath-taking machine. I don't think any synthesizer enthusiast in the world has spent even half of the $250,000 asking price on ANYTHING though, even historical pieces from the 60s. Best of luck, anyway. I'm sure you're in no rush to sell.
why cant you make affordable intruments for passionate poor people?
Anonymous said...
You Sir, are a true visionary artist! Very few artists in the world are breaking away from the norm buy doing special music like yours. Don't ever stop creating, don't ever stop experimenting. From one art to another. RES DNA from Submask music chitown
many thanks!!! your words are kind and I promise I won't stop.
Anonymous said...
Gorgeous sound, and a breath-taking machine. I don't think any synthesizer enthusiast in the world has spent even half of the $250,000 asking price on ANYTHING though, even historical pieces from the 60s. Best of luck, anyway. I'm sure you're in no rush to sell.
yep, I'm sure you're right...but I could do a helluva lot more if I had the funding...One has to try...right?
Anonymous said...
why cant you make affordable intruments for passionate poor people?
well, if I made cheaper instruments or charged much less for the ones I make, I'd still be a passionate poor person myself.,..but without the ability to make anything...cause I'd be even more too broke.
Thanks Arius (and Ben),
I find your work deeply inspiring and motivating from both engineering and musical standpoints. I've been pulled into this world of electronic music and synthesis, which is alive with limitless possibility. There is so much to learn, to investigate and to create.
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