jessica
i've been getting a lot of work done over the last few months. i had some problems to start off. i had to order a set of headphone cables from sennheiser, which set me back a month. a hard drive died. i had a bad bios flash which shut my computer off for two months. &etc. but i've got a few hours of mixes done, now, and i've pulled a proper record out of it.
i've been going through chronologically and completing old projects. this is actually the first record i've completed since november, 2000 - and it's all material that was written and left incomplete over the course of 2001. it would be record number 5 if placed in the proper chronological order, which is dec 2001. there's roughly a record's worth of unfinished material per year up to about 2011, but i should be able to move faster through the rest of it.
this is the public bandcamp page with information and writeups:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
but i'm going to send you a link to a free download. that being said, please direct people to the bandcamp page if you want to share.
free dl:
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it's just a zip file with mp3s in it. if the mac is funny with the %s try this:
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and navigate to 33.
sister
sorry it took me so long to reply, i wanted to actually LISTEN to all this stuff, a few times, before responding.
some of it i really enjoyed. some of it i found to be plain noise. i imagine that is consistent with other feedback you must be receiving.
we listened to it through the stereo, and anything that had a steady beat, your nephew danced to. fun. the italian cereal commercial was his favourite. your nephew is getting big, almost a year. seven teeth.
hope all is well. i like getting an update now and then.
jessica
noise is one of the genres i work in, but it's generally pretty ordered - unless it's conceptually chaotic, which is true of a few pieces but is generally not the case. i do find that people often can't hear the compositional aspect underneath the aesthetics, but it has to do with not knowing what they're listening to. it's kind of like how a lot of people listen to jazz and just hear random notes, regardless of how written the parts may or may not be. or how people can't get their heads around the idea of a tone row, and just hear chaotic dissonance. i can't expect random people to hear structure in noise compositions any more than jazz artists or serialists can expect an untrained ear to understand what they're doing; i generally just have to point out that it's there, and it's up to them to spend the time unravelling it or not. that's not frustrating to me. what IS frustrating to me is when much less developed examples of noise are held up as something paradigmatic. but this happens in jazz, too, and is the inevitable result of taking something that requires a trained ear to understand and distributing it to untrained ears for analysis.
i'm expecting another major update some time in december. i'm still hoping to get the sixth record done by the end of the year, but it may be early next year. i'm then going to get stuck in finishing a matlab experiment in converting raw data to sound that i expect may be time consuming.
