JOURNAL: AbsoluteDestiny (Ian Roberts)

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  • Zettai zetsumei kou yu tokini tsukaunone 2002-04-03 03:22:34 I'm going insane!!!!

    ARRRRRGGGHHHHHH

    I'm waiting for a monitor that I've ordered online to arrive... but I don't have a tracking number.

    I'm going to start gnawing the furnituire soon ><;;

    I can't wait - I've been using this crappy 15" monitor since aroun 1998 and it wasn't even very good back then... but soon SOON I WILL HAVE *ahem* soon I will have a nice 19" flat detailed box of loveliness.

    I hope....

    Damn, I missed EK's silly KoHD vid. boo. Silly time zones... trust me to be asleep when it was posted :P




    (.-.)/ gema! 
  • "Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true... " 2002-04-02 12:03:13 It's yet another GIFT MP3 DAY!

    This one's more than a little bit different, though.

    I personally think that this music is beautiful but I can also imagine someone else really hating it and thinking it's a load of pretentious nonesense. That's fine, but I really really love it and I think it's worth experiencing once.

    Even if I just make 1 person remember what this music is about I think my job will be done today.

    This is the 2nd track from an album called Cathode by an amazing japanese artist called Otomo Yoshihide but the track also features an artist called Sachiko M who I absolutely adore to pieces.

    The track is called Modulation #2 and as per usual it's labelled as a zip instead of an mp3 so please rename it to mp3 to play it:

    http://www.penguinhosting.net/~zettai/modulation.zip


    This album is not available in the UK, and I had to get it on import but it is available in the US:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001W09S/qid%3D1017757029/sr%3D1-6/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F1%5F6/002-1556881-9008057

    If you like it, please buy it.

    I feel a bit bad about distributing what is, in fact, a 1/4 of an album but I think this is more an educational thing. It's big btw, at 11.8mb, so you might want to take that into consideration.


    So, what will you be gettting? Well, you've be getting a 10 minute track which will mostly be pure noise. A prominent sound in this particular track will be the sound made by Sachiko M's sample and memory-free sampler which creates pure sine waves that she manipulates. The effect is painful and hideous to some but beautiful to others.

    Play this nice and loud (it doesn't have its desired effect if played quietly) and listen to it all the way through without fast-forwarding and you will find it doing wierd and wonderful things to your ears. You will also notice at some points that if you move your head you will hear different sounds as if you are in a sea of sound where some parts of the room have stronger currents.

    Don't worry about losing your hearing, if you feel any pain it will only be light and momentary. There's nothing hear to burst your eardrums.

    Admittedly this stuff is best heard live and if you ever get the chance to see Otomo and Sachiko live they are so worth it. Also, don't listen to this if you dont have stereo sound... this stuff is almost pointless if you don't have at two speakers.

    As it happens, I don't think this is the best example I've heard of the style but it's the only that I've managed to pick up as all the other stuff I've heard was live. It's still great though.

    As for the artist, Otomo generally uses a deck with no records to make his sounds but the sounds he can make are incredible. I saw him put a cymball on the mixing deck once and have the needle 'play' it - at which point he smashed another cymball into it to make this gorgeous crash. Then, as the second cymball was virbrating in his hand, he moved it closer to the deck and the two cymbals would reverberate whilst 'connected' only by air and all of it was being fed directly through the deck and blasted out of the speakers.

    It was amazing ^_^

    These are really clever modern musicians and I just thought I'd tell you all about them because the sounds they make are fantastic.

    There's a website about them here and you can probably find numerous reviews on the net:

    http://www.japanimprov.com/ 
  • Down on the corner, out in the street / Willy and the Poorboys are playin' / Bring a nickel; tap your feet... 2002-04-02 02:13:54 Today's a good amv day.

    EK's horribly wrong-gone video definitely put me in the right mood.

    Also, inspired by dokidoki's minimalist April Fools video to Rhapsody in Blue I made a video to John Cage's 4'33" last night which some of you may have spotted.

    http://www.penguinhosting.net/~zettai/john_cage-4m33s.zip

    At last I can get a perfect 10 for video and sound quality - thanks Akuma.

    I've been receiving lots of postive feedback on my latest venture too, so it looks like I'll definitely be finishing Shamless Rock Video which is getting more and more shameless every day.

    In other news, all the minimalism reminded me of a super avant-garde Japanese music concert I went to and it's almost tempting to make an amv for it although it's dubious if any con would show it - although it would be quite an experience.

    The idea is that I'd make some music using only sine waves at different phase relationships and hamonies and I'd vary them throughout the track. With these I'd make a composite blend of various pure images and make an "amv".

    The effect would be that the visuals would be near hypnotising and the audio would have an strange effect where if you moved your head from side to side in the room you would hear really weird things due to the constructive and destructive interference caused by the sine waves. It's really quite an experience that I've heard done before and I'd be so curious to seethe reactions of people at a con. It'd be really messed though.

    OK, I'll stop plotting anti-videos now ^_^ 
  • Good Golly said little Miss Molly.... 2002-03-31 13:23:32 Well... I've officially resurrected an amv which will be my first really ambitious video - so I'm pretty excited about it.

    The only problem is that I've got to that stage where I've watched my video to death and I don't really know anymore as to whether anyone else will actually like it. I was laughing when I made it but that doesn't mean much.

    The concept is fairly simple:

    FLCL = Rock Music = Religion
    Rock + Religion = Guitars = Guitar Wank = Masturbation

    In a nutshell, that equation pretty much sums up the idea for the video. The video's title is "Shameless Rock Video" and it's an action comedy vid.

    It's great fun to make - it's complete self-indulgence - and I think it could be really entertaining but I have this funny feeling that it may just be a little, I dunno, overwhelming?

    There's a serious amount of purposefully silly effects and the whole thing is fairly intensive on the visual side of things so despite me knowing what's going on, I'm not sure if anyone else will (although I'm sure it will cause a few laughs if you can work out what's happening).

    Anyway, to cut a long story short, I'm hosting a preview of my video. It's just the opening to the song and it's 1:30 which makes a 13.4mb divx. If anyone out there is interested I'd really appreciate someone to just watch this and describe in 10 words what they think of it.

    You can grab it at: http://www.penguinhosting.net/~zettai/speedopdivx.avi

    The video stops just before the first verse actually kicks in, so don't worry - those silly Hammond organs won't last forever ^^;;

    I may even grant free reviews to those who offer really useful feedback.

    Thanks in advance! :P 
  • I love you so much, can't count all the ways/ I've died for you girl and all they can say is/ "He's not your kind" 2002-03-30 09:40:03 EK: don't you dare think you can keep that to yourself :P

    I sooo wanna see this... it just sounds so... mad.

    ^_^


    Good news folks... I have some wicked amvs planned and it looks like this coproduction thing may well be going ahead! wai!

    More later.... 
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