Obtuse
Highly visual music drawing from jazz soundtracks world music and modern classical mixed with triphop and drum n bass beats
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Obtuse creates virtual soundtracks, that is, soundtracks to films not yet made. However, here we tend to keep the format in listener-friendly song form. The music we make incorporates deconstructed samples of jazz, soundtracks, classical music, "world" music, and anything else we can manipulate to express the desired mood/scene/image, packaged together with drum n bass and trip hop beats.Band/artist history
compose and perform cartoon-inspired music
with a band, played gigs in Atlanta under the name Green Eggs and Ham (Gabriel
- guitar, Aaron bass + others)
all sorts of experimentation with improv,
avant garde collage noise, tribal flute-drum things,keyboard sequencing, some
compositions in jazz/klezmer, played gigs under the names The Big Sleep and No
Soap Radio (G - keyboards, A - clarinet)
even further off the wall experimentation
with tape manipulation, sound sculpting, industrial music, first collages on
computer, and some utterly ridiculous avant garde blues, we perform live
industrial under the name Pure Digital Silence (G - guitar, A - ukulele)
finally get some equipment worth using, form
Obtuse, using a lot of synths and MIDI at first inspired by Orbital, the Orb,
Autechre, moved towards Amon Tobin, Coldcut, DJ Shadow, FSOL
practically ditched all the synths and
MIDI for composing and producing entirely in the computer with sample
manipulation. We seem to have finally
found the niche we want to work within. It’s been 3 whole years and we haven’t changed our genre dramatically
yet.Have you performed in front of an audience?We used to play live with bands, mostly in Atlanta 92-94. We wish we had done it more, it was fun at the time. Nowadays we don't even live in the same country as each other which would make playing live difficult. We'd need different equipment too.
Your musical influences
We're into trip hop, drum n bass, collage, hip hop, jazz, soundtracks to old horror films and spaghetti westerns, lounge music, cartoon music, 20th century classical, klezmer, traditional music from Turkey, Morocco, Armenia, India, Japan, Egypt, Bulgaria, etc.What equipment do you use?
PC's with software.Contact
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Comments (2)
We just finish this great song I think you should really check this one out! It's called 'Roll it up by 7thSign Music.
Here's where you can find it:
Band page: http://www.soundclick.com/7thsignmusic
Hi
i like your Tracks ! Keep on your good work !!
Please listen to my Tracks too !!!
BEATJUGGLER
THANKX !!!
