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Accumulation 1: 12.26.2010
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A building blizzard of noise that lasts 16 odd (and I mean odd) minutes.
indie solo
This is just my own solo stuff. I do this crap mostly for my own amusement and/or as songwriting/production/arranging exercises. I don't how to categorize myself since I'm liable to try absolutely anything that catches my fancy, from indie-punk to '70s TV theme spoofs to ambient atmospherics. It's all here for you to enjoy, and if you're not careful you might get a headache before it's done, hey hey hey.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative • Experimental
Charts
#1,165 in subgenre Peak #20
Charts
Peak #232
Author
Bill Spiropoulos
Rights
(c) 2010 Wispir Music
Uploaded
December 31, 2010
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MP3 7.7 MB • 64 kbps • 16:51
Story behind the song
What we have here is an accumulation of 16 minutes of sound coming in through the microphone, endlessly looping via a VST delay plug-in set so that the echo repeats do not die away. Each new sound the mic hears gets layered on to every sound that came before it, looping every approximately 1.75 seconds, so that at any given moment you are hearing ALL of the sound picked up by the mic since the beginning of the recording. The pileup starts as almost inaudible ambient sound, quickly develops into a pseudo-tribal rhythm groove and eventually becomes a cacophony of piled up noise. No electronic doodads other than the delay plug-in are involved; all sounds are acoustic: 1) Room noise 2) Finger noise 3) Tapping on the microphone 4) Clinking glasses and soda cans 5) Vocal sounds 6) Vocal scatting 7) Moaning 8) Reciting random country names Title derives from when I recorded it (specifically, wee hours of the morning), as a horrendous blizzard was blanketing New Jersey with 20-odd inches of snow. The parallel between song and weather phenomenon needs no explanation.
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