ILM Listening Chamber redux 2005 number 1

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I thought I'd revive the ILM Listening chamber threads as with YSI/Gmail etc it should be easier to do even if you don't have your webspace.

Anyway to start, 3 very short pieces, a1, b1, c1, just 20 to 30 seconds each, no clues as to title or artist. Just listen and post your opinions back here.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I feel like I've lost all sense of balance just listening to the first one.

― Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

What's the Listening Chamber about? Please refresh my memory (assuming I ever knew).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

The Listening Chamber

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

hurrah! will try and listening tonight.

mitch's original concept:

How about a new ILM activity? Every week/day/fortnight/whatever a song/piece of music is [posted] and everyone does their darndest to listen to it- but I mean *rilly* listen. And report back here. Resist the urge to dismiss- this may mean you will end up attentively listening to anything from Lou Bega to Merzbow. Another way of doing this is for an anonymous song to be posted at, say, Grokepile and all of us blessed with MP3-listening capabilites will download and listen without prejudice.

N.B. KEY THING: RESIST URGE TO IDENTIFY ARTIST/TITLE OR DROP HINTS. On the original Listening Chamber threads some ppl seemed to find this extraordinarily difficult.

where is mitch these days, anyway?

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― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

8 kbps distortion + vinyl crackling = killer combination

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like heavily processed classical music.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

(btw, zebedee, mitch = right here)

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

ILM Listening Chamber - Introduction (read this first)

at most one track will be posted per day, numbered and dated, the artist and title will not be named, and neither will the track's owner

a new thread will be started for each track

please don't identify the track or the owner of the track if you know, at least until an appropriate point (i.e. everyone who wants to has heard it) in the discussion - i.e. no 'spoiling'

the first track will be going up on Monday, along with log-in details etc

an email address to send new tracks to will be posted soon

please don't interfere with the tracks in the MyPlay locker - at present the system will rely on trust.

the idea is not just to share music, but to stimulate discussion hopefully of styles/artists you may have not heard/previously dismissed etc - so don't complain about the choices of tracks, submit your own to be !

im all for it but i think anonymous posting is key

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

They're interesting but very home-made sounding. Like something I could do with Audacity. It's hard to judge from short lo-fi clips but they don't feel very emotionally engaging, I don't know if I'd spend a lot of time listening to whole tracks like this. And I like lots of noise stuff.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

the third and the first piece must be from the same track, no? they vary on the same motif. there is something classical about all of them as hurting said. i seem to hear a choir singing. it's all heavily treated with some sound program though. are those clicks on "c1" intended? they are quite annoying and sound like my laptop is fucking up the extract.

btw great idea to revive the listening chambers, billy. those 24 chambers were the most exciting threads ever on ilm. here is the category.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Sounds to me like you've found an old quarter inch tape or cassette of someone taping a classical event either live or off the television except the tape has gotten fucked or the azimuth on the tape machine is out or moving. The clicks on the third snatch really sound like contact with some sort of cheap mic.

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like the Smash robots playing The **** ******* !

This would work better if the source material had been disguised more, e.g. using shorter extracts cut up and reassembled.

Afterthought: I wonder if this was made using the Alvin Lucier 'I am sitting in a room' technique.

Footnote for Merkins: the Smash robots are from a 70s TV advert for instant mashed potato.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

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