“You Nearly Lose Your Mind”
Noise composition concocted around samples of the Cackle Sisters.
….hm, I wonder if I can get samples of the Kipper Kids….
Aaaand my very first Minecraft how-to video!
This makes a very small “machine” that makes random, rapid, intermittent pulses that can power a door, noteblock or anything else redstone-related. I’m not sure of any practical applications, but I use it to make some interesting sound design in my map.
Hay! I just realized, I’m running the “Three Mother’s Trilogy” on Mother’s Day!
This is “Shout at your Mother”
A somewhat-noisy mashup with a sort of mother-y thread running through it.
“Graveyard Babies.”
My own noise composition, vigorously peppered with clips and samples from Tobe Hooper’s Mortuary, a very silly film.
“What are you listening to?”
“Nothing.”
“Then why do you have your headphones on?”
“Nothing is the name of the band. They don’t like to be labeled.”
“That’s pretty underground. What’s their sound?”
“Neo-industrial-post-emo-punk-funk-electro-crash-thrash-a-billy scream-o house ghetto tech.”
“Sounds hardcore.”
“Not really. This is their acoustic album.”
…and it just escalates from there.
This post from Tumblr Noise reminded me of this video. It’s the logical extreme.
“Telstar” by The Tornadoes.
I was googling “Telstar,” which was the name of a high school near where I grew up. I’d always thought it sounded like a satellite. Well, turns out, it is. It’s also a 1962 song by The Tornadoes, the first British single to ever hit #1 on the American charts.
I listened to a clip of it before reading the Wikipedia article, and thought it was a modern noise composition at first! It seemed to be just a really crappy recording, though both YouTube and Wikipedia use this version.
Turns out it’s an homage to the satellite it’s named for, with “space noise” interspersed. I love it. The opening could be background in a scary movie. Add a little echo, maybe slow it down, and the whole thing is wonderfully creepy.
Some samples from Carmina Burana, Janis Joplin, an old 1960 thing called “Theme from A Summer Place” and some bits of this and that.
Scanner Dad
I linked to this yesterday, but had (duh) mixed the whole thing without realizing I had my headphone volume down waaaay low. The resultant mix was, in my opinion, terrible. Some parts overwhelmed others, and it all became a uniform, unuanced mess.
THIS is how I intended it. Please enjoy.
Some comforting sounds cobbled together with increasing chaos, until fire and war take over.
New Track: Scanner Dad.
- Some comforting sounds cobbled together with increasing chaos, until fire and war take over.
The opening of “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” stretched by eight times. Or stretched to eight times. Not actually sure.
Sirens of Belfast: Air Raid Sirens, mysterious noises, beats and rhythms
- released 11 November 2010
Available for streaming or downloading in a variety of formats here, at my Scixual bandcamp page.
“Channel Surfer” — Literally channel surfing — though via YouTube. “Mixed” live on multiple screens simultaneously.
My good friend sent me a voice clip of her imitating a very deep Downeast accent (we’re both from Maine). This is what I did with it.
Rumford is a town near where we grew up that used to smell of rotten eggs and cabbage (back when there was a paper mill there).
Tell Me (What you Mean) Scixual
- Kinda creepy song of heartbreak in the moment of realization.
LYRICS:
Tell me
What you mean
When you tell me
You’re gonna leave
‘Cuz I know
I know
You’re already gone
Your heart left
Many years ago
And your eyes left
Many tears ago
And I dunno what’s left
To go
When you go away
Tell me
What you mean
When you tell me
You’re gonna leave
‘Cuz I know
I know
You’re already gone
And your body
Won’t touch mine any more
And I’m sorry
If my love was such a chore
But you’re gone now
It’s not your problem
Anymore
Tell me
What you mean
When you tell me
You’re gonna leave
‘Cuz I know
I know
You’re already gone
I found out
You told your friends we’re through
And I found out
You’re seeing someone new
And now I wonder
What’s left
For you to do?
Tell me
What you mean
When you tell me
You’re gonna leave
‘Cuz I know
I know
You’re already gone
So goodbye, now
You’ve been cold right from the start
So I guess it’s time, now
For the two of us to part
And get over
And heal
This broken heart
Tell me
What you mean
When you tell me
You’re gonna leave
‘Cuz I know
I know
You’re already gone
Scix in the Back Row
Screen Shots, animated gifs, reviews and sound clips from films, specializing in the weird, noir, cult, camp, horror and obscure, from the beginning of film to just yesterday.
(And occasional Minecraft posts.)
This is me, watching from the back row.
