I guess it was not supposed to be enjoyable...
I can't make a proprer comment on it, because this kind of music is not everything I usually listen to and not at all my cup of tea, but kudos for the effort and the idea.
Also, I loved the music video, although I know too little german to properly understand everything that pops on screen.
Have a blue heart, a bump, and all my better wishes for the future.
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Thank you for your nice words!
The video can hardly be understood by most Germans either - most of the message is transported through sign language, the words popping up lack any sense if that context isn't understood.
So, the main focus of the video lies on the desolate feeling its aesthetics convey.
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I hear a "little" Aphex Twin influence.
I'm also certain that you used a Roland synth along with other instruments, did you use actual analogue synths or you mastered the track through Reason?
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Yes, I guess you could say that influence is there.
For this project, I didn't use any instruments at all. The sounds you hear are just field recordings (Found Sounds, as I mentioned earlier) that occur in an average home, like laundry racks, keychains, furniture, books, plants, to name a few.
I edited and arranged everything in Renoise, only the Mastering - which was done by mastering engineer David Luchow - happened out of the box and was recorded in ProTools.
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Ah i skipped the part where it says that it's field recording.
I liked the album overall, but some tracks could have used a more refined approach (Balcony:Garden it's an example). I found Anteroom to be unlistenable on my headphones, the buzzing is simply too loud and destroys the rest of the track. The remix was more enjoyable.
Bathroom, Livingroom and Kitchen are fine, but Bedroom is what really stands out: it has rhythm, energy and atmosphere. It's hardly a marketable album, but it's not the usual amateur fare that you can find on Reverbnation, i think it can find a niche in the ambient genre.
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I stem from a New Music background, with noise composer Luís Antunes Pena as my professor on composition and music theory. The kind of music I studied and that I produce aren't exactly thought to be pleasant, but rather to provoke thought and actively be listened to in order to understand what exactly is going on.
So yes, you're absolutely right, it's niche music and hardly marketable, but that's more or less the point ;)
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Thank you for your nice and motivating words. You're right, it's not exactly a commercial work, but that's not the point of such kind of music anyways :)
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Haven't listened to everything yet but sounds interesting so far.
By the way, do you know Jacques ? Not really the same style as yours but you might like it since you're interested in found sounds : https://youtu.be/bUHZqVeqoXY
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No, haven't heard of him before - but I love the video, and the music's nice and relaxing. Definitely worth finding out more about :)
When it comes to found sounds, I'm quite fond of artists like Diego Stocco and Amon Tobin.
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Ah yes, I listened a lot to ISAM, but Foley Room not so much
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Foley Room is the one he started getting into foley recording with, the albums before that are mostly sample-based. What I find quite interesting is the fact that a lot of Tobin-fans suddenly turned away from him when ISAM was released, because they found it "too experimental" o.O
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I discovered him with ISAM so it wasn't a problem for me, I love both this and his earlier works anyway
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not my pair of shoes, but the effort is worth bumpinG!
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hallo, I checked the video and I found it difficult to understand, due to my very basic understanding of German and none of mute-deaf language.
I'm aware you can add multiple language subs to YouTube, you might consider proposing it.
about the content, I get some of the message due to reading your explanation, on the contrary it would be harder or impossible to get to it.
best of luck with your endeavours, for a very good cause!
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Thank you for your thoughts on it! I already considered adding subs to the video, but I'll leave it like that for now, the reason being that when its meaning is clearly explained right away, people are less inclined to put their own thoughts into it, interpret the work in their own way.
I kinda find it interesting to reverse the reality of exclusion.
Also, as explained in an earlier comment, the main focus of the video lies in its dismal aesthetics - what's transported through sign language is just a bonus, and the single German words showing up lack any meaning on their own, so the average German person won't know more than you.
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about the superimposed words, I'd propose to use different languages, as deslocalization and acknowledgement of a world wide issue, even if I'm aware it is already a produced video and it would need some kind of post-production or processing.
what more impacts me is the face of the woman over a totally black background.
about the audio files, I went through some of them, but I can't quite conceive them without the video medium, or any other kind of medium let's say in an exposition environment.
GL!
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Great input, thanks! I'll bring your suggestions up next time I meet with the video artist.
The audio might indeed be very abstract, but I wouldn't be comfortable with a more striking approach, since that would feel a bit too... blatant?
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" It's a conceptual work on domestic violence"
You what mate?
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Wrong use of words? What I meant is that it's a concept album (an album built around a particular topic) that deals with the issue of domestic violence, or abuse within relationships and families, if you will.
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It's not something I'd sit down and listen to, but I think it do a good job at adding a creepy or unsettling atmosphere to something.
I like "Bedroom"
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Creepy and unsettling is exactly what I was aiming for :)
Thanks!
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not my cup of tea, but sincere congrats on making it complete and hope to see some more work in future
and thanks for a nice train of course :)
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Thank you, I'm already working on some new stuff. Good luck for the GAs!
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Listened to a first half of tracks and they sounds interesting but I can't tie it to domestic violence by any means..
Sorry maybe I'm not getting it..
Anyway thanks for sharing
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I decided against a more direct approach, because these usually lead to a more or less blatant outcome. The sonification of mentioned transformation is a rather abstract one; fellow artists were able to hear what I was aiming for (or their own interpretation of it) without too much of a problem, but I guess it's also a matter of musical tastes and habits. Plus, one usually misses a lot of what's going on within the first few times of hearing the tracks.
That being said, of course, if you're not into it, you're probably gonna have a hard time concentrating on the subtleties or even listening to a track more than once, if at all.
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Probably I'm not so delicate person and used to harsh and obvious violence music styles.
Anyway
it's not common to see music threads here so thanks for diluting main course with threads by interests (=
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Good luck with the album, Vanderdulle (that name sounds very Dutch)!
Thanks for the train.
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Thanks, Corran! The name is indeed inspired by dutch names - it is however not my real one and I don't have any dutch roots or anything either.
Good luck for the GAs!
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Today, I finally released my first album. It's a conceptual work on domestic violence, with all the sounds used being Found Sounds recorded in different homes. Every track represents a certain room and only features sounds coming from a room of that type.
The alienation of these sounds symbolizes the transformation of the psyche as well as the perception of personal safety and the term 'home' survivors go through.
Therefore, the album has no pretence of beauty, it rather moves between monotony and chaos, sounding broken, dissonant and harsh at times.
It's an attempt at raising awareness for an issue that's otherwise mostly tabooed or belittled, with politicians and media referring to women's shelters as 'destroyers of marriages' and gender-based violence as a 'necessary means of regulation'.
In case you're interested, you can have a listen at Labor L'Art. The album will also be made available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon and a couple of others.
The very talented viennese video artist Carina Plachy also created a video to the opening track Anteroom.
Feel free to leave your comments and criticism here, I'd love to know what you think about this little project.
For your troubles, here's a (unfortunately very short, because I'm a poor artist) train.
Have a lovely day, and take good care of each other!
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