Drrskt - Vrdrv EP (Abrasive Noise)

[Matt Till]

Really, most of you won't like/download this. Actually, I'd be surprised if anyone at all like this:



Drrskt - Vrdrv EP


It's an EP, but at the same time, I just recorded something too long to put on myspace without sucking the sound quality. It's one track, 11:30 is the time on it. It's abrasive noise, but it's fairly dynamic in the sense that it has "movements." Different sections/changes.

I don't know, if you like listening to a toaster explode and keep exploding for eleven minutes and thirty seconds, you might like this.

[Matt Till]

P.S. It's on sendspace, if anyone misses the download deadline, let me know, I'll re-up it. But then again... seriously, it's noise.

[BassGod]

I'm enjoying this... for some reason.

Graeme

[BassGod]

Actually I'm really enjoying this now. I have to ask: how the hell do you write this sort of stuff?

When you write more melodic, structured songs, you come up with riffs, melodies, etc. But when you're making noise, how do you come up with the different sounds and create "atmospheres" of noise?

I'm really interested in this sort of thing.

Graeme

[BassGod]

And for the triple post, the song is now over. The part where everything stops for about a second, and then comes back in full force changed my rating of the song from "good" to "awesome".

Keep on blowing up kitchen appliances or hitting cats or whatever the hell that was, because it sounds good.

Graeme

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by BassGod

Actually I'm really enjoying this now. I have to ask: how the hell do you write this sort of stuff?

When you write more melodic, structured songs, you come up with riffs, melodies, etc. But when you're making noise, how do you come up with the different sounds and create "atmospheres" of noise?

I'm really interested in this sort of thing.

Graeme

I'm really interested in this sort of thing as well. I'm trying to discover new methods all the time.

Aside from the obvious guitar, the main noise source is my distortion pedal feedbacking essentially. What you need is a Y cable, one with two male ends, and one female, or actually another male, but I just use a short cable for that. But what I'm doing (and it's a huge part of the noise genre) is connecting the input and the output and then turning knobs.

Once you get a Y cable, all your effects pedals (actually anything with an in and out) becomes a musical (using the term loosely, ha) instrument. And with that in mind, run your Y cabled effects through other effects, so you can wah your feedbacking distortion or throw a phase on it, etc.

But then again, on the Drrskt page, the song Frwll is all bass, but there is a droning track which is just me striking one note with a **** ton of distortion/compression/reverb/delay and doing bends creating occasional discord.

Make noise however you can, but the Y cable idea is the main thing this song is based on. I'm also using my Digitech Jamman (looper) to create layers, and I'll use the volume on the loop and input as faders controlling different sounds and making it so I can unplug my effects and plug in my guitar and visa versa.

[MeYHymN]

I really enjoyed it, although I am in an altered state of mind right now. Actually invoked some serious emotional response. The heart monitor beat (what it reminded me of) in the background for the first 7 minutes was fascinating and locked me in to almost a meditative state.
Awesome work, keep it up.

[Matt Till]

Ooops, just realized I removed Frwll from the Drrskt page, so my reference to it was kind of lost, but I still made the point of noise comes from everywhere. I'd actually love to get a GOOD mic so I can record sounds around the house and field recordings, etc.

The song nglnd on the drrskt page has more Y cable feedbacking, and the glitchy noises are drum samples at 999 bpm, so it's like a really fast snare, etc, just creates a fast/harsh buzz.

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by MeYHymN

I really enjoyed it, although I am in an altered state of mind right now. Actually invoked some serious emotional response. The heart monitor beat (what it reminded me of) in the background for the first 7 minutes was fascinating and locked me in to almost a meditative state.
Awesome work, keep it up.

That's awesome, thanks for the listen/reply/being in an altered state of mind.

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

I'm in an altered state right now myself and I am really digging this stuff. I think you might enjoy this guy if you like noise and he likes doing collaborations like his name would imply.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=29618388

[dehory]

This is good! The squiggly guitar over intermittent buzzy static and drones invokes a little bit of early Merzbow. If anything, I think it'd be even better if you ripped a page out of his book and made everything more evil-sounding... Like truly fear-inducing swirls of feedback...

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by CHILDISHGAMBINO

I'm in an altered state right now myself and I am really digging this stuff. I think you might enjoy this guy if you like noise and he likes doing collaborations like his name would imply.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=29618388

Man, this guy is good! I wish I could be more subtle like this and envoke power at the same time, but my setup isn't ideal, so I try to create chaos through layering.

Dehory: I do like Merzbow, but sometimes his stuff is too harsh for me (the stuff I've heard), I'm trying for abrasive thing that remains somewhat ambient/background. I'd like to find out what kind of setup he has though, I can't seem to make feedback that EVIL sounding... I've tried.


Thanks for the listens.

[superbassman2000]

very cool matt!
it wasn't as abrasive as i thought it would be (granted that makes it more listenable--a good thing) but it sounded good--I especially liked everything after 8:24. keep up the cool music, and we should really jam on ninjam sometime

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

Man, this guy is good! I wish I could be more subtle like this and envoke power at the same time, but my setup isn't ideal, so I try to create chaos through layering.

Dehory: I do like Merzbow, but sometimes his stuff is too harsh for me (the stuff I've heard), I'm trying for abrasive thing that remains somewhat ambient/background. I'd like to find out what kind of setup he has though, I can't seem to make feedback that EVIL sounding... I've tried.


Thanks for the listens.

I went to highschool with Anti Music Collaborator and I saw some of his setup for his music trust me it's not as complicated as you might think. A lot of the sounds you hear are him using a really crappy mic and overloading it and messing with the sounds on his computer. He uses pots and pans and junk and even an old trumpet he found in the woods behind his house that falls apart if you play it too hard. I'm pretty sure he used a broken door bell on one of his tracks.

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by superbassman2000

very cool matt!
it wasn't as abrasive as i thought it would be (granted that makes it more listenable--a good thing) but it sounded good--I especially liked everything after 8:24. keep up the cool music, and we should really jam on ninjam sometime

I'd really like that, but I gotta figure out how. I got a USB preamp, and for some reason, it won't let me log onto ninjam, it won't detect it as a soundcard or something. It makes me sound a lot better for recording though, and it would make ninjaming easier... if I could get on... I'll get back to you. I'm Night Goat on there when I'm on.

CHILDISHGAMBINO: interesting, it's strange, it's never that complicated a setup, but I'm always interested to hear of new methods. On my "jmsbrwn" track on the Drrskt myspace page, the ambient noise is me setting up a mic in the middle of the room and recording a half hour of me walking around, banging on things, playing bass/accoustic guitar/mbira and screaming into a drum creating strange vibrations. The "crappy mic" method is always a good way to go.

What I like about this kind of stuff is it's more about "how can I create sound" as opposed to watch how fast I run through this scale.

[lemur821]

This song has a stronger beat than I expected from noise. It started getting to me a little (in a good way) towards the end. I was just telling my noise bandmates that I'd like to have a beat sometimes, so it was fun to hear this just after.

[Matt Till]

Yeah, that was on the fly. I was turning my pedals on and off rhythmically to control the noise and looped a "beat." Something I want to do more often.

The singer/guitarist from my other band use to be in a noise band that had a drummer... I dug that concept a lot.

Thanks for the listen, I'm surprised to see a noise community on talkbass.

[Magical_Max]

I like this track, it's good. When you said 'noise' I was thinking more along the lines of this guy, harsh noise is how I'd describe that.

On a separate note I really like the Drrskt stuff, especially that frwll track.

Also you might like some of the stuff over at this site.

Enjoy

Edit: just got to the end of that track and it sounds like an old school fax or printer. Awesome stuff.

[Matt Till]

Yeah, I know my noise style isn't as harsh as most, but I wasn't expecting too many people on here to know about noise. A lot of my music is pretty abrasive to a lot of people, I was more concerned with giving a forewarning to those who wouldn't dig this style.


Thanks for the links, interesting stuff, and thanks for the listen/comments. I love old school printers, so that's a compliment to me for sure.

[these_go211]

i feel like i was just sucked into a jet engine with rod serling. that, or i was slowly being fed into a black hole. kind of a rush. not as abrasive as i expected either. keep up the weirdness!