Tag: Kim Cascone

Sound Signatures :: Crafting your electronic music identity — by Nick Feldman (Routledge)

By providing a slew of tips for the creative use of the tools, and by really diving into all that is on offer here, the person who uses this book is going to give back new imaginative music electronic music community, just as Feldman shares the knowledge. Put the work in, and have fun while you craft your own sound signature, the sound of your musical imagination, that uses the tools to realize the composition you first heard in your mind and soul. This alone will be what sets you apart from the clones.

Heavenly Silences and Earthly Noise :: Drone and Ambient Guitar on Silent Records

Sometimes what comes in a flash unfolds over a long period of time. Such a flash came to Silent Records label founder Kim Cascone one winter night as a kid. “I remember sitting in a snowbank and looking up at the stars. I spotted the blue star in the Orion constellation and gazed at it for a long time. Suddenly I had a flash, like one of those speed-collages in a film where hundreds of events all race past in a split second. I call this ‘my download’ & have been unpacking its meaning ever since.”

Glitching the Circuit

We don’t have enough Dada in this world of too much data. Something is needed to break-through the over-curated simulacrum that is the online world in order to let in a bit of non-artificial light. One way to make a break is through the deliberate cultivation of the glitch.