here's another demovideo of the STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY + ECHOBLENDER (combo-can)

https://youtu.be/Dbvg8Zmx43M

More info here: https://metsn.tumblr.com

#METSÄÄN #STOCHASTICASYMMETRY #HARSHNOISE #GLITCH #SOUNDART #NOISEBOX #experimentalmusicalinstrument #sounddesign #powerelectronics #thismachinekillsfascists #makenoisesmashfascism #asymmetry
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STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY - for eruptive harsh noise assault patterns

The STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY is a machine to generate glitched-out eruptive noise assault patterns. it is a signal generator for those who are interested in exploring the harsher spectrum of experimental noise making. STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY can be the base battery for any anti-fascist noise resistance set-up and running it through a chain of manipulating EFX will lead to massive sonic results. Simply put… 5 square wave oscillators of which 2 are LFOs generate complex waveforms which are getting further effected by a starve control, a distortion and a resonant low pass filter.

Of course nothing really is simple, so here are more details:

WAVING:
Each of the 3 square wave oscillators has a FREQUENCY potentiometer for controling pitch, a RANGE toggle switch to select 2 different frequency ranges, a MODE toggle switch that enables latch or trigger mode and a TRIGGER button switch, as well as a orange indicator LED. In trigger mode, the oscillator is mixed into the signal only momentary as long as the trigger is depressed. But be aware, the machine has a non-linear response in the trigger section and sometimes an oscillator raises it’s voice even when you did not engage it with the trigger, that is part of the fun and it can get less out of control depending on the starve setting. when the oscillator’s LED is on it’s LED is on and it might or might not switch off when you repress the trigger, but as said, this function is highly stochastic and i have not been able to predict it (a lesson for control freaks!). All three oscillators have different ranges, higher on the left and lowering towards the right. A MIX toggle switch selects linear or non linear mixing, the non-linear mixing is a bit more uneven and noisy.

MODULATING:
Each of the 2 LFOs has a SPEED control and similar to the other oscillators a MODE toggle switch and when in trigger mode the LFO can be activated temporally, which is most interesting when running in higher speeds for tremolo-like effects or high pitch noise assaults in the highest setting.

SOUNDSHAPING:
the signal generated with oscillators with or without LFOs is shaped by two more controls, which are highly depending on other setting on the machine, so they as well, do not have a fully linear response. the EDGE control works like a distortion, that adds more sharp edges to the waveform, resulting in ‘higher harmonics’, while the CURVE control acts like a resonant low pass filter that rounds off the already very 'edgy’ squarewave forms and it has slight self-resonance. Both of these controls are as such not affected by the power-starve function, but works differently the more the oscillator section is starved. With very much starving (STARVE counterclockwise) the CURVE control can generate almost electro-acoustic sounding crunch and hiss for example (see demovideo). Of course there is also a VOLUME control that lets you tame the output level.

STARVING:
The STARVE control regulates the power that is accessible to the IC that is used for the 5 oscillators and when one turns it down (CCW) the different oscillators start to get more stochastic in their functions so the generated waveform becomes more noisy. Turning STARVE counterclockwise also has a global scale effect, it lowers the pitch of the three oscillators and the speed of the LFOs, but at the same time it also introduces high pitched noises and clicks. Similar to the other trigger functions on this machine there is also a POWER toggle switch, that is either in latch mode or activates the power trigger mode, which interacts with the STARVE function. When starve is up (CW) the decay time of the oscillators using up the available power is faster, while when STARVE is low the decay is longer, while the oscillators get less power in total.

CONNECTING:
STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY runs on 12V DC (positive inside/negative outside, 2.1mm standard socket) and unless otherwise communicated it ships with a suitable recycled PSU with euro-plug. The audio output is a standard 6.3mm mono instrument jack socket, but beware that due to the special enclosures it might not work with angled plugs.

The first batch of STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY is build into enclosures found in an abandoned car repair shop in turku. Originally they were some kind of 'black box’ engine data-read-out ports and are now painted with the 'industrial burn-out’ camo pattern in chrome and black. Handmade by GRM for METSÄÄN.

https://metsn.tumblr.com/post/745561561886851072

#METSÄÄN #STOCHASTICASYMMETRY #HARSHNOISE #GLITCH #SOUNDART #NOISEBOX #experimentalmusicalinstrument #sounddesign #powerelectronics #thismachinekillsfascists #makenoisesmashfascism #asymmetry
#asymmeteicwarfare #GLITCH #harshnoise #noisemusic #noisebox #noisepedal #harshnoisewall #industrial #anarXnoise #ANTIFANOISE

COLDSORE - SOOT GROWTH

https://totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com/album/soot-growth

SOOT GROWTH SLOWLY CHOKES.
CRAWLING SMOKE INVADING LUNGS.
CURSED BE EVERY EMPIRE.

SOOT GROWTH EXTENDING ZONES.
INVADED LUNGS COUGH UP ASHES.
DEATH TO EVERY EMPIRE.

SOOT GROWTH ON SCORCHED EARTH.
WE CARRY FIRE INTO YOUR EMPIRE.
WE WILL IGNITE THE END PYRE.
credits
released July 30, 2023

this was the last recording made in my last lost home. the cover is a picture of a found post-war map of berlin, that had a lot of blanks, which i stained with soot raising from a piece of burning juniper tree root from sápmi/laplad. the map was pasted to my ceiling to keep the insulating sawdust and mouse shit from raining down on me. the place i was born in - germany - is also the cradle of war in so called europe. ever since fueling the fires with it's ceaseless mass production of weapons of war. some of these tanks are manned by fascist grey wolves destroying land and people in kurdistan in an imperial ottoman expansion, while other german tanks roll up against a rusisct invasion in ukraine, claiming to cleanse it's territorial claim from fascism, while nothing else can be said the russian state itself. we are mostly collateral damage of the crossfire of propaganda so delicate and subtle we hardly sense it when it passes us through. post truth paradoxxig turns some of US into 'war boys', others into 'crazies' and many just die. all this, while the general colonial destruction of land and people goes on uninterrupted since centuries all over the world, in all the places we rarely look at and where the color of peoples skin is different, than what is constructed as white. we chose to ignore their ongoing resistance, unless it is served to us in massive PR campaigns and hence we fetishize them. we dwell in the privilege of consuming the cruel harvests of resources, that our encapsulating systems feed us. extracted without mercy or regard of the misery, grief and death it causes, we don't taste the bitterness, when we drink from the blood chalice of this death-cult everyday. call it capitalism, call it white supremacy, call it fascism, call it patriarchy - we must destroy the seed of the imperial beast that is EVERY state, the best way to do that is from within.
ERODE [SABOTAGE] EMPIRE

#anarxnoise #ANTIFANOISE

me screaming into the void, got a bit of traction over here at IG. even though it is tiring, i think it is worth doing it sometimes, as the discourse is important in many situations.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CofLDQxIgSW

In connection to today's noise gig at @kirjakahvila, i have send them some messages on IG (slightly edited below). as #kirjakahvila is one of the few place dear to me, i think an open discourse on these issues is especially important. Like with many other venues (bookers, artists, labels) in finland, i really think we need to have this conversation ASAP, as the 'fascist creep' doesn't sleep.

"i think people who continue to work with known fascists for a long time, have some explaining to do before they are invited to play in spaces, that claim opposing political positions. the normalisation of fascism that is done by these artists should be challenged and not platformed. i have been writing a little bit on this matter in my MAKE NOISE highlight, in case you care to read. also very happy to talk about it more.

i refer to the work with mikko aspa of freak animal label. in general finnish people seem to do not care much about these ties and it is a problem, as aspa is 'snatching up' more and more young artists from the field to his label.
which which besides himself openly supporting PVL and other white supremacists, is a cesspool of fascist, misogynist and pro-child abuse material, in case you/the bookers have not been aware of it.

i hope more people than me, are bringing this issue up. having these acts play under the banners that you put up devalues antifascist poster posing and is an integral part of how fascism is historically operating: creeping (into every place possible) and manipulating. these artist, even though they will continue to claim they are 'antifascists' and at the same time working with them need to be confronted criticized and most likely educated. none of this states that they actually are fascists, but so far it seems that they have been ignoring the critique, most likely because it comes from mostly non-finnish speakers like me.

silence is violence, pretty much sums it up (not just) for the finnish noise scene.

thanks for reading."

IN SOLIDARITY!

#anarXnoise #antifascism #antifanoise #normalisation #nopasaran #kirjakahvila #turku