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mcc
Found a YouTube video titled "All Björk albums against each other" and was very excited until I started the video and discovered it was *ranking* all Björk albums against each other track by track instead of, as I'd hoped, playing all Björk albums simultaneously
Aug 12, 2024 at 5:05pmWeb
Show threadmccAug 13, 2024

Update: Within 10 hours of me making this mistake, someone had made the thing real

https://mastodon.social/@bottla/112952472001878861

This is really cool actually, a lot of experiments of this sort I've seen before are just annoying audio soup but this is strangely compelling audio soup

Show threadPunnO)))Aug 13, 2024
@mcc You know how the recent Beatles album remixes have used "AI" to reconstruct isolated tracks which were downmixed during production? It would be interesting to hear what something like that pulls out of something like this.
Show threadPunnO)))Aug 12, 2024

@mcc When I was young, a friend and I kind of did this, but the first track of The Downward Spiral recorded on top of itself. Two boomboxes, one with a dual tape deck where you could play both tapes at the same time (we may have had to hold both play buttons down for this to work, memory is fuzzy).

Then dub the first song onto two tapes, put those in the first boombox, line out into the second, record that on one tape. Swap that into the first boombox and repeat. Swap that into the second deck of the first and repeat.

Things got muddy and distorted quickly, but the neat part was that the decks ran at slightly different speeds, either due to battery level or different mechanism or whatever. So the earlier stuff got slower with every generation.

Show threadbrentroadyAug 12, 2024
@ieure had either of you heard “I am sitting in a room” by Alvin Lucier?
Show threadPunnO)))Aug 12, 2024
@brentroady I hadn't at the time, but I have since.
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024

@ieure My friend had a theory that "Kid A" was designed to sync up to a movie that had not yet been discovered*. After Amnesiac came out I developed an alternate theory** It was meant to sync up with Kid A. I tried playing the two simultaneously. The theory did not bear out

* He based this on a quote in an interview from Johnny Greenwood saying that he wanted to score a movie. Turned out Johnny Greenwood just wanted to score a movie.

** Based on some bridges of unusual length in both albums

Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@ieure (It is also interesting to me how well your process here lines up with "The Background World")
Show threadslowtigerAug 12, 2024
@mcc @ieure German band Die Tödliche Doris did this on purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tödliche_Doris -
"Unser Debüt" and "Sechs" could be played simultaneously to form a new album.
Die Tödliche Doris - Wikipedia

Show threadPunnO)))Aug 12, 2024
@mcc Interesting, I had no idea that was a thing. I stopped listening to NIN after Downward Spiral, for extremely petty reasons (Reznor said his next album would be "something like what you call 'industrial' today" and I thought that was some of the dumbest shit I'd ever heard).
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024

@ieure There are three EPs released in 2016, 2017 and 2018 that are the best of NiN's modern work IMO, I think of them as a bunch together (I listen to them in a playlist that mushes them chronologically into one meta-album). Simultaneously the most throwbacky and the most creative. I'd highly recommend them

(I think also "Year Zero" is a really interesting high point, but you probably want to take it in context of the mythology of the videos, the website ARG, and the GWB administration itself)

Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@ieure Year Zero was kinda a sci fi rock opera and it had all this metatext, up to and including this fricking wild trick where the *CD itself* had an image that *changed after you listened to the CD*. It had some kinda thermal ink so there was one image on the CD and if you listened to the CD it would warm up and when you pulled it out of the CD player the label would show something different
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@ieure he seems to be heavily implying he has just been possessed by the ghost of his recently deceased friend David Bowie (which in Bowie's own music's mythology, canonically left his body in the song "Blackstar"). If I'm interpreting this right it is a trick probably only Reznor could have pulled off
Show threadleifAug 12, 2024
@mcc @ieure have either of you ever done the zaireeka thing? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaireeka#The_Parking_Lot_Experiments
Zaireeka - Wikipedia

Show threadmccAug 12, 2024

@leif @ieure Have I done it? Yes, twice.

Have I ever done it *successfully*? … not exactly.

Show threadleifAug 12, 2024
@mcc @ieure lol oh no, what was the failure mode?
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024

@leif @ieure look if you get a bunch of high schoolers to bring stereos to an event one or more of the stereos is not going to work as well as the others

the second time we tried to do it with car stereos in a circle but one of the people refused to turn it up very loud because they didn't want to damage the speakers on their new whip or whatever by like, using it

Show threadleifAug 12, 2024
@mcc @ieure rough. In my case it was interns, in a parking garage, so the acoustics were super weird but we had fun
Show threadJo ShieldsAug 12, 2024
@leif @mcc @ieure perhaps more than anything else in the world, this meme applies: “what if the real Zaireeka was the friends we made along the way”
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@directhex @leif @ieure Yeah like, what's more interesting, listening to Zaireeka as it was intended, or getting two incomplete but completely unique experiences wandering between cars getting snippets of the True Zaireeka which the experienced Zaireeka is merely a finger pointing toward
Show threadslootAug 13, 2024

@leif @mcc @ieure

I wish I could remember the details, but there was a Kid Koala show in an intimate venue where each table had a turntable on it, and we were given direction about when to play the different sides of the vinyl we had. We were also encouraged to scratch and otherwise futz around. It was a great experience.

Show threadmccAug 13, 2024
@sloot @leif @ieure Kid Koala seems to throw good parties
Show threadslootAug 13, 2024

@mcc @leif @ieure

I'm not huge into hip-hop or turntablism, but I will definitely go to any of his shows that I can.

He thinks he'd be boring to watch*, so he puts EFFORT into making it a SHOW or an EXPERIENCE.

*he said this to me when I talked to him afterwards about how much I loved everything he had going on

Show threadMichael GemarAug 12, 2024

@ieure @mcc Reminds me a bit of The Disintegration Loops:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disintegration_Loops

The Disintegration Loops - Wikipedia

Show threadMichael GemarAug 12, 2024

@ieure @mcc And this:

https://m.soundcloud.com/josephprein/in-the-air-tonight-drum-fill-for-10-hours-at-999-100-and-1001-speed

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 hour 10 minutes at 99.9%, 100%, and 100.1% speed

Stream In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 hour 10 minutes at 99.9%, 100%, and 100.1% speed by josephprein on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

SoundCloud
Show threadPunnO)))Aug 12, 2024

@michaelgemar @mcc This is honestly very good, and reminds me a bit of Dawn of Midi. They construct hypnotic, looping riffs at slightly different speeds, letting the interaction of the different tempos create a kind of audio moiré interference. The tracks flow together, slowly mutating from one "song" to another.

Despite being named "Dawn of Midi" and self-describing as "minimal electronic dance," they use no electronic instrumentation, only acoustic drums, piano, and upright bass. They're rooted in jazz, but use it to handcraft additive waveform syntheses.

https://dawnofmidi.bandcamp.com/album/dysnomia

Live excerpt is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oArvmDhD-pI

Dysnomia, by Dawn of Midi

9 track album

Dawn of Midi
Show threadMichael GemarAug 12, 2024
@ieure @mcc Thanks for the recommendation — they’re very cool!
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Aug 12, 2024
@mcc which Björk albums were on the S-tier
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024

@ariadne Here's the final point analysis after all the tracks were ranked, "S tier" (170+ points) seems to be Vespertine, Homogenic, Vulnicura

( Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o4MWTzWBOA )

All Björk albums against each other (Full video)

YouTube
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Aug 12, 2024
@mcc any ranking which doesn't put Post in the S-tier is immediately sus imo, "Army of Me" is a genre-defining classic in the goth subculture
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@ariadne Well I can't help but notice Post took #1 place on both track 1 and track 2 (at which point I was like "wait maybe there's a roundup at the end" and skipped to the end)
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@ariadne If I were trying to rank albums I would probably grant extra points for "the first track" and "the last track" as those kinda set the album's identity more than other tracks
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Aug 12, 2024
@mcc ok that is better :D
Show threadHeathen 🐈Aug 12, 2024
@mcc
New project: thrift a bunch of cheap cd boom boxes and all the Björk albums.
(I'm kidding, it took me a year and a half just to find Homogenic in a thrift store.)
Show threadCluster FckuAug 12, 2024
@mcc I hear it already.... layers upon layers.. that album could be called "Sounds of Caturday"
Show threadmccAug 12, 2024
@clusterfcku This name doesn't make intellectual sense to me, but it makes emotional sense
Show threadwayfinderAug 12, 2024
@mcc May I recommend: demozoo.org/music/352001/ by darya (social.abraum.de/contact/91002…)
A Comprehensive Guide To Taylor Swift ADHD Remix

Music by Darya, released 20 June 2024

Show threadAsher WynneAug 13, 2024
@mcc Björk - Debutposthomogenicvespertinemedullavoltabiophiliavulnicurautopiafossora
https://youtu.be/PiDsHktVNDU
- YouTube

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Show threadmccAug 13, 2024
@bottla
Show threadEric DaviesAug 18, 2024

@mcc
Mount Eerie put out a couple albums on a 7 inch where each side is every song on the album simultaneously

The title printed on each side is the title of each song overlayed

https://pitchfork.com/news/48557-mount-eerie-release-7-featuring-all-of-the-songs-from-clear-moon-and-ocean-roar-playing-at-once/

I own it and it is excellent

Mount Eerie Release 7" Featuring All of the Songs From *Clear Moon* and *Ocean Roar* Playing at Once

Pitchfork