Eric Cook: Audioblog

I hesitate to even call them ’sketches’:

1. newdrummachine + decaying delay feedback

2. newdrummachine + gated feedback

I bought a new drum machine off of ebay a few weeks back. Not entirely sure why, to be honest. Something satisfying about the knobs and buttons.

Technoish try-out w/synthopotamus drone.

Drone jam (excerpt): 5/20/07.

The fourth and final track is now posted. This one rounds things out on a bit of a positive note, with a bit of lightly resonant percussion turning into something like repeated guitar strumming. It turns a little more questioning on the end, with brushed metal and close-mic’ed cymbal.

I need to work on the artwork to finish the release off, and then I’ll post the whole thing as a zip on the discography page.

Part three of four posted. This one is a bit darker again — slow drone build-up then layers of static rain sizzling before scraping and clanking out to a finish. Manages to have a good forward propulsion for the main section without being explicitly beaty.

Mouthless part 2.

Reaktor klank-banking, turning into long tone drones with light cymbal-scratch overlays.

The base of these tracks are taken from an appearance on Jason Voss’ show on WCBN in March of 2003. I’ve always been partial to pieces of them, but they needed a bit of editing, cleaning up and smoothing. Which put them on the back burner (for longer than I ever intended!), and explains why this post is tagged both as New audio and Old audio.

I made several passes at going back and re-performing better/different versions with the same setup of Reaktor ensembles, FX, contact mic’ed cymbal, etc, but I always wound up liking the original live versions best. So I finally decide to get these into a more coherent whole for release, and I’m pleased both with how they’re shaping up, and how the material seems to still feel valid to me 4 years later.

This is track one from an in-progress release, tentatively named ‘Mouthless.’ Five tracks in total, each fairly dense drone/ambient/beatless-sound. This one is probably the darkest & noisiest of the set.

I’ll post each track in turn here as I finish editing it, and then post a link to a full zip with final artwork on the discography. More backstory on this release later.

Murky ES1 drummachine, onboard effects. Original source sounds were from session that John D’ag and I did in early 2006, I think.