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#56 - Cybernoid Interception

by The Owl & Die Safe

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I really like the drop down / build up / 'drum fill' and 4 count in to the burst of noise in this one! It makes me laugh... I hope you will notice it. Does anyone else hear or make noise based music in this way; as if it is a band playing it? This is what I am trying to do with most of my sounds / releases of this nature, and I impart this information in hope that it might help people who are still not totally sure / 'get' noise music to understand it a little more. I have mentioned before about noise/glitch/weird bits being inspired by Meshuggah, Dillinger and some grind/black metal stuff, and, whether it is 'cool' or not, I like my noise to have some sort of structure or form to it, rather than it being aimless. Every track needs to DO something, build up to something, have some sort of resolve or purpose. Does anyone else make music that does / to make themselves laugh? I don't mean because it's not serious, or because it is actually comedy, but, to try and find sounds that are so stimulating to the senses, or that feel really different (just in context of your own music, not necessarily to the rest of the world) that they are almost a shock when you find / make / structure them, and one of the main facets of comedy and comedy timing is shock and surprise. If I can find something in the sounds that makes me laugh or smile or verbally exclaim something when they happen, then it will always stay in the finished track. I like to find and plant ridiculous and unexpected sounds and twists in there, mostly for my own amusement and entertainment. Die Safe sent me some great, crunchy, twiddly sounds in this one, so they were a lot of fun to work with.
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Technology has opened up some endlessly mindblowing avenues in the world, but also some truly terrifying and toxic virulence, as well as the ability to know of it happening everywhere in the world, which has highlighted much more the vile aspects of human nature. I don't know if such behaviours can be reversed or removed from society. I don't know if I am only seeing the upturns in people being positive towards each other at times because it is happening more in my closer bubble of people, and we're all just trying our best to help each other through. Also because in recent times, I've had to switch off to the news more than I want to, because I want to know what is going on out there, and I wish I could make differences in every injustice and horror scene, but it depresses me to the point of wanting to give up on humanity and myself because I am, by default as a human, distantly related to some of the absolutely despicable forms of people out there. People are scared of 'the robots taking over', but, would it even be such a bad thing in the grand overall picture of it all (which is the hope for continuation of the planet, in my mind anyway it is)? Humans are already destroying the only home we have, and now looking at ways to go to other planets, where they will inevitably do the same (that's if the planet will even let them inhabit it, which is very unlikely anyway, but that's a totally different discussion I guess). People are scared of the robots turning on them, and creating wars, but that's no different to what is already going on anyway amongst the humans. The visual used (for this part, in the download) is an absolutely insane game called We Become What We Behold, and obviously shows how fear, hate, violence is bred even from the comfort of people's homes through their computers, and so if there is a fear that the robots will be the death of humanity, it's because humanity knows how bad it is, and it knows it is only passing on the information. "We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us" There's an excellent presentation documentary on all of this, by Wilson Miner called 'When We Build', highly recommended... Link is in the Info part.
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symposium noun 1. a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject. 2. a drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet (and notable as the title of a work by Plato). I kinda like this for the 2nd meaning, and imagine the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica all having a drunken night out after some conquest, or (to put a positive, less war-biased slant on things) even just having made a really good business decision, or done something really nice for the community, in which they have actually set up designated areas for the 'local youths' to be allowed to smash, bash and graffiti as much as they like, to get it out of their system. I am pretty sure I am the only one who would attribute it to the final possibility, but, my mind wanders in directions unexpected to myself most of the time, so there we are.
4.
Electronics, circuit boards, electrics, not much of it makes sense to me. It's like some weird mystical magick that I take for granted and just hope it continues to work. My brain is definitely not wired properly to understand it! In the context of the story of the release, this is where the humans disassemble the robots (in their fantasy version of the story), or where the robots disassemble the human's infrastructure to replace with their own (in the maniacally evil robot version of the story), or where the robots try and improve on what is already in place but not functioning to its full potential. I guess you can decide this part of the story.
5.
The sounds chose the title, the title chose the visuals, now the visuals decide on the ramble which is far removed from the initial intent. Train of thought improvisation, and I'm not sure if it serves purpose other than being informative and an Owlish diatribe, but, here we go. "Royal Signals is one of the combat support arms of the British Army, providing battlefield communications and information systems essential to all operations. Units provide the full telecommunications infrastructure for the Army wherever they operate in the world, with its own engineers, logistics experts and systems operators to run radio and area networks in the field. It is responsible for installing, maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and information systems, providing support to commanders and conducting electronic warfare against enemy communications." or... the leaders could put an end to all the bullshit warmongering so the human race could stop fighting each other into extinction, stop wasting so much time, effort, money and put it into way more positive and community biased things, which might help stop brainless masses growing up constantly thinking that fighting, being angry and having to prove they are better, more worthy or stronger than someone else is a perfectly normal and social way to be. but... the leaders don't want that. They stand to gain far too much from armies, wars, religions, and don't care about the fallout in humanity. It's a fight to the death, and they want you to lose that fight as soon as possible. The best option is to opt out of everything that governments want your course of life to be, and from the earliest age possible. I won't ramble about individual components of what that requires, as I know most people here, by their creative leaning default and alternative (life and music) natures would mean I was preaching to the converted, so, I guess this ramble was just something for me, to get it out of my brain, and so, maybe I should have just said to you, just enjoy the weird sounds and visuals that seem to fit pretty uncannily at times.
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For this one, DS sent me some immense sounds in the doomy keyboard styled noises, and it immediately felt right as the closing track, as the sort of twist at the end of the tale, in sonics and potential in the story.... so, if you like doom, and if you like noise, and if you like robots, and stories of a comic book-esque nature, then maybe you will like this. In context with the story, in my mind, the twist at the end is that the robots take over, and the humans are their slaves, but by choice because the progression nature of humanity so far in the future realises they were the better option to follow and then, in time, work alongside. (Is this my optimistic, always-trying-to-find-something-positive-amongst-the-shit nature coming through? Or does this just make me naive at best?). Just as all harmony is reached, something bigger and more vicious in its collective comes along from a distant planet and literally devours all trace of both, taking massive chunks of the planet away at the same time. Millions of years of evolution is undone in moments, and then they disappear back up into the skies, leaving nothing but devastation in their wake.

about

Nicholas of Die Safe made sounds for me to demolish and put back together, and I did the same for him. This was between January 5th 2021 and March 22nd 2021.

This was brilliant getting chatting with Nik through working on this collaboration, and I think we put together a pretty diverse, dynamic, interesting and challenging listen that travels in and around various styles of noise and experimentation, so I hope you will give it the full chance to unfold.

As always, headphones will be most beneficial.

credits

released July 9, 2021

Many thanks to Mutual Aid Records (and Advanced Decay Records) for putting this out onto amazing looking tapes!
US / Rest Of World - GET THEM HERE
www.etsy.com/listing/1034408556/the-owl-die-safe-collab-c-40

UK / Europe - Grab my last few copies.

There's a massive discography of recommended sounds on the Mutual Aid page, so, go pick up a tape and check out some varied noises, starting here: mutualaidrecords.bandcamp.com/music
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Check out more Die Safe here:
diesafe.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/_die_safe_

Album cover drawing and titles page photo by Die Safe.
Layout, track titles and preview videos in the download by The Owl.

Video for 'The Cyborg Devourer' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zwBDQHPbQ

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A/V experiments since first DIY tape in 1994

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The Owls were formed in December 2021.

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