#59 - Stockhausen Syndrome
by The Owl
Richard Richard
Richard Richard
Surprisingly addictive brain candy; looped album play recommended.
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LeastSuccessfulHumanCannonball
An ambient ceremony of opposites. Structure, sometimes driving tempos, and a palate of nearly recognizable sounds maintain an uncomfortable calmness before each unexpected shift.
Favorite track: Apophenia - Introduction And Farewell.
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A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
I use this word deliberately because of Krzysztof Penderecki's mind breaking piece 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'. Hearing that back in the late 90s was definitely a gateway further into the realms of nightmarish music beyond various extremes of metal, drone doom and weird electronica.
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A flagon is a large leather, metal, glass, plastic or ceramic vessel, used for drink, whether this be water, ale, or another liquid. A flagon is typically of about 2 imperial pints (1.1 litre) in volume, and it has either a handle (when strictly it is a jug), or (more usually) one or two rings at the neck. Sometimes the neck has a large flange at the top rather than rings.
Flange.
99 Bottles of Beer is an anonymous sea shanty dating to the mid-20th century. It is a traditional reverse counting song in both the United States and Canada. It is popular to sing on road trips, as it has a very repetitive format which is easy to memorize and can take a long time when families sing.
The American comedian Andy Kaufman exploited this fact in the routine early in his career when he would actually sing all 100 verses.
Having not long since rewatched for the 5th time 'Man On The Moon', this was particularly relevant and fitting.
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"Sabre Dance" is a movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane (1942), where the dancers display their skill with sabres. It is Khachaturian's best known and most recognizable work. He apparently felt that its popularity "deflected attention from his other works.
Its middle section is based on an unnamed Armenian folk song. According to Tigran Mansurian, it is a synthesis of an Armenian wedding dance tune from Gyumri tied in a saxophone counterpoint "that seems to come straight from America."
The scientific name for the saber-toothed tiger is Smilodon.
I didn't actually know this before and it makes me smile!
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Permutating: change the order or arrangement of.
Parameter: a limit or boundary which defines the scope of a particular process or activity.
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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The term was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".
Apophenia can be considered a commonplace effect of brain function. Taken to an extreme, however, it can be a symptom of psychiatric dysfunction, for example, as a symptom in paranoid schizophrenia, where a patient sees hostile patterns (for example, a conspiracy to persecute them) in ordinary actions.
Apophenia is also typical of conspiracy theory, where coincidences may be woven together into an apparent plot.
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We know of the theories that the brain can't dream about a face you haven't seen. Of course this is completely impossible to test and prove one way or another, since most of the faces you see are of people you will never properly meet, talk to, spend more than one second looking at, so how do you compare that with the extremely vague and blurry notes of a dream and its confusion.
Even still, this nugget of knowledge has fascinated and stayed with me for a long time, and I like to think of it as logical truth.
Imagine, one night in 2021, I have a dream that I am in a supermarket that I know, but everything is arranged slightly different and abstract compared to how it actually is, and one of the bit part actors in the periphery is actually someone who I glanced at but thought nothing about whilst I was getting off a train in 1994. The brain has, unknowingly to my conscious, stored that tiny bit of facial information and recalled it for no apparent or possible reason 27 years later whilst I'm not even awake.
The mind is absolutely mindblowing!
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Riches Await The Patient
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There are so many ways this could be interpreted, so I will leave it to you in this case...
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Clustering For Illusions
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Humans tend to see patterns in what are completely random outcomes. In other words, it is in our natural inclination to create order from chaos.
The clustering illusion is the tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable "streaks" or "clusters" arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random. The illusion is caused by a human tendency to underpredict the amount of variability likely to appear in a small sample of random or pseudorandom data.
More general forms of erroneous pattern recognition are pareidolia and apophenia.
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Patterns that aren't patterns that are patterns.
Semi-serious unseriousness.
Confusion leading to objectivity.
File under: Avantgarde, abstract, experimental, atonal, self-aware anti-ruminating electronic noise, riffs and loops oddity. The Owl.
No vocals or synths used in this release.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques or aleatoric musical techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.
A fascinating and brilliantly explanatory article about him is here, which especially to those unaware, should open up a portal to a new level of experimental music listening and understanding: www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2013/may/07/contemporary-music-guide-karlheinz-stockhausen
Stockholm Syndrome is a condition in which hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity.
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Semi-serious unseriousness.
Confusion leading to objectivity.
File under: Avantgarde, abstract, experimental, atonal, self-aware anti-ruminating electronic noise, riffs and loops oddity. The Owl.
No vocals or synths used in this release.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques or aleatoric musical techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.
A fascinating and brilliantly explanatory article about him is here, which especially to those unaware, should open up a portal to a new level of experimental music listening and understanding: www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2013/may/07/contemporary-music-guide-karlheinz-stockhausen
Stockholm Syndrome is a condition in which hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity.
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released September 25, 2021
Album on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49PBcUdxM8
Visualiser for all 8 tracks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjn8bVXOizc
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All original sounds made June 2nd, 2021 in one 10 minute piece, using a variety of effects pedals and Reaper DAW. Stretched, chopped, scattered, tickled, tampered and squashed into different shapes between then and September 23rd, 2021, using Wavepad.
Artwork for all the tracks made on Chromalab, May 28th, 2021
Please see the 'lyrics' tab for extra knowledge regarding each track and title. This is included in the download, along with all the pictures that go with each track, that are part of the same series of evolving images I made. Massive thanks especially to those who look deep as well as listen deep.
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I, The Owl, am (on day of release) a 44.7342 year old human from Leeds, England. I like loud / quiet / normal / abnormal noises of a musical or unmusical variety, weird / fast / slow riffs and rhythms of a metallic, electronic or acoustic leaning, and finding sounds and ideas that I didn't know existed before. I like to make myself laugh with loops that maybe shouldn't work but somehow kinda do, and with ridiculous titles, word play and 'in jokes'. I have lived in Leeds my whole life, but soon this is going to change, and I give the keys back to my flat here on my 44.9972nd birthday and move to one of the most Eastern points of the Czech Republic to live with my favourite human, 'The Littlemouse' (for those paying attention to this Owlish journey).
I hope all this information helps somehow in the enjoyment of this album. Thank you for checking any of it out, but especially huge love to those who take the full piece in, in all its twisty turny upside down oddness.
Album on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49PBcUdxM8
Visualiser for all 8 tracks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjn8bVXOizc
Up to date Bandcamp codes here:
dlcm.app/the-owl/owl059-stockhausen-syndrome
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All original sounds made June 2nd, 2021 in one 10 minute piece, using a variety of effects pedals and Reaper DAW. Stretched, chopped, scattered, tickled, tampered and squashed into different shapes between then and September 23rd, 2021, using Wavepad.
Artwork for all the tracks made on Chromalab, May 28th, 2021
Please see the 'lyrics' tab for extra knowledge regarding each track and title. This is included in the download, along with all the pictures that go with each track, that are part of the same series of evolving images I made. Massive thanks especially to those who look deep as well as listen deep.
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I, The Owl, am (on day of release) a 44.7342 year old human from Leeds, England. I like loud / quiet / normal / abnormal noises of a musical or unmusical variety, weird / fast / slow riffs and rhythms of a metallic, electronic or acoustic leaning, and finding sounds and ideas that I didn't know existed before. I like to make myself laugh with loops that maybe shouldn't work but somehow kinda do, and with ridiculous titles, word play and 'in jokes'. I have lived in Leeds my whole life, but soon this is going to change, and I give the keys back to my flat here on my 44.9972nd birthday and move to one of the most Eastern points of the Czech Republic to live with my favourite human, 'The Littlemouse' (for those paying attention to this Owlish journey).
I hope all this information helps somehow in the enjoyment of this album. Thank you for checking any of it out, but especially huge love to those who take the full piece in, in all its twisty turny upside down oddness.
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