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Magnus Andreas Holen Myrtveit (M, 22)
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i like a harmony you like a melody that's you and me we only disagree
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    Dot matrix music or the tragic, hopeless desire of the sounds you will never encounter.



    This is an excerpt from a New Zealand show.
    In it we meet a woman who seemingly spends alot of time making some of the absolutely most hauntingly beautiful music I have ever heard in my life through the medium of devices we usually see as producing only noise.
    This woman has apparently received little or no international recognition from what I can tell from searching the internet for "Sue Harding", apart from a myspace site with nine friends. (suedotmatrix)


    Why is this?


    I get genuinely happy when I hear music like this. I want to know through details how it is made, why it is made and what it is made for. I absolutely love it and I can't understand anything of it, it is complex and it is perfect for nights where I have absolutely nothing to do but think about things that have happened and the future, to the point where i can just lie in my bed with my headset on and consume the sounds like a drug in an attempt to make sense of the rhytms and the notes. All I can understand with my nonexistant musical education is that it is harmonious and it inspires me in a very vague way. I want to create something beautiful.
    It also makes me sad, however, to know that I might never have come upon these sounds. It terrifies me how there are so many people in the world creating absolutely beautiful sounds I will never hear because I do not know them.
    So, in a sense, this also inspires me to go out and meet new people, to learn what makes them different and how they in their own way attempt to create something beautiful.



    Mon, Dec 14, 2009  Permanent link
    Categories: music, Art, Philosophy
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    LED     Wed, Dec 16, 2009  Permanent link
    Man or Astroman?
    This post reminds me a band that I liked and was forgotten in my old box. Thanks! :)
    I think they're not a band anymore, anyway were nice multivariational spectrographic titles and accelerator transmission sounds to listen again.

    Link: Simple Text File

         Wed, Dec 16, 2009  Permanent link
    I've heard lots of music like this. It's great stuff!

    Other devices can be done to do this, as well, without wasting any paper. Hahaha, I have a couple of reams of that old dot matrix paper with the holes on the side still! This one has code to drive a scanner:

    http://ganjatron.net/misc/scanjet/

    Hacklab.to made their laser cutter play the super mario theme:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4103554931/

    And then there's this drum and bass song that uses some sampled printer noises:

     http://vimeo.com/3268141 
     
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