Avant-Garde/Ambient tracks

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I'm sorry man, but I'm not feeling it.

I like what's usually considered avant garde/noise, Sonic Youth being one of my favorite bands..

I can also get into really wierd stuff like Glenn Branca. I guess that's what I was expecting clicking on your link.

It sounds more like an art project on self expression... not understanding it.
 
Actually, apart from the last one and the news report about the buried body of Keith Bennett, I quite liked it. The first two bits that you say are quiet actually sound good that way because that blast of guitar that kicks off part three is like cold water in the face. It's a good contrast.
Personally, I can't take too much stuff like this on it's own. If it was embedded within a regular song or at it's start or end or whatever, (think the mid section of Pink Floyd's "Echoes"), that would be more my kind of thing. But then, that would defeat the object of what you're doing and it's not me writing it, so.......
For what it is though, it's good.
 
grimtraveller said:
Actually, apart from the last one and the news report about the buried body of Keith Bennett, I quite liked it. The first two bits that you say are quiet actually sound good that way because that blast of guitar that kicks off part three is like cold water in the face. It's a good contrast.
Personally, I can't take too much stuff like this on it's own. If it was embedded within a regular song or at it's start or end or whatever, (think the mid section of Pink Floyd's "Echoes"), that would be more my kind of thing. But then, that would defeat the object of what you're doing and it's not me writing it, so.......
For what it is though, it's good.
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Wow, thankyou.

Yeah, well obviously nobody's going to sit down to 15 minutes of this for a nice enjoyable listen, it's an ongoing experiment. I think parts of it are quite evocative and parts of it quite stylish, and the most I was hoping for was someone agreeing with that, even if only slightly.

Sorry if you thought the moors murders part was a bit tasteless, in retrospect it does seem a bit much, apart from that, the 4th part is my favourite one.
 
drac420 said:
Sorry if you thought the moors murders part was a bit tasteless, in retrospect it does seem a bit much, apart from that, the 4th part is my favourite one.
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I didn't think it was tasteless, it's just that with kids of my own, it evoked thoughts of what could be that I'd rather not have to contemplate.
It reminded me, in concept of that Simon and Garfunkel song where a newsreader reads the awful news of the day in one speaker while a choir sings 'Silent night' in the other.
 
As a whole (all the parts) it is an interesting idea. It is something that I might hear at a contemporary museum at a strange installation. You know when they have those little rooms off the side with those black curtains and you go in and sit down for a couple minutes, watch a file and wonder what the hell is going on? It kind of reminds me of that, but in a good way :)

On it's own it is a bit tough on the ears. You are recording a lot of background hiss.
 
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