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From: The Rare Guy [SMTP:buh@clark.net]
*Alku*: This track consists of one long beep whose filter cutoff starts modulating in about the halfway point of the track and the modulation speeds up and speeds up until the end of the track. This track really must be a joke. I thought personally it might be good as something to start out within some set or something, but I reckon I'll never listen to it to just listen to it :)
Chris Fahey Sez:
This track is no joke. I think this track is brilliant. If you listen to it through really kick-ass headphones it'll make your brain bigger and more powerful. It will make your life longer and your orgasms blissful and your hair fuller and your skin clearer.
Seriously, give it another whirl. It's conceptual art. It's a song made out of the complexities of a waveform, and it demonstrates how intricate and beautiful even the simplest sound can be. I like to think that it was made by setting up some simple parameters for the sound, or maybe several interacting simultaneous waveforms, and just letting it do what it'll do. I once saw Space Needle use a dozen effects proicessors to carefully and precisely fuck with their guitars and drums to the point that they could just leave the stage for ten minutes and let the vacuum tubes do their job.
It would be evil to play "Alku" over a PA at a party or to try to mix it in with other songs. You would hurt people. But for solo listening, I love it to death.
-CF
-----Original Message-----
From: The Rare Guy [SMTP:buh@clark.net]
*Alku*: This track consists of one long beep whose filter cutoff starts
modulating in about the halfway point of the track and the modulation speeds
up and speeds up until the end of the track. This track really must be a
joke. I thought personally it might be good as something to start out with
in some set or something, but I reckon I'll never listen to it to just
listen to it :)