Structure Theory

I’ve decided to split my noise tracks off from the BYTE-Smasher moniker, as I’d prefer to preserve it for more musical musics… so I’m officially starting a separate project called Structure Theory to serve as my platform for injecting noise into the collective consciousness of the world.

I’ve remastered a few of my old noise tracks to start with … consider this an EP of sorts:

http://structuretheory.ning.com/

I’ll zip em up later if any of you want to download the whole pack ;)

[EDIT]
the final EP:
http://bytesmasher.com/foo/audio/albums/St…_Bang(2009).zip

WARNING

It’s been brought to my attention by more than one person that these tracks may cause unpleasant states of mind… it was not my intention to do such a thing, but if you’re apt to panic attacks, bad flashbacks, or general squeamishness, I would avoid these tracks like the plague

It’s ok people… no need to check it out. Music isn’t for listening, after all.

id like a zip

http://bytesmasher.com/foo/audio/albums/St…_Bang(2009).zip

what about noise?

oh god, no!

hm?

Downloading! Will take a listen tonight when I’m home :)

sometimes i have nightmares and the worst of them are “without sound” but with noises similar to the one you made here… gave me a shudder…

I have to admit, these tracks are a partially a representation of some of the worst mental states I’ve been in (bad drug trips… panic attacks… etc) … that said, it calms me to know I can listen to, and even produce such sounds now, without going into a state of panic or flashback. It’s almost a kind of self-therapy really.

I’m sorry if this caused you any uncomfort :(

though, I’m fine. ^_^

Wow there are some very disturbing noises on this one! :yeah:

Here’s my personal review of your album.

Dry Cello Sodomy: I don’t really like this tune, the sounds need more textures, the structure is kinda boring, just in and out… I find the title really appropriate but dislike the song.

setup-1.43.exe: Now we’re talking, great texture, great length and the song has a nice evolution, it sounds like you play with the sound trying to find each aspects, each sides of it, this song is great I love it. On the album, it should play twice in a row. as 2nd and 3rd track.

Baby seals (Beelzebub Reprise): I remember that one, it’s an amen break am I right? It’s amazing what you did with the break, pretty unique, and the sounds are not boring white noises, we got some highly textured ambiances here. It could be a soundtrack for a short movie or something. Really good. Even with that length it’s not redundant at all. The end is particularly good.

All Night Long (Funk Mix): The way this one is made makes me think of autechre without the loop aspect. You could take pretty much any part of this song and loop it and maybe add a more melodic sound and you would get something close to autechre. Particularly their last album… in fact I rather listen to this song than autechre’s last album.

Ballad of the Jabberwocky: Vocals makes it an interesting listen even with so little progression in the song, the song length makes the non progressive structure acceptable. This is really good, but I still prefer Baby Seals and Setup I would have used that song as an intro rather than Dry Cello Sodomy.

Sounds of Spring: Sheep music, I think I can hear tape stop here, I wonder if you used dblue’s tape stop (or glitch) it’s interesting but a bit too long, there’s not even evolution in the song, the progression is very subtitle and the constant sheep sound makes us forget that there’s more and more noise elements. Also, I wouldn’t have ended the album with that song… I would have picked baby seals… This song should be shorter and imo it should be among the first tracks of the EP.

Overall this album has a lot to offer, some more ambient noise with baby seal, some glitchy beep boop stuff with Sounds of Spring, Vocal noises with Ballad of the Jabberwocky… It’s good that the EP is diversified because it can be pretty intense to listen to the same kind of noise for a long period of time.

If Sounds of Spring was shorter, with more variation, it would probably be my favorite track, now I’m not sure between setup-1.43.exe and Baby seals.

\o/

Thank you very much for that review JBL… it means alot ;)

It just rained outside! \o/

sounds of spring gets into it nicely. there are a couple moments in there where everything feels really well stewed together and some new textures emerge. i think i also like this track the best in terms of its frequency content(?), what i mean is that it has a satisfying feel to the balance of highs, mids, lows.

thanks for sharing! :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar:

BTW JBL, you SHOULD dislike anything titled “Dry Cello Sodomy”, just on principle.

… unless you’re a masochist

I’ll give it a try, can’t be any worse that making orange things… right.?