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e5 unbjert dona

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I have again employed three streams, each of the first two streams composed of multiple audio streams themselves, but rendered unrecognisable using various strategies.

The first stream is a granulated version of a composite that I had made of various GWAING live sessions. The already dense composite was patched into granulab and the resulting audio was recorded, compressed and modified until it had the type of textural density that I was after. This, to me, is the machine looking at man: the human, interactive and responding element, viewed through the distorted temporality of a machine’s internal processes.

Details of the second stream have begun to slip my mind, but it ended up being a complete HNW track on its own, running with the working title of yTsUrZrM. ytsUrZrM itself consists of three things – an early render of an ambient “space” track that I had been working on at the time, a mash-up of various noise music samples (notably a scream from a Torturing Nurse clip), which were overlaid, pushed through a granular synth, and then mauled in a back-and-forth series of extreme pitch and volume changes to lay bare its raw digital nature, and amplified silence. Conceptually it is sonic detritus – given autonomy as generalised notes or pitches, which were transformed through the functional that describes their creator’s scattered musical mind – a man pondering the abyss that the machine represents.

The third stream was more of an afterthought. Something in the existing composite reminded me (more on emotional level than on a technical one) of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s penultimate composition, Requiem für einen jungen Dichter. It is one of my favourite “classical” works. The dona nobis movement in particular is to me one of the most poignant indictments that has ever been passed against humanity. I used it in its entirety without modification, but it is buried so deep within the noise that it is hard to detect, even with rapid AB switching. I decided, nevertheless, that it stays. This conceptual inclusion hopefully needs no explanation.

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released September 13, 2021

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hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e Cape Town, South Africa

Jacques van Zyl (hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e) is a noise musician and sound artist working in the fields of improvisation, musique concrète, harsh noise wall and installation sound art.
His musical career spans more than 2 decades & includes various collaborations.
His conceptual project “blacknoise” is a musical exploration of the unsilent silences that frame and define our various sonic environments. ... more

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