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Mute reviewed

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Jamendo user Ivan1984 had some nice words to say about the Caustic Reverie album Mute. Here’s a snippet:

Mute is deafening, roaring silence and this is the closest I think you could get to that kind of transcendentalism, its’ allocative form is thus. What it represents is open to interpretation with infinite variables. For me, it feels very religious but that might be more to do with my subjectivity and not the intention or thought behind this massive track. At 41 minutes, something substantial happens, something is changing. Is this the link pin, that tenuous thread of ethereal substance? God spoke.

Read the full thing here, and while you’re at it, you can download the album in VBR mp3 or ogg.

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 10-5-08

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Transatlantic – “Mystery Train”
King Crimson – “Frame by Frame”
East of the Wall – “Meat Pendulum”
Von Garcia – “Between a Prayer and a Dream”
Magic Pie – “Freakshow (Circus of Life Part 2)”
Ruby Bullet – “My Everything”
Yes – “South Side of the Sky”
Behold… the Arctopus – “Some Mist”
Kaipa – “Notes from the Past (Part 1)”
Green Carnation – “Alone”
Dali’s Dilemma – “This Time Around”
Rush – “Bastille Day”

Stochastic Resonance

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  1. Stochastic Resonance 1 (11:55)
  2. In Vacuo (17:12)
  3. Stochastic Resonance 2 (7:31)
  4. Compline (13:19)
  5. Stochastic Resonance 3 (9:20)

Stochastic Resonance is the third Caustic Reverie album and it has been released on last.fm. The songs were fractally composed with the help of FMusic and then stretched, chopped, spliced, and mangled into the shape they are now. Enjoy!

Eleventh Hour playlist for 9-28-08

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Dead man – “Rest in Peace”
Frantic Bleep – “…But a Memory”
Echo Us – “From Snow to Sea”
Magenta – “The Ballad of Samuel Layne”
Camel – “Rhayader”
Falconer – “Mountain Men”
Genesis – “Los Endos”
Sylvan – “The Last Embrace (Live)”
Spock’s Beard – “Climbing Up That Hill”
Moonbound – “Tired of Being Good”
Queensrÿche – “Blinded (Live in Tokyo)”

New album details

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The third Caustic Reverie album will be called Stochastic Resonance and will contain five tracks. There’s a companion piece to Vespers called Compline, though I’m not sure if I want to do the whole Canonical Hours cycle at this point. I’m still working on the artwork and final mixes, but I should have it released early next week to last.fm.

Eleventh Hour Playlist for 9-21-08

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Fish – “Square Go”
Pink Floyd – “Summer ’68”
Port Mahadia – “Siren’s Call”
Helloween – “Fallen to Pieces”
Andromeda – “My Star”
Riverside – “In Two Minds”
Amorphis – “Shaman”
Spheric Universe Experience – “The Inner Quest”
Jon Oliva’s Pain – “Look At The World”
Iced Earth – “Harbinger of Fate”
Frank Zappa – “Echidna’s Arf (Of You)”
Richard Barbieri – “Fear and Trembling”
Katatonia – “Rusted”
Black Bonzo – “Ageless Door”

Music update: working with fractals

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I usually end up messing around with fractals and other forms of organized chaos in a visual field, but this week I’ve started experimenting it with music. Through a last.fm group, I was exposed to the music of Tim Doyle, some of which were composed with the aid of a program called MusiNum.

I downloaded it to give it a try but it doesn’t seem to like the fact that I’m running a 64-bit operating system. I did have better luck with David H. Singer’s FMusic. I was initially opposed to algorithmic composition as a viable way to make art, but this is a good deal more complex than pressing two buttons to get a ragtime shuffle in DMaj. I’ve been getting into more spaced-out, minimal stuff lately, so this is a perfect fit.

One new song is finished but untitled, the other is still in the mixing phase.