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INSUFFICIENT COMPLEXITY
12.29.10 | Permalink | 3 CommentsBack in 2009 I made an album of ambient/noise for the RPM Challenge. It’s completely different from my first album, The Ownership Society. For 37:27, I take field recordings of more or less common objects and mangle them into a swirling mess. Maybe it’s just Yoga music, but in any case, I hope it’s a [...]
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RPM
INSUFFICIENT COMPLEXITY UPDATE
The ambient album I put together in February is up for listening in its entirety at the RPM Jukebox. I’ll make it available for download somewhere soon. EDIT: Here’s an article from the Boston Herald about the Boston-area artists who participated in the challenge.
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Audio, Experiments, Free Download, Music, RPM
HYDROPHOBE
HYDROPHOBE by mainsequence I finished my submission for the 2009 RPM Challenge last night. Clocking in at 37:27–one track, ten sections–this is my first experiment with purely ambient “music”. Each section starts with a raw recorded sound that then gets manipulated beyond recognition, hopefully in a mostly pleasant way. I’ll release the whole album soon [...]
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RPM, Sound-A-Day
SOUND 2_28_2009
The RPM album is done. Will post it soon. Today’s sound plays a huge role. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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RPM, Sound-A-Day
SOUND 2_27_2009
Back to the printer again. The plan is to put all of these February sounds together into some sort of hopefully listenable composition stretching over 35 minutes or 11 tracks, to be in the mail on Monday, March 2nd. Those are the only rules of the RPM challenge and with any luck, things will come [...]
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My first album, The Ownership Society, is no longer available on compact disc, though there may be some copies floating around on Amazon. If you would like a digital version (mp3) email me for details: macgregor (dot) campbell (at) gmail. Thanks for listening!
My second album (sort of), Insufficient Complexity, is now available on a pay-what-you-like basis. It's completely different from The Ownership Society.
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MacGregor Campbell is a Portland-based science/tech journalist, animator, and maker of weird sounds.
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