i started making noise as a teenager, probably around 1993 or 1994. being unskilled on any instrument, and regarding myself as lazy, i thought making noise might be an efficient way to express myself and explore my interest in distorted textures, among other things. i was not really thinking at this point that i was worthy of playing shows or that what i was doing was worthwhile in any broader sense than my own exploration and enjoyment of it.
this short album was (mostly) made somewhere between 2005-2006 and made temporarily available on myspace around that time under a pseudonym. it brings together sounds i made in the 1990s (before i had played any shows) with sounds i was making, largely on computer, during the years 2001-2006. listening to it now, i hear shades of harsh noise, drone, power electronics, crude tape, prepared guitar and feedback experiments, granular synthesis, dark ambient, industrial, minimalism and dubbed-out minimal techno. much of it has a cinematic feel to me, perhaps the soundtrack to some lost horror or dystopic science fiction film. it also reminds me of so much other music being produced and performed in basements and small, sometimes decrepit rooms at the time, sometimes evoking those spaces and the people in them.
i recall that as i was making it, i was trying to bring a variety of my interests together in one music, without too much concern for falling into one genre or another, with an emphasis on keeping tracks short and moving fairly rapidly from one idea to the next, and with not being overly precious about my compositional process, allowing myself to work intuitively and quickly.
the last track takes some recordings I made in the late 1990s, mostly prepared guitar, and occasionally processes and peppers them with more contemporary sounds, as well as mixing them with some feedback and distorted synth recordings I made somewhere between 1994-1997. i tried to preserve much of the integrity and approach of the original recordings, which were noisy and sloppy and made on a cheap karaoke machine. the track ends with the sound of that machine being switched off.
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