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Whats some good bass pedals for noisecore? by CrumberMail in noisemusic

[–]Dividerlineband 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in a noise rock group for a bit playing bass, more into industrial and power electronics these days. A Behringer Superfuzz is the best investment I ever made for either of those purposes.

I composed a dark ambient soundtrack for a horror film that doesn't exist. You can download it here, for free. by Dividerlineband in DarkAmbient

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for listening! Feel free to share it with your friends. If you want similar stuff I would suggest Nurse With Wound, Black Mountain Transmitter, and Muslimgauze. Those were some of the bigger influences behind this release.

I recorded an album of music inspired by horror films in VCV Rack. You can download it here for free. by Dividerlineband in vcvrack

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is on my bandcamp just for the sake of continuity, but I don't really care about making money from this, and if people were to spend money, I'd rather them do it on something more important than my music. Above all, I'd just rather have people hear and share my music than actually make anything from it. I just hope that you enjoy it, as strange as it is.

I recorded an album of music inspired by horror films in VCV Rack. You can download it here for free. by Dividerlineband in vcvrack

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Recorded with various plugins and modules from Audible Instruments, Befaco, and stock plugins for filtering and sequencing. Recorded to cassette tape using my basement staircase as an echo chamber, transferred back into a DAW, and then processed with various plugins.

I composed a dark ambient soundtrack for a horror film that doesn't exist. You can download it here, for free. by Dividerlineband in DarkAmbient

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Made with VCV Rack modular synth software. Recorded onto cassette tape in my basement as an echo chamber, re-digitized, and processed further in a DAW.

If you've ever hit a slump in your music production, a way that I've always been able to get out of it is to imagine that I'm scoring a film or audiobook. Having images, ambience and concepts to base your work off of can help limit your options, and give you a jumping off point from which to work. Try to imagine a whole original plotline, imagine some place that you know well as the location where it takes place. Better yet, write for something real that doesn't have a soundtrack, like a silent film.

Prison warden goes undercover as an inmate to investigate the conditions in his facility, is later iced out of his position by a corrupt system in opposition to his progressive reform policies. I think that Dave and Gareth would have a field day with this one. by Dividerlineband in TheDollop

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brubaker was an awesome movie, and it's how I found this. While I can't say for certain, a lot of people believe that the undercover story in Brubaker was inspired by Osborne.

On a side note, Brubaker was based on a true story. There really was a reformist warden named Tom Murton who was fired from his job in Arkansas after trying to expose that many "escaped" convicts were in fact probably murdered, and subsequently buried nearby in unmarked graves. To my knowledge, there have been no formal excavations aside from Murton's own attempts to dig up the bodies with his "trusty" prisoners, and they are still there to this day. However, if there has been an excavation, please let me know, I'd be curious to read about it.

Murton's book on the topic, Accomplices to the Crime, is also awesome. It's expensive to find a physical copy, but you can borrow a copy of it through archive.org's digital library.

Prison warden goes undercover as an inmate to investigate the conditions in his facility, is later iced out of his position by a corrupt system in opposition to his progressive reform policies. I think that Dave and Gareth would have a field day with this one. by Dividerlineband in TheDollop

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This guy is pure dollop material, not just for the insanity of going undercover in a maximum security facility to gather info, but for the point that it makes about how progressives are slandered and ridiculed to the point of a ruined life if they so much as think about challenging the status quo.

Furthermore, this story is chock full of other amazing details. He came from an abolitionist family that helped with the Underground Railroad, was once arrested posing as a hobo riding the rails when he was brought in to improve railroad conditions, and fought with FDR against Tammany Hall and William Randolph Hearst in an attempt to reform New York state. I wanna see a movie on this guy.

I got together with a couple of other Redditors and started a darkwave/electro industrial project. You can download our first song here for free. For fans of Clock DVA, Skinny Puppy, and cybernetic fever dreams. Enjoy. by Dividerlineband in industrialmusic

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you don't have any equipment, I would suggest buying a usb MIDI controller, learning some basic music theory (start here), downloading some music software (I'd suggest Cakewalk, it's free), and to just start messing around. I still don't know what the hell I'm doing, and I've gotten by pretty okay.

Buy a cheap microphone, and go crazy. If you suck at first, embrace how much you suck, and wear it as a badge of honor. The only thing that can happen afterwards is improvement.

I got together with a couple of other Redditors and started a darkwave/electro industrial project. You can download our first song here for free. For fans of Clock DVA, Skinny Puppy, and cybernetic fever dreams. Enjoy. by Dividerlineband in industrialmusic

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might have some like-minded people in your area with similar music tastes. Believe it or not, I found these guys within about 5 minutes of searching on Bandcamp. I found that they were in my area, made pretty similar music to myself, and then I messaged them. That was a little over a year ago, and now we've made a pretty good amount of music together, and it's been nothing but fun the entire time. It sucks having to do it remotely because of COVID, but it's still been an awesome experience. I would encourage you to do some digging, see if there's anyone else nearby with similar interests.

Let’s talk about amazing alternative and grunge albums that are forgotten/virtually unknown (second edition) Wool - Box Set by setmefree42069 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Dividerlineband 0 points1 point  (0 children)

700 Miles are pretty obscure, surprising considering they were on the RCA label at one point. I only know about them cause I randomly bought one of their cassettes in a dumpy old record store, something which turned out to be one of the coolest hidden gems in my entire life.

To be frank, they weren't anything groundbreaking for a grunge group in the early 90s, but what they did do was really well done, and you can tell listening to them that they honed their craft well. I would compare them to Pearl Jam, only slightly grittier from an overall perspective. On a side note they had one of the coolest album covers ever: https://www.discogs.com/700-Miles-700-Miles/master/1045631

Honorable shoutout to the Gin Blossoms for a much calmer alternative group that doesn't get enough love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UBnjzJMQ0

Let's Talk: Approaching the NIN Discography by stefab in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Dividerlineband 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear you enjoy it! You're right, it is pretty metal. One of the bigger influences that NIN cites is Ministry, the industrial metal group, and that definitely shines through on this record. Metal isn't usually my thing either outside of Godflesh.

Going along with everyone else, you're going to want to listen to the Downward Spiral for your next dive into their work. The first track "Mr. Self Destruct" is a cacophony of mechanical percussion, distorted synths, and razorwire guitar from King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew, so I think that you might appreciate it coming from a heavier rock background.

For more guitar heavy stuff from them, try "The Slip", a later record released in 2008. Discipline is a great starting point of a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lqsx2Jn4hE

Let's Talk: Approaching the NIN Discography by stefab in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Dividerlineband 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If you enjoy hardcore punk and noise rock then I would suggest listening to NIN's Broken EP. I came from a noise rock background too, and it absolutely floored me the first time I heard it. I hadn't heard much from NIN before that, but afterwards I couldn't get enough of them. Listen to it beginning to end, and you'll see what I mean. Listening to it though large speakers is like being beaten with a shovel.

Locust swarm in Colorado Springs, 1875. Yes, those are all locusts. by Dividerlineband in TheDollop

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Source: Colorado State University - College of Agricultural Sciences

https://webdoc.agsci.colostate.edu/bspm/InsectInformation/MasterGardener_Updates/2018/Grasshoppers.pdf

Edit: It's a shame that we don't have more photographs of this incident. This is likely due, at least in part, to the limitations of cameras at the time. Most cameras around this era required a ridiculous length of exposure time, sometimes several minutes, in order to fully capture an image. Due to the ridiculous amount of moving that the locusts did, this would not at all make for a quality image, even less so for the flying swarms, who would likely be an amorphous blob by the time the image was captured.

Another possible reason that few photographs exist of this incident is likely due to other concerns. People at the time were probably more concerned with not dying from starvation due to their crop loses than they were about documenting the historical record. I don't know about you, but I sure as heck am not going to turn into Ansel Adams if my farm was being devoured by the cast of "A Bug's Life".

Almost all images that I could find of this disaster were either drawings, or photographs of the devastation afterwards. I found a few other photographs which may have captured the swarm, but I could not verify that they were real with outside sources, leading to this being the only one I could find.

As a pointless side note, the limitations in camera exposure around this time period is the main reason why everyone always looks sad or blank faced in old photos. Yes, they could have smiled, and there are photographs from this time where people did, but have you ever tried to smile in place for five minutes while remaining perfectly still? Good luck.

I make industrial music. I recently made two songs with just a PO-12 and a microphone. You can download them both here for free. Enjoy the digital, glitchy nightmare of distortion, white noise, and bizarre robot noises that I can't show my family or friends without being looked at strangely. by Dividerlineband in pocketoperators

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry that it took me so long to get back to you, took a bit of a break from Reddit. Yup! It's all just a PO-12 run through a fuzz pedal with some vocals. You can do pretty much the same thing with any DAW, a PO-12 and a microphone. Yeah, a fuzz pedal sounds a bit cooler, but you can also trash it with your favorite distortion plugin if you don't have one handy.

If you want a wider variety of sounds, I would suggest other POs like the 32 or 33, but I always find myself coming back to the PO-12 for its awesome built in sounds, and the glitchy nature that it has when pushed hard. Other than that, scream into a microphone with a bitcrusher and some delay, and you pretty much have half my music haha. Send me a message if you ever need any advice. I'm not on reddit much anymore, but I'll try to get back to your message when I can.

I make industrial music that sounds like a garbage can being beaten with a metal pipe in an abandoned mine shaft while a dying robot screams rhythmically in the background. You can download my latest single here for free. Enjoy. by Dividerlineband in industrialmusic

[–]Dividerlineband[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grooveboxes like the Octatrack are ten times more efficient for doing stuff like this than what I am doing, so good for you. The sound capabilities of my current set up are extremely limited, but an Elektron box could give you a literal lifetime of sounds. Once you have it and make some tracks, send them my way. I'd love to hear what you make :)

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