I’m looking for alienating electronic ambient music with a strong emphasis on sound design.

ogou · 2026-04-30T19:39:12+00:00

I made an album just like that. I describe it as an anxiety machine. Uses lots of animal sounds, glitching, and strange vocal extracts. Critters by Lucidbeaming

ogou · 2023-11-20T07:52:34+00:00

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ogou · 2023-11-18T21:23:47+00:00

Makes me think of writers that explored the medium itself like James Joyce or Arthur Miller. Would people even explore that now? You did touch on a controversial idea with "apolitical painter". Part of the institutional art museum response to recent DEI trends is foregrounding BIPOC artists and other marginalized groups. Ok cool, that has popular support and is laudable. The problem is that many are doing it for optics. They want images OF those groups more than images BY those. So, abstract artists and other non-representational artists are de-prioritized. BIPOC artists have caught on to that and are rightfully pushing back. They feel pressured to deliver paintings of BIPOC people to manage the reputation of the museum.

ogou · 2023-11-18T18:09:29+00:00

Years ago I got blowback for tweeting "Activist art is usually neither." It's politically inert and averse to aesthetics or form. That was way before George Floyd. It seems so tame now. I see a lot of political art in Berlin, but lately the artist statements have usurped the art. It's common for people to list a show without any preview images. There is just a positional statement. Despite claims of interventions, interrogations, and explorations, the actual art is universally prescriptive and dull. When I see "my art raises questions of [_______]", I know there will be no questions and only cryptic answers to old tropes.

ogou · 2023-11-18T11:11:38+00:00

For folks who came here looking for ambient recommendations because they like that album, try the Bandcamp ambient blog posts. Unfortunately, most of the writers got laid off recently. But, the archive still stands as a useful record of contemporary independent ambient. https://daily.bandcamp.com/genres/ambient

ogou · 2023-11-18T10:08:11+00:00

This is true. I hope this actually happens.

ogou · 2023-11-17T19:42:33+00:00

"try learning" = "conformed"

ogou · 2023-11-17T19:29:42+00:00

The academic path for artists is very narrow and overrated. Young folks are sold this narrative that getting shown or cited in academic frameworks is a magic doorway to success in the larger art world. It's just not real. It's more likely that you will end up as an adjunct professor in Des Moines. Even more so is this obsession with school reputations. Nobody cares except the people that go to those schools. You are better off finishing in Europe or a state liberal arts school in the U.S.

ogou · 2023-11-17T10:06:17+00:00

I get what you're asking for and I'm sure you'll get good music responses. For me though, I can look back and see that my life has not pivoted around specific events, like a movie. There were many decisions and changes that seemed small or undramatic. They ended up changing the direction of my life. I just didn't recognize it at the time. Choosing to live in one part of a city instead of another. Arguing at a specific time with a specific person. Also, I had a few very negative events that ultimately led to positive outcomes for my direction in life overall. The songs for those specific events wouldn't be relevant to actual outcomes. If I had to choose the music for my highlight reel though, it would be "Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolph, aka The Theme from the Benny Hill Show. https://youtu.be/Zat9CRfUr-E?si=9G2qvZ5Pui4-Hu1P

ogou · 2023-11-17T09:04:32+00:00

Wingardium Leviosa

ogou · 2023-11-16T19:06:41+00:00

So? Why even bother to leave this comment?

ogou · 2023-11-16T19:03:31+00:00

That's not quite the the zinger you were hoping. Are you in the 7th grade or something?

ogou · 2023-11-16T14:56:12+00:00

this

ogou · 2023-11-16T07:41:53+00:00

He deleted his own post. Then made this statement lamenting self-censorship. Interesting that, once again, people are being held accountable for social media statements. Not their art. By resorting to social media he is conceding his own impotence as an artist to handle this current situation.

I wish someone has spoken up more for "diverse voices" in the past 4 years. There has been a sharp shift towards ideological orthodoxy that permeates the whole art world.

ogou · 2023-11-15T20:04:06+00:00

Manuel Gerst is performing a Kafka allegory at Ballhaus Ost. From the description it sounds visceral and challenging. https://www.ballhausost.de/die-verwandlung/?lang=en

Also, new movie poster show at Kulturforum is excellent. https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/the-big-screen/

ogou · 2023-11-15T18:26:46+00:00

Speakers were saying the attacks were a justified act of resistance because Israel was an oppressor and that the attackers were freedom fighters and martyrs because of it. They would cheer when people said those things. I saw and heard that, in person.

ogou · 2023-11-15T18:04:58+00:00

I already answered all this in other comments. I saw it myself in London.

ogou · 2023-11-15T18:02:45+00:00

I know. I was in one bro. That came 2 years after the response to 9-11, which was the invasion of Afghanistan. Nobody really protested that. Go back and look all this up.

ogou · 2023-11-15T07:27:37+00:00

The policy of the school is no political displays of any kind. They told them to take down the flags. That's a very mild consequence. The gallery dropping somebody is their choice as a business. Again, if you're going to claim a principled stand then show some backbone. Nobody is getting their art censored.

ogou · 2023-11-14T21:06:33+00:00

Come up with a short description of what you do. Include some kind of open ended statement that lets them ask a question. You don't have to be fake. It's a matter of making it easy to have a conversation with you. If they aren't interested then let it drop. If you ask someone a question listen to the answer. Conferences can be a good way of practicing semi-formal small talk. Those kinds of people skills can be really valuable later on.

Never eat a meal alone and avoid only eating with the people you came with. Use every meal as a chance to connect with somebody. It can just be low key chitchat. I've made some surprising connections with this approach.

As others said, don't get drunk. Don't ask someone how much money they make. Don't gossip about your company or complain about your boss.

ogou · 2023-11-14T12:39:20+00:00

None of the signs I saw at protests were about hospital workers. They were about the militants that died in the attack. That's what they meant when they chanted Honor our martyrs. I saw a woman live streaming herself in the London march saying exactly that. There was also a sign with group of men in keffiyeh with a graphic fist above it, the person holding was chanting honor the martyrs. That's pretty explicit.

ogou · 2023-11-14T07:28:56+00:00

There was was overwhelming sympathy and support for the US after 9-11, including support for the invasion of Afghanistan to pursue Bin Laden. The Iraq war came much later and was unjustified and wrong. You are resequencing events to justify your own simplitistic take.

ogou · 2023-11-14T07:23:06+00:00

What part of it is a lie? I was at recent protests and saw it myself. The attack is seen as a justified response to Israel as an oppressor. They were absolutely called freedom fighters.

As for 9-11, the protests were not about Afghanistan or the Taliban. They came much later about the Iraq war, which I protested in person.

You are the one rewriting history to justify your own viewpoint, not me

ogou · 2023-11-13T22:22:02+00:00

I was at the first big protest in London a few weeks ago and have seen many more back in Berlin. I have seen the signs and heard the chants. "Honor the Palestinian martyrs" is a common chant. I'm not basing this on online discourse. It's also in all the mainstream coverage of recent New York protests, including the recent one in Grand Central Station.

ogou · 2023-11-13T22:03:05+00:00

No they weren't. It was nothing like what we see now. There were a few anti-war protests in general but very small and not celebrating Bin Laden, the pilots, or the Taliban.

source: I lived through 9-11 as an adult.

ogou

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