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acytota

by horchata

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viroid 01:06
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satellite 03:55
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plasmid 04:20
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phagemid 01:19
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transposon 03:18
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non-cellular 03:48
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transmission 03:42
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capsid 03:24
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RNA 02:54
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cosmid 04:33
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fosmid 06:27
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prion 06:26
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DNA 03:53
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Virus 03:37
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Acytota 01:11
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Format: CD-R ltd. to 100 copies in pro-printed cardboard sleeve
Tracks: 16
Playing time: 60:34
Release date: October 2008
File under: Minimal Ambient / Experimental / Glitch

"Acytota" involves the use of many different snippets of sounds from field recordings, synthesizer programs, computer code and effect patches that I have made over the past few years. I viewed these as building blocks in development of a sound or idea of a song and only began to place them in a compositional context for the completion of this album.

The idea of the album title and song titles can be viewed as how I viewed these elements of the song and sounds, i.e. they are pre-life aspects of sound and I approached the final versions of these songs a little differently than other Horchata releases.

Two of the field recordings are unaltered, but present transparent views of the world where and when I made those sounds. The last song uses every one of my Horchata songs I could find. It is a series of samples scanned over on a macrolevel and sound and frequency is made through spinning past each of the songs and jumping around between them.

Though I like ambient, glitchcore music and academic electroacoustic music, I rarely find them together in one song or on a release. I find the glitchcore relies too much on rhythm, which I admire, but lack personally, academic music needs to be digested and read about, and ambient often is redundant and does not incorporate enough experimental aspects.

I attempted in this recording to meld these styles. Some songs have all three elements, some have only one, and though they may seem very different they, speak the same dialect which is sound as a small living organism, an entity of frequency that relies not only on itself, but flourishes in a small microcosm of other sounds, dependant and parasitic on large organisms.

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released October 27, 2008

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horchata Portsmouth, New Hampshire

palace@guero.sr.unh.edu


Horchata is the name used by Michael Palace for his electronic music compositions. His music focuses on dark ambient soundscapes, programmed compositional glitch music, and field recordings. ... more

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