What is "Lowercase Music"?
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2020
- Today, let’s explore the depths of audio with "Lowercase Music" and what makes this hyper-ambient world of minimalist sound so fascinating.
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STEVE RODEN - FORMS OF PAPER (Remastered)
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what genres/albums/artists do you want me to explore for my next video?
jazz!! bill evans
American football maybe?
Or any math rock might be a good fit here
Merzbow. I know it’s a bit outside of stuff you usually cover but it would be interesting.
@@blackheartnova you saw his noise music video recently? he reviewed Pulse Demon
Sir, for your consideration... czcams.com/video/OcRdR5lq_JQ/video.html
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Basically earrape
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@@user-shani518 it's a twitter meme you won't get it
I appreciate these explorations of experimental music
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Liking the weirder, nicher subject matters you've been tackling on your vids lately, wouldn't mind seeing a video on glitch music a la Oval, Fennesz, Ryoji Ikeda etc. You seem like you'd be into that stuff.
sounds dope! ill check it out :)
@@PadChennington fire, i'd say 94Diskont is a really good start for oval and glitch music in general, absolutely mind melting stuff
Aries ESP 94diskont is one of my favourite albums of all time. I’ve spent some deep time with that record in altered states of consciousness and reality
Yes, real Glitch, not what they pass off as Glitch today.
And systemisch! I love that album
9:30 Art that invokes such a strong negative reaction in someone will inevitably invoke an equally strong positive reaction in someone else. If lowercase was truly crap then it would ignored totally.
Pad, I think you have officially become the spiritual successor of the channel 'This Exists' (RIP), I love it!
loved those videos on there
I am so sad that he disappeared !!
Yet another genre I gotta check out. Pads got the hookup
Orson’s Farm!
Hells yeah!
i will always appreciate Steve Roden's music above all others. in the center of my musical heart are seated people like Solange Knowles, Steve reich, Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, all of which i resonate with their deep sensitivity to music and how it wrangles time. However one thing that discomforts me about all of those artist is their eagerness to shift and change the seating of the music. don't get me wrong, it isn't an objectively lacking aspect of their work; its the briskness of wanting to change that occasionally upsets me. Steve Roden on the other hand i deeply respect. His music regularly conjures images of coolio-nimbus clouds, icebergs, cargo ships, ocean currents; a perpetual feeling of heavy nowness, while still weighing that of the scent of a single grass root. It always comes with a feeling of hopelessness, only with all pity, tragedy, and sorrow removed. i often get a vivid image of myself being a sunken ship somewhere in the arctic circle, and watching icebergs drift overhead through earally clear water. greenland sharks appearing as bumble-bees when compared to the scale of time I pass through. a reoccurring dream i mysteriously only have when falling asleep to 'stars of ice' puts me, again, deep underwater making my way to the tungsten-light bulb-lit exit of a garganchuan submarine passing through arctic waters. i step out into the pitch black, otherwise silent waters; only filled with the deep, dark hum of the vessels engine; compelled by its own nature to run perpetually, to push through nothingness. not for the sake of a moral objective, not for its own benefit, not against its own will, merely by the fact that it exists to function in that way; simply by the fact that in that moment in time, the molecules that we recognise and categorize as an 'engine' are held together by its own chemical bonds, and that each gear and pump have momentum and trajectory that causes them to spin a propeller, which causes the whole unit to move forward. in that way i think that all people, all life for that matter, are like that submarine. we exist not because of some destiny, not because of some moral mission, not because of some punishment from a higher power, not because of a miraculous chain of coincidences. while all may be true in their own right, i feel that the eyes we see out of, the universe we observe, the emotions we feel about it, and the time that passed to have such a process take part; it all exists because gentile collisions of circumstance we stable enough for other happenings to accumulate on top. in short, it all exists because able to happen, and keep on happening. the choreographies of gravity and matter gave way to electrons, protons, neutrons, photos, who's own unique prefered positions gave way to the elements, who gave way to chemicals and molecules, who gave way to the human body and mind. each synapse developed from a distant animal's ability to function around other animals and scenery. i feel the very concept of 'meaning', 'happening', 'form that IS in some way', only exists as a mechanism of the organ, colloquially known as the brain, that evolved from eons of living. i think that it is every human and living things destiny to continue living until it isn't able to, weather that road be blocked by a landslide, tapered to a dear trail, or simply not maintained enough to be walkable. we will keep on experiencing, simply by the sheer fact that we are able to experience.
Steve Roden, it is with these eyes, these ears, and my whole heart that I hope and pray you rest blissfully. you will be deeply missed.
pad, you seem like the kind of guy who would absolutely love this band called natural snow buildings. they're this french duo who create these massive, ritualistic, apocalyptic drones out of an insane variety of folk/electronic instrumentation. i'd love to see a video on that niche!
sounds dope! any albums you'd recommend from em?
@@PadChennington The Dance of the Moon and the Sun is their most acclaimed album, so definitely start there
Daughter of Darkness is my personal fav, but they have such a massive catalog and their albums tend to be extremely long, so there's plenty of material to keep you occupied if you're bored ;)
Just yesterday, I started actively listening to my tinnitus instead of trying to ignore, or shut it out.
This seems like a serendipitous find for me.
this has to be one of the most niche, original and interesting channels on yt.
>niche
>43.000 subscribers
check out deep cuts too, very similar channel, but even broader
Interesting one to try would be "apocalyptic folk" bands like "current 93" or "Death in June"
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ive talked about current 93 before but an entire apocalyptic folk video would be tight
@@PadChennington - Can't do that without Espers. Check them out.
Maybe make sure to mention the neo nazis in that scene. Would be sad to throw people into that scene without that context.
Marshallemmet I mean I remember downloading a ton of this music and going through dozens of major artists I got into a pattern of if I liked it I would first start looking up whether they were shady before continuing to listen to more of their albums because so many times it would turn out that it was a neo Nazi band.
My boy Steve Roden finally getting some love!
This quote was amazing, and articulated something I’ve been feeling lately but didn’t have the words for: “Scratching through the surface level and committing with actual effort can end up providing oneself with excitement and unfathomable discovery”.
i love lowercase!! i always play it when i go to sleep or read music, it's great for getting into a focused headspace :^)
:)
Rest in peace to one of the greatest experimental ambient artists of all time ❤
Aube (Akifumi Nakajima) is a japanese noise artist that sits pretty snugly between the Noise scene and ambient / sampling scene of Richard Chartier. If you can get your hands on "Flare" (or one of many of his other albums), it's quite worth it. Most of his albums are built around samples from a single source (be it a lightbulb, water droplets, pages of a book, a single VCO, etc)
Came to recommend Aube even though his music couldn't typically be considered "lowercase." His album "Cardiac Strain" is some intense stuff.
REALLY didnt care for any of merzbows work, but I just got done listening to forms of paper and adored it, actually. Thanks, Pad!
awesome! :) its so soothing right ? lol
“Forms of Paper” was the super-power of the long-lost sibling of the Wonder Twins.
Personally, lowercase feels more like a giant, dark, dusty cardboard box with holes in the ceiling and wood chips and dead leaves on the floor. Meanwhile, you’re just sitting quietly in the frigid corner.
so happy to see you venturing into these new genres pad! I love me some vaporwave but I think a lot of us have a very diverse taste of more obscure genres, and its great to get some media on them!
i love the concept of some random guy putting a cricket sounds machine in the library and calling it "collaboration"
like two people who have never met can collaborate on music that's amazing
i love it how you love music and put so much effort into the great exploration of what is really possible in and with music. great job!
I love lowercase music more than I love myself
You always open my eyes to new genres. Thanks Chad.
RIP Steve Roden 🕊
I listened to Forms of Paper. I was impressed. I like how, in the beginning, the artist has you listen to (almost) total silence for about a minute. I thing it's to re-sensitize the listener to small sounds.
Man i freaking love your channel! It's amazing
bout to watch this but first i need to drive to the store and buy myself a drink and pringles.
That’s the power move right there what Pringles we gettin
@@PadChennington salt and vinegar some people hate them but eh they good to me.
Been hooked on your videos all night. I don’t listen to the types of music you cover, but I find it all extremely fascinating. Cheers to more videos!
ayy thanks so much! thanks for watching my friend :) got many more comin!
Ah beautiful! I've been listening to Lowercase for a while now, and it's still something i go to when i want to relax, meditate or keep my mind relaxed from the noise and music.
It's great to have more introductory videos on experimental microgenres like "lowercase", given how it's so niche and linked to just a single artist like Roden for the most part. Love your videos, man, thanks for making me discover signalwave, too.
what a great video essay - thanks for your work and now I am exploring
Pad takes me into another dimension with these typa videos
Another great video man for real . Looking forward to more
Got forms of paper in my recommendations randomly. Thanks for the explanation
Plz make a video about the whole raster-noton label (co-founded by alva noto)
Their whole roster of artists is just a goldmine of pure glitch minimalism, lowercase and german techno bliss.
that sounds dope, will keep that in the back of my noggin :)
German techno wolfgang voigt
you seem to have covered everything i've come across on my musical roadmap so far. every video i watch has a related video of something familiar to me. im about to become a tier 3 simp
Thank you for turning me on to this. Forms of Paper truly is an incredible record.
thanks for watching! enjoy ma friend
First noise music and now lowercase too?! I am so happy that you're bringing awareness of these genres to your viewers!
thanks! always want to try new things... any other genres I should hit up?
@@PadChennington Since you're starting down the experimental path you should start looking into free jazz and free improvisation. Those two genres have scenes that are still alive and well today!
Also the genre No Wave!
Great video and analysis. Thanks.
This video was awesome Pad, you make the topic really interesting each time, and you always bring something new to it, I couldn't find much about lowercase before your video, only the Wikipedia article, I learned a lot about the creation of the masterpiece that is Forms of Paper. And since you already talked about Harsh Noise and Lowercase, I can't wait to watch the next video on experimental music. If I can give a few recommendations of genres that are worth listening to, there is onkyo-key that you probably heard of already, since it's close to the Japanoise scene and also close to lowercase because of its minimalist approach, artists like Toshimaru Nakamura are really interesting! And since you already mentioned Alva Noto, the whole Glitch Noise scene is a treasure cavern I swear; a friend of Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda did a lot of albums using all sorts of raw electronic sounds that explore the limit of the human ear (extremely low or high), and there is even a really special album that focuses on radio frequencies, ambient and plunderphonics called 1000 fragments. I talk about it because it's probably the most underrated of his discography and yet I am never tired of listening to it ^^ (it wasn't on CZcams so I uploaded myself), it's a mix of rapid radio and military samples put on top of repetitive and rythmic noise sounds, with long ambient pauses, it truly is an odyssey, an experience. Damn, my comment is already pretty long and I can't stop because of the enthusiasm these noise scenes can create! Anyway, I really needed to write down that your channel is a great place to stay and I hope you're going to make more videos about this, please Pad, never stop to share that love for experimental music!
Excellent video!
Forms of paper sounds very relaxing and I personally like it, the only thing I hate is how I have to put my volume all the way up to hear it properly
hey Pad, new subscriber to the channel. as a musician myself, I work within a subgenre of music that while it is popular with the main umbrella crowd (Metal music) there has never been a thorough in-depth video on its history and its development. That genre being "Djent" or some call it "Math Metal". As a musician within this genre, it'd be really cool to see you do a video about it!
John Cage said "Everything we do is music" ... My corollary is "everything done is poetry" ...
Can you do a video on Extratone? It's a very interesting genre.
"Well, that's just like...your opinion, man." -The Dude
Thank you for plugging me in to less than known genres. I'm on a personal mission to try make every genre in an attempt to create my own.
That would sound something like this. Igorrr - Nostril
Another Great informative video by Pad Chen. Daps!
love it!!
Nice video and overview of lowercase. I'm a longtime fan of Roden's work. He's gone very quiet lately and I hope everything's okay for him.
First noise, now this one, you got my subscribe and notification squad application
In the 60’s I loved all electronic music. But after a few unique recordings you can’t go any further.
I love finding something extremely difficult but after 60 years it’s all been done, but I still look.
Thanks Pad. You have given me somewhere to look.
Just like Merzbow, he is unique but how does anyone listen to his hundreds of recordings? 1, 2 or 3 is enough.
This was very interesting! I had only heard about lowercase briefly in a watchmojo countdown.
I think I know that exact video you're talking about lol!
@thomas thompson yeah that vid called tetsu inoue's "world receiver" lowercase when its definitely not. still a wonderful album tho, and i still wish we can find out what happened to tetsu
The rerecording of the same sample with the same EQ reminds me Alvin Lucier's "I' m sitting in a room" (1969)
Can definitely see this guy blowing up sometime soon
RIP
I think it would be interesting to check out "Vanguardia Paulista", from what I can tell it's avant-garde jazz funk from Brazil. I can't find much info, but I think it deserves a video
Excellent video, which brought about cherished memories.
Un Peu de Neige Salie by Bernhard Gunther, released on Trente Oiseaux, was the true origin point (and masterpiece) of this scene. It was like a sound illustration of Marcel Duchamp "a bruit secret", reveal the secret texture of sound when it's about to disappear.
Steve Roden (one of the most humble and cool guy I had the chance to meet from this scene) best album, even though I LOVE his two In Between Noise discs, remains Crop Circles, also released on Trente Oiseaux.
Again, if you haven't checked it yet, go check these albums (In BeTween Noise is a sure shot, I think, and Crop Circle and Gunter's Un Peu de Neige Salie are among the very best of the genre)
And check Francisco Lopez La Selva! (I stop here, but I was following actively this scene in the late 90's beg 2000's, and met most of the creators of the genre, it was a glorious time to love a kind of music where starification is not a thing, and you can actually talk and even make music with your idols^^)
You gotta do a video on plunderphonics my man. I know its a broad term now but I am speaking of the John Oswald, Negativland, Carl Stone, People Like Us variety. Right up your alley!
the plunderphonics video is a looonnnggg time coming... I gotta do that
You had me at Alva Noto.
Hey Pad, just wanted to say how much I love your content man.
I actually found you because someone commented on one of my vids and said "you're the Pad Chenningtion of this scene" haha. Would love to chat sometime. -nate
Some randomness from me =]
I recognise that label LINE. They reissued lovesliescrushing’s Chorus, which itself is an interesting shoegaze experiment. It was all constructed using vocal elements and then stretched/processed and reconfigured into what it is now.
I remember in college getting pissed off over Nurse with Wound’s Salt Marie Celeste. I liked minimalist and experimental things even then. But that sound combination just pissed me off. I listened to it again recently (and it was prompted by your scary/unsettling music list) and ... I wasn’t as pissed by it. I wouldn’t call it my favourite or anything. But I made peace with it =]
Finally .... we get to Vangelis. There are two albums of his that are the black sheep of his discography that I enjoy immensely: Beaubourg and Invisible Connections.
Beaubourg (1978) was named after the Parisian neighbourhood where the bohemian art scene resides (and it’s also where the Pompidou is located). The story goes that whilst visiting Paris one day - and that neighbourhood in particular - some music came to him. He went back to London where his studios/home was at the time and immediately realised what he heard/felt/imagined. Sonically, it is all over the place but it all comes from one instrument: the Yamaha CS-80. It seems that anything that instrument could do, he exploited it in Beaubourg. It seems formless and aimless but if it take it in bits and pieces, you can find beauty within it and eventually all of it.
If Beaubourg is busy and frantic, Invisible Connections (1985) is quite the opposite. I can hear this as the early precursor to dark ambient or dark minimalism. (By the way, the 2016 remaster corrected a title disassociation). The title track is mostly empty silence with these sparse bursts of sound that have little rhyme or reason (except for one small motif that appears in the beginning and one other time toward the end). The next two - Atom Blaster and Thermo Vision - are a bit more energetic but still just as sparse. Based on the track titles, it’s evident that this is informed by the atomic world where uncertainty and empty space is the norm. And in a way, this is music to illustrate quantum mechanics.
So yeah, keep on with the sonic adventure. You never know what undiscovered lands you can find =]
Thanks for this video.
Спасибо за твое видео, очень сильно люблю этот жанр, но так мало информации на CZcams о нем. Ещё раз большое спасибо :)
Dude, you should make a video on old school industrial. Things like SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Test Dept, etc.
Could you explore some of the deep/obscure genres found on Every Noise At Once? I've tried to explore genres like Laboratorio or Mandible without much understanding
You guys always finding the weirdest types of music, now I’m slowly turning insane
Shoutout to Alva Noto and the entire Raster-Noton roster for being at the cutting edge of experimental electronic music of the more reserved variety for decades.
pad was born to make videos
0:28 For 8 months? That’s iconic
Dungeon Synth - video would be wonderfull! It's very similar to vaporwave, but it use different forms of music expression
Came here after Pulse Demon video, so here is a recommendation. Something dark, new, a different genre:
Gnaw their tongues.
erm, i don't recall alva noto ever releasing a lowercase piece. his work is solely in glitch
what is that beat that is choppy, like graham kartna's an obsession on kit ep. i don't know what is the album title but there is the song called browser history. i very liked that song and i think there is this genre of choppy ambient music that is not experimental, do you know what is that genre name?
Can we have a vidéo on Contemporary music?
Especially Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John cage crazy experiments :D
Steve Rodens’ sound works well when reading books and such, it’s not distracting. It doesn’t force you to pay attention, it just sits there on the side and keeps you company in whatever you’re doing, but the moment I started paying attention to it & trying to find meaning in it, I felt irritated because I couldn’t find anything tangible or memorable in his “music”, I kind of like that though. It’s unique in that way
I really need an ambient genre categories video. It's a mysyical icebeirg no one yet have cracked.
I really want to know your thoughts on LSD Dream Emulator/Eastern Mind creator Osamu Sato. You should check him out if you haven't yet, he's right up your alley in weird psychedelic landscapes for music and visual art.
Talk about free folk/drone folk like Natural Snow Buildings. They have albums that are over 6 hours long. Interesting stuff!
that felt like my ears were being massaged
You should make a video about Industrial music.
nine inch nails.
I found lower case in the mid 90's with Tetsu Inoue:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsu_Inoue
I do consider this music as certainly as Field Recordings, John Cage's 4:33, Eno's Ambient catalog, Musique Concrète ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te), etc.
There is a world of music that so many people have never heard of or ever imagined existed and that is part of what is great about music...you never know what is around the next corner (-:
so many things to explore, thanks so much!
im gonna play merzbow pulse demon and forms of paper at the same time
You'll summon the god of ambience.
@@youtubeuserdan4017 nah it just sounds like real life if i could hear every sound in the world at once
Here's a lowercase mix made by some folks at rateyourmusic. It's pretty conservative with its selection, not venturing outside the stuff that was actually closely associated with the term and the mailing list (a lot of articles lump onkyo-kei, EAI, and Wandelweiser in with it). It uses Roden's essay as a source and contains some obscure rarities that you won't find mentioned in most articles. www.mixcloud.com/Lumnaya/rym-ultimate-box-set-lowercase/
Oh buddy. We're gonna have lots of fun with you.
Fantomas- Delirium Cordia
Just trust me
nice.....
Is there a video out there what teaches you how to make a lowercase album? I imagine there's a lot of copyright issues to deal with
its called granular synthesis see Curtis roads
Check out some Onkyo or Reductionist music if you like this. I'd also like to see you do a video about Death Industrial music.
Any plans for a video on Queefcore?
You should do something on Whitehouse, the most scandalous, most extreme band to come out of the British underground music scene.
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Sincerely album by luxury elite
I gotta make a vid on lux
Hi, Pad! Ever heard of composers like Franciso López or Bernhard Günter?
Considering you said that lowercase music is the opposite of the extreme harsh noise of Merzbow, I wonder if the works of López or Günther could fit in the lowercase genre (wich I never heard about before this video). You seem to be a curious sound lover digging into conceptual works so I subscribed to your channel :-) If you're interested in field recordings, I'd like to advise you the "Casino" album from Jonathan Coleclough and if you're curious about sound collages / experimental turntablism, Christian Marclay's "More Encores" is the perfect gateway. I hope you'll enjoy these things and if you want to discuss them or just more strange things to listen to, I''l be happy to help you. DJ Bon Goût.
do a jamband video
you should make a video about Black Metal
You should check out Powerelectronics, powerviolence, extratone, and drone music. Maybe some throbbing gristle my guy
Power Electronics is already part of Noise music. Not sure if Extratone should be part of Noise music tho.
Because there is also Melodic Extratone. Example: Diabarha - Slavic Regiment
@@lars38010 There's melodic noise. Like Anti Satori by Hanatarash
Finally 🤤