Release dates
Bandcamp: March 7, 2015
Substack / LABELabel: June 26, 2024
About this album
This was the 42nd Mood481 album, containing 5 oddly-named tracks of glitchy ambient noise. The track names are UUIDs, unique identifiers with no inherent meaning themselves, which was part commentary on the arbitrariness of track names for instrumental music, and part middle finger to AWAL, my label’s distributor, who regularly blocked our releases because they didn’t like how track names were spelled. Apparently it’s fine if you’re Bon Iver (e.g. “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄”), but small indy labels better follow the rules.
Liner Notes
Machine is a series of sound sculptures representing semi-claustrophobic machine-filled spaces. The album is also a bit of a showcase for Idiom, the newest sample pack by Ivo Ivanov of Glitchmachines, and Soundscaper, an awesome iOS app by Igor Vasiliev.
(Note: the Idiom sample pack no longer seems to be for sale on the Glitchmachines site, so I guess it’s a collectors item now.)
Each track used 3 related, unprocessed sounds from Idiom, manipulated in real-time with Soundscaper, and then passed through either FLUX:FX or Dedalus. At the end of the chain, AUFX:Space provided the tight room atmosphere that holds it all together and helps keep focus on the sounds being created. The tracks were recorded with Audioshare and mastered with Audio Mastering.
More info:
Soundscaper: motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2015/02/soundscaper-experimental-sound-mini-lab.html
Composed and produced by Qid Love on an iPad mini 3.
Thanks to Ivo Ivanov for graciously providing a review copy of Idiom for me to mangle.
I'd also like to thank everyone who listens to, shares, and supports my music.
Bandcamp Subscriptions
In case you missed the news, you can now own this album along with 138 others, AND get everything I release in the future automatically, for just $5 a month via Bandcamp subscriptions. Even if you cancel in the future, you keep everything I’ve released up to that point. That’s a $695 value for just $5, and you’ll be helping to support the Cryptid Soup queer contemplative improvisation collective!
About LABELabel
LABELabel is an interesting Substack-powered subversion of the traditional label idea. It is a label for artists that release some portion of their content on Substack. Here’s the original post that started it all, with more info and directions for joining: