Canton Becker's Electronic Music Noizums

Composed entirely on a Polyend Tracker. Harkens back to 1995-era Omni Trio / Good Looking Records style drum and bass. Download available on Bandcamp.

“Everything obeys a secret music” sample from Joshua Schrei’s podcast The Emerald, Episode “All of My Lessons Come in the Form of a Sound“

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Dubby, breaky, spooky, moody.

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Lush harmonic techno, giant chords and a persistent beep to the beat.

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The other day my kid had me listen to this haunting Tool track Faaip De Oiad which samples a phone call made to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM radio show. The caller frantically relays a bunch of Area 51 conspiracies, and that got me to remembering about an afternoon in January 1998 when I explored the area myself.

I was demoing my company’s Internet music software at NAMM – the annual music business convention in Las Vegas. We were given a spare day, so I rented a car and drove as close as I could to Area 51. At the time, I was a compulsive listener to Art Bell’s radio show, so I knew I had to at least visit the famous black mailbox and stop for a drink at the “little A’Le’Inn”. While I was there I pulled out my minidisc recorder and interviewed the locals about their experiences living out in this wasteland by the famously secretive military base.

Today, 26 years later, I’m releasing “Area 51”, the audio-poem I assembled that year.

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I remember listening to my friend Matt play a Zimbabwe melody on his mbira (thumb piano). I liked how he made the song fade in and out, eventually playing so quietly you could just hear the flesh of his thumbs brushing the metal tines.

Matt said, “These songs don’t really have beginnings and endings. It’s more like ‘Ancestor Radio’. You use your mbira to tune in and sing along with your ancestors. The song is always out there playing, waiting to be picked up.”

This composition was made to work in the same way. It loops without end. When you tune in, you’re invited to listen and watch for as long as you like.

For eighteen years, my father ran the Electric Sheep screensaver on his computer. Similar to how the SETI@home distributed the computation to search for for alien radio signals across the Internet, electricsheep.org pooled together the resources of 1000’s of computers every night to render short clips of fantastically complex fractal flames. Scott Draves developed this project to help us imagine “what kinds of dreams androids might have”.

This video sequence was made by stitching together a few of these clips, slowing them down, and arranging them in a perfect loop synchronized with the music.

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Moody thick drum ‘n’ bass. Starts off with almost classical/orchestral elements, then the drop, then a little more banging. Lots of arpeggios and melodic content.

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