herbert's new project.

minimal house · Post by **minimal house** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:28 pm

"My new record is called SCALE and takes as its starting point, the idea of distance in our lives. For one track I am trying to make a small connection with the potential audience of the album. To this end, we have set up an answer phone at k7 hq. The number there is : +49 32 22 1918 394

If you would like to contribute, please call this number and leave me a sound. Any sound. Preferably not speech or something vocal. Please DON'T say what the sound is or your name, I'm interested in making a piece of music out of noises that I don't know anything about. If you'd like to register your contribution, and name then please email dan@k7.com

Regardless, if you'd like to add a noise to the record, just call up and leave me a sound. Every sound will be used. You have until december the 11th to do it.

Thank you for your time
Matthew Herbert"

robert lowell · Post by **robert lowell** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:47 pm

interesting concept.

tsod · Post by **tsod** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:38 pm

hmm just wondering about the quality of a phone transmission..

minimal house · Post by **minimal house** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:08 am

Thats what i thought, but then i said to myself...Herbert's music has never really been about quality as it has the concept of sound manipulation.

harass · Post by **harass** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:25 am

he's out of control, I love it... him and monolake need to hook up.

adam · Post by **adam** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:13 am

tsod wrote:hmm just wondering about the quality of a phone transmission..

People always bring things like this up. You can make anything sound the way you want it to, but besides - Music, this sector of it especially, isn't about getting "perfect" recordings of real world sounds and things. It's about using anything and everything in any way possible. New sounds are unlocked through strange anomalies found in poor recordings sometimes. There are qualities to audio that can only be brought out through certain means of recording. The "pallette" available to audio artists in this modern age is so broad in scope to the old way of thinking, and this is one of the reasons.. the use and abuse of audio of all kinds and all qualities is available to us. It's a choice sometimes. I recon the same kind of arguements were made when the first distortion units started showing up with guitarists and things.. people thought it was "destroying" the perfect sound of the instrument when really it was expanding the pallette a guitarist had available to them as an artist.

I'd hate to live in a world where people only recorded crystal clear audio and the dirtiest they got was using some VSTs that they just dug up. Everything would sound the same and the industry would be even more stale than it has been at times lately.

csmak4u · Post by **csmak4u** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:12 am

sounds intresting, cant wait to see what sounds people have given you to use
looking forward to hearing your work

minimal house · Post by **minimal house** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:18 am

Anyone got a link to his last project that involved submissions from people popping bubblegum? He was supposed to make an album entirely out of the sounds that were submitted.