feedback

This is a demonstration of some of the sounds and features of the DAED Feedback Synthesizer. Read more…

Sunday Synth Jam: This is an extremely NSFW adult avant garde electronic music video, Blow Job 9, from a performance of Wojciech Kosma’s Blow Job in Sin Berlin.

Kosma’s compositions frequently use radical or bizarre methods of working with music and its relationship to the human body and ask alternately for specific forms of human interaction or endurance.

If this sounds inappropriate for you, you may want to check out the kitty synth video. Read more…

Rolling Stone has a review of Lou Reed’s recent live performance of Metal Machine Music – Reeds’ controversial symphony of noise.

When Metal Machine Music was released in 1975, people did not know what to make of it. The album, influenced by the drone music of La Monte Young and John Cale,  consists entirely of guitar feedback played at different speeds.

Two guitars were tuned in unusual ways and played with different reverb levels. Reed then placed the guitars in front of their amplifiers, and the feedback from the very large amps would vibrate the strings — the guitars were, effectively, playing themselves. He recorded the work on a four-track tape recorder in his New York apartment, mixing the four tracks for stereo. Read more…

Jeki Zaborov in Zimmer Tel Aviv peforms Blow Job V, by Wojciech Kosma, a performance art piece that explores microphone feedback, modulated by the proximity of the performer’s mouth.

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