Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on December 29, 2010
Welcome to a new sound collage adventure from UFOverdriver.
This is a densely-layered space odyssey that involves new and experimental techniques in sound collage creation… headphones are recommended for optimum immersion.
Listen: Time Minus One: A Space Odyssey Mix
Part I – The Launch
Our journey begins with a three track group of collages composed of original recorded material by UFOverdriver mixed alongside a loop from the classic Sheep by Pink Floyd, which is joined in track three with a loop from Aztec Camera’s version of Jump.
Overlaid on the tracks are recordings from various Apollo missions, a speech by Sen. Barack Obama on the campaign trail, short clips from Wall Street and Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and other stuff…
The overall direction of The Launch is to reflect on the promises that were presented to us, the voters, by Senator Barack Obama while on the campaign trail in early 2008.
Part II – The Space Odyssey
12 Minutes and 44 seconds into the collage The Space Odyssey begins…
The next 6 tracks were constructed using the audio from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I downloaded from YouTube in thirteen parts of approximately ten and a half minutes each.
I took the audio from selected parts (tracks 4 through 6 used parts 12, 11 , 9, 13, and 1 – while tracks 7 through 9 used parts 10, 5, 6, 8, and 7 – see graphic below) and stacked them in layers in my mixer. Then I played around with the volume of the various layers while applying various effects to create “chance” loops of sounds.
Graphic Below: The “mix view” from Adobe Audition 3, the program I use to create my sound collages. The area displayed shows the two “stacks” of 2001: A Space Odyssey audio clips, with the volume control levels for each clip.
Included in The Space Odyssey is several extensive sound clips from philosopher Alan Watts. I offer no opinion at this point on Alan Watts ideas and concepts, I just liked the sound of his voice and the pacing of his speech. You can find out more about Alan Watts here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts.
Part II – The Space Odyssey is deliberately and delightfully trippy – for best results try listening to this mix with headphones on…
Track Information
PART I – The Launch
Track 1 (1:22) T Minus 20 Seconds And Counting
Track 2 (4:20) This Time Must Be Different
Track 3 (3:54) Dreams From The Promise Of 2008
PART II – The Space Odyssey
Track 4 (1:21) Please Stop / I Saw A Bright Star Falling
Track 5 (6:22) Alan Watts Explains The Ceramic Model
Track 6 (2:24) Do You Read Me H.A.L. ?
Track 7 (3:00) I Feel Much Better Now, I Really Do…
Track 8 (6:01) The Space Time Discontinuum
Track 9 (4:08) The Creation Of Evolution: A Space Odyssey
Included Sound Collage Materials
N.A.S.A. – Apollo Mission (8,11,14 and 17) Recordings (from Various Online Sources including N.A.S.A.)
Barack Obama – A Speech from the Winter of 2008 on Campaign Trail (from Source Unknown)
Pink Floyd – Sheep (from Animals)
Aztec Camera – Jump (from The Best of Aztec Camera)
Alan Watts – The Nature of Human Conscience – Part 1 of 6 (from Video from YouTube)
VIDEO – Human Being Have Been Studied for a Long Long Time (from Video from YouTube)
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey – Complete Movie in 13 Parts (from Video from YouTube)
Network – 1976 Film – Sound clip (from Video from YouTube)
Wall Street – 1987 Film – Sound clip (from Video from YouTube)
Star Wars – 2005 Film – Episode III – Revenge of the Sith – Sound clip (from Video from YouTube)
Television Commercials – Zoloft and Cymbalta (from Video from YouTube)
Interview with Rubert Murdoch (from Source Unknown)
Enjoy!
Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on December 18, 2010
Introducing a new original sound collage from UFOverdriver called:
Dystopia (Is The New Utopian Dream)
…Music to help you party like it’s 1984 – or use it as your getaway soundtrack when you’re on the run from the Suede Denim Secret Police.
Listen Here
Track Information
Track 1 (1:22) You Know What To Do
Track 2 (4:20) I Never Lost Control
Track 3 (3:54) We Will Go
Notes:
It’s been a very busy month for UFOverdriver – lots of recordings and new mixes.
Many of the new sound collages have become, for me, a record of this moment in time when our country is making a hard shift towards dystopia.
Nope is the new Hope, Secrecy is the new Transparency, Censorship is the new Freedom of the Press, Propaganda is today’s FauxNews…
I plan on remixing the material from this period into a bigger piece focusing on this recent dystopian shift. Stay tuned…
List of recent work
Definition: Dystopia
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek: δυσ-: bad-, ill- and Ancient Greek: τόπος: place, landscape) (alternatively, cacotopia,[1] or anti-utopia) is, in literature, an often futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian.
Dystopian literature has underlying cautionary tones, warning society that if we continue to live how we do, this will be the consequence.
A dystopia, thus, is regarded as a sort of negative utopia and is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government.
Dystopias usually feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and constant states of warfare or violence. Dystopias often explore the concept of technology going “too far” and how humans individually and en masse use technology.
A dystopian society is also often characterized by mass poverty for most of its inhabitants and a large military-like police force.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia
Listen, Enjoy and Share!
Until later, best of health.
Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on December 6, 2010
Wikileaks address: http://213.251.145.96/
UFOverdriver has been busy this last week working on this densely layered sound collage of mixed-media from the first week of the Wikileaks Cable Dump – a week that will be remembered as a historical battle in the history of the InfoWars…
This new remix includes music from U2, Talking Heads and Radiohead, lectures from Alan Watts and sound clips from an audiobook version of 1984, as well as numerous other clips, cuts, samples and various bits of audio debris from this first week of skirmishes in the new InfoWars…
Rule Number Two Is The New Rule Number One
The Wikileaks Big Cable Dump Mix
Track listing:
(click on track name to hear individual track)
Track 1 (0:31) War is Peace – Freedom is Slavery – Ignorance is Strength
Track 2 (4:12) Rule Number Two Will Be Told To You In Reverse
Track 3 (2:06) One Step Closer To InfoWar
Track 4 (2:19) If You’re Going To Be Human
Track 5 (3:27) Life During InfoWar Time
Track 6 (1:45) The Infrastructure Will Collapse
Download MP3 files of complete album:
Just right click on the link below and download the zipfile to your computer. The zipfile contains all 6 tracks and the album art.
UFOverdriver – Rule Number Two Is The New Rule Number One – The Wikileaks Big Cable Dump Mix
Information About This Mix
First mixed on November 30, 2010 and released as a short pieces called Rule Number Two Will Be Told To You In Reverse, this remix was completed on December 6, 2010 and takes a broader look at this unfolding (or continuously leaking) situation.
While the first mix was only 3:48, this new re-mix is 14:20 and contains 6 individual tracks…
Music Pieces Used:
U2 – One Step Closer (from How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb)
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime (from Fear Of Music)
Radiohead – Videotape (from In Rainbows)
Radiohead – House of Cards (from In Rainbows)
Some of the material used in this sound collage (including the title) comes from an audio-cassette invitation to a party created by my friends Brian Maul, Kirk Jones (the voice saying “Rule number two will be told to you in reverse”) and Philip May back in the early 1990′s.
You can hear the complete invitation here (it’s about 30 minutes long and quite amazing…) http://onehumanbeing.com/central/2010/11/27/souvenirs-from-the-late-20th-century/
The drum loops came from the Acid Loops Universal Groove Elements, but I altered them somewhat… in the background are some strange loops from something I recorded in June of 1990, and there’s also some organ playing in there that I recorded last week for this collage.
FREE 1984 Audiobook download: http://www.archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-book
“Hey Freethinker” – I took this sound clip from my friend’s audio-invitation, but it really comes from a group called Voice Farm…
