An Unnerving Slice of Collage Sound Design

From Japan-based Shtialictem

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

An unnerving slice of collage sound design arrives from Japan-based Shtialictem: “sh ti a &&. 567(7)” is two and a half minutes of ringing drones, fragments of speech, animal noise, and sweeping static, just to name a few choice elements. The key to it isn’t, of course, those — and other — individual elements so much as how they’re layered and sequenced, how rattling percussion, just to focus on one example, gives way to short-wave humming in a manner that seems random and alarming on first listen, but whose considered structure becomes evident on repeat. This is jarring work.

Track posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/shtialictem](https://soundcloud.com/shtialictem/sh-ti-a-567). Found via a repost on SoundCloud by Magnitâ–²rus of Johannesburg, South Africa [soundcloud.com/magnitarus]((https://soundcloud.com/magnitarus)).

When Repetition Doesn’t Sound Like Repetition

A taste of Taylor Deupree's new modus operandi

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

Taylor Deupree posts regularly in his [2015 SoundCloud Studio Diary](https://soundcloud.com/12k/sets/taylor-deupree-2015-studio), which is now up to 29 tracks. Yesterday’s entry was one of the longest, at nearly 8 minutes. They’re often shorter snippets of caught moments and rough ideas. This approach is one more musicians should take, but it’s also one that works particularly well for Deupree, in that his fragments welcome looping, which compensates for the occasional brevity, and because their generally ethereal qualities aren’t hampered by a lack of context. He describes this current piece as a sample of an album-in-progress, and that it represents a new approach to composition that he dubs “intense repetition without sounding like it.”Here that repetition is a series of lightly plucked guitar strings and glass rattles, around which arises this rich, swarming drone.

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/12k](https://soundcloud.com/12k/march-13-2015-a-work-in-progress-new-album-2015). More from him at [twitter.com/taylordeupree](https://twitter.com/taylordeupree).