Artist: Ian Simpson WTF projects: Bacillus / Noise Research Tags: Experimental, noise, soundscape, ambient, electronic, musique concrete WTF Quality: deep and sensitive divings into elements of sound Lifespan 1980s - Country: UK           One artist, two pseudonyms. Bacillus and Noise Research. In the albums of Bacillus, long sweeping sound panoramas drift on through suspended moments. We travel through oceans  and float above the waves  we dive through forests, sit in stillness, then run through the trees, zig zag, return, lift up, and rustle through treetops  we enter abandoned factories inhabited by ghosts who slowly and imperceptibly wind up the machinery to unleash their rusty groans, the power flickers on and off, wind blows through, rats scurry by  we are teleported into alien crafts and hear the telepathic language of beings who exist in the rift between dimensions. Spinning, low glow in darkness, traveling at immense speeds yet simultaneously stationary  we watch ages of history roll beyond to the tune of cybotic angels' voices  we walk down endless train tunnels, a barely comprehensible woman's voice reading off nonsense through the intercom system  fields of crystalline rainbow flowers  priest mages in long dark robes, faces shrouded, reciting incantations through the electricity in their fingertips, as they walk in circles  foreign planetary habitats  In the music of noise research, we enter the sounds, into the realm where sonic vibrations and electricity merge.  the sound of pulses cycling through a circuit, different switches, amplitudes, wave forms  feedback loops of micro-frequencies  the static chaos of twisted frayed wires sending the signal in all directions, back around, splitting, joining, leaping, and dying.  a magnetic tape, wrinkled and warped, speed erratic, blurbing through vaguely recorded sounds  the synthesizer's guts revealed and subtly prodded  radio waves, sent through space, into satellites, bouncing between towers, striking antennae, all in a moment  the echoes of deep space emulated in the trans-dimensional winding of strings and quarks  You can find Bacillus and Noise Research music here: http://www.archive.org/details/FirstCircuit First Circuit (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/CollapseEpem073 Collapse EP (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/SlowlyImploding Slowly Imploding (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/LithiumBurnem074 Lithium Burn (split with Fonik on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/NoiseResearchI Noise Research I (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/NoiseResearchIi Noise Research II (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/noise_research_experiment_III Noise Research III (on Bivouac) http://www.archive.org/details/emp064 Noise Research IV (on EMP) http://www.archive.org/details/ca347_gdnr Ocean Epicure (with Graham Dunning on Clinical Archives) http://www.archive.org/details/evoluon_amp045 Evoluon EP (AMP Recs) - Jeemobon | |
Ian Simpson - Bacillus / Noise Research
