<a href="http://the3rd2nd.com/?p=32">Free Ep of noise: Electronic and acoustic</a><br><br><a href="http://the3rd2nd.com/?p=32">Barry Cullen</a>, also known as <a href="http://the3rd2nd.com/?p=32">bew</a>, ran across Audiopaint, a freeware program which does a kind of additive synthesis from image files (
<a href="http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm">http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm</a>).
He created a series of backdrops, on top of which he added beats from
drum machines, guitar, saxophone, trombone, and vocals. The recordings
were each done in a single take through a variety of analog treatments:
tape delay, valve amplifier, pre-1970s speaker cabinets, a Lorenzo
organ from the garbage, and a fuzz pedal collection spanning four
decades.<br><br>The original versions were remixed in 2007 for <a href="http://the3rd2nd.com">the3rd2nd.com</a>. What
results is a range of sounds from electroacoustic evolutions to
pleasant processed settings of acoustic instruments that might even be
called delicate and tender.<br><br>In addition to Cullen's three mixes, <a href="http://the3rd2nd.com/?p=33">Weakling and King</a> and <a href="http://the3rd2nd.com/?p=34">Aln vs. Cln</a>
have delivered remixes. Weakling and King's track pulls groaning and
noisy beats from bew's material, while Aln vs. Cln's track had "every
sound treated digital>analogue>digital to avoid undue
cleanliness."<br><br><a href="http://the3rd2nd.com/mp3/bew-audiopaint_2007_remixes_the3rd2nd_012.zip">http://the3rd2nd.com/mp3/bew-audiopaint_2007_remixes_the3rd2nd_012.zip</a><br><br><br>