CORPORATE
a new album by
HARAAM
notes from the artist:
"as well as the normal long-feedback-cycle tonal-shift no-input noise grinding, on this album there's also a lot of random orchestral textures. a database of instrumental notes (for instance, a harp, or a concert piano, or a horn section) is loaded into a media player (a simple programme like Windows Media Player, nothing complex), and set to random play. this is then recorded, and layered, and layered, until there's this piece of nu-classical music, completely improvised by the computer."
and:
"also of note is the use of field recordings. the sounds used as the backbone of the piece COMMITMENT are harmonising whipper-snippers recorded on my iPhone, looped, under a collection of cockatoos and magpies (also recorded on my phone). the eerie melodies are completely coincidental - neither whipper-snipper had any deliberate collusion with the other - but are created with the twin magicks of happenstance and deep listening."
and:
"the word CORPORATE, the name of this album, can either mean 'to unify different elements in one body', or 'to kill, to turn into a body'. i can't help but find that fascinating. for a project that's all about the horrifying fusion of terrorism and capitalism, it's almost too perfect."
CORPORATE is out now.
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