Experimental Music
Since 2006, I've poured forth a steady stream of experimental recordings, most in the genres of noise, ambient, drone, industrial, and "experimental." I've done this under monikers ranging from EXTREME VOLUME POP, to MEAT GLUE, and TWO-HEADED LAMB. I've dabbled in everything from making found sounds and field recordings into music, to distorting jazz and rock, and punk and metal influences into noise. I've done recordings and audios beyond counting. Below are links to some of the best examples of this aspect of my art. Hope you enjoy! LOVE AND NAPALM.
More recordings can be found at: Bandcamp , Soundclick, and Soundcloud
More recordings can be found at: Bandcamp , Soundclick, and Soundcloud
Extreme Volume Pop
- The Music of Poverty and Irony
Music can be anything to anyone; one man's trash is another man's treasure, after all. This album tests the boundary between what is music, and what isn't. In what surrealistic twilight zone does music end and noise begin, or vice-versa? Is it art, or is it nonsense? You decide.
Extreme Volume Pop - The Music of Poverty and Irony
- The Music of Poverty and Irony
Music can be anything to anyone; one man's trash is another man's treasure, after all. This album tests the boundary between what is music, and what isn't. In what surrealistic twilight zone does music end and noise begin, or vice-versa? Is it art, or is it nonsense? You decide.
Extreme Volume Pop - The Music of Poverty and Irony
Extreme Volume Pop - Sound Absent of Information
There's a sort of base, powerful "Rumble of the World", evident even in the midst of what we take to be silence. "Absence of information does NOT indicate absence of sound..." The living, breathing, material manifestation of a universal consciousness..
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Tom Baker
- Musique Concrete and Electronic Sound: Four Selections
Four selections exploring the outer limits of recorded sound and electronic composition. Quite a popular recording.
Musique Concrete and Electronic Sound: Four Selections
Musique Concrete and Electronic Sound: Four Selections
Two-Headed Lamb
- Cauldron of Flies
Rock, punk, ambient, noise, jazz, and drone all collide in this strange, strange recording. Call it "The Last Temptation of Two-Head."
Cauldron of Flies
- Cauldron of Flies
Rock, punk, ambient, noise, jazz, and drone all collide in this strange, strange recording. Call it "The Last Temptation of Two-Head."
Cauldron of Flies
Extreme Volume Pop
- Give Me Your Head and I'll Give You My Hand
"I was carrying a grocery sack through the aisles of one of those violent, all-male institutions that pass as a reform school.
"I was headed to the lavatory, wherein the boys, unbeknownst to the teachers and principle, smoked continually behind the yawning doors of so many filthy stalls. The stall doors were opened against detection, covering the entrance. But who could not smell the smoke, or see it as it wafted out the restroom entrance.
"I mention this in passing. The important point is that that I was carrying a head an an arm in the sack. This is significant..."
Extreme Volume Pop - Give Me Your Head and I'll Give You My Hand
- Give Me Your Head and I'll Give You My Hand
"I was carrying a grocery sack through the aisles of one of those violent, all-male institutions that pass as a reform school.
"I was headed to the lavatory, wherein the boys, unbeknownst to the teachers and principle, smoked continually behind the yawning doors of so many filthy stalls. The stall doors were opened against detection, covering the entrance. But who could not smell the smoke, or see it as it wafted out the restroom entrance.
"I mention this in passing. The important point is that that I was carrying a head an an arm in the sack. This is significant..."
Extreme Volume Pop - Give Me Your Head and I'll Give You My Hand
Unknown
- "To All My Little Friends"
"Diatribe aside, though, Unknown presents some excellent cuts of harsh noise walls experimenting with the different sounds and sources one can make. These thirteen walls range the gamut between general static and bass, rhythmic repetition within the sound, slight momentum, crunchy bass, very fizzy mid-range shuffling, and everywhere in between. As To All My Little Friends… is presented to the listener, it’s all sort of overwhelming because of the tremendous range of sounds, which is why I sort of lobby for these tracks to be chopped up instead of melded together. Still, one gets a great feel for what Unknown can do with static and bass, and the shortness of each wall is simply a taste of how organic and original HNW can sound.
“Cadaverous Hue” (title found from Bandcamp doesn’t work all that well as a harsh noise wall per se, and feels ostracized from the rest of the album. Otherwise, though, these tracks are spot-on and very well situated within the expanse of sound Unknown tends to work in. It’s an album that will appeal to both groups of harsh noise wall listeners: those that like crunchy, bass-driven noise, and those that don’t appreciate having to sit through long works."
--Ryneb, Memory Wave Transmission Blog
Unknown - "To All My Little Friends"
- "To All My Little Friends"
"Diatribe aside, though, Unknown presents some excellent cuts of harsh noise walls experimenting with the different sounds and sources one can make. These thirteen walls range the gamut between general static and bass, rhythmic repetition within the sound, slight momentum, crunchy bass, very fizzy mid-range shuffling, and everywhere in between. As To All My Little Friends… is presented to the listener, it’s all sort of overwhelming because of the tremendous range of sounds, which is why I sort of lobby for these tracks to be chopped up instead of melded together. Still, one gets a great feel for what Unknown can do with static and bass, and the shortness of each wall is simply a taste of how organic and original HNW can sound.
“Cadaverous Hue” (title found from Bandcamp doesn’t work all that well as a harsh noise wall per se, and feels ostracized from the rest of the album. Otherwise, though, these tracks are spot-on and very well situated within the expanse of sound Unknown tends to work in. It’s an album that will appeal to both groups of harsh noise wall listeners: those that like crunchy, bass-driven noise, and those that don’t appreciate having to sit through long works."
--Ryneb, Memory Wave Transmission Blog
Unknown - "To All My Little Friends"
Extreme Volume Pop - Two Severed Heads Fighting Over an Ear
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Older Recordings
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Extreme Volume Pop
- "Effigy of the Lion"
Drone, loops, dreams, ambiance, experimental compositions, and rock all collide in this strange work.
Partly noise, partly aleatoric music.
EFFIGY OF THE LION
- "Effigy of the Lion"
Drone, loops, dreams, ambiance, experimental compositions, and rock all collide in this strange work.
Partly noise, partly aleatoric music.
EFFIGY OF THE LION
Meat Glue
- "George Chop Betty Chop Chop"
Spoken word and harsh noise excursions.
GEORGE CHOP BETTY CHOP CHOP
- "George Chop Betty Chop Chop"
Spoken word and harsh noise excursions.
GEORGE CHOP BETTY CHOP CHOP
Extreme Volume Pop
- "Circus of Champions"
A series of forgotten recordings, rediscovered and remixed. Harsh noise, and somewhat accidental, unlikely combinations.
CIRCUS OF CHAMPIONS
- "Circus of Champions"
A series of forgotten recordings, rediscovered and remixed. Harsh noise, and somewhat accidental, unlikely combinations.
CIRCUS OF CHAMPIONS