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system sounds
I don't really like any of the sounds that come with Windows XP. They affect a sort of clear placidity, and the very contrivance of it leaves me feeling vaguely unsettled. Which leaves me on the hunt for short bursts of interesting sonic matter. This is one of those "e-mail me" things. (Thanks, by the way, to people who wrote in with mail client suggestions.)
Perhaps I should pick up this album Ringtones, on the experimental UK label TOUCH. 99 tracks from some of today's most interesting electronic musicians, each around the length of a cellular phone's ringtone.
"They are in one way or another intended to be experienced as isolated, personal interventions: low-res loops, creature calls, in low-res environments... In whichever form you find them here, do sample remodel and employ these humble suggestions..."
Sounds promising, but my budget is awfully tight right now, and I'm generally spending my CD money on albums that give me more than just "humble suggestions." The new Town and Country release is a particularly sweet, warm album... Labels: music, music_commentary, sound |
Saturday, February 23, 2002
1:32 PM
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