{"id":18,"date":"2007-03-07T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-03-29T00:55:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T13:55:03","slug":"soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2007\/03\/soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many months ago my jour\u00adney to Soup began at Slash\u00addot<\/a>, where I was linked to Lasse Gjert\u00adsen\u2019s \u201cAma\u00adteur\u201d<\/a>, and in amaze\u00adment fol\u00adlowed the trail to his oth\u00ader clips and then to the reply videos, one of which was Erlend Viken\u2019s \u201csoup injec\u00adtion\u201d<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Towards the end of Erlend\u2019s vid the music swings into a \u201cprop\u00ader\u201d part of one of his songs, Ambu\u00adlance for Human. I real\u00adly liked it, so I went to his one-man-band Soup<\/strong>\u2019s Myspace page<\/a>, hop\u00ading for oth\u00ader sam\u00adples. At the time there were three full songs avail\u00adable via a flash music play\u00ader \u2014 Pre\u00adlude<\/em>, My Jus\u00adtine<\/em>, and Sag\u00adamore<\/em> \u2014 which were all great. (He\u2019s since added the full ver\u00adsion of Ambu\u00adlance for Human<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Hop\u00ading that Soup\u2019s oth\u00ader web\u00adsite<\/a> would have down\u00adloads, I fol\u00adlowed the link. I glee\u00adful\u00adly down\u00adloaded My Jus\u00adtine<\/em> and Sag\u00adamore<\/em>, which played while I down\u00adloaded his pre\u00advi\u00adous album record\u00aded under a dif\u00adfer\u00adent name, Final Concierge \u2014 Give it an Empire<\/strong><\/a> (link may change, use one above if so).<\/p>\n

Give it an Empire<\/strong>\u2019s There\u2019s a City under\u00adneath the Ice part II & III<\/em> is one of the most beau\u00adti\u00adful pieces of music I\u2019ve ever heard, build\u00ading from a lone\u00adly, haunt\u00ading sonar ambi\u00adence into a del\u00adi\u00adcate chime melody then a sor\u00adrow\u00adful rage against the lon\u00adli\u00adness. There\u2019s a sub\u00adtle trick with vibra\u00adto fre\u00adquen\u00adcy though\u00adout the melody (par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly not\u00adi\u00adca\u00adble around 4:30 into the song) that always freaks me out, since I have a soft spot for the kind of math-influ\u00adenced melodies fea\u00adtured on the Pi sound\u00adtrack<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n

So just over a week ago I gave into temp\u00adta\u00adtion and ordered Come on Pio\u00adneer<\/strong>, Erlend\u2019s new CD, via Pay\u00adpal on his Myspace page. He\u2019d replied ear\u00adli\u00ader to my email ask\u00ading about post\u00ading costs for Aus\u00adtralia, and I was sur\u00adprised that it\u2019d be the same as the US rate.<\/p>\n

Yes\u00adter\u00adday I col\u00adlect\u00aded my disc from the mail\u00adbox and was all excit\u00aded, even more so when I dis\u00adcov\u00adered how nice\u00adly pack\u00adaged it was. I\u2019d heard about half the songs on the album before but now I had a phys\u00adi\u00adcal CD in my hand, with the knowl\u00adedge that the guy who made the music on it had also put the pack\u00adage togeth\u00ader and sent it to me.<\/p>\n

The Squash those mis\u00ader\u00adable ants<\/em> remake on the album is excel\u00adlent. I\u2019ve always appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded the tech\u00adnique of cut\u00adting from a dark, haunt\u00ading tune (Psy\u00adcho<\/em>) to a hap\u00adpy-sound\u00ading, melod\u00adic one (Squash<\/em>), because it makes me care\u00adful\u00adly eval\u00adu\u00adate the lat\u00adter and in this case I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a hap\u00adpy song. :P<\/p>\n

Today while I was rifling through things to do, I was lis\u00adten\u00ading to Squash<\/em>. Dis\u00adtract\u00aded, I thought I\u2019d look up the lyrics. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly I did\u00adn\u2019t find any\u00adthing, but I ran over Uhort.no<\/a> and to my great joy found anoth\u00ader Soup song named Sound\u00adscape of a burn\u00ading airofloat<\/em>, about the Hin\u00adden\u00adburg dis\u00adas\u00adter<\/a> and con\u00adtain\u00ading parts of Her\u00adbert Mor\u00adrison\u2019s radio broad\u00adcast<\/a> of the event. I\u2019d nev\u00ader read about the Hin\u00adden\u00adburg dis\u00adas\u00adter before and watch\u00ading the footage over\u00adlayed with that broad\u00adcast is god\u00addamned haunting.<\/p>\n

Look\u00ading for\u00adward to more music from you Erlend. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many months ago my jour\u00adney to Soup began at Slash\u00addot, where I was linked to Lasse Gjert\u00adsen\u2019s \u201cAma\u00adteur\u201d, and in amaze\u00adment fol\u00adlowed the trail to his oth\u00ader clips and then to the reply videos, one of which was Erlend Viken\u2019s \u201csoup injec\u00adtion\u201d. Towards the end of Erlend\u2019s vid the music swings into a \u201cprop\u00ader\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}