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Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
''Persistent Repetition of Phrases'' (stylized as “''Persistent repetition of phrases''”) is the seventh studio album by the Caretaker (musician), the Caretaker, an alias of musician Leyland Kirby. Released on 1 April 2008, it was his first record to cover themes of Alzheimer's disease. The album was also the first Caretaker release to present loop (music), looping of short segments within tracks. It marked Kirby's change of record labels from V/Vm Test Records, V/Vm Test to History Always Favours the Winners, which he felt might have helped with the record's success. ''Persistent Repetition of Phrases'' has many track titles that reference memory disorders. The album began Kirby's history of using paintings by English painter Ivan Seal as album covers. A concept album, the record received a generally positive reception from music journalism, music critics. The album's concepts would later influence Kirby on his next release as the Caretaker, ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Caretaker (musician)
James Leyland Kirby (born 9 May 1974), known professionally as the Caretaker, is an English ambient musician. His work as the Caretaker is characterized as exploring memory and its gradual deterioration, nostalgia, and melancholy. The project was initially inspired by the haunted ballroom scene in the 1980 film '' The Shining'', the 1978 TV show '' Pennies from Heaven'', and the 1962 film ''Carnival of Souls''. His first several releases comprised treated and manipulated samples of 1930s ballroom pop recordings. Most of his album covers were painted by friend, Ivan Seal. The Caretaker's works have received critical acclaim in publications such as ''The Wire,'' ''The New York Times'', and BBC Music. History 1999–2003: Haunted Ballroom trilogy Simon Reynolds refers to the Caretaker's first three releases as "the haunted ballroom trilogy", spanning 1999–2003: '' Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom'', '' A Stairway to the Stars'', '' We'll All Go Riding on a Rain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, or sound effects. A sample might comprise only a fragment of sound, or a longer portion of music, such as a drum beat or melody. Samples are often layered, Equalization (audio), equalized, sped up or slowed down, repitched, Loop (music), looped, or otherwise manipulated. They are usually integrated using electronic music instruments (Sampler (musical instrument), samplers) or software such as digital audio workstations. A process similar to sampling originated in the 1940s with ''musique concrète'', experimental music created by Tape splice, splicing and Tape loop, looping tape. The mid-20th century saw the introduction of keyboard instruments that played sounds recorded on tape, such as the Mellotron. The term ''sampling'' was coined in the late 1970s by the creators of the Fairlight CMI, a synthesizer with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Rabelais
Vincent Akira Rabelais Carté is an American composer, poet, software programmer and experimental multimedia artist. He is most known for his 2004 record on Samadhi Sound, '' Spellewauerynsherde'', as well as his experimental audio processing software Argeïphontes Lyre, and his works which take inspiration from magic realism. Career and artistry Rabelais began his career on the record label Ritornell, until in 2004 when David Sylvian signed him to his record label Samadhi Sound. In 2004, Rabelais released his now cult classic record ''Spellewauerynsherde'' to critical acclaim on the label. The record reportedly samples traditional Icelandic a cappella lament songs. It was reissued on multiple vinyl editions for the first time by Boomkat Editions in 2017. In 2005, he was involved with tape manipulation on Björk's 'Bath', on her soundtrack for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. Rabelais has used his own experimental electroacoustic audio processing software, ''Argeïphontes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Basinski
William James Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. Basinski is best known for his four-volume album '' The Disintegration Loops'' (2002–2003), constructed from gradually decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music. Biography Early life William James Basinski was born in 1958 in Houston, Texas. He was raised in a Catholic family, and states that he had his first "really mystical, wonderful, magical" musical experiences as an infant at Houston's St. Anne Church. His father was a scientist contracted to NASA, which caused the family to move often. Basinski says he knew that he was gay from an early age. A classically trained clarinetist, Basinski studied jazz saxophone and composition at the University of North Texas in the late 1970s. In 1978 inspired by minimalists such as Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he began developing his own voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Noise
In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density. The term is used with this or similar meanings in many scientific and technical disciplines, including physics, acoustical engineering, telecommunications, and statistical forecasting. White noise refers to a statistical model for signals and signal sources, not to any specific signal. White noise draws its name from white light, although light that appears white generally does not have a flat power spectral density over the visible band. In discrete time, white noise is a discrete signal whose samples are regarded as a sequence of serially uncorrelated random variables with zero mean and finite variance; a single realization of white noise is a random shock. In some contexts, it is also required that the samples be independent and have identical probability distribution (in other words independent and identically distribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes Musical tone, tone and atmosphere over traditional Musical form, musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking Musical composition, composition, beat, and/or structured melody,The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening, and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre evokes an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and some works use sustained or repetition (music), repeated notes, as in drone music. Bearing elements with new-age music, acoustic music, instruments such as the piano, string section, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
78-rpm
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog signal, analog sound Recording medium, storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near the center of the disc. The stored sound information is made audible by playing the record on a phonograph (or "gramophone", "turntable", or "record player"). Records have been produced in different formats with playing times ranging from a few minutes to around 30 minutes per side. For about half a century, the discs were commonly made from shellac and these records typically ran at a rotational speed of 78 rpm, giving it the nickname "78s" ("seventy-eights"). After the 1940s, "vinyl" records made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) became standard replacing the old 78s and remain so to this day; they have since been produced in various sizes and speeds, mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia
''Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia'' (stylized as “''Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia''”) is the fourth studio album by the Caretaker, an alias of musician Leyland Kirby. Released in 2005, it abandoned the haunted ballroom aesthetic of the previous albums and explored memory loss. Divided into six CDs, it consists of seventy-two drone tracks combined to create an almost four hour long release. It was compared by several critics to other musicians, including Merzbow, Boards of Canada, and Krzysztof Penderecki. The liner notes for ''Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia'' were written by Mark Fisher. The blogger, who referenced the record on his book ''Ghosts of My Life'' (2014), died by suicide in 2017, for which Kirby created '' Take Care. It's a Desert Out There...''. ''Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia'' was met with general praise from music critics, who felt it improved on the Caretaker's style. However, some of the tracks were criticized for their pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memory Loss
Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that is caused. There are two main types of amnesia: * Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember information that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an accident or operation. In some cases, the memory loss can extend back decades, while in other cases, people may lose only a few months of memory. * Anterograde amnesia is the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store. People with anterograde amnesia cannot remember things for long periods of time. These two types are not mutually exclusive; both can also occur simultaneously. Case studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight, The Stars And You
"Midnight, the Stars and You" is a British-American popular foxtrot song written by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly and published in 1934. The most famous recorded version was performed in 1934 by Ray Noble and his Orchestra with an uncredited Al Bowlly on vocals. A foxtrot-tempo ballad, the song is considered one of Bowlly's "outstanding" vocal efforts. Other recordings of this song contemporary to the Noble version are by Hal Kemp, Roy Fox, Harry Leader, Fred Hartley, and Maurice Elwin. It is notable for appearing in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film '' The Shining''. Use in cinema and other media The Bowlly rendition was used twice in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 classic horror film '' The Shining''; once in the Gold Room (ballroom) scene, and also over the closing of the film as the camera closes in the protagonist in a photograph from the early 20th century, carrying over into the credits. The popularity of this film associated this version of the song to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow
''We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow'' is the third studio album by the Caretaker, an alias of musician Leyland Kirby. Released in 2003, it was the last of Kirby's "haunted ballroom trilogy", which spans his albums influenced by the film '' The Shining''. It features distorted melodies from the 20th century to recreate the ambience of ''The Shining''s ballroom. ''We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow'' was met with positive reception from music critics, who praised its themes of the paranormal. Kirby's next album as the Caretaker, ''Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia'' (2005) would abandon the haunted ballroom concept and install themes of memory loss. Background The Caretaker's first record, ''Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom'' (1999), was inspired by the haunted ballroom scene from the film '' The Shining''. Leyland Kirby, the English musician responsible for the Caretaker's album, was involved in controversy due to his V/Vm alias, under which he manipulated pop song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Stairway To The Stars
''A Stairway to the Stars'' (stylized as “''A stairway to the stars''” and commonly shortened to ''ASTTS'') is the second studio album by the Caretaker, an alias of musician Leyland Kirby. Released in 2001, it was created after one of Kirby's pop manipulations as V/Vm gained attention. Following ''Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom'', ''A Stairway to the Stars'' features new genres such as darkwave and elements such as reversed vocals. The record was met with positivity from music critics, who praised its ambiance. It is regarded as Kirby's best album in his haunted ballroom trilogy, which spans his first three releases. Background In 1999, English musician Leyland Kirby released the record ''Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom'', inspired by a scene from the horror film '' The Shining''. Kirby was previously known for his work under the V/Vm alias, whereby he manipulated pop songs in controversial ways. The controversy included various copyright violations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
